Having near constant racing thoughts and always feeling like you have to work on something and if you don’t it makes you anxious. I thought my boyfriend was the alien for being able to not think about anything at all and just chill and do nothing.
I sometimes randomly end up thinking about nothing but usually I’m in the racing thoughts area. So you’re saying that is something not everybody needs to deal with? Is that how they fall asleep?
it’s weird for me, i have ADHD traits, and also explicitly non ADHD traits, i think it’s probably comorbidity with something else rather than explicitly ADHD. But that’s neurology for you, sometimes it’s clear, sometimes it’s not, sometimes it makes no fucking sense.
I can stare at a wall just fine, but depending on what i’m doing, i need a certain minimum amount of stimulation, and just doing things feels so good.
Not diagnosed here too. 99pct sure I’m in the club. For 47 years I’ve been written off as “absent-minded” (yet everyone seeks my advice for major life shit) or “ornery” (more when I was a kid). It’s just incredibly frustrating, it feels like every doc I’ve ever brought it up to basically just dismisses me, taking about how rare adult ADHD actually is.
…this post was just basically supposed to say “yeah I feel that”… So yeah
I’ve been written off as “absent-minded” (yet everyone seeks my advice for major life shit)
I feel this in my bones. My family has always labeled me as “aloof, absent-minded, head in the clouds”… and somehow always seem to forget that I’m the one that shows up or gets called when shit goes sideways
I’ve tried to accept that it’s just an “endearing” label from them, and they don’t actually believe I’m unreliable… because they still (individually) fall back on me whenever they need someone to come through. I’m an “aloof crisis hotline” I guess
being aloof or absent minded isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It’s just a different type of engagement with the world, would it be nice if we didn’t forget shit the second object permanence stops applying? Yeah, can we work around it, also yeah.
Having near constant racing thoughts and always feeling like you have to work on something and if you don’t it makes you anxious. I thought my boyfriend was the alien for being able to not think about anything at all and just chill and do nothing.
I sometimes randomly end up thinking about nothing but usually I’m in the racing thoughts area. So you’re saying that is something not everybody needs to deal with? Is that how they fall asleep?
it’s weird for me, i have ADHD traits, and also explicitly non ADHD traits, i think it’s probably comorbidity with something else rather than explicitly ADHD. But that’s neurology for you, sometimes it’s clear, sometimes it’s not, sometimes it makes no fucking sense.
I can stare at a wall just fine, but depending on what i’m doing, i need a certain minimum amount of stimulation, and just doing things feels so good.
Ah good ole ADHD. I have a love hate relationship with mine. We’re on speaking terms.
I like to describe it as being simultaneously bored and overstimulated (
tbf that’s also how I describe ADHD sex)Irony is, that I’m not diagnosed so officially I’m just someone with racing thoughts and a restless soul.
Not diagnosed here too. 99pct sure I’m in the club. For 47 years I’ve been written off as “absent-minded” (yet everyone seeks my advice for major life shit) or “ornery” (more when I was a kid). It’s just incredibly frustrating, it feels like every doc I’ve ever brought it up to basically just dismisses me, taking about how rare adult ADHD actually is.
…this post was just basically supposed to say “yeah I feel that”… So yeah
I feel this in my bones. My family has always labeled me as “aloof, absent-minded, head in the clouds”… and somehow always seem to forget that I’m the one that shows up or gets called when shit goes sideways
I’ve tried to accept that it’s just an “endearing” label from them, and they don’t actually believe I’m unreliable… because they still (individually) fall back on me whenever they need someone to come through. I’m an “aloof crisis hotline” I guess
being aloof or absent minded isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It’s just a different type of engagement with the world, would it be nice if we didn’t forget shit the second object permanence stops applying? Yeah, can we work around it, also yeah.