ADHD

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A casual community for people with ADHD

Values:

Acceptance, Openness, Understanding, Equality, Reciprocity.

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No abusive, derogatory, or offensive post/comments.
No porn, gore, spam, or advertisements allowed.
Do not request for donations.
Do not link to other social media or paywalled content.
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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Undiagnosed or unmedicated/unmanaged ADHD is like… (programming.dev)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m 37 and with medication and various time management strategies I actually managed to build a pretty normal life. So there is hope, just don’t expect to be the hyper-organized productivity machine you think you need to be.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

To be fair, I managed it quite well without any medication.

I got really lucky and usually had a lot of space and freedom at work etc.
So, most of the time, I did the usual ADHD stuff, being there but not really focused, so also not really productive.
But because I had so much freedom, it was pretty easy to compensate during the more focused hours.

Also, the broad knowledge I obtained about random stuff just by wondering around was usually well-received and often helpful.

Unfortunately, that doesn't really work anymore in my current situation.. So thinking about getting an appointment at a doctor to get some medication started. But.. well.. don't like doctors in the first place, my last diagnosis was when I was 9 or so, so I probably need a new one. And there are waiting lists of months because they are just full, and procrastination and so on...

Not really anything there that actually pushes me to do so :/