#adhd hack

[nyancrimew]

tricked myself into actually focusing on writing by doing a timelapse video of myself working so now i feel shamed into doing work by my own camera + my phone is now out of reach i am a productivity mega genius

[359midnightburgers]

I think the biggest ADHD hack for consistent progress I have is letting yourself give up without any shame.

You don't enjoy your 3 month running program anymore and thus haven't done any type of exercise for a week because you know you have to do that specific training and you keep procrastinating?

GIVE UP. Switch to going for walks or bike riding (and give those up as soon as you dislike it as well, routinely find new things).

You haven't cleaned your house in a month because you got behind on the specific organisational system that seemed to work so well for a week and now you are overwhelmed?

GIVE UP. Switch to a new system and accept that you will likely have to switch again in a week.

When it comes to arbitrary things like exercise and organisation, accept that your brain likes shiny new things and provide it with those.

If giving up gets THE THING done better than struggling on, just GIVE UP.

[crowbraincoin]

ADHD Tip: Learn to Love Podcasts

I always need to be consuming some sort of media--it comes with my ADHD--but if I'm consuming any sort of visual media I will just stay stuck in front of the screen.

So, if I need to be doing chores or exercise, I will put on a podcast I really enjoy.

It's kinda like when you're on the phone with someone and you find yourself walking around the house or doing random chores!

Since visual stimulation isn't available, it forces me to find something else to do. This way I can exercise, clean, run errands, or work on my art without getting bored from lack of stimulation!

Also, if podcasts aren't your thing then try audiobooks!

Here are my current fav podcasts:

Sawbones

Ologies

Dungeons and Daddies

Last Podcast on the Left

All of these have hundreds of episodes for your enjoyment <3

[getinthehandbasket]

I made a possible ADHD hack discovery

I like snacking. I like eating regularly. I crave variety. My partner and I rarely have spoons to make dinner, despite having a meal kit service.

So this week, on the suggestion of a therapist (and with the dim memory of seeing a tiktok of an ADHDer doing something similar), I've been having.. snack meals?

We went to the grocery store together with the express purpose of buying mix-and match snacks. We got cottage cheese, chives, a couple types of cheese besides cottage, peanuts, 6-layer bean dip, wheat thins, tortilla chips, a few kinds of fruit, a few kinds of yogurt, fully-cooked sausages of various varieties, etc.

I'll mix and match, with minimal prep (cutting up the chives if needed, slicing cheese as needed, etc.), and put things in the numerous silicone cupcake liners I own, all piled on a plate.

Tonight's dinner is as follows: -Cottage cheese with chives -Peanut butter and a banana -Wheat thins, smoked gouda, and honey dijon mustard -Mixed fruit -Peanuts -Bean dip and tortilla chips -Blueberry yogurt

Mind, I only have small portions of each, but together it more than fills my plate and I can snack my way into a dinner while I play WoW. Picture under the cut.

I feel like I'm dining like a Roman emperor.

[halfhumanhalfasleep]

Babes. Listen to me.

Turn off push notifications on your phone.

If you constantly find yourself losing hours of the day to just mindlessly scrolling, but you don't want to delete tiktok/insta/whatever just. trust me.

It has saved me so much lost time I am not kidding even a little, you don't have to turn off notifications for everything but ohmygod

[nursehella]

BRO I AM SO BAD AT THIS STREAMING THING ITS AWESOME FOR ME THIS TIME SOMEONE IS WAITING FOR ME SO LETS GOOOO

[cellorondo]

Show me your must-do ADHD hack for remembering something in the morning. I’ll go first. This is my front door. Guess what has to come with me in the morning.

[helpimstuckposting]

I've been terrible at procrastinating my actual work at my actual job that I get paid to actually do and I've discovered that if I hide my phone from myself or even just chuck it across the room, I am too lazy to get up and get it which forces me to be productive

[certified-scoundrel]

hack for people who 'enjoy reading but can never really get into books': get the book/ebook AND the audiobook (i use a library app)

either listen and read along for the whole book, or just use the audiobook for the first few chapters/until the plot picks up. spend the first few pages working to adjust the speed of the audiobook so it matches your reading pace.

if you're a person who gets easily distracted, it keeps your mind on the book in two ways. if you're a person who gets bored by all of the exposition in the first few chapters, the audiobook can help keep your mind from wandering while you read the 'boring' bits and then you can read the rest normally (or switch the audiobook back on if a chapter is particularly slow)

this hack got me through The Picture of Dorian Gray in a week after being a "i never read unless im rereading a book i know i like" person for YEARS.

[chaotic-autumn]

i've started treating life like bunch of resource management minigames that combine mcu-style to create a mostly coherent overarching narrative that is my life story, and it's so much more bearable now???????

[thatsnotthetruth]

being able to book doctors appointments online is fucking revoluionary for my executive disfuction!! I can type in the type of doctor i need and then find the one that has availability the soonest! no having to call tons of practices hoping hoping they take new patients and have availability.

[mangosorbetter]

Hey blah blah idk who needs to hear this whatever.

I did NOT want to cook dinner for myself today. Just didn’t want to. I convinced myself that since I have the energy now, I could cook it for myself and save it for tomorrow. By the time it was done cooking, I had an appetite to eat it PLUS I made enough that I don’t have to cook tomorrow.

Treat your future self by cooking dinner tonight, it’s kinda worked and it’s kinda worth it

[justchronicallyillthings]

Just found out a new adhd hack:

If you are craving something i.e Cheesecake and literally want to eat nothing but Cheesecake for weeks then get some shitty Cheesecake. Because it'll give you the ick and make you not want Cheesecake anymore

(If you can tell I've been Cheesecake crazy and got some at the local grocery store that was very bad and now I no longer want cheesecake.)

[luckyshrimpdude]

Race to do as many dishes as possible before the microwave beeps

[astroprojectology]

neurodivergent transmasc iphone layout just makes sense

[lesbian-disaster-academic]

i used to be so good at writing strong, thoroughly-researched, thoroughly-edited essays.

as a kid in hs, my teacher literally came up to me, holding my 40 page essay on the intersection of the European witch hunts and capitalism/exploitation/gender roles (it was supposed to be 7 pages...whoops) and went like "this is literally a master's-degree level thesis. what are you doing?? you could literally use this as your final dissertation in a master's program, what the fuck."

NOW??? NOW?? you'd think I'd be oh so skilled. but alas. i can barely piece together two ideas. adhd skill-regression is so so real. im SOBBING