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

Ganymede

There’s a reason why about half of lawyers practicing are textbook cases of ADHD. And that’s because it’s hardly ever truly repetitive.

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

@too-old-for-this

There’s a reason why about half of lawyers practicing are textbook cases of ADHD. And that’s because it’s hardly ever truly repetitive.

A good chunk of your support staff too. <.< >.>

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Macha

@ganymede Now I wonder if this was why, for a long time, I wanted to pursue it.

faraday

@too-old-for-this said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

I finally figured it out. I hated waiting for other people to catch up. I hated having to do things half a dozen times when I was ready to move on. I couldn't concentrate because someone across the room was talking and I could hear it. I couldn't focus because in my head it had already been done to death. I wanted new. I wanted different. I wanted to be DONEOMGWHYCAN'TWEJUSTMOVEOOOOOOOOOOONALREADY?!

I quoted this to my kid and they were like: "YES. SO MUCH YES."

I had a similar experience, but it was tempered by a few things. A mix of people-pleasing and grade-competition was enough to overcome the "ugh" of boring, repetitive assignments.

And I was lucky because my mom was an advocate. Long before IEP and 504 plans were a thing, she was nudging my teachers like: "Look, she gets straight A's and never causes trouble in class. She's bored out of her mind. Let her read her book or write when she's done." And they did.

I read a lot of novels in school.

But I get that same feeling still in meetings and training. Squirming in my chair and wishing I could just gnaw my way through the floor to escape because it's so boring it's painful. One year I taught myself to write left-handed just to give my hands something to do. Now I have fidget cubes at the ready but it's still annoying.

So yeah... you're definitely not alone.

Too Old For This

@faraday I got in so much trouble for reading in class in high school. I spent many a Saturday in the auditorium, or in in-school suspension, because I would constantly be reading novels. Or skipping class altogether. I had senior friends that could get out earlier than I could. Their leaving coincided with one of my most hated classes (SO REPETITIVE OMG), so I would duck out with them and then find out all the cool stuff they were doing in THEIR classes. I learned to play 9-ball in high school so well I took third place in a local competition... one for adults. I learned to ride horses. I played violin, viola, trombone, accoustic guitar, I was in the choir. And each time. EVERY TIME. I would quit about 6 months in because I kept having to wait for everyone else to GET IT. I ran track briefly, and even then I stopped because... man, that circle, though.

I've learned to paint minis, crochet, needlepoint, basic weaving techniques. I build my own pc's, I have coloring books all over the place, I chew through puzzles in a matter of hours. Its... its bad. I keep struggling to find something that will engage. Now I know what it means to be a jack-of-all-trades. I don't have the patience for mastery, so I learn how to do everything.

Macha

I had so many teachers that learned to let me read my own books. Because I knew what they were talking about. Generally once they tried to 'get' me a couple times, and I would sigh and answer them correctly, they let it go.

Derp

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

I had so many teachers that learned to let me read my own books. Because I knew what they were talking about. Generally once they tried to 'get' me a couple times, and I would sigh and answer them correctly, they let it go.

I had an english teacher once tell me Romeo and Juliet was a love story.

We spent 15 minutes arguing.

Ganymede

@derp

I argued it was a satire on bad parenting.

I got an A.

Macha

I remember arguing it too. The teacher was a dick, and threatened to send me to the principal. Later that year, he told me to get my 'little ass' in my seat. .. I sort of told him to Fuck off and flipped him the bird as I sailed out of the classroom (defiance disorder in full effect, yo). There had been a fight in the stairwell on my way to class, and I had been knocked into pretty hard, and dropped my books and papers. He'd said I could go get them, and then the bell rang as I was heading to do so. That's when it happened.

So uh, I had to repeat that year's English class. The next year, the teacher thought me arguing how it wasn't a love story was awesome. I got SO MUCH extra credit, that year.

Auspice

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@auspice Ready to go, on time ahead of time.... space out randomly on some thought... Racing to clock in before late.

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Auspice

Mythical Kitchen pleases me in so many ways

It's upbeat, it's silly, it's weird... but the reason it's here is that it's basically 'this is what cooking with ADHD is' (and ABCs of ADHD have also pointed this out specifically of Mythical Kitchen).

So yeah, I recommend it. For fun and for pointing neurotypicals at to go 'this is what my brain do' because it is a very visual example of ADHD in action.

Wretched

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Cant do shit on your schedule/demand. lazy.

Auspice

@wretched

So many of these get me.
The 'Doesn't look in the eyes' especially. I've been told straight up the reason I didn't get a job was because I couldn't look the interviewer in the eyes.

I don't know how people can. You can't look at two eyes at once. And if you focus on their nose that's not their eyes. So which eye do you look at? Why is focusing on them, in general, not enough?!