Will Medikinet help me getting all the chores done before my gf is coming?
Bonus: Will I be able to buy Seelen and pretzels she asked for just now?

Find out in the next episode of: everything is fine

#ADHD

#adhd #meme #memes

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post by user "sio" (@bestinsio) so let me get this straight......i have to do tasks...every day.....dozens of them..and then I have to wash my skin off (did not ask for skin).....and then lie unconscious for a while.. and then do tasks again

#shitIFind #ADHD #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #neurodivergent #autistic #Autism

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I love people with ADHD bc they never actually forget anything. You just have to say the right words to activate them like a sleeper cell and then they awaken with all of the knowledge on a very niche subject they studied for 3 months straight 6 years ago.

It really shouldn't be that hard to prepare the second half of the bed and clean the kitchen in preparation for my girlfriend coming over. But here I am, procrastinating. The blooming migraine doesn't help either.

#ADHD

What’s it like to live with #adhd ? Well I just opened the air fryer to make lunch, only to find yesterday’s lunch sitting there in the tray.

People with #adhd have three types of workday:

* Get absolutely nothing done
* Get 4 hours of work done at a random point in time
* Get 40 hours of work done in 4 hours

All types are sprinkled with work unrelated sidequests

Most self-employed AuDHDers don't realize they're headed
for burnout until it's too late.

Find out where you stand.

Take the 12-question AuDHD business health check. Free quiz.

https://buff.ly/qKZhXW5

#AuDHD #ActuallyAutistic #ADHD #SelfEmployed #Burnout

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Most self-employed AuDHDers don't realize they're headed for burnout until it's too late. Find out where you stand.

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Find out if you're headed for burnout - or sustainable success. Take the 12-question AuDHD business health check. Free quiz. https://www.autismchrysalis.com/business-burnout-quiz/

@jeffowski I´m in this toot and I .... had to be able to have explanations for nearly everything I did or did not at moments notice for to many times during a to long period of time in my life.

Nearly 7 years since I found out I´m autistic and ADHD-er and I still can´t stop my inner monologue from doing this all the time.

And now tell me something about internalised ableism and/or cPTSD.

#ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #Ableism #cPTSD #Autismus #ADHD #kPTBS

#ActuallyAutistic #Autistic #Autism #AuDHD #ADHD #Neurodivergent

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Alex Zelasi @AZelasi One of the things I really struggle with as an autistic person is needing to know Why something is the way it is, and struggling to "just accept it" or "move on" if I don't have a proper answer as to that. 08:17 - 15/01/2020 - Twitter Web App

Hot take: PARA is a great concept with a hierarchy problem. And for autistic and ADHD brains, that problem is not minor. It is the reason most people abandon their Notion setup entirely.

Episode 2 of the SuperBrain series covers why I replaced PARA and what I built instead: a system designed specifically for the way neurodivergent brains actually work.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/1fyRMo1RYeg

#Notion #ADHD #Neurodivergent #PKM #SecondBrain #Productivity

sometimes people ask me how i seem to be able to 'do so many things'. i say i have the type of #adhd that feels like this:

- instead of feeling like i can go 200 miles per hour randomly distributed in a single place or project
- with time, coaching, training, and better sleep (undiagnosed sleep apnea made it even worse), i now have the kind where i feel i can go up to 200 miles per hour across 3-4 things at a time
- things i'm not interested in are still very very hard to do
- so at some point i decided i will only do the things i'm very very interested in (took a while to get to a place where i could do that)
- now that i'm there, as long as i am able to shift my 200 mph focus consistently across the 3-4 buckets of projects
- eventually i'll do a few pretty fun things!

this is a difficult topic to talk about because everyone experiences this differently, and no one should ever say 'see, this adhd person can still do things' as a way of weaponizing it against another person with a different experience. that's also ableist

for me it also helped when i stopped thinking about the 'all the things i can't do because i suck stupid adhd' and more of 'ok my brain works differently how can i trick my silly brain'. even with that, veering too much into 'my adhd is my superpower' is also super ableist

at the end of the day, i like doing all of these things not out of a 'i have to do this or i suck', but because i feel truly compelled to expend my energy on the many many things i care about!

but if i had to do things i didn't like and people told me i sucked all the time for not being able to do the things i didn't like, it would probably be a very different experience.

From Adult ADHD ADD Tips and Support: ADHD Project Completion – How to Finish What You Start, Mar 23, 2026
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/adult-adhd-add-tips-and-support/id988935339?i=1000756928928&r=63

I suffer from all of the following:
What to do when you have too many ideas
How to get back on track when don’t know what to do next
How to maintain consistency for longer-term projects
What to do when the initial inspiration wears off
What to do when you get distracted by other projects

#adhd #timemanagement #gtd #goals

#makeShitMonday, crochet edition, in which I have a socially acceptable fidget toy...

@mbroome and I are taking a weeklong vertical cave rescue class, and it has been a looooong time since I tried to cram this much information into my head this fast. Fortunately one of the course leaders is a teacher as her day job and understands ADHD, so she's totally okay with me crocheting my way through the classroom instruction.

We're three days in, and I've already finished the hat for my BIL and gotten a good start on the [crochet lace shrug](https://www.ilikecrochet.com/magazine/crochet-shawl-patterns/jade-vines-crochet-shrug/) I'm making with the nice cashmere yarn I got on super sale!

This shrug pattern is *perfect* for classroom #ADHD management - simple stitch, no finicky counting, just cluster into the chain-2 space over and over until I run out of yarn... 🥰 It's so much easier to concentrate on the lecture material when my hands are occupied! I even managed a halfway-decent Russian splice, from memory, when I ran into a break in the yarn.

@cannibal @crafters

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completed crochet lace hat in a blue & black gradient yarn, sitting on a task book for NCRC Level 1 cave rescue

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an ugly but serviceable Russian splice in red yarn, next to a paperback Manual of U.S. Cave Rescue Techniques

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completed crochet lace hat in a blue & black gradient yarn, sitting on a task book for NCRC Level 1 cave rescue

I just had an idea that I want to run by the neurodivergent community as a possible way that some of us might be able to help each other. I have no idea if anyone would be interested in trying it, or even if it would work, so I want to know what others think.

If you want, you can skip down to "The Idea" below, or you can bare with me for a tiny bit of background first for some context.

So like many of us I have executive function issues. For me, when I get a new interest, I hyperfocus on it for a couple of weeks or months, and then I stop. Not because I lose interest in it, it's more like running out of gas while still on the road: you really want to keep going, but the damn thing just won't move. This is not really a problem for most of my interests, but for certain projects, it can leave them unfinished, which really frustrates me.

So far the only thing that I've found that can give me energy to continue a project is engagement. If I can find someone to talk to about it, that helps. If they talk with me about it, that helps more. If they actually work with me on the project (assuming that it's the kind of project that someone can help with), that helps the most. The trouble of course has been finding people who are also interested in the same thing(s), thus this pretty much never happens for me.

But now I recall some people in the autistic/ND community saying that they actually like listening to other people info-dump about their special interest(s). So this got me thinking...

The Idea:

Basically this shares some traits with body doubling and mutual aid. If someone like me needs engagement to work on a project (or maybe even just share an interest for the sake of some social contact), and someone else would be interested in helping out this way, the second person would be like their interest-buddy (hopefully a better name will be found). Kind of like how some people help others by body-doubling, except this will be with talking or maybe even participating instead of presence. And like body doubling, it can be a one time thing, an ongoing arrangement of some kind, whatever the two (or more?) people agree on. But unlike body doubling, it can be done (well more easily anyway) over the internet. Social media posts, DMs, chats, voice, whatever. Of course discovery would an issue, but no different than for body doubling or mutual aid, so I'll leave that issue.

So how about it? Is there any merit to this? Any use? Any interest? (And I mean in general, not just for me.)

#ActuallyAutistic @autistics #ActuallyADHD #neurodivergent #AuDHD #ADHD

I saw graffiti on Sydney Rd a while ago that said "Brunswick isn't a personality" but this graph disagrees.

#Brunswick #ADHD

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A graph showing adult ADHD prescription filling by LGA in Victoria. The top area is Brunswick at almost 4% of the population followed by Darebin, and Yarra at just above 3%.

After months and months of deliberation on medication vs. no medication... I decided to finally find a psychiatrist and try to see if medication can help. I've done so much work on my own with my therapist and while I've made some big improvements in some areas.... There are still massive struggles and I think I can admit I need help.

Because of all the work I've done, I can point to my issues more clearly and I'm hoping that my clarity will help me to avoid yet another psychiatric fail.

The problem that remains is finding a doctor that takes my insurance and seems like a good fit and won't be clueless about adult autism. I have found a small handful of NPs and PAs with a lot of potential, but I'm not sure my insurance will cover prescriptions issued by someone not technically a "DR."

This already isn't proving to be easy. I'll have to call my insurance tomorrow and try to see what options I have. I love how hard this already seems—and the fucking irony of needing a doctor for executive function problems and that search requiring a lot of executive function.

#AuDHD #ActuallyAutistic #ADHD

#ActuallyAutistic #Autistic #Neurodivergent #autism #AuDHD #ADHD #ShitIFind

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Neurotypicals accomplishing things: A modern ferry crossing a body of water. Neurodivergents using random tools they've picked up along the way: A guy on a surfboard using an umbrella as a makeshift sail, crossing that same body of water.

Shit... Might as well.

OTNC

#MyersBriggs #ShitIFind #ActuallyAutistic #ADHD #AuDHD #Autistic #Autism

Yesterday was a day that shook me to my core.
Half the night filled with dark thoughts, nightmares, my head spinning with binge eating and despair. Everything I’ve built felt like a house of cards someone had just knocked over.

I was belittled, provoked, until there was nothing left. And now? Now I’m left wondering: How do you climb out of a hole like this when the world makes you feel worthless?
Sometimes, telling yourself "It’ll get better" isn’t enough. Sometimes, you need more. And today, I just need someone to listen, or at least know I’m not alone.

#MentalHealth #Depression #Trauma #Loneliness #Solidarity #adhd

Picked up a snack from the carcineria (EDIT: wait no "carniceria"). #ADHD quest for novelty strikes again.

I’m sure it’ll be fine.

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A packet of Kelova brand prunes with chili

some while ago before I got my #adhd and #dysthymia diagnoses I read some stuff about how “caffiene doesn’t give you energy, it just tricks your brain into thinking you’re not tired; give up coffee and do $THING instead”

and this morning after I have taken my SSRI prescription and Vitamin D dose (it also turns out I’m one of about 40% of US adults who are Vitamin D deficiant) and finished off the pot of coffee after my partner had her cup, and I’m making myself my second cup of black tea for the morning,

that’s the point. Tricking my brain into thinking I’m not tired is *the point*. My *body* isn’t tired, and despite genetic markers for slow caffiene metabolism (my mom, for example, can’t have chocolate after lunch) I metabolise it rapidly – I can have a cup of coffee at 10pm and easily go to sleep an hour later

the point of the caffiene isn’t “energy”, it’s “pulling my brain out of its perpetual fog so I can think clearly”

in thinking about the role of coffee in our culture, I suspect this is a very common pattern

@autistics
Announcement: #Voxelibre multiplayer casual game today (Sat) for 4 hours in the late afternoon to evening (North America). That's in about 8 hours from now.

Voxelibre is a free and #OpenSource #Minecraft clone. More details here:
https://docs.autis.toque.im/

Damage has been turned off. People with #Autism, #ADHD or #AuDHD are invited.

PS: There was a security announcement affecting Luanti:
https://forum.luanti.org/viewtopic.php?t=32443
I've upgraded my server to 5.15.2. **Please update your #Luanti client if possible.**

As a side thought: i wonder how many people have been misdiagnosed #bipolar when they are actually #audhd . It is probably more than is being discussed. For those who don’t understand people who have #audhd are both #autistic and have #adhd. If you don’t understand what each does i would explain the impact as:

I really want to jump out of that plane (adhd) and at the same time you have got to be sh%tting me (autistic).

Not highs and lows but counter attitudes. It would be very depressing because they really don’t like each other.

If you do get diagnosed late in life you have the wonderful experience of going on #adhd drugs and discovering that your #autistic side, which will dominate, is a pretty paranoid person. Many people have discovered they aren’t sure if they like this.

So it is very important that you get diagnosed young because you need to understand and appreciate your strengths and weaknesses of both and work out when you want the dominant one.

My son needs autistic kid in school and when doing complex games but he is a bummer watching stupid tv shows and handling bullies. On drug free days things can get wild.

As a mum i love both. They both make me laugh.

Fair comment on Elon Musk mischaracterising Autism and using it as an excuse to be a jerk. Using disability as a shield for bad behaviour is disgusting and disrespectful to people with disabilities.

#ElonMusk #Autism #ADHD #AuDHD

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Meme that uses the template known as "Yes Chad", also known as "Nordic Gamer". The person on the left side of the illustration is initiating the conversation. A caption above his head identifies him as "Elon Musk". His hands are clasped under his chin and his head is tilted sideways as though he's trying to look like he's a deep thinker, but the expression of his eyes and face show he cannot comprehend the conversation. On the right side of the illustration, the head and shoulders of Chad from the meme is facing left. The caption above Chad's head shows his response to Elon Musk is on behalf of "Everyone Else". Elon Musk: I'm a weirdo because I’m autistic. Everyone Else: You're not weird because you're autistic. You're weird because you're a billionaire daddy’s boy larping as an inventor and entrepreneur, whose intergenerational wealth is based on slavery and apartheid. Leave the autistic community out of your cringefest.