#adhd life

[laestoica]

[nientedal]

I understand the necessity of multi-factor authentication, but as someone with ADHD so bad I was diagnosed at age 7 in the 1990s despite me being a girl at the time...asking me to pick my Distraction Box back up when I've finally managed to put it down to try and get to work is, uh, not the best thing ever for my ability to get work done. You are requiring Captain Distractosaurus to pick up and look at his Distraction Box in order to do his work. This is the worst possible thing you could ask me to do. Picking up and looking at my Distraction Box and entering a code and waiting for the code to be accepted is so many steps, and in between each one of those steps is an opportunity to get distracted, and I am holding and looking at my Distraction Box for every single one of those steps.

Guess what I was doing when I got distracted and made this post. You'll NEVER guess. Multi-factor authentication is very necessary and I hate it SO MUCH. I'm gonna eat a bug

[the-adhd-duck-on-your-shoulder]

hate when someone asks me if i'm okay after experiencing a Mild Inconvenience like yeah babe i'm fine it's just that i came with built-in sound effects so i can express my dismay over a Mild Inconvenience and move on immediately

[noballoonsinspace]

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Self-taught one work-in-progress at a time so that there’s some beginner stuff I don’t know and advanced stuff that I do know and I will forever be making silly beginner mistakes in complex projects that I’ll probably never complete :)

[ineedfairypee]

Another one 📚

[spookysalem13]

🐝 I don't watch TV, but I do this with music, podcasts & YouTube.

It's a neurodivergent thing, if you know, you know 😁

[innominaterifter]

I wanted to tell you about my ADHD tactics for running, but I’m busy preparing for one sortie. So for now, just photos from the run, and a story about tactics and the results of the sortie (if it is successful) later.

[jennhasadhd]

[beautyinthediss0nance]

[paradoxlemonade]

ADHD PRO TIP: if your space continually ends up cluttered, then your stuff is probably too difficult to put away or includes too many steps.

Let me explain.

Our brains can only handle so many steps in a task before the "eh, I'll do it later" instinct kicks in. When this happens, we set the object down on the nearest flat surface and let it pile up. Once it's down, it becomes scenery and we stop worrying about it (...until the clutter becomes stressful).

I have art supplies under my bed that can only be accessed by taking everything else out from under there first. Once I've done that and used my item, I never want to put it back because it's an entire ordeal. "I'll do it later." Yeah no the fuck I won't.

The solution was one of these bad boys:

Wheels so it can be moved around, clear so I can see what's in it, and separate drawers so I can store multiple types of objects separately. It's much easier to toss something back in the drawer than rearrange the underside of my bed for the fifth time.

Another example is laundry. It's practically a universal experience that ADHD people will move the laundry basket around our room instead of actually putting the clothes away. I do it frequently. While I can't eliminate that entirely, I can mitigate it for one simple reason: I hang up my shirts. Why have I been folding my shirts to put them in the basket, only to unfold them to hang them up? It's way more effective to just bring a bunch of hangers to the laundry room with me and go straight from dryer to hanger to closet.

The less steps a cleaning task has, the more likely we are to get it done.

[laestoica]

[amihungryorbored]

If you DON'T HAVE ADHD PLEASE DO NOT VOTE this is not for you i want to hear adhd voices if you want to see just use the answers option

also you tumblsters yes YOU THE MISCHIEVOUS ONE please please please don't mess with it just to mess with it help a guy out

[theadhdgoblin]

[bambiraptorx]

I think the most exhausting part of being ND is that since I didn't get the Social Interaction Software that everyone else did, I'm constantly trying to manage people's perception of me so I don't accidentally come off as rude or mean or uninterested or nervous or awkward or stupid, and I never know if I actually succeed

[ineedfairypee]

My whole life is a series of side quests

[misssclumsy]