Notices tagged with adhd

Folks with #ADHD:

Do you find you can be extremely aware of tiny signals (i.e. "the dishwasher doesn't sound quite right", "I wonder if she's recently pregnant, her walk has changed"), but oblivious to social cues which depend on tiny signals (i.e. "is she flirting with me, or just more friendly than average?")?

Wondering if it's me, or an ADHD thing.

Analog TVs put off a high-pitched whine that apparently only dogs and I can hear. German analog TVs have a louder whine than American ones. When I lived in Germany as a kid, I could walk into a house and tell you if the TV was on even if the TV wasn't in my line of sight and the volume was muted.

My parents have a grandfather clock that used to keep me awake at night all the way on the other side of the house with my bedroom door shut.

#ADHD
#BrainPermanentlyOn

cc @ZenHeathen

Need some #fedihelp - I’m writing up my PhD and my demand avoidant little brain is fighting me every step of the way. Any #AuDHD / #adhd havers want to suggest something, anything, I might not have tried yet? I have a vast toolkit and know my head really well but right now we are facing each other like two screaming possums.

[edit: if this is also you there is a WEALTH of advice in the comments, fedi is awesome]

Quick, #ADHD #AuDHD people - who downloaded that meme about how ADHD people can make something disappear forever? I NEED IT. My mom STILL doesn't understand

#ADHD is doing a bunch of extra work fixing a server because "OOH! UPDATES!" has me skipping over the "breaking changes" section that would have told me how to avoid my shit being all bonkers.

The term #AuDHD has me thinking of the old Recesse ad like
"Hey! You got ADHD in my Autism!"
"And you got Autism in my #ADHD!"

🤣️

#ActuallyAutistic
#ActuallyADHD

@actuallyautistic

Folks who experience PDA (Pathological Demand Avoidance):

What does PDA feel like to you?

And a follow-up question: What kind of parents did you have? How did they communicate responsibilities and chores to you?

Quite often, when someone suggests something to me - like "we should do X" - even if X is something I might normally enjoy - I feel tense, and there's this "ugggggh" knee-jerk reaction in my head. An instant resistance to doing the thing.

I was mulling it over this morning, and it occurred to me that my parents were very authoritarian. "When I say jump, you say how high" was a common refrain in my childhood household.

I often didn't have a choice and was guilted and forced into doing things I didn't want to do. Not in abusive ways, but... for example, I often didn't want to go to my grandma's house for holidays, which I now realize was because it was incredibly overstimulating. She lived in a small house, and they would cram 30+ people in there. The noises, the smells, having to interact with aunts and uncles... I just didn't want to go. But I didn't have a choice.

So I learned early on that when something is "asked" of me, I don't have a choice.

I wonder if PDA - for me, or for others, or in general - comes from childhood experiences like that, where we are conditioned to deeply believe we don't have a choice. So when things are suggested or requested of us, it triggers that sense of dread that we _have_ to do something and don't have a choice about it.

#ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #AuDHD #ADHD

Dammit. This is me.😫

#Anxiety #Depression #Neurodivergent #ADHD #ADHDMemes

Net overgestapt van X naar hier. Klaar met algoritmes, klaar voor echtheid.
Benieuwd naar de gesprekken, de mensen en de vibe hier op Mastodon.
Wie is er nog meer recent overgestapt?

#Introductie #Mastodon #NieuwHier #ADHD #Innovatie

Productivity Peak

#adhd #meme #adhdmeme #adhs

We are said to "struggle to understand neurotypical social norms". Maybe so. But I very often understand these so-called "norms", and reject them. I don't "miss" them, I refuse to participate: it's distasteful & it makes me feel dirty, so I don't.

You?

#Autism
#ADHD
#AuDHD
#neurodiversity

One of the symptoms of #ADHD is hyper-vigilance, sometimes described as "scanning behavior". That is to say, an evopsych[1] model of the motivational difficulty of ADHD is that in the ancestral environment, while having some people in your village who are able to keep focused on a task is good, you also want to have some people around who are constantly looking around to see what's goin' on everywhere, easily prompted by the environment

[1]: for the record, yes I know this means "pretend"

Ever since I take methylphenidate a neurospicy but undiagnosed friend loves to shame me because I have a legal "drug addiction". He makes sure I know that he would not want to be hooked on that shit.

Same friend also drinks up to 5 cups of coffee per day, vapes weed regularly and swears mushrooms heal his "depression".

Same friend also "never loses or forgets things and has no problems concentrating" unlike me. Only thing is, he does all that.

Find the flaw.

#adhd #audhd #neurodivergent

There's a reason why some people can perfectly copy accents, and others can't

#UnconsciousMimicry #AuditoryCues #LinguisticChameleonEffect #ADHD #ADHDSupport

https://www.upworthy.com/why-some-people-copy-accents

Accurate 😄

#ActuallyAutistic
#ADHD
#neurodivergent

🎮 We are looking for #neurodivergent people for an interview study to understand how they experience #games and what contributes to positive #gaming experiences for them.

What to expect:
- Conversation about your gaming experiences (~60 min), online or in Karlsruhe
- Compensation of €15

Eligibility:
- 18+ years old, primary residence in Germany
- #Neurodivergence (e.g., #ADHD, #Autism, #dyslexia); diagnosis not required!
- Regularly play digital games

More information: https://hci.iar.kit.edu/459.php

Majority in UK Now 'Self-Identify' as Neurodivergent

#Neurodiversity #Dyslexia #SelfIdentify #ADHD #MedicalLabeling

https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/05/05/0649225/majority-in-uk-now-self-identify-as-neurodivergent

Yesterday, I finally completed my longest outstanding executive dysfunction task. It took 34 years, but that poster is finally in a frame. How the hell it didn't get lost or ruined, even through having been homeless and fleeing clear across the country, is beyond my comprehension.

#ActuallyAutistic #ADHD #AuDHD

#Nihilism #ADHD #Optimism #Meme

We Are In Serious Danger.

#Tourette’s syndrome was first identified in 1885
#Narcolepsy was first identified in 1877
#Autism was first identified in 1943
#ADHD was identified in 1902