The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves)

Auspice · Jun 25, 2020, 11:37 PM

@Wretched said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

I have twice now -- twice -- gone on the first leg of a trip with a pocket knife (a wee thing; look up the Leatherman Squirt and yes, I know, unfortunate name, but it's so fucking convenient) in my carry-on only to have them find it on my return and be like OMG and I'm like 'uhhhhhhh I dunno, I always have it in my bag and I didn't think about it and the blade isn't even an inch long I dunno what to tell you'

still haven't replaced it after the last incident $:\$

faraday · Jun 25, 2020, 11:50 PM

@Auspice said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

I have twice now -- twice -- gone on the first leg of a trip with a pocket knife

I stopped carrying my little leatherman tool (with a completely-incidental-to-why-I-liked-it pocket knife) in my purse after the 9/11 security stuff because I just KNEW that I would forget about it and accidentally walk through security somewhere with it.

Wretched · Jun 29, 2020, 4:52 AM

insomniac7809 · Jun 29, 2020, 5:10 AM

@Wretched Which is great, until I need to explain to someone else why talking about their pet has got me thinking of a 1989 horror film I saw in 2008.

Wretched · Jun 29, 2020, 5:12 AM

@insomniac7809 And Memes have made this power of ours... interesting. Its like hieroglyphics.

GreenFlashlight · Jun 29, 2020, 7:09 AM

@Wretched said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

For a few years, when talking to people, I'd preface it with "Hey, so I won't even try to describe the stream of consciousness that got me to this question, but."

Auspice · Jun 29, 2020, 9:19 AM

This is actually part of why I don't talk much IRL until I'm very comfortable with a group of people.

I'm terrified of making one of those leaps (and I was led to believe for a long, long, long time that I did it because I 'didn't care about the conversation') and pissing people off. Because 9 times out of 10, when someone asks 'how the hell did you get to that?' and you explain... it doesn't actually help matters.

Grayson · Jun 29, 2020, 9:39 AM

I call this having a mind like a cat on a hot tin roof.

Macha · Jun 29, 2020, 4:15 PM

Man, this thread just makes me feel better. I feel understood

Ganymede · Jun 29, 2020, 5:52 PM

@Grayson said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

I call this having a mind like a cat on a hot tin roof.

This is how my mind works, but I can honestly say I don't feel or believe I have ADHD.

faraday · Jun 29, 2020, 8:58 PM

@Ganymede said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

This is how my mind works, but I can honestly say I don't feel or believe I have ADHD.

You can certainly have a racing mind and NOT have ADHD.

Executive functioning covers a variety of brain activities (source

Even neurotypical people will have individual variances in each of these functions. You can be scatterbrained (working memory) or disorganized (activation) or impulsive (emotions) without having ADHD. Having ADHD is more about having a cluster of challenges to a clinically significant degree.

Wretched · Jun 30, 2020, 3:03 PM

Macha · Jun 30, 2020, 3:03 PM

@Wretched I see we've met.

Macha · Jun 30, 2020, 4:53 PM

Oh heeeeeeeyy. This lunchable has cookies in it!

Ganymede · Jun 30, 2020, 5:00 PM

@Macha

Why are you eating kids’ lunches?

Why are you not drinking bourbon instead?

Macha · Jun 30, 2020, 5:20 PM

@Ganymede Because I can not be arsed to make actual food before like 4pm these days. And I'm not allowed to drink bourbon while on steroids. Sad.

Wretched · Jul 1, 2020, 1:12 AM

Auspice · Jul 1, 2020, 1:12 AM

@Wretched

Apparently my spoken vocabulary is fairly extensive; moreso than I often realize. I got accused way too often by my ex-husband (and some of our mutual friends, even one who also considered themselves a writer) that I 'purposefully' used words they didn't know.

And I didn't, I really didn't. I just used whatever words came to mind (and thus were right for the situation).

Wretched · Jul 1, 2020, 1:19 AM

@Auspice That 'My hobbies are reading and writing' vocabulary that throws people off guard. Now if on ly i could master the fine art of typing like a normal fucking person who took entirely too long to try and write this without typo's.

Ganymede · Jul 1, 2020, 1:44 AM

@Auspice said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

Apparently my spoken vocabulary is fairly extensive; moreso than I often realize. I got accused way too often by my ex-husband (and some of our mutual friends, even one who also considered themselves a writer) that I 'purposefully' used words they didn't know.

They say: "You purposefully use words I don't know."

I hear: "I'm too stupid to understand the language I purport to speak."