#adhd

I know that needoh stress balls are all the rage right now, but if you’re like me and have a lot of body-focused repetitive behaviors (skin picking, hair pulling, scratching, nail biting, etc.) then I highly suggest buying or making some fidget sliders. They’re the best redirection tools I’ve found so far.

idk HOW i keep forgetting that i have adhd and being surprised/upset when i experience adhd symptoms and struggles caused by adhd,, does my brain think my medication is just for craps and giggles or smthn-

Reason #3 to abolish the DEA: It puts the government in between doctors and their patients.

uhh…guys it’s 6pm ??? what did I do all day ???

have suspected that i’m neurodivergent for years now, but i’m just now taking it seriously. does anyone have any advice for the best way to self diagnose and/or resources i should look into for dealing with specific struggles (such as social relatedness)? zines, videos, tumblr posts, even your own experience- anything would be really appreciated!

Trying to find something in your room while having ADHD is like trying to recall a dream you just had after waking up. Like trying to hold a handful of water

I was just looking for my smudge guard glove thingy cuz I wanted to draw without ruining the other drawings on the page, and as i was looking through my drawers, I had to actively remind myself what exactly i was looking for.

I didnt end up finding it. And I found out that every single thing that goes to my drawing tablet is gone as well. The pen, the pen holder, the USB cord- they took everything. That was my entire life savings dude :( oh my god. Oh god. Oh my god, I’m gonna be sick. That was everything /ref

Procrastination final boss

The term differently abled makes me want to RIP my hair out

Like no I don’t just function differently I have a disorder that makes it to where I can’t function unless there to is a weird and random combination of things happening in my environment and with me for me to be able to do anything

And if that combination is wrong best case a scenario I power through it after procrastination and worst case scenario I have a whole crying breakdown and don’t do it because I physically can’t focus on anything else besides what is wrong

That isn’t because I’m different it’s because I’m disabled

me when i don’t take the focus medicine and chose to not have an easy time focusing.. and then i can’t focus 🤯🤯🤯😢😢👀👀

why are people only now liking new dohs now i can’t get my fidgets cheap in stores

the guilt of drawing and wanting to create while such high grade expectations are still placed on you

sorry i’m failing my classes, i was really sad

Here’s a quickie. Have not figured out the hair yet. Character position heavily inspired by tsunosame sketch.

Ahh I love casual ableism.

Like my partner and friends laughing at my AuADHD memory loss like it’s a joke.

Like it’s funny that I drop thoughts in the middle of expressing them and can’t recover them ever again.

I forget that I’m making food (which is actually kind of dangerous)

I forget to take my meds 60% of the time. Which is why I have VNA’s. And they think it’s funny too.

I forget to eat and drink water. I starve (from diabetes) and dehydrated easily and constantly unless I’m reminded to do those things either by others or by pain.

I forget all kinds of plans I make or suggest to other people, and they just think I’m flakey.

Even more examples that I can’t remember.

No one really helps me with any of this. I’m just expected to will myself through it with magic or something.

And what do people do? Laugh at it. Even though it causes me visible emotional distress that I cant remember shit.

And on top of this? I was addicted to Ativan for at least 3-4 years. Ativan when abused, fucks the part of your brain that manages memory. I had no support. I lived alone. No one cared enough about me.

There is a whole 20 year span of my life I can’t remember because of CPTSD. That’s…a majority of my life.

I’m glad this is so funny to people.

I’m glad that my being rarely able to actually do anything I want to do, let alone things I need to do, and this causing the quality of my life and mental health suffers…

Is so fucking funny to other homo sapiens who should remember that they are animals. And should remember their place in the universe, which is not that special actually.

Not even to mention how all this laughing at my disability seriously triggers my BPD & OCD symptoms. Which then people get mad at me for.

I am exhausted of this species. Like please just let me fucking die already.

My sister is very intelligent and emotionally mature and insightful. She’s been in therapy for 2 years and has been working really hard to get through some fucked up shit.

She recently looked at me thoughtfully and said she thinks both she and I are on the autism spectrum. We were both diagnosed with ADHD years ago. She is medicated, I am not.

Is there any benefit to me jumping through the hoops to find out if I’m autistic? Having an ADHD diagnosis hasn’t noticeably helped me beyond me knowing that I get overstimulated really easily and working around that, and of course intense rsd. I don’t get any kind of accommodations at my job for it, I just keep to myself because it’s easier.

Everyone loves saying they have autism, self diagnosing and making ‘thats so adhd of me!’ Jokes but freak when a neurodivergent person or someone with a mental disorder generally shows real signs and traits its all fun and games until people see the ‘gross’ and socially unacceptable side of mental illness suddenly everyone treats them like their crazy omg dont even get me started this pisses me off so bad.

✨✨Just got officially diagnosed with ADHD and autism ✨✨

Now my Beatles problem is medically excused!!

I love the part of autism where I can be just as sarcastic as neurotypical people around me and then I get to do the “it was sarcasm” back to them because they don’t think I’m capable of doing it and then they just stare with their mouth open of a second before changing the subject

Like hell yeah, welcome to the club, bitch

“Why do you get so upset when people who don’t have ADHD claim to be hyperfixated on something?”

Because real hyperfixations can be debilitating. I’m probably going to fail the class I’m taking because I can’t focus on anything except this stupid fucking show.

I want to eat fruit

I have fruit at home

Fruit doesn’t taste right

I now hate fruit

Must find new fruit