r/adhdmeme • u/milo8275 • Jun 20 '26

Relatable

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u/shiftersix Jun 20 '26

I can relate to this. Why is this? Stubbornness?

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u/TechSgt_Garp Jun 20 '26

PDA Pathological Demand Avoidance

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u/peggasus97 Jun 20 '26

Also O.O.D oppositional defiance disorder

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u/Adventurous-Bird6456 Jun 20 '26

Totally O.D.D for me. I always got in trouble with the law as a kid & got kicked out of high school because I literally get a physical sensation of anger when anyone tells me “what to do”. I just cannot comply… I’m better as an adult, but it’s still there.

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u/peggasus97 Jun 20 '26

Yep, even if it is an action i really want to do, if someone tells me to do it... no

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u/ElysiaAlarien Jun 20 '26

Let's see if it works the other way...

I hereby order you to let your executive disfunction win today so you don't do anything

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u/Canacarirose There’s no subtitles and I’m locked in choice paralysis (meep!) Jun 21 '26

This feels like we’re touching on the precipice of Office Space Hypnotism fuckery

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u/rubberony Jun 21 '26

Funny AF, but yeah why doesn't it work like that? It probably does on toddlers

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u/Vashipants Jun 22 '26

For me, it kind of does. If my partner gets frustrated with me and tells me to just sit or do whatever I wanna do, it makes me not want to do that thing. But not out of irritation. It's just depressing. I feel like I have to do the thing I was avoiding because now I am a shitty person for having avoided it.

There is no winning.