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I had a dream about Columbo at a drag show. This is what came from it.

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*dusts off old tumblr blog*

…so what’s new, kids?

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it's so stupid, adhd is a dozen vaguely related neuroses in a trench coat, including such popular hits as

Can't Fucking Sleep Disorder

Can't Fucking Wake Up Disorder

What Is A Focus

Oops I Did It* Again (*Spent Thirteen Hours On Youtube And Forgot To Eat Or Drink)

The World Is Too Noise Today

All My Friends Hate Me (I Deduced This From A Three Word Text)

I Forgot About [thing] Literally As Soon As I Turned Around

...and they decided to call it Trouble Sitting Still Disorder?????

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 the only criticism of millennials l accept

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Some tips from what my dad told me (mostly for baking, but also other things) and things I’ve realized through trial and error.

- if sweet recipe doesn’t contain vanilla powder/vanilla sugar, it’s wrong and you need to add some to taste

- if recipe wants you to add cream or milk to hot mixture, heat it in another pot first so the whole thing doesn’t split when added: warm things in warm mixture, cold things in cold mixture.

- arrowroot or potato/corn starch (mixed with some water) is a good substitute for a traditional roux when making soup or stew

- to enhance the flavor of red meat, season with a bit of cinnamon

- sprinkle of sugar in anything savory, sprinkle of salt in anything sweet

- when in doubt, add more garlic (if applicable)

My friend asked how I learned to cook and the answer is I didn't. I know like 5 things about cooking and they are:

Always use more garlic than the recipe calls for

"Ehhh fuck it close enough" is a great measurement tool

Find like 5 recipes that you like, adjust them how you like them, make them until you hate them

Clean as you go

If a recipe is from a mommy blog, you will need more spices

If anyone wants to add, please do

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a good take

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Y’all really have no conception of what a billion dollars is and it shows…

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Adhd culture is having to cut out all the tags from your clothes because they feel like they’re stabbing you

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Do people with ADHD ever........ forget to make time to shower? Like, I try to shower in the mornings because of my hair (but I've found it really doesn't matter all that much), but then I wake up late and think, "my hair doesn't look too bad" or "I'll just throw my hair in a bun" and keep it moving. Maybe I shouldn't base when I shower entirely around my hair though..... Sorry if this is TMI

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does anyone else w/ adhd think about time passing as like, losing time until the next event like “oh i only have 30 minutes until i need to leave for work” vs “i have 30 minutes to do what i need to do before i leave for work”? like i constantly feel like i’m fighting time passing and getting closer to when i’m ‘out of time’ is really stressful

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“Wait, that’s an ADHD thing?”

- Every ADHDer learning that their ‘personality quirk’ is actually an ADHD thing.

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One of the hardest and most overlooked aspects of ADHD is emotional dysregulation. You’re constantly overwhelmed and hypersensitive to everything, so you never know when to ask for help. You start asking yourself if you really need emotional support, or if you’re dragging other people down by subjecting them to your hypersensitive ass overreacting AGAIN. 

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People with ADHD don’t seem to know that Emotion Disregulation is a part of ADHD.

They live their life thinking that they’re just overly sensitive, but you’re not! It’s part of your adhd!

I think that knowing what something is can help you feel better about it, because you know it’s not your fault.

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about adhd

it concerns me that people really don’t know that adhd isn’t a personality type or behavioral problem.

adhd isn’t someone who’s personality is driven by fun and disorder.

adhd is someone who’s brain goes all over the place looking for dopamine, because it doesn’t make or register enough of it, and when it finds a source of dopamine, it hyperfixates on it. it’s about deregulation of attention as well as emotions.

it’s not a person who can’t behave. a person with adhd can look like a lot of things. misconceptions about what adhd looks like kept me from even looking for a diagnosis, and it also kept myself and others (professionals, even) from taking my suspicions seriously.

everyone’s encouraged to reblog, but if you don’t have adhd, keep your additions to the tags.