#May is a relentlessly busy month in the garden, when many gorgeous things are waiting in the wings for that diva slot & to command your attention for a while.

It is also that transition between spring and summer. In the ancient tales of Wales, it is the time of #Blodeuedd who was magically formed from the flowers of oak, broom and meadowsweet and embodies that lustfulness of life itself.

Life speeds up & everything is possible. So much to do & so little time. Maybe she had #ADHD as well.

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Siberian iris about to open.

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Peony May Lilac in full bloom.

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Golden yellow rhododendrobon flowers.

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Pure white rhododendron flowers with golden thumb print.

Your brain said 0/10. Your week said otherwise. #adhd

Happy #Wednesday, y'all.
I am still in low power mode, and that's OK.

I suppose, one of the many things I have recently learned about myself as someone with all of the glamorous elements of #ADHD and a few extra handfuls of #autusm pixie dust, is that sometimes, I just need to unravel & find my groove again.

My mind races at 20 million parsecs per hour even when I am trying to rest.

That's why I need so much high energy #chocolate to help balance the #force.

#selfcare

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Azalea Herbert makes me happy. I also think that it is the first evergreen azalea that I have ever known to have a scent. My sense of smellnis a bit random at the best of times but I can certainly appreciate this one. Growing and collecting plants allows me to go 'off grid' and daydream for a while, whilst also deep diving into various horticultural rabbit holes that are ultimately only interesting to me. 😁 I also like this azalea because the pale blue mauve colour really glows in the evening light.

Wonder how many people with ADHD, or autism, don't get diagnosed based on the family member interviews where the parent themselves has ADHD or autism and just thinks the kid is normal - just like them. Intense interests? Duh, hobbies. Issue with time? Everyone's scatter brained, but they focus well when interested! Hard time with social situations? Whole family is introverts, leave gammy's spoon collection out of this! Etc.

#ADHD #Autism

Mind the gap. #adhd

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A screenshot of a social media post from a user named Iris, with the handle [@]SnortingEstrace. The profile picture features an anime-style character. The text of the post reads: "adhd in media: haha shiny! xD sorry i'm so random!! adhd in reality: ok so imagine you could fix your entire life by doing something that is super easy and and will take no time at all and you're not doing it and you have no idea why but no matter how hard you try you aren't doing it"

Today’s to do list:
Set goals
#ADHD #80hd

[Message incoming]
Subject: "You have been visited by the #DOPAMINE FAIRY!!!"
Body:
You have been visited by the DOPAMINE FAIRY!
Your assignment, if you should choose to accept it (which will flood your brain with enjoyable dopamine) is to...
...[Message downloading]...
Me: "Oh boy! Oh boy! What could it be?"
...[Message downloading]...
Me: "Clean up my room? Fix my, uh, life?"
...[Message downloading]...
Me: "Revitalize my career? Start a new hobby, one that actually leads to me meeting people?"
...[Message downloading]...
Me: "WHAT?!?"
...[Message downloading complete]
Your assignment, if you should choose to accept it (which will flood your brain with enjoyable dopamine) is to come up with a completely pointless and arbitrary new programming language/paradigm
Me: "The flip, are you serious??"
Message: ACCEPT? Y/n
Me: "WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?!?"
Message: ACCEPT? Y/n
Me: "I want to speak to your supervisor!"
Message: ACCEPT? Y/n
Me: *sigh* "Yes"

#ADHD, y'all. 😁

#ADHD, #AuDHD, and self-diagnosis: Is it valid? | Sorry, I Missed This
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOC2oZrtqaU

RE: https://mastodon.online/@sherold/116544335376424473

Hi, #ADHD, #autism and #neurodivergence bubble. 👋🏻 Is anyone else dealing with similar issues? Have any of you found a solution that works for you?

thinking about #ADHD task management through the metaphor of CPU instruction decoding and execution with pipelining, and how bubbles get into the pipe and suddenly you're doing nothing but really fast...

MYTH: ADHD is overdiagnosed.

REALITY: For every person diagnosed,
there are ten more sitting somewhere right now thinking they're just broken.

#adhd

My favorite #adhd symptom of the day: limerence. Some adhd folks might now this: „you are a person l just met, just let me hyperfixate on you“. Yes, this has a name. You are welcome.

https://www.attachmentproject.com/love/limerence/adhd/

I made a little very specific program that you probably only need if you are me.

I keep getting sidetracked during work. With nobody to judge me and nothing to interrupt my tangents I do a lot of interesting things throughout the day but none of them are the work I am supposed to do.

This little message will pop up at regular time intervals and ask me if I'm doing work right now. I have to answer honestly. The time interval is shortened/lengthened based on my answer.

#ADHD #Work #Focus

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Dialog window. Title: Honest Timer Text: Are you doing work right now? Option: Yes, I am! Option: No, I will get back to it.

What do you think? Do you agree? #adhd

I need to do a slide deck and my laundry, so of course I’m choosing this moment to subscribe to Rosetta Stone and try out the app. (I ditched Duolingo after 10+ years because of the AI enshittification.) #ADHD #procrastination 🐿️

I’ve forced myself to learn to cook over the past few years, something of a challenge for people with #adhd because, well, cooking requires really good time management. I’ve been getting better

Tonight I tackled my first pie, and from scratch; my kid of course wanted the one with a meringue topping (a S’mores pie recipe from America’s Test Kitchen), and it turned out well

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Photograph of a slice of pie on a plate, in front of the pie dish in a wire rack. The pie has a crumbly golden brown crust, a dark filling, and a white topping with browned waves. Goo from the topping is dripping onto the plate

Especially since I have #ADHD, it's very easy to go very deep down a rabbit hole of organizing methods, notebook philosophies, etc. I can't say I've tried it all, but I've probably heard of it all and learned enough about it to try it or dismiss it as not for me. I've spent years.

And do you know what I've learned? The best organizational method for me?

Paper and pen (or pencil).

That's it. A notebook I'll carry around and something to write in it with. If I've got it, and I remember to use it, everything else is gravy. When it occurs to me, write it down. Cross things off when they're dealt with. Occasionally flip back a few pages to see if something's not crossed off. Sometimes an item will get transferred to a digital journal entry, or to a calendar reminder, or something else. But simply capturing it when it appears in my mind is 95% of the fight.

I find the *idea* of sexy organizing, decorated pages, habit trackers, etc. etc. very attractive. But I never keep those things up. What I do keep up is: open book, mark the date, point form jot down what that seemingly-important thought was. Check it later, follow-up again further on down. And in their own ways, that's kinda what all the other methods reduce down to, ultimately.

@autistics
🔮 💜 🟪 🔮 💜 🟪 🔮 💜 🟪 🔮 💜 🟪
Announcement: #Voxelibre multiplayer casual game today (Sat) for 4 hours in the late afternoon to evening (North America). 🧙‍♂️🪄 According to the cron Crystal ball, it's fated to begin in about 1.5 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.

#luanti #game #gaming #games

No one is going to give me a fucking serious answer because I'm a weak minded piece of shit according to the majority of the internet…

But do any other autistic people have this relationship with spice where it's like… I'm not a super champ but I do REALLY REALLY enjoy certain foods like tonight I got a street truck paneer dosa and I'm SO hungry and my mouth thinks it wants more?? But also a few bites is enough and I don't feel capable of eating more even though I'm HUNGRY and it TASTES REALLY GOOD? But I just… can't… eat… more…

Like my "flavor" intake is maxed out EVEN THOUGH IT'S DELICIOUS I just can't tolerate a lot AND EVEN THOUGH I'm still ravenous…

I done blogged again. Sorry.
This one's about masking. Specifically, why I think the discourse around it is a bit one-sided. Some of my masks are genuinely useful. Some of them I actively like. The entertainer one in particular has been putting in a shift lately.

https://theaardvark.co.uk/in-defence-of-the-neurodivergent-mask.html

#AuDHD #Masking #ADHD #Autism #AcutallyAutistic @autistics

Focus on your priorities… #adhd

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An eight-panel collage of scenes from the animated show SpongeBob SquarePants, with text overlays on most panels. The top left panel shows a pink character with one arm raised and the text "YOU JUST NEED A SYSTEM". The top right panel features a yellow character and the text "TASKS IN JIRA". The middle panels display text reading "ACTIONS FROM MEETINGS", "TASKS IN CONFLUENCE", "TASKS IN TODO/PLANNER", and "FLAGGED EMAILS". The bottom row shows a yellow character looking through a porthole and a final panel with a yellow character and the text "TASKS IN SERVICENOW".

Today's cross-stitch.
An Elvanse 70 mg pill (or Trans Pill, as I like to call it). It will be a present for one of my partners
#embroidery #CrossStitch #Elvanse #adhd

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Photo of a golden frame with a cross-stitch embroidery. The embroidery depicts a blue and pink capsule/pill. It's the Elvanse 70 mg pill (for ADHD treatment)

Getting pissed off on behalf of someone else: for her ADHD meds she has to give a urine sample (allegedly so the MDs can tell that she still has meds in her system before they will prescribe more) and sign a statement saying she won't sell the meds. Every 30 days.

So much wrong with this. So much classism and dehumanization of people who can't afford the fancy insurance. Middle-class healthcare providers do not do any of this from what I've learned here (USA), and I can guarantee that plenty of middle-class people abuse or sell their meds. None of these processes is remotely effective at preventing the thing they're apparently trying to prevent, and it all boils down to medical professionals taking it upon themselves to shove their ideas for how poor people should behave on the poor people who have no choice but to deal with them.

#rant #healthcare #usa #adhd

ADHD is having the brain of a rocket scientist and the morning routine of a squirrel who found an energy drink

#adhd

#Android testers needed! I am building a free app for #ADHD folx with some basic productivity/staying on track features. I designed it for myself and my close family members but it could be useful to anyone. In order to launch it on the Play store, Google requires me to get 14 people to test it in a 'closed test'. If you have an android device, would you be willing to test it? If so, please email me and I will send you the link to download it from the Play Store. brad@imipolex.org

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An icon for a mobile app called Otaak. The icon is a stylized version of a creature called an Otak from the book A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuid. The app is named after the creature. Is is a little mouse-like creature with big ears and fuzzy brown fur.

Seems like lots of us #enby folks are also #AuDHD 🤔🧐🥳

#lgbtq #adhd #Autism

Hello #ActuallyAutistic and #Adhd and #AuDHD folks of mastodon, I have a question for you. How do you remember to take your medication? Especially if its a short course, like antibiotics 3 times a day for example. My partner is an nhs emergency doctor, and is trying to find ways to help her nd patients with taking their meds regularly. All solutions most welcome!
#askingfedi