I imagine most disabilities are like this, much worse for some, but it really frustrates me that to cope with ADHD we need to have a whole second job.
Make ToDos, exercise, take medicines, manage emotions, follow a whole check list of things to do to get your attention back to your work, constantly test and try new methods to see what works and what doesn’t, handle the anxiety that comes with not being able to do work, constantly think about how you can improve something.
It doesn’t help that the coping itself takes up valuable processing space that should have been in use for something more important.
Before being diagnosed I didn’t even realize it wasn’t normal to require 85%+ of your mental focus just to pay attention to the thing you’re doing, rather than using it to actually do what you’re doing.
What do you mean investing in your hobbies shouldn’t feel like the mental equivalent to holding your hand on a hot stove???
1000000% fucking true.
worse when you also have autism and GAD, the fuckng trifecta lol.
you forgot the part where no one understands this and just thinks you’re lazy
you forgot
they have adhd, of course they forgot ;-)
The worst is when you don’t understand it and think your lazy.
It’s a full time job with unpaid overtime.
I just decided to smoke a crapptonne of weed and eliminate all unnecessary obligations. Can’t have a todo list if you have nothing to do.
Awesome Friday night plan. What are you going to eat?
Oh you devil, I know it’s Thursday. I actually have zero desire for food while smoking. I know! What the fuck. I do not ever get the munchies, ever. 🦄
Omg, me too! I have never met someone else that this happens too. People give me the side eye when I tell them
Oh shit, yeah it’s thursday. Well I guess that’s why I am on this sub.
It’s Friday somewhere…
it’s Friday here… it’s 4.20 in 3hrs in NZ
This is why Costco exists
Feel you pal, just finished a mental boom and now there is a bunch of work to do still. This sucks.
Just don’t do any of those things





