My exciting new discovery! I really needed a new slim wallet I can pocket for a quick trip somewhere. #TipOfDay. Wanted a few more card slots and a slightly easier way to pull cards out. By NOT doing a search for WOMENS I discovered what I needed as in MENS wallet. Pffft!

Called a Double Bus slim wallet, the flip out part with 2 transparent windows works out great. And I was skeptical but glad to see the Air Tag slot. It all fits my pocket easily. Since I have significant #ADHD #ADD I tried the Find My Phone app setting for precision and found a moving arrow as I walked near the place around the corner in next room. Very very happy to have this device on my keys and now wallet. #Wallet #AirTag #Apple

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Slim wallet for ID and credit cards, black with one pocket flipped out to left for a photo ID.

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Same wallet with air tag inserted on front of slim wallet in circular pocket

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This is the precise direction I need when I lose something in my own home. The wallet air tag Bluetooth signal appears on my phone with an arrow pointing my direction to walk to right 5 feet.

I recently got some test results from my therapist - I am very likely in the adhd club (inattentive type/without hyperactivity) ✨ Any recommendations on books and resources, which can help me getting started on my journey of self discovery? Or things to avoid? German preferred, english is also okay. I am also interested into finding out, if I am also on the autistic spectrum - maybe being adhd is not the whole story... Thanks in advance <3

#adhd #neurodivergent

Hat jemand den Post mit dem lustigen Videoclip zu #adhs
I‘m surching for the funny clip with the song about #adhd so it a few days ago here.
Thanx for help.

One of the many things I'd like to really think and write about someday is the tendency to cast behavior that is not consciously chosen in a "conscious choice" frame. I got a lot of this as a kid growing up religious: failures of self-control were frequently phrased as if they were deliberate, fully-considered acts, as if there was a 5-minute cost-benefit analysis before some kids decided to feel each other's delightful sexual bits or try some of the devil's drink. One take I heard more than once was "why would you choose to compromise your [eternal salvation / honor / soul / etc.] for a few minutes of temporary pleasure?" Even back then, even as a very stupid teenager, I knew that didn't feel right. It wasn't just because of the assumption that 16-year-olds are capable of rationally weighing gradual, slow-burn long-term benefits against short-term, fast-burn, intense benefits (though that's the core of it). It was also that weird assumption that there was ever a conscious choice.

I know, for my part, I had a hundred thousand experiences of being me, doing my thing, then looking up in horror as some authority figure asked what the hell I was doing. Then I would look down, see my hands covered in mud from my mother's flooded flowerbed, or look past the delicious lips of the girl I'd been kissing for an hour, or look at the materials I'd used to create something that were actually someone else's important resources. I'd suddenly see what I had been doing in a new light--the what the hell are you doing? light--and get a very familiar, horrible feeling in my gut: consequences.

But there was no point at which I'd weighed those consequences. I had never had a thought like "let's do this; it will be worth the risk."

For a while, as a teen and young person, I was known as a risk-taker, a daredevil, a thrill-seeker. I really was none of those things. I would suddenly realize that I was hanging from a wild rose bush off a 50-foot cliff in the Cascades, or was flying hell-for-leather down a gnarly singletrack in Moab behind my cousin's boyfriend (an actual downhill MTB hucker), or about to try a somersault on waterskis at 40 mph.

when I was a bit older, I did sometimes have at least part of the mental conversations with myself about risks and rewards, etc. Those conversations didn't often go in reasonable directions, but at least I had them.

I sometimes wonder how I became an academic. I'm not introverted, autistic, or asocial; those characteristics are often excellent for academia. I've been cramming my square peg into Academia's round hole (I just realized how very inappropriate that sounds) for 20+ years.

About 8 years ago I did a teaching observation with a colleague, trying to get tenure (again). After I taught the class she asked, "It was interesting that you decided to spend two minutes talking about a tangent subject instead of following your lecture plan. What prompted that decision?"

I looked at her for a few seconds and said, "I don't know... personal pathology?"

She truly seemed like she had just heard something she had never in her life imagined or considered (she was a bit asocial, very introverted, and probably struggling with OCD; she was perfect for academia).

Now, with the hindsight of a few decades, some hard-won coping strategies, medication, and a slowed-down mind and body, I think I've started to learn some things about myself. In the few situations where people have asked what "choice" I was "making" with a clearly impulsive action I have tended to respond with a good deal of snark. I think questions like that are sometimes a flex, an attempt to dominate others, and the people doing that can go fuck themselves. The people who are honestly confused about why someone would "choose" to build a very low quality guitar out of a metal washtub instead of grading papers their students expected the next day could probably use a little consciousness expansion, too.

There are more things in human behavior than are dreamt of in your weird and narrow philosophy, Horatio.

#tmi #subtoot #personal #adhd #neuroatypical #old

Something difficult about having an ADHD brain is that you see links and connections that no one else gets. You assume everyone sees the same as you, but often find out much later that they don't. #ADHD

The spoon theory has a blind spot for ADHDers, it assumes you can perceive the capacity daily.

I can't. I've got everyday am 8am to 2pm 40 spoons existence, followed by a very long up to 8 or 9pm 10 spoons existence, followed by a whatever the time I go to sleep 50 spoons existence.

But it's nice to know about it because not everybody is a delayed sleep phase statistical average ADHDer. In my case there are two winds, and I can make them both 50/50 spoons if I nap right in the middle of them. 🤔

It's very interesting though 👇

https://neurodivergentinsights.com/the-neurodivergent-spoon-drawer-spoon-theory-for-adhders-and-autists/

#ADHD #SpoonTheory

@actuallyadhd

Any suggestions for games on Steam that fire off dopamine? Something free or very cheap preferably, and works with a controller. My dopamine is very depleted and it needs to be replenished without having to raise my ADHD meds.

#ADHD
#steam

#ADHS #ADHD #ADD #ADS

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ydgmN9XfP6M

6 Ways ADHD Hides Autism (And What AuDHD Really Looks Like)

A long article with a visual guide at the end for a visual and abbreviated version of it, by Dr Neff an AuDHD psychologist.

I feel so much seen in the 6) in the guide! 😆

https://neurodivergentinsights.com/adhd-hides-autism/

#AuDHD #ADHD #autism #ActuallyAutistic @autistics

And repeat 🔁
#adhd #adhdmeme #adhs #tdah

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Winnie the Pooh is shown in four panels illustrating reading with ADHD. The first panel shows Pooh looking confused with text reading "The f*ck did I just read". The second panel shows Pooh reading a paper with text stating "*reads entire page again*". The third panel shows Pooh with his eyes closed and text reading "Mind instantly goes everywhere else" over a starry background. The final panel shows Pooh reading another paper, with the text "*reads entire page again*" and "@JennHasADHD" on the paper.

Good Morning. May you carry the spirit of beige into all your not-a-cult activities.

Today feels like it will be a long day.
Husband has gone to work, so I am by myself during the day. Then he is travelling through to see our son and taking a suit for the funeral for him to try on. So I will be on my own all evening too.

I am going to throw myself into my studies and hope that it helps distract me a little from the way that time slows to an obscenely slow crawl whenever I am by myself. I swear each minute takes at least an hour and a half. Conversely whenever I am with other people (at least ones I enjoy spending time with) time speeds up so that each minute takes about 5 seconds.

Being Autistic and enjoying the company of others is one hell of a delicate balance. I need more Autistic friends so that I don't have to mask so much pretending to be a functional adult when with others.

Anyhow, today. I hope you enjoyed my mini tangent, having ADHD often means I have no idea how a sentence will end, even as I start saying it.

Today I am going to study, and will take the dog for a walk later. I think I will also sit and crochet for a little while. I may even read a bit too.

What does your day look like?

#GoodMorning #ADHD #ActuallyAutistic

On Off One Off On Off
#adhd

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This comic strip, titled "ADHDinos," uses a simple, stylized art with pastel colors and a light blue sky to depict the fluctuating nature of motivation. The main subjects are a cheerful pink brain with eyes and a mouth, and a blue dinosaur, both drawn in a cartoonish style. The brain represents motivation that can be "on" or "off," while the dinosaur, embodying the individual, experiences these shifts dramatically. The humor arises from the dinosaur's earnest attempts to act when motivation is on, only to be thwarted when it abruptly turns off, highlighting the internal struggle of managing motivation.

Surprise... Kim Has ADHD (Part 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Htlxm0NMCBw

#ADHD #ADHDer #ADHDers #Woman #Women #LateDiagnosed #LateDiagnosis #latedignosedadhd #holdernessfamily

Hey #Mastodon 👋🏻

So I joined today and am looking for people to follow. My interests are:

- #nonfiction #books
- #mentalhealth #adhd
- #musicproduction
- #Composing
- #gaming ( #fallout #nms #animalcrossing #skyrim)
- #music (really into Karnivool right now)
- #dogs

I’ve probably done hashtags all wrong, but as I say, I’m new round here! #introduction

Okay, I need help. My brain is fighting itself.

Being #ADHD means seeking novelty, and right now my brain has latched onto the idea of shaving the sides and back of my head and dying the rest bright pink. I absolutely love this idea, and am dying to do it.

But, I know what is involved, and I know how much this would disrupt my routines. I have worked very hard to grow my hair out this long, and to maintain it. My #autistic need for routine is terrified of this.

So...

Just read there are three types of #ADHD found and I wonder which I ha….oh look new Starfleet Academy is out!