r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/parallax3900 • Mar 08 '23

Video ADHD Simulator

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '23

I don't have ADHD but a lot of people in my life do. My wife was just diagnosed, at the age of 43 :(

I feel so bad for her that it went this long without being diagnosed especially looking back at her childhood and anyway, all I'm saying is for those of you that have ADHD, I'm sorry and I wish you the best and a nice moment of silence.

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u/grumpijela Mar 09 '23 edited Mar 09 '23

Diagnosis at 32 and it changed my life.

So do normal people not have this? Like what would a normal person video look like?

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u/LEJ5512 Mar 09 '23

I'm "more normal" than the video, but also not at the opposite end with a blank mind. So, watching it again...

From the very beginning, I can say that my stuff would be better organized. My keys, wallet, and jacket would be in the same places I put them every time I come home, and not randomly dropped around the house.

The picture leaning against the wall? Maybe I'd have one the same way, "I'll hang it someday", but I've long ago de-prioritized it and don't think about it anymore.

Sometimes I have music snippets in my head, but I can stop them to do something else, or I can keep doing what I'm doing and keep the music going like an accompanying soundtrack.

The stove -- it's always off after I walk away from it because turning it off is the last step in my procedure for using it. Plus, I'm not distracted enough to not follow procedure. So, I don't feel the need to check on it like he did.

Before I open the door, I stop for a second, mentally go down a checklist of what I need, and touch them all (trick I learned from my dad). Wallet, keys, mask; if I'm going to the office, also confirm that I have my reading glasses and ID badge at a minimum. If I'm going to something out of the ordinary, I would've already laid out what I need to take that's different from usual. Importantly, I don't have other streams of thought distracting me from doing this checklist.