ADHD

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A casual community for people with ADHD

Values:

Acceptance, Openness, Understanding, Equality, Reciprocity.

Rules:

No abusive, derogatory, or offensive post/comments.
No porn, gore, spam, or advertisements allowed.
Do not request for donations.
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Do not gatekeep or diagnose.
Mark NSFW content accordingly.
No racism, homophobia, sexism, ableism, or ageism.
Respectful venting, including dealing with oppressive neurotypical culture, is okay.
Discussing other neurological problems like autism, anxiety, ptsd, and brain injury are allowed.
Discussions regarding medication are allowed as long as you are describing your own situation and not telling others what to do (only qualified medical practitioners can prescribe medication).

Encouraged:

Funny memes.
Welcoming and accepting attitudes.
Questions on confusing situations.
Seeking and sharing support.
Engagement in our values.

Relevant Lemmy communities:

Neurodivergent Life Hacks

lemmy.world/c/adhd will happily promote other ND communities as long as said communities demonstrate that they share our values.

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A bit fucked up, isn't it? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 2 months ago (26 children)

For every time you can hyperfocus on work, imagine every time you've hyperfocused on ants walking by, or a speck of dust, or literally anything other than what you actually need to do.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 months ago (16 children)

Hyperfocus is an amazing tool, unfortunately we have no fucking control over it.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 months ago (15 children)

Yeah, like I dunno, I think a lot of things I do by accident with my ADHD are super cool. But it definitely hurts more than it helps, and I don't think that's just because "we live in a society". This post feels like huffing a suffocating dose of copium.

"Oh, sorry, I heard literally every word of what you just said, but my brain encoded nothing."
"My sleep schedule is casually off by like five hours because I lost track of time hyperfocusing on learning about competitive Jenga until 4 AM."
"I know I could have been doing things, but I had this thing I needed to be at in 8 hours, so I just couldn't focus on them."
"I either lose everything or create an intricate, tedious framework for where I keep everything at all times."
"I struggle immensely to cope with stress in a healthy way and have issues with my temper."
"If I can focus at all, it will be on exactly one thing, either for unhealthily long periods of time to the detriment of everything else or for so briefly that I accomplish nothing before moving on to the next dopamine rush."
"I have a much higher risk of substance abuse because my body is starving for dopamine."
"I have trouble keeping promises I've made to other people because they vanish out of my mind."
"I constantly miss small details and need to quintuple check everything I do."
"My priorities are constantly fucked, and I consistently put off everything until the last minute."
"It often feels physically painful for me to focus when it's not on the first thing my brain decides it wants to do."

[–] Jakeroxs 6 points 2 months ago

Yeeeeeep

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