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[–] underisk@lemmy.ml 26 points 11 months ago (7 children)

I know it’s ridiculous to use a bingo board meme as a diagnostic tool but should I be concerned if I got a whooooole lot of these?

[–] Forester@yiffit.net 17 points 11 months ago

Everybody sneezes if you sneeze 100 times in a day then it's a problem

[–] girl@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

Depends on how often you experience these symptoms! If you experience them daily or nearly constantly, it would be worth investigating.

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 2 points 11 months ago

If you have some other mental-diversion like autism, bipolar or dyslexia then chances are high you have overlap with properties of other neurodivergent people.

Its also possible to be “functional and normal” but still have a neurodivergent brain. Disabilities are subjective in context of the (social) world around you.

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[–] RacoonVegetable@reddthat.com 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

All of these 😭😫

My doctor still thinks that adults can’t have ADHD.🙂

[–] cybirdman@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

My doctor has ADHD! Pros: my ADHD diagnosis was super straightforward and he was overall helpful. Cons: forgets my appointments and talks too fast and overexplains or not at all. Still, I consider myself lucky

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[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 10 points 11 months ago

I read this with my leg bouncing and it’s the first fucking square 😂😭

This entire thing is me to a tee since childhood.

[–] genoxidedev1@kbin.social 10 points 11 months ago

More like "Time to cook food! * Doesn't cook food *"

[–] moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 11 months ago

the ones in blue are ones I used to do but not anymore or ones that I am unsure about

[–] Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 11 months ago

What do I win? 💀

And there's so much more that's not even listed here.

[–] MooseGas@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Holy shit. Do I have ADHD?

[–] Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 11 months ago

If you experience a lot of those issues very often then there's a good chance for that. I'm going to yet again recommend my favourite introductionary source to learn about ADHD: Part1 Part2 Part 3 (90 minutes total)

[–] Haui@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 11 months ago

Possible. Or autism. Or both.

There are a lot of helpful videos on youtube about it and a ton of actually helpful questionnaires online. If you fill out a couple you’ll get a goos first impression. A doctor should them assess further.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

Where's the one that I scrolled past this post and didn't actually read a single tile

[–] girl@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

damn, 1 short of a blackout lol (talking too long and fast for anyone to keep up). just replace it with “constant, unrelenting music in my head, sometimes multiple songs at once” and I’m a winner

[–] Micromot@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago

I have both, the fast talking switches out with not being able to form a coherent sentence from time to time and the music can be nice but also extremely distracting

[–] Sharpiemarker@feddit.de 4 points 11 months ago

I feel like the free space should be "pharmacy is out of Adderall"

[–] hobovision@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What is sensory overload? Is it like that thing where you have to turn the volume down in the car when trying to park?

[–] Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Personally for me being exposed to a lot of noises for a long time and not being able to escape from them causes the stress to build up and become very easly irritable, angry, and sensitive to everything. I'm curious how others experience it.

[–] sibloure 3 points 11 months ago

Yes and it sucks when you live below loud neighbors that are constantly making noise, stomping, and yelling at each other and you can't escape because you're in your own home.

[–] Lotsen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is there a consern if a I got all of these as I don't know if I have adhd or not.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Depends how often. If legit concerned, read up on ADHD symptoms and see how much they describe you and go from there.

[–] Lotsen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I did and I now know that I probebly have adhd.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Knowing is half the battle. Now that you know, you can try the various coping mechanisms to deal with your ADHD. If those don't work and your ADHD is severely impacting your life, you should consider seeing a professional to get some medication to alleviate some of the symptoms.

[–] Lotsen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I have started cracking my knuckles and putting my hair behind my ear as coping mechanisms but before that I was chevinf my fingernails.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is just stimming. I was talking about things like using a notebook, setting up more regular alerts etc. There's various coping approaches one can do to alleviate some of the problems with ADHD

[–] Lotsen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Sorry for my misunderstanding. As English is not my first language it's sometimes hard for me to understand certain words but also alarms whould be a good idea and I will start to use them.

[–] Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Alright, so first I want you to have a proper understanding of ADHD. The presentation that I'm about to send you is 9 years old so some of it's information is outdated but it's still a really great and comprehensive info about what ADHD actually is. The presentation is available in 3 parts and it's 90 minutes long total: Part1 Part2 Part3.

When you watch this presentation I recommend watching this under 14 minute video about how to treat ADHD, it's not perfect but it should give you directions: Link.

And now there's my coping strategy that motivated me to do things in the past (I messed up and stopped using it and I don't remember what I did wrong. But it wasn't fault of the strategy though so I want to go back to it soon.). I used point/token based economy to motivate me. It works on the basis that you have to do a task to get points which then you can use up on nice things/activities.

1.) Find a task manager that works for you well. To mark how much tokens a task is worth you just put a number at the beginning or the end of it's name, for example "(+2) Study 30 minutes for the exam".

2.) To track your earned and spent tokens find a money tracking app and instead of using it for tracking your spendings and earnings of real money you will use it for tracking those tokens.

3.) Make a price list for common tasks and activities where you write down how much something costs you to do or how much points you will earn for doing them. It will take some experimenting to come up with a balance that will work the best for you.

4.) Make as much activites cost you tokens so you have more incentive to earn points. IMO it's better to have many activities that cost you a little tokens than making an one general activity that costs you a lot of tokens.

5.) You can "buy" activities in different form, for example "buy listening music for the whole day for 5 points" or "Buy listening to music for 1 hour for 1 point". It's up to your creativity how you will organise those things.

6.) Don't make prices/rewards for different tasks/advices cost the same, make more interesting activities more expensive and less interesting activities cheaper. Same goes for tasks, more important tasks will give you more points while less important tasks will give you less points.

7.) I almost forgot, you will also need some kind of schedule to plan your day so you know what to do instead of lazing around. Don't make the schedule too strict, make spaces between task so if you delay one task it won't affect the next tasks. Also make a time for breaks and stuff.

8.) Regardless of strategy you use to cope with ADHD, DO NOT GET TOO EXCITED! If you get excited and push yourself too much you will get burned out quickly and lose your motivation. Do everything with balance.

[–] Lotsen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago

Thank you for this. I now know how to schedule my day in a easier way ran before. I will also look at those presentations as they seem informative.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

We'll soon have a wiki with resources to help newbies to ADHD. @Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com might be able to link you to some stuff to check out until then

[–] Taringano@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Setting a million alarms is not and ADHD symptom...

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago

It's a meme. Don't overthink this. And if you do, check Rule 1.

[–] Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago

Executive dysfuntion to get out of your bed is an ADHD symptom...

[–] Micromot@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago

The pinned post explains this very well, but there aren't really such things as adhd symptoms that are exclusive. People with adhd just tend to have these problems so often that they interfere with normal living and usually they have multiple of these problems

[–] Draegur@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'd play but I forgot the contents of the squares after reading them because my mind was replaying dialogue from The Orville

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[–] Khalic@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

Ugh, i didn’t even need to do the second line…

[–] ReversalHatchery 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

bounces leg

I see a lot of people in my environment doing that. I don't mean friends, just average people. How much of a sign is it when someone does that?

[–] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It can be a sign of a few things, like anxiety too, but it can also just be a sign that someone's bored.

Like with most things, it doesn't mean a lot on its own, but if it's being done in excess, or uncontrollably, then it could be a sign of something else.

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

I uncontrollably play air drums or tap drum patterns with my hands and feet any time I'm idle. Like, idle for more than 5 seconds. If my hands are busy, I'm kicking double bass drum patterns with my feet. If I'm walking, its air drums or pseudo beatboxing quietly. It never ends.

Actually, that's not true. It does stop sometimes; only when I'm in a severely distressing situation or horribly depressed. That's how I know my shit's fucked up; the drums stop. :(

[–] Leon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 months ago
[–] ReCursing@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

I "win" twice and fill half the remaining squares. Still, I didn't know until I was 41 and am still waiting on a formal diagnosis because the NHS has been deliberately underfunded for so long and I never got around to sorting out going private!

[–] backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 months ago

I might've missed one or two because I don't understand them

[–] nottheengineer@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago

Bottom row and right column for me.

[–] Fhek@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago
[–] Balkonmoebel@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago

My gf has a bazillion open tabs and never closes any app and wonders she constantly runs out of battery. Grantly she also always forgets to charge.

[–] Templa 1 points 11 months ago

Im my case its like "sets up a million alarms and ignore all of them" haha

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