I have adhd. It's okay.
You probably already know about the basic stuff:
- the talking too much or zoning out
- how we can have like 3 conversations at once with various connections that make a lot of sense to the person with adhd and a lot less sense to the people being talked to
- the getting stuck in bed or on the couch or the car or any other sitting place and really really wanting to do something, but can't seem to do it until you're about to be late or in trouble or something (INCLUDING something fun and meaningful that you actually really want to do)
- the insomnia
- the doing an interesting task and losing all sense of time and basically anything else around you
- the busy brain and body and needing to moveeeeee
- how we can do like 8 hours of work in an hour and then turn into a potato for a while
- the lack of executive functioning and the poorly regulated dopamine
- overwhelmed, overstimulated, underwhelmed, understimulated
- forgetting things
(there's more but I got bored making this long list)
But did you know these things that I mostly learned from memes and are sorta made up, but also seem true for a bunch of us?
- Having a favorite spoon, but as an adult. It's also the small spoon.
- Bringing 3+ beverages with you (I always have coffee, water, and then a fun sparkling water)
- using a bunch of parentheses when you write stuff
- researching weird stuff you're thinking about at 3 am.
- throwing out the almost used shampoo bottles only after they've grown a cobweb on them
- responding to things people say with a song (or at least wanting to real bad)
- getting mad at people when your clothes feel weird or everyone is talking too loud
- a good trick to get us to clean the house is to tell us you're coming over in 10 minutes
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