adhd shit from my experience
my diagnosis is combined-type adhd so this’ll be a mess
(self-dx people can reblog too!)
- time is a social construct/i have no concept of time (casually forgetting what day/month/year it is)
- chronic boredom
- rejection sensitive dysphoria
- i’m bored but everything is too boring/unappealing
- “where’s my phone???” i say, holding my phone
- thinking about one thing and then thinking about something else for literally one (1) second but immediately forgetting about what you were originally thinking about
- bad yet good memory (i.e: i can remember entire movie scripts from movies i watched years ago but i can’t remember what i did yesterday)
- Leg Bounce™
- can’t sit or stand still (i.e: i bounce my legs while sitting; i rock side to side while standing)
- stimming in general
- i have so much energy!!!!!!! i gotta move and jump around Right Now or else i’ll Die
- i know i should brush my teeth. all i have to do is pick up my tooth brush, put toothpaste on it, and brush my teeth. so why is my body doing Not That (executive dysfunction)
- literally everything is distracting (i.e: that clock on the wall at school? distracting. the air conditioning? distracting. someone tapping their pencil on their desk? distracting. can’t focus on anything but the distraction.)
- zoning out CONSTANTLY (can be both on purpose or accidental)
- i’m reading this book but i’m not processing any of the words on the pages so i have no idea what’s happening and fuck now i gotta reread it from the beginning (having to do this over and over again to actually be able to read something)
- what was i doing? what was i saying? what did i do yesterday? fuck if i know
- having no! sense! of! volume control! (i.e: yelling when you think you’re whispering – not being aware of this unless someone mentions it)
- i’m upset but i forgot why so now i’m just vaguely uncomfortable
- oops i forgot to eat again
- what’s an attention span? don’t know her
- zero impulse control