@Wretched said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):
@Macha More times than i like Ive caught my coworkers raising a brow at me or cracking up because I will ALLEGEDLY make weird noises as i travel between tasks. I feel ya.
Fun bonus to watching me stream games:
I will sing random bullshit to myself quietly.
Gods, I love not feeling along with all these things I do. 
y'all
When I took Bupropion in my 20s, I loved how effective it was and hated that it tended to sing-song into my brain, "It's time to kill yourself!"
Now, I'm in my 40s, and I can take it with NO side effects, and it's fantastic.
(I should note, as an ADD person, I do occasionally recommend that people buy themselves a planner to use as a tracker. Not for planning. For journaling things. For keeping track of adulting and health changes, so that when I do talk to my doctors, I can be like, "I had 2 migraine days and 8 depression days in the month of November. I lost 10 pounds and worked as a paid freelancer between 5 and 10 hours a week, plus some spec freelancing. I have an entry where I was unbearably sad because I ran out of apples. Oh, and I had a serious anxiety attack on the 18th, and mild fever on the 9th.")
I have a playlist: http://musoapbox.net/topic/91/tributary-s-playlist
@Tributary said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):
When I took Bupropion in my 20s, I loved how effective it was and hated that it tended to sing-song into my brain, "It's time to kill yourself!"
Now, I'm in my 40s, and I can take it with NO side effects, and it's fantastic.
(I should note, as an ADD person, I do occasionally recommend that people buy themselves a planner to use as a tracker. Not for planning. For journaling things. For keeping track of adulting and health changes, so that when I do talk to my doctors, I can be like, "I had 2 migraine days and 8 depression days in the month of November. I lost 10 pounds and worked as a paid freelancer between 5 and 10 hours a week, plus some spec freelancing. I have an entry where I was unbearably sad because I ran out of apples. Oh, and I had a serious anxiety attack on the 18th, and mild fever on the 9th.")
I have legit recommended bullet-journaling to some people with ADD not to "bE moAr oRganIZed!!1!1!!!", but because if you use the bare bones method of it instead of getting sucked into the Instagrammy art spreads and washi tape and colors.....
Part of the point is scribbling down that random idea, the thing you suddenly remembered, or an observation you had. Not to take you more productive, but so that shit isn't rattling around in your head anymore and neither is the repetitive chorus of "Mustn't forget not to forget the thing I don't want to forget!" It's supposed to be a brain dump in one place so you can unclench your jaw for a friggin' minute.
I actually recommend this video, where she talks about what not to do in a bullet journal over most other content that gets super artsy-fartsy about it. The Instagrammers legit stress me out about my stuff not being pretty enough, at which point the thing that's supposed to be helpful just becomes another to do that overwhelms me.
@Tributary I think the thing that stops a lot of people is hearing about experiences others have had that were bad with various forms of medication.
I watched someone go almost completely unhinged, and to make things worse, it was a cop. It put me off of medication for years. I still have friends who refuse to medicate because of the stigma around it. But people fail to understand that medication evolves just like tech does, and the Bupropion of 10+ years ago is not the Bupropion of today, not to mention metabolism changes in people as they age.
hyperactivity is only one way adhd manifests. The other types are 'inattentive' and 'mixed'. One of the reasons women don't get diagnosed as much is that they tend to exhibit inattentive symptoms more than hyperactive ones. Looking back, I can definitely tell i was super hyperactive ADHD as a kid, but the older I got I got way more 'inattentive". My brain is still hyperactive, though. Hence why I am always exhausted.
Lol my lack of filter from ADHD came up in my work meeting today. Thankfully, my bosses find my random song lyric connections amusing.
@Macha The song lyric connections! I do this all the time. Just this morning my brother mentioned the words 'wake me up' and i was all ~/before you go-go/~ before i had a chance to think about it. I'm glad your boss is chill.
@Wretched Yeah. First world problems came up as a phrase, and I started head bobbing to the Weird Al song in my head, and told my boss I hated her for getting it stuck.
@Kanye-Qwest Irony: it's usually exhausted but completely unable to sleep because the brain is zooming and the body is like, 'what?'
The brain looping the body 100x over is augh.
@Macha said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):
Thankfully, my bosses find my random song lyric connections amusing.
Well, he probably don't want no scrub.
and then you get the depressives with the call of the void
and putting your hand on that hot stove is actually more alluring than getting shit done.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
@Auspice I'm in this picture and I don't like it
@Wretched said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):
ugh that's a really good description of how it feels.
I am convinced that whomever designed the concept of 'spending a willpower to resist' or whatever root derivative thereof (I don't know how to use words man) was simply trying to explain to neurotypicals how doing regular shit is to people with an executive function disorder.
This could go under RL peeves but I figured it'd be more relateable here.
I have always hated multiple choice tests with a passion. It wasn't until recently, helping my kid with online school, that I finally realized why.
We both have very literal thinking - kid because OCD, me because (probably almost certainly) autism. So after ruling out two of the obviously-dumb answers, we both find ourselves going: "Well... it could be A because technically blah, or it could be B because technically blah..." And then we have to contort ourselves into this game of "let's try to guess what the teacher thought the BEST answer was when they wrote the test, even though their brain works completely differently than ours..." and it's freaking maddening.
Tests should not be designed to TRICK the students. It's mean on principle, but doubly so for students who have trouble with directions or inferring meaning.
@Wretched said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):
@Macha More times than i like Ive caught my coworkers raising a brow at me or cracking up because I will ALLEGEDLY make weird noises as i travel between tasks. I feel ya.
Fun bonus to watching me stream games:
I will sing random bullshit to myself quietly.
