@Wretched Yes, but it was quickly quashed when I got caught by a cop at the local mall sneaking a couple of D&D modules out of a Waldenbooks by stuffing them under my shirt.
Little did the cop know I had a stash of 20+ other ones I had already grabbed and stashed in a fridge in the Sears down the way that I went back later to get.
Edited to add: This is back when I was 14 or 15, in the mid-late 80's.
@Wretched said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):
Any of you ADHD kids have a klepto phase when you were younger?
Not really. I've had a fairly rules-oriented life, especially during childhood, so even incidental kleptomania was not something that happened because it was "wrong" to take someone else's things without their permission or knowledge.
@Wretched said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):
Any of you ADHD kids have a klepto phase when you were younger?
My mom was very, very clear regarding her stance on stealing. I'd never lay a hand on property that isn't mine to this day.
I self advocated! And it worked! I was a little blunt and firm and used words like 'unacceptable' and 'would like to be acknowledged as a partner in my mental health' and 'I don't feel like you are listening to me'. So now I will soon get non stimulant ADHD meds!!!
(because Kaiser hates cannabis and wont gimme stimulants lest I am 100% pee test clean. And as a former daily user who is overweight, tha'll take a bit.)
So, woo!
@Wretched said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):
I self advocated! And it worked! I was a little blunt and firm and used words like 'unacceptable' and 'would like to bew acknowledges as a partner in my mental health' and 'I dont feel like you are listening to me'. So now I will soon get non stimulant ADHD meds!!!
(because Kaiser hates cannabis and wont gimme stimulants lest I am 100% pee test clean. And as a former daily user who is overweight, tha'll take a bit.)
So, woo!
this is awesome. 
I'm glad to hear it.
My doc is sending me to a psychiatry office that specializes in adult ADHD and takes my insurance. It's a few steps further but. It's a step.
So I am something called Guanfacine. I take one pill before bed.
So far there's some serious cotton mouth, and generally i feel a little wrapped in gauze but I had trouble staying asleep.
OTOH, is seems to balance out the jitteriness of the prozac.
So far... alright.
@Wretched said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):
So I am something called Guanfacine. I take one pill before bed.
So far there's some serious cotton mouth, and generally i feel a little wrapped in gauze but I had trouble staying asleep.
OTOH, is seems to balance out the jitteriness of the prozac.
So far... alright.
I just recently changed from guanfacine to clonodine. The former just wasn't doing a thing, so far as I could tell. I felt like there was a difference from when I first started it, to present day. Haven't really noticed any cotton mouth, but the amitriptylin has been my major dry mouth contributor in the first place so perhaps I just lumped it all together.
I am not sure if this is related to ADD/ADHD, genuinely not sure, but I am stupidly bad at taking compliments. I feel like maybe it falls under that neuro-atypical space, where I perceive it differently from an ordinary person, like I've been handed something with a cost and now own the compliment-giver some existential debt. I've never managed to make a character good at taking compliments either, so I can't even fake that skill set effectively.
So, uh, super identified with this comic.
@Selerik Haha yes, this is me.
@dvoraen said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):
@Wretched said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):
Haven't really noticed any cotton mouth, but the amitriptylin has been my major dry mouth contributor in the first place so perhaps I just lumped it all together.
If it helps, one of my patients swears by a tiny amount of olive oil rinsed around the mouth. Thry used flavored ones...
@Selerik said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):
I am not sure if this is related to ADD/ADHD, genuinely not sure, but I am stupidly bad at taking compliments.
My anecdotal experience is that this is unrelated to ADHD.
@Selerik That used to be me, and then someone convinced me that I was basically telling people who were being nice that they had terrible judgement and putting them in an awkward position by refusing to accept their effort, so I got better at learning to say 'thank you' instead of denying. It helped at first to also say things like "it's really kind of you to say so" because it reminded me and also felt less like saying "why yes I AM awesome!" as I was trying to retrain myself.
It's still hard now and then but as a bonus I also actually feel better about getting compliments now! Even for things where I still think my X is pretty awful, it's nice to think someone else can see the good in it. For me, at least, it was a thing worth working on.
Hi remember how annoying I used to be?
It turns out I have severe ADHD.
I mean I also might be on the spectrum I still have to get tested for that.
@HelloProject Welcome to the shit show. Have fun figuring out how your brain works, its quite a journey, tho at least they know now more than they did when I was a kid,
https://www.additudemag.com/how-to-prioritize-tasks-adhd-adults/
Procrastivity is my word of the day.
This week has been so rough for me so far. I didn't watch my diet or my liquid intake and it shattered my focus. Suddenly I couldn't bring myself to do anything - and started feeling sick, because I literally did not realize how hungry and dehydrated I was.
It's now 3:41 in the morning, and after chugging water, stuffing my face, taking a long nap last night and forcing myself into a bath, I'm able to face the work - but the anxiety over unread emails is not helping. Oh well. Time to get this done.
Last week was... Different.
I finished my first month on meds for ADHD. Got my next month approved on the very last day. Tried a different pharmacy to save cash because I am teh poors, and they made me wait a week before they'd fill it. So, that was a week without the meds. I did that for decades, how hard could it be?
Turns out, having had a month with treatment made me acutely aware of how bad my symptoms are without it. There were two times in that month I missed a day, it wasn't so bad. Turns out, the meds are still low-key in your system the next day. After you hit 48 hours they're completely gone.
I'm now questioning how I even survived. Was I a functioning adult before? Or did I just happen to shamble through and flash the right gang signs to convince everyone?
It has been an hour. One, hour, today. That I have been at work. I have been mushing the entire time, watching anime, and reading emails.
Yet DESPITE that, I've also gotten more work done in this hour than I did all of last week.
I can't even at myself.
is it weird that I thought that I thought I would be less multitasking on the meds? I mean, am I more focused in general? Yes. But the needs to have something else other than a scene going on, is still there. Strongly.
And all my procrastination moves are still in play. I'm disappointed in myself.
I keep hyper focusing this week. On stupid shit.
Up until 1 am getting a desc just right?
Sure!
Late to work because I have to have exactly the right jacket and I dunno where it is?
Yup!
Caught up in the phrasing of a single sentence in the documentation and refuse to move onto something else? You bet.
Unfortunately it's led to insomnia and I'm on day 3 of only 3 hours of sleep a night.
@Wretched Yes, but it was quickly quashed when I got caught by a cop at the local mall sneaking a couple of D&D modules out of a Waldenbooks by stuffing them under my shirt.
Little did the cop know I had a stash of 20+ other ones I had already grabbed and stashed in a fridge in the Sears down the way that I went back later to get.
Edited to add: This is back when I was 14 or 15, in the mid-late 80's.
