this is your gentle reminder to stop fighting against your adhd and instead structure your life around it

buy a pack of chapsticks and put one in the pocket of all of your coats and jackets because you always forget to bring one and chapped lips is sensory hell

leave important things where you can see them. if they go in a box or a drawer you will forget they exist

put any appointments or deadlines in your phone calendar As Soon As you get them. set a reminder for a week before, a day before, an hour before, as many as you need as often as you need them.

when that little voice in your head says "i dont need to write that down, ill remember it" that is the devil talking!!! write it down anyway!!

plan for down time. have a few hours at the end of every day to just do fun stuff like engage in your hyperfixations. even if you didnt get all of your work done that day, have the rest anyway. you probably spent the whole day beating yourself up for not doing what you Should be doing, so you still need the break.

if you never eat vegetables because its too much effort to chop and cook them, get the frozen or canned shit. it doesnt go off for ages and you just have to microwave it. theres no point buying fresh vegetables if they just keep going off and being left to rot in the bottom of your fridge

if you struggle to decide what to have for dinner every day, take the decision out of it. choose a set of meals and eat those on rotation until you get sick of them, then choose some new ones and do it again.

its not stupid if it works! our brains literally have a chemical deficiency. you are allowed to accommodate yourself. go forth and stop making your life more difficult than it has to be because "this shouldn't be this hard". it is hard, so make it easier.

Every room in my house has at least two pairs of scissors in them

Phone calender reminders can be set to remind days, hours AND minutes in advance - for an unusual appointment I often set one 3 days in advance, one day, that morning, and then the usual 2, 1 and half an hour before I need to leave. The days in advance warning kinda pull things up into my awareness so I don't make plans and then suddenly discover everything needs to change because the thing I'd forgotten about is TODAY

Do you think people used to have ADHD Text Reply Anxiety back in the day. Do you think there was some girl in the 1870s going "Oh, a letter from Esther, how delightful! I must make time to write her a reply this evening!" And then later she was like "It has been 5 months since Esther wrote me, and I am yet to reply. I fear I have tarried far too long, and if she receives a letter from me now it will seem terribly rude and she will want nothing to do with me. And yet, it is ruder still to not write her at all! I fear I am the only one to blame for my current predicament, as I am most terribly forgetful. Ah, but what a fool I am! I shall pray this evening for guidance from the Lord"

god I would be UNSTOPPABLE if I was capable of consistently initiating tasks. just you wait. you'll be waiting a while but just you wait

“I don’t know what my goals are, no. Thanks for asking.”

I fucking knew it, I SAID it: they're making ADHD people the next culture war targets. They will 'just ask questions' until we lose every scrap of ground we've gained in the last decade and more. We may not quite inspire the same level of hatred as a sexual minority, but we can very easily be made to inspire disdain and that also works.

They will strip us of our accomodations and our medications and try to stifle any sense of shared identity, and if that kills some of us, oh well. So long as it fuels another outrage cycle, fine.

So many of the tropes they've been using on trans people work extremely well on ADHD people too! "There are too many of these people suddenly! It must be a fad! It spreads through friend groups! And online! People are going private for diagnoses and that's bad! They are using pOwERfUl medical interventions and we think it's freaky!"

I saw the first ripples of this in terf circles about two years ago. And of course it's spread.

6% of British ADHD people lost their jobs in the last year thanks to the meds shortage. SIX PER CENT! And that just made these ghouls go "ooh, tasty, what else can we do?"

Recently an 'expert' was on the BBC saying people see ADHD diagnosis as a "golden ticket." Laurence Fox has been ranting that the condition doesn't exist and threatening "'you won't poison my child's body [with ADHD meds] against my consent"

People need to be aware this is going to get worse. Maybe, if we're lucky, it won't get really bad. But it's going to get worse than it is now.

I really need everyone, no matter where you are on the political spectrum you are on, to understand one thing:

What happens to the most marginalised in society will eventually happen to all of us who aren’t part of the ruling class!

Please get this through your head! Obscenely wealthy and power people do not care about you! Do not making the mistake of assuming they see you as human, they absolutely fucking don’t. Like I am begging you all to use your damn brains and stop falling for this divide and conquer shit!

For anyone who thinks: None of these people in power could actually believe any of this is sustainable… right? Then you’re incorrect, they absolutely do believe that because these people are addicted to greed, they are incapable of thinking rationally. They simply do not give a single shit what destruction happens so long as it doesn’t affect them! And it does not help at all that most of society has been letting this shit happen to those they were told were “beneath” them for fucking decades! The lack of action and even the vocal or monetary support of their actions fucking told them that this shit is okay! That it won’t piss people off enough to affect their power or their bottom line!

Conservatism and far right political ideology doesn’t just stop and go “oh no, you’re part of the Good Group, don’t worry, this won’t affect you! You’re special!” No! That’s not remotely how this shit works! Instead these people simply go: “okay, we’re gonna test this horrible thing on that group, because we tricked everyone into hating them, they’re the scapegoats, and we’ll convince the other people that they’re going to eventually benefit from this!” And then they keep pushing that boundary until they work it into everything and everyone else until we’re all so powerless that we’re unable to stop the progression!

And this bullshit with adhd meds is a perfect example of this phenomenon! Today people are demonising “junkies” who rely on dangerously addictive substances to simply remain alive because that’s the only option they have. Tomorrow your colleague with adhd or narcolepsy who relies on taking stimulants in order to safely and effectively do their job can’t get their meds anymore that they need to literally function. They now have no choice but to self medicate via illegal and dangerous means or watch their entire life fall apart and be blamed for it.

And it’s not like they can go on disability because society let the same thing happen to disability benefits and unemployment thinking it wouldn’t affect them! What a horrible massive chain reaction!

Black activists during the Jim Crow era in the US had a saying (and black activists still do): “If you can convince the poorest white man that he’s better than the richest black man, then he won’t notice you picking his pocket.” I really need people to remember this and keep it in mind before they start fighting with people in their own socioeconomic class.

I just… I’m so tired and angry and I barely talk about stuff like this despite really caring about it because each day that goes by it feels more and more impossible to get through to these people. The things leftists fight for are things that will at some point personally benefit you and the people you know! Trying to get people to understand this is like talking to a solid concrete block! What about that is not clicking for you exactly? Like… how am I supposed to tell these bastards that they’re supposed to care about people other than themselves?

I have ADHD and I’m very worried that I won’t be able to afford medication soon. In the past few months the price of my ADHD meds in the United States has spiked dramatically. It used to cost me between 20-60 dollars. Now it costs hundreds of dollars even with insurance. Furthermore, it is taking longer for my pharmacy to refill my prescriptions. The last time I needed my meds refilled I had to wait TWO WEEKS between putting in the request and actually getting my meds, all while trying to prep for exams (which was impossible without them). I am not optimistic about how I’ll be treated because of my disability in the future.

does anyone else wish they could switch bodies with someone/give their pain to someone to see how that person reacts? like, am i being too over dramatic or is it really that bad? can they white knuckle it or are they also kneeling over in pain??

Me except I do it with the opposite too. I wish I could switch body with people to see how easier it would get. How easy life would be without my pain. How easy and soft life should've have been, had god not decided to trip me

people say folks with adhd struggle with "delayed rewards" aka long term goals and as such we tend to focus more on short term rewards. what they don't talk about is that at when we Do accomplish long term goals we don't actually feel anything proportionate to the amount of work we did to achieve it. In my head I suffered for a while and then money spontaneously appeared in my bank account.

"Don't you feel satisfied that your windows are so clean now?" It sucked and it sucked and now I don't care. I just remember the sucking.

First you procrastinate on the task because it is not a big enough deal to get done urgently. Then you procrastinate on the task because it has become such a big deal that doing it is overwhelming. You would think that this implies a middle point where it is just big enough of a deal to get done easily, however the inherent perversity of the universe's causal geometry prevents this

Executive Dysfunction is Fun (Not)

I drew the gang,

Triple A, how can they help yiu?

I’ve been in such a funk since the concert. I’m not even sure I enjoyed myself that much. maybe I did. I don’t know

Hey hi hello! I got a potential answer for you.

After ANY thrilling and/or happy experience, it's very possible for your brain to quite literally run out of the proteins and vitamins you need to make more happy chemical. People get dopamine crashes anywhere from a couple hours to a couple weeks after abormal but exciting events - whether it's a really good day, they did a lot of socializing, had a lot of fun hyperfocusing on a project, had an intense sexy time experience, a huge performance they were excited for, a date, a day at a theme part, etc etc etc.

Your brain goes into overdrive coming up with !!!!!!!! chemicals to keep up with your environment, then -especially if that was an abnormal experience or if you don't have the !!!!!! chemicals in excess very often- then you just run out for a while.

You can remedy this by finding other things that will be good, but not expect the !!!!! along with it. Instead of something you really really like doing, find something simple and calm and comforting. Snuggle with a friend and watch a movie, pet a cat, write a letter, etc.

Definitely get some vitamin d, chocolate if you can / like it, and take a multivitamin. Protein is important for regrowth and restocking, so get plenty of that too to bounce back quickly!

Love you much, I hope this passes very soon 🫂

WAIT WAIT THATS A THING???

LIKE….

THATS WHY AFTER THE EXCITEMENT WEARS OFF FROM ME DOING LITERALLY ANYTHING THAT MAGKES ME “!!!!” I JUST FEEL BLEH AND IMMEDIATELY CRAVE *THING* AGAIN

SO IM NOT JUST BROKEN

ME AFTER MY FRICKING GAY BOOKCLUB WHERE I SEE ALL MY FRIENDS ONCE A MONTH

OR AFTER WATCHING AN EPISODE OF THE SHOW IM HYPERFIXATED ON

WHAT

Yes!! It can also be extra bad for different types of neurospicy bitches. My adhd brain has directly proportional drops every day. If I had a meh morning I’ll have a good evening (if no other factors interfere). If I have a FANTASTIC morning I’m sure to have a mental breakdown that night. I don’t regulate those chemicals well at ALL, and have extremely predictable emotional crashes as a result of that.

I see and experience this phenomenon often when I actually do things. First hear about it in a LARP group - they called it drop, and I hear that term in theatre sometimes too. (This is why everyone goes to eat at a restaurant right after the event is over.) Point is, I'm glad there's like Science Reason backing up that emotional dead zone after an event. And now I'm gonna start meal planning for events.

There's a fandom term called Post-Con Depression for the emotional slump (and sometimes physical exhaustion) you feel after getting home from a fun convention. After squeezing out all the happiness you can produce for several days straight, you run out of happiness for a few days. This is a known phenomenon!

This is why you people get the post concert sadness

The Sonic Boom episode where everyone got upset with Sonic for calling someone "some guy" or something was actually adhdtism representation CAUSE. Everyone got upset with him for something he didnt understand and didnt mean to be rude PLUS IT WASNT ANYTHING BAD AT ALL!!

To all the people who constantly zoned out and daydreamed as a kid and probably told off for it, who learnt how to cry silently before the age of ten and maybe stopped crying entirely, who used books as an escape method and would constantly daydream about running off to a fantasy world, who is most likely now a burnt-out neurodivergent who didn't get diagnosed early so they self-diagnosed instead, and who now wants to groan at the thought of having to wake up another day,

how's the childhood trauma, deep-rooted love hate relationship with your parents, lack of self-esteem and sense of self, and raging queerness doing? you good?