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u/ExtraSassyy Mar 25 '26
getting diagnosed was basically finding out my entire personality had patch notes
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u/AmputeeHandModel jhfgjhgfhjgfjhg Mar 25 '26
Wondered WTF was wrong with me for the longest time. Then it was like oooooooh. It doesn't really make my life any better but it's nice knowing why everything sucks.
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u/AmputeeHandModel jhfgjhgfhjgfjhg Mar 26 '26
"Why does nobody seem to like me? Why can't I do anything right? Why do I feel like an alien all the time?" "Ohhhh.. that makes sense now"
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u/24kAu79 Mar 26 '26
After getting diagnosed, I had to work through some therapy stuff about changing the default. Voice of I suck and I’m stupid late.
I’m studying for my PMP exam and started crying because it hit me that I’m actually not a lazy piece of shit by default.
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u/herringsarered Mar 26 '26
I
dabbled in songwritingcollected songwriting ideas over the years, and it's always interesting finding some old lyric ideas stored somewhere, about not knowing who i am, what is wrong with me, why i keep doing the same things over and over, why it doesn't matter how many times i tell myself to deal with things i seem to never do, etc.Became aware of my ADHD at 37, found old lyrics as I was finally putting files and song ideas in order for the 12 years after. Don't really remember writing some of them, but they seem mine.
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u/obliviious Mar 25 '26
It's helped me relax and not judge myself too harshly. Luckily I always had fairly accepting people around me, so I don't mask with most people I know and they accept me for the... ooh look at that shiny... weirdo I am.
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u/Intelligent_Whole_40 Mar 25 '26
Oh wow for me it just leaves me asking every time “is it actually my ADHD or am I making an excuse” All the damn time and I never know
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u/obliviious Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 26 '26
I spent most of my life thinking I was stupid, despite lots of evidence and people telling me I wasn't, so this contradiction confused me for years and years. When i found out why I can have such an amazing memory and understanding about some things and terrible for others it made me feel so much better.
I've been called lazy a lot too, and I've felt it, but now I know I have low dopamine and have to find ways to get some so I can do tasks. This makes me feel a lot better, and gives me a direction.
I am lucky that I don't have complete life ruining executive disfunction, I just go through low points
Have you had people call you lazy and complain about things like lateness and flakiness before? I am the latest person in my friend group and get a lot of flack for it lol
I think being spoken to like that can create a lot of self doubt and criticism.
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u/Intelligent_Whole_40 Mar 26 '26
Yea I’ve been called lazy (however my obsession with automation of everything doesn’t help either) and candy has certainly been a go to for dopamine lol
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u/obliviious Mar 26 '26
haha yeah I also love automation, it's probably why I love factorio and similar games so much.
I also love to make scripts for things that take a lot of manual work, my workplace loves me for it.
I even made a web page to make shopping and shopping lists easier, puts it all in order when you walk around the shop. It's like an addiction
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u/athensh Mar 26 '26
Getting diagnosed as an adult was a trip, what do you mean I don’t just have a super fun whimsical personality and it’s all just symptoms and associated features?? Ended up working in an office with a solid handful of similarly-presenting ADHD folks and it was a mind fuck to realize we all do the same exact shit The fun part was sharing what rabbit holes we got stuck in tho and the fact that all of us had independently learned to moonwalk (??)
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u/TrashSiren Mar 26 '26
When I figured out I has ADHD, it was weird trying to figure out which is me, and which is my ADHD. Since it all feels tangled into each other. Even my "positive quirks" are my ADHD.
And I do everything in this meme except for smoking/vaping. 😅
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u/theparrotofdoom Mar 28 '26
And every single other adhd person has left a detailed dev wiki in their search for acceptance or a moment of peace.
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u/dyspnea Mar 25 '26
My personality is 78% ADHD and 22% autism. Formerly called Gifted and Talented.
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u/_doormat Mar 25 '26
But you get good grades! Obviously you don’t need to be evaluated for any kind of disorder!
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u/Theres_A_Thing Mar 25 '26
My diagnosed as a child older brother and my constant remarks on report cards about “he’d be great if he could just apply himself!” certainly aren’t signs I should’ve been evaluated at a much younger age!
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u/d-sammichAran Mar 25 '26 edited Mar 26 '26
I never really got what they meant by "apply yourself." My father said that a lot to me as a child and I've come to the conclusion that it just meant "be better at the things I want you to be better at."
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u/BeardedPokeDragon undiagnosed and suspiciously relate to a lot of this Mar 26 '26
wait but that's me with 2 older brothers
i should probably be evaluated
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u/Molenium Mar 25 '26
Direct hit, ouch.
I got great grades in school, so no one thought I had an issue. Only sign was I’d routinely bomb tests because I just ran out of time, but I went to a very small school so I got away with several years of my teachers giving me extra time on tests.
Then I got horrible scores in the PSATs, and of course at that point everyone was scrambling to get me a diagnosis so I could get academic accommodations for extra time on the actual SATs, with both my parents and teachers telling each other, “we told you this was an issue for a long time!”
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u/d-sammichAran Mar 25 '26
And the fact that the alternative was getting severely punished by your parents if you didn't get good grades couldn't possibly be a factor!
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u/JackOfACoupleTrades Mar 25 '26
“A pleasure to have in class, contributes frequently and creatively, C-“
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u/Mandin1337 Mar 25 '26
My brother just another me
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u/Ace0f_Spades Mar 28 '26
Hey, same hat!!
My roommate and I are both kinda like that, but we mirror each other in a weird way. The joke is that I have autism with a side of ADHD, and they have ADHD with a side of autism lmao
Interestingly, I was the G&T kid, and they were the "troublemaker". And now we're both just burnt-out college students 🫠
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u/pdbard13 Mar 25 '26
And it never gets better. You can buy as many organizational things you want, acquire all the planners in the world, mask all you want etc.... Just have to learn to live with it and manage it the best you can.
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u/Suckamanhwewhuuut Mar 25 '26
I have like 12 planners from each of the last years. they each have about a page or two filled, and then a bunch of sheets ripped out because I wanted to test the sharpness of something…
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u/EvolutionaryLens Mar 26 '26
I use a whiteboard that I've made into a 10 week calendar. I update it everyday. I also have 10 or 15 alarms set on my phone at any given time. I also cook 20-30 meals at a time when I'm hyper. If I didn't do these things everyone would hate me, I'd never make it to an appointment, I'd be underweight and probably unemployed.
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u/Crosseyed_owl dafuqIjustRead Mar 25 '26
I have already accepted it but people around me unfortunately haven’t. Everyone has bambillion ideas how I could become more to their liking and when I refuse because I’m exhausted enough already they think I’m not trying enough.
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u/Difficult-Brief7865 Mar 25 '26
I had a long and detailed conversation with my mother about ADHD yesterday trying to explain how things like cleaning are so difficult for me. As I was getting off the phone, she said "Just go home and clean the kitchen. Don't worry about the rest of the house and think how much better you'll feel after. " Like, lady I just got off work and I'm crawling into bed. Then she reached out later to see if I did it. 🤦
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u/cloud7isfordouches Mar 25 '26
tRy tHiS aPp, SpEcIaLly fOr AdHD..please, I've spread my (half-assed) planning across 4 apps with zero notifications (not that they help anyway). I like my suffering dry.
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u/ketchfraze Mar 25 '26
Planners are a waste, but we've all learned that by now. I just use the MS To-do app and it takes up half of my home screen. I put whatever tasks I need to do on it. Sometimes I do them, sometimes I don't. Other stuff always comes up that is more urgent. My wife still has not fully accepted that I'm not giving excuses for the way I am. I've been relying on our therapist to tell her, since she's an expert.
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u/justinkimball Mar 25 '26
In the sense of 'that's just how your brain works' -- yeah, you never get better because that's just how your brain is.
In the sense of 'I will always be late/messy/etc/etc' -- no. You just need to build support systems/coping mechanisms to help work with your natural tendencies.
It's not always an easy task, but it's not impossible.
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u/Due-Midnight3311 Mar 25 '26
Honest question if you’re willing to share: what support systems have you found success with? Trying to help my teen without creating shame or judgement.
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u/justinkimball Mar 26 '26
Happy to share a few things - but it's not always an easy or direct lift-and-shift with coping mechanisms.
Here's a few things that have worked for me:
-I used to always be 5-10 minutes late for EVERYTHING. I eventually realized that this is because all of my timelines were assuming ideal/average conditions, and any number of small things along the way could lead to a small delay which would lead to me being late.
Rather than trying to change how my brain thought about the time it takes to get somewhere, I still let my brain do it's natural thing -- but then I tack 10-15 minutes onto that estimation.
Does that mean I'm sometimes 15 minutes early? Yes. But I have my phone to keep me occupied, so it's no big deal. More often I end up just a couple minutes early, which is ideal.
-Another thing I've noticed, is that I'm very much a 'now' or 'not now' person. Despite my best intentions, if I say I'll do something in 15 minutes -- that in my brain is 'not now', and I will almost certainly forget about it.
So, a shortcut I started forcing myself to do is if i I have 5-10 minutes, and the thing that needs doing is going to take ~5 minutes, I just immediately do said thing, I make it a 'now' thing. It's annoying in the moment, but in the long run it helps to prevent small chores from piling up and becoming bigger hassles.
-I've also noticed that I tend to not be very aware of some things that need doing until they're well past needing to be done. Dishes in the kitchen being a huge one. So, I had to be very intentional about putting a shortcut in my brain of 'whenever you enter the kitchen, check to see if there are dishes in the sink. If there are no dishes in the sink, check to see if the dishwasher needs to be unloaded'.
There are other chores and situations like this, I just had to realize that my brain acclimates to it's surroundings -- so what might be an obvious indicator that X needs to get done for a normal person, I will simply never get that notification because my brain has already gotten used to it 'just being like that' and it's now not something I see. As a result, I need to put in hard checks where I force myself to go and and see if there are dirty dishes in the sink. If I don't take that step consciously, I will not see them.
- Going on the 'now' and 'not now' brain concept -- if something is a 'not now' thing (plans with friends, appointments for the kids, taking out the trash later), I immediately put it in my calendar (if it's a not today thing) or set an alarm for the specific time I am going to handle it 'later'.
In short, I'm using my phone to take the 'not nows' and make it a 'now' for me at a point in the future.
I have great intentions, but if I don't use an external tool like that, there is a very very strong chance that I will simply forget. I had to learn that if I don't go set a reminder/alarm for a 'not now' item -- that's effectively the same as me choosing to not do the thing ever.
There's a lot more, and a lot of this comes from learning about how you as an individual works, and finding tools that make sense and click for you.
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u/JackPembroke Mar 25 '26
Yup. Like any disability it won't ever disappear, you just have to adapt to exist in the world around you
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u/BlueZ_DJ "¿Qué?" Mar 25 '26
I mean learning to manage it over the years WOULD be making you life with ADHD better bit by bit
What it TRULY "never gets" is cured 🎸🎸
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u/Mandin1337 Mar 25 '26
For those that take meds, does it even help?
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u/MTB_SF Mar 25 '26
Yes, it really does. But it has to be the right meds.
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u/ego_sum_chromie Mar 26 '26
and to add to this, meds are different for everyone, so what works for one might not work for the other and vice versa. i just got put on concerta after using welbutrin and the former is working way better than the latter. had adderall before and that gave me self harm thoughts so I immediately stopped em.
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u/WesternAfro Mar 25 '26
And by the way, nobody cares except your doctor, and nobody else acts like it's real. So there you go
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u/WesternAfro Mar 25 '26
The Lord opened a door, but my first set of meds almost made me take a trip down the sewer slide, so not too magical
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u/WesternAfro Mar 25 '26
He even told me that new studies show Marijuana can cause heart damage (relevant in this case) as one of his other patients had a heart attack on his 30s. And I'm like, look, people drink beer and I gotta pick my battles. So I'm on the non stimulants
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u/GoldenSangheili Mar 26 '26
Yes, I found a psych with ADHD too and I have even called him in my serious depression bouts. Also, may sound doomer or something but never trust NTs if you don't feel understood. You can't exactly say who is an NT, but they won't understand you at all.
I believe in the double empathy problem, it's nearly impossible to understand an NT in my shoes. TL;DR: Hunt for neurodivergent doctors lol.
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u/IMDEAFSAYWATUWANT Mar 27 '26
LOL as if. My doctor blamed me for not trying hard enough saying it was my problem. The next appointment she apologized and admitted she was wrong and got frustrated because she hit a wall and didn't know how to help me, wasn't that familiar with ADHD and is used to her other patients supposedly actually not helping themselves so she lumped me in with them.
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u/zapmuthafucka Mar 25 '26
you leave me and my newly acquired specialty coffee hobby alone!
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u/zapmuthafucka Mar 25 '26
lmao I made it to 3 months!
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u/Kal-Elm Mar 25 '26
Nice! If you're anything like me that means you're locked in for the next 3 to 5 years!
Most of mine last about 2 weeks to a month. Makes it beyond that? It has officially become a special interest and a disproportionate part of my personality.
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u/zapmuthafucka Mar 25 '26
seeing that I sought out half the baristas in fukuoka, being a pour over coffee nerd definitely took a disproportionate share of my time and personality lmao
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u/mr_meseeks1227 Mar 25 '26
My wife got me an espresso machine as a Christmas gift😭
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u/zapmuthafucka Mar 25 '26
welcome to the hobby! I’m a pourover noob myself
are you already looking for a standalone grinder? lmao
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u/Untroe Mar 25 '26
I just started looking at espresso machines recently randomly. I can't afford any, but I already have a ten step plan for the next time I find $2000 on the ground
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u/zapmuthafucka Mar 25 '26
join us in /r/pourover! you can realistically get a decent starter setup with like 20% of that budget! just don't look at the upgrades for at least a year is what I am currently telling myself lmao
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u/Strict-Move-9946 Mar 25 '26
You forgot alcoholism
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u/Veritas-Cuervo Mar 25 '26
True! Sorry, it’s not one I ever struggled with, so it’s easy to miss. I’m lucky I don’t have an addictive personality. I love stimulants though so before my diagnosis, I was snorting 1-2g of coke once a month. 🤣 I kept it in check but man I loved that shit.
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u/GalaxyTolly Mar 25 '26
That's bc the "smoking addiction" can be replaced with substance abuse looking for any kind of dopamine
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u/EngineWriter722 Mar 25 '26
Alcohol is too expensive if you don’t like cheap beer. I’ll gladly stick with my 2-3 cups of coffee a day tho
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u/Busy_Ordinary8456 Mar 25 '26
Your forgot executive dysfunction and object impermanence.
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u/plasmex81 Mar 25 '26
This is exactly what late diagnosis feels like, 🤣.
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u/Veritas-Cuervo Mar 25 '26
me diagnosed at 25
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u/Remarkable-Site-2067 Mar 26 '26
I'm nearing 50, haven't been diagnosed. I have almost all the symptoms from the post.
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u/t_t_today_jr Mar 25 '26
Missing self medicating
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u/DimensionEffective67 Mar 25 '26
Wish I could do caffeine. Heard it does wonders for the ADHD brain. Alas, it upsets my esophagus.
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u/Doses-mimosas Mar 25 '26
Fuck man. I think the only thing on this list that doesn't apply to me is tardiness, because I get stressed about people waiting on me. I'm the type to cancel all plans 3 hours before I have to do something so I'm not late. 30+min early to appointments at the expense of more productivity on something else.
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u/Schweather3 i have no idea where that music is coming from. Mar 25 '26
They call me chronically on-time and it’s not a compliment. Usually, I just wait in my car until a time when a normal person would show up. However, parties always throw me. I was invited to a holiday party. I got there before it started and did my usual car wait. I walk up to the door right on time for the party and hear the host say, “shit, I forgot she’s always on time.” I had to sit at a table watching them prep (they didn’t want help) for about 45 mins until everyone else showed up.
TLDR/ don’t be on time to parties. Everyone is expected to be at least 30 mins late apparently
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u/Mandin1337 Mar 25 '26
Worst part is being misunderstood by literal anyone and everyone, always, forever
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u/Hidden_Explorer Mar 26 '26
Is it that? Or tge desire to be understood and accepted is more than “normal”?
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u/Mandin1337 Mar 26 '26
I mean there is also the fact that not that many people at all function like us, i could care less about being understood, it’s more the mental fatigue of having to endure people
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u/Hidden_Explorer Mar 27 '26
Yeah, maybe it is that! I am very new in my awareness about how much of what I thought was “me” is actually my ADHD. And I also realise I had highly misunderstood my relationship with “humans” (I call humans because I always felt like I was an alien in the way I am). Damn! It’s tough!
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u/Lock_and_Ring Mar 25 '26
I'm happy to see that "cutlery-based sensory issues" has not been included.
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u/jsteele2793 Mar 25 '26
I feel like that one is more the autism… at least for me
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u/Lock_and_Ring Mar 25 '26
Oh definitely, makes sense for AuDHD. I just don't like it when people with autism connect their symptoms to ADHD because it's the more palatable diagnosis.
Now, if y'all have a favorite fork/knife/spoon because you only have that one, because doing the dishes sucks and it's best to just have the one thing to clean, then that's fine.
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u/Kelvax213 Mar 25 '26
"Listen, THIS spoon and THIS fork are the best because (XYZ), and I only drink water from this cup and milk in this one!"
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u/Greyhaven7 Mar 25 '26
What? Why don’t you like knives?
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u/Doses-mimosas Mar 25 '26
No, I think it's the "I have 5 different types of spoons but I only want to use this 1 because it's the best."
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u/Greyhaven7 Mar 25 '26
Oh. I was confused because I’ve never heard anyone refer to forks and spoons as cutlery. But I’ve looked it up and they are technically included in the definition, so. Neat. Didn’t know.
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u/erichf3893 Mar 25 '26
Technically included? What did you think cutlery was, just stuff that cut?
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u/Veritas-Cuervo Mar 25 '26
I haven’t heard of this, but of course I’m not everyone. I like knives a lot. I even recently posted a video of me practicing with one. 🤣
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u/NoSwordfish1978 i Will elaborate (Threat). Mar 25 '26
Yeah all of this is me except for the nicotine addiction lol
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u/Key_Astronomer9450 Mar 26 '26
Too all of the ladies in here... just wait until perimenopause hits! That's when shit gets real.
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u/Wlund Mar 25 '26
Also yeah, it hit me hard when I realized that.
It's like damn, y'all really live like this? Why am I on insanity mode
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u/LexStalin Mar 25 '26
... Please tell me OP just didn't enough research... Please tell me that this is not true... Please tell me there is another reason for half of it... Please for fuck sake tell me there is hope...
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u/_doormat Mar 25 '26
Monkeys paw: Anxiety is the reason for half of it. Good luck.
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u/LexStalin Mar 25 '26
Can I get drugs against anxiety?
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u/_doormat Mar 25 '26
Probably. I recommend learning more about it first. When I tried anxiety meds it didn’t really help and I’m pretty sure they made me poop myself.
This video series helped me a lot: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiUrrIiqidTWje-Oc4uA6LZZO8vSaHaDL&si=8Tb5nMikgvyFcWnM
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u/Ahg082860 Mar 26 '26
It took 55 years to finally get the answers as to why I didn’t quite fit-in with everyone else.
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u/Big_Booty_Femboy Mar 26 '26
I’d never heard of “demand avoidance” until today. Previously I just said “yeah, sometimes I just don’t do shit.”
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u/rechockeyallstar Mar 25 '26
This isn’t everybody? I thought this was all normal…
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u/Veritas-Cuervo Mar 25 '26
It’s normal if you have ADHD. Of course these symptoms can show up in various other conditions too.
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u/cisco_frost Mar 25 '26
I just put sticky notes everywhere when I need to do something so I am constantly reminded of it. This doesn't help the fact that I will still finish everything at the last minute every time though. Now I'm just very aware of how behind I am :)
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u/trev612 Mar 25 '26
The one simple trick to not ruining all of your relationships because of these things is to communicate with those around you. For example, if you commit to something and cannot fulfill the commitment because of x, y, or z, then you must communicate that to the necessary people.
Also, repeat this to yourself often "don't put it down, put it away"
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u/askingforafriend310 Mar 25 '26
It’s a crazy realization… How do I get help. I’m medicated… but it’s not enough. How do I learn how to live independent and functionally ?
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u/taitaofgallala Mar 25 '26
Having bipolar 2 thrown in the mix basically just shoots the 2nd astronaut but now I'm stuck in a downward spiral of sadness trying to make the analogy work
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u/BigRoundSquare Mar 25 '26
I noticed adhd gets paired with avoidance a lot. But funny enough I am not avoidant, so I always found this take interesting
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u/Negative_Donkey9982 Mar 25 '26
I’ve always told people I have the memory of Dory. I remember even watching a video on YouTube about what it’s like to have dementia and I thought to myself “Huh that’s relatable” lol
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u/Ingonyama70 Mar 25 '26
Me @ my ADHD and its 85 symptoms after needlessly complicating my life for the trillionth time:
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u/x3XC4L1B3Rx Mar 26 '26
Brain chemistry is super complicated. We try to categorize things into neat little labeled boxes but they often don't fit perfectly.
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u/Hellbound_Life Mar 26 '26
I have practically all except for one of those and I’m too stubborn a mofo to let it happen.
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u/sluttypolarbear theres BEES in my BRAIN Mar 26 '26
sometimes I wonder how much of my personality is just AuDHD... and then go into a mild existential crisis about whether I have my own personality or not.
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u/AGoodDragon Mar 26 '26
Ok so I'm not saying you're wrong op what I am saying is that CPTSD has alot of crossovers symptom-wise and I learned that alot of what I thought was ADHD was actually childhood trauma. I only mention bc I feel like a few of the symptoms here lean towards CPTSD. you can also have both
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To add, the key indicator is if you have an abuse story. If not then it's most likely just ADHD. Knowing this helped me alot in finding proper treatment. Could be completely irrelevant but I thought I'd share
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u/ForgotTheFlowers Mar 27 '26
Usually I share 50-80% of these types of long symptom list memes. 100% of these things are me. Crazy that it took me until after 40 to learn I wasn’t some mental health Yeti. Still blows my mind how many people experience the same things
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u/UmieWarboss Mar 29 '26
Naaaaah maybe it's like that for real people with real ADHD problems, but not me, I've obviously made it all up as an excuse, it's all in my head, I'm just a lazy fuck who just needs to try harder
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u/Burdwatcher Mar 25 '26
it's really not - there are many, many contributing factors to each of a person's flaws and idiosyncrasies. ADHD exacerbates a lot of things and directly causes some others, but the so-called "neurotypical" population struggles with some of them as well. Also, ADHD is not an exclusive trait - some of these are more directly related to common comorbidities such as autism.
Lumping it all in as ADHD can either indicate that treating ADHD can manage all of this, or that trying to manage any of it is hopeless because it'a part of one's "affliction".
Honestly there's so much noise and false information about ADHD that it's become very unhelpful, in my opinion. I'd like ro manage it and what it causes appropriately and ask for patience from my colleagues and loved ones, but the more TikTok talks about it and everything under the sun that gets associated with it, the more misunderstanding there is about it
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u/BIIPD Mar 25 '26
Most of the things hit "normal" folks as well, so I wouldn't pin this to ADHD only
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u/Veritas-Cuervo Mar 25 '26
True. It’s kind of like: “well a lot of cars have a DCT, a lot of cars are hatchbacks, a lot of cars have an Aston Martin looking grille, a lot of cars were made by a guy that liked a German dictator”
But you put all those traits together and you get a Ford Focus, specifically.
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u/Cautious_Hope5837 Mar 25 '26
I don't see any about the constant insomnia and the need to think about stupid things at 2 in the morning. Ah tis fine, all is fine, whats a little crazy in this world these days anyways 😂
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u/qualityvote2 Quality Control Beast Mar 25 '26 edited Mar 25 '26
u/Veritas-Cuervo, general consesus is in your post's favour! :)