The two ADHD moods:
– I can’t do it
– I can’t stop doing it
The two types of ADHD time:
– now
– not now
the two ADHD memory modes:
-I literally cannot recall the words that just came out of my mouth
-I can recite the opening paragraph of every single magic treehouse book
Tag: adhd
bitch i got adhd lmao
Carbon dioxide has only one atom more than carbon monoxide just in case you think breathing is harmless
SOMEONE hasn’t studied organic chemistry.
A single methyl group can make a hell of a difference in how something is processed by your body. Well, that and dosage- when you take Adderall by prescription, the dosages are much lower than your average recreational dose of crystal meth. I’d worry more if there was sufficient evidence it turned into methamphetamine in the body (which there isn’t).
See also: cholesterol and the steroid hormones such as estrogen, testosterone, progesterone, cortisol, etc. , which have very different effects on your body even though the main molecular backbone is the same.
cleaning with ADHD is a nightmare. it’s an endless cycle of finding a half-finished chore and stopping the one you were already working on, then remembering that something else needs to be done and getting started on that, then finding half-finished chore and
i have the solution! i call it ‘junebugging’.
have you ever seen a junebug get to grips with a window screen? it’s remarkably persistent, but not very focused. all that matters is location.
how to junebug: choose the location you feel you can probably get some shit done on today. be specific. not ‘the bathroom’ but ‘the bathroom sink’. you are not choosing a range, you are choosing a center; you will move around, but your location is where you’ll keep coming back to. mentally stick a pin in it. consider yourself tethered to that spot by a long mental bungee cord.
go to your location. look at stuff. move stuff around. do a thing. get distracted. remember you’re junebugging the bathroom sink and go back there. look at it some more. do a different thing. get distracted. get a sandwich. remember you’re junebugging and go back to the bathroom sink.
nt’s will go crazy watching you, and if they demand to know When You Will Be Done you will probably have to roll them in a carpet and stuff them up the chimney. you’re done when you feel done, or you’re too bored to live, or it’s bedtime, or any number of other markers, you get to pick. but the thing is, by returning repeatedly to that one spot, you harness the ‘hyperactivity’ part instead of wasting all that energy battling with the ‘attention deficit’ part.
not only will the bathroom sink almost certainly be clean, and probably the mirror and soap dish too, you might’ve swapped in a fresh toothbrush, a new soap, you might’ve unclogged the drain – you will probably also have cleaned or fixed up several things in the near vicinity, or in the path between the sink and where you get the fresh toothbrush, or maybe you did your grocery shopping cuz you were out of soap, or maybe you couldn’t find a clean hand towel and ended up doing laundry.
this is good. you got shit done! it wasn’t necessarily Cleaned The Bathroom in the way nt’s think of it, but screw ‘em. things are better than they were.
plus you worked off enough energy to be able to sleep. which is not small potatoes when living the ADHD life. 😀
the adhd experience™️: going to the bathroom THREE SEPARATE TIMES for unrelated stuff (refilling soap, brushing your teeth, etc.) and still forgetting to pee while you are there— even though you knew you had to go— and then needing to take a fourth goddamn trip.
i like when ppl reblog posts “so&so just did this by taking adderall” and its usually an amazing or wild feat and i just gotta say, as someone with adhd. this is why my insurance doesnt cover adderall. this is why adderall is classified as a narcotic in my state. im glad yall are havin fun abusing meds i need to live. hope it was worth it.
this post is okay and encouraged to reblog bc yall keep turning a blind eye to this nonsense
And this is why I’m sometimes forced to either drive to another city to get my prescription refilled, or even go without the meds I need to be able to remain focused at work until the pharmacy gets more in.
This is exactly what I was talking about in that post I made a while back.
ADHD is not a funny little quirk that people just sort of acquire for a day or two. It’s a mental disorder which the majority of diagnosed people are born with and have to deal with all their lives. Its symptoms aren’t all cute and casual traits that are easy to take care of. It can actually make you hate yourself a good part of the time.
So, sorry, but you not being able to focus or sit still because you haven’t had a good night’s sleep doesn’t give you the right to call yourself “ADHD”. Which besides is not an adjective but a name.
Destroy the idea that “everyone is a little ADHD”. The only people who “are” ADHD are the people who have ADHD.
Also, unrelated, but I was playing Cards Against Humanity with a college group a couple years ago and one girl asked “What’s Adderall?” and the answer someone gave her was “It’s a pill you take when you need to take a test.” Actually, it’s a prescription medication used to treat ADHD and is a controlled substance.
Fuck you if you use prescription ADHD medication without a prescription or in a way not prescribed, or if you give it to other people for such purposes. Fuck you for making it harder for people actually prescribed these medications to obtain them from pharmacies. They have to make even smaller windows for when you can fill a Rx, how long you can wait after the doctor signs it to get it filled, and you’re shit out of luck if you miss that window. You just. Don’t get your meds that month I guess. Oh, and they can make you pay more to obtain them, too. I’ve seen all of these changes in just the past couple of years.
I’m not taking medication to “take a test”. I’m taking medication to help me be a functional member of society. My meds aren’t what got me good grades. They let my brain do the job it’s SUPPOSED to be doing on it’s own. They bring me to the level I SHOULD be at without ADHD messing everything up. Do your job, fricking study, and get enough sleep.
Executive Function Impairments in High IQ Adults With ADHD
are you ready for the latest in research-based [ingroup] demographic stereotypy? this one’s a doozy.
In our clinical practice, adults with IQ scores in and above the superior range have sought evaluation and treatment for chronic difficulties with organizing their work, excessive procrastination, inconsistent effort, excessive forgetfulness, and lack of adequate focus for school and/or employment. They question whether they might have an attention deficit disorder, but often they have been told by educators and clinicians that their superior intelligence precludes their having ADHD.
Typically, these very bright individuals report that they are able to work very effectively on certain tasks in which they have strong personal interest or intense fear of immediate negative consequences if they do not complete the task at once. Yet they are chronically unable to make themselves do many tasks of daily life they recognize as important but do not see as personally interesting at that moment. When provided treatment appropriate for ADHD, these very bright individuals often report significant improvement in their ability to work effectively while their medication is active.
yes. so. how would you like a summary of my educational career?
Clinical interviews with patients in this study indicated that individuals with high IQ who have ADHD may be at increased risk of having recognition and treatment of their ADHD symptoms delayed until relatively late in their educational careers because teachers and parents tend to blame the student’s disappointing academic performance on boredom or laziness, especially as they notice the situational variability of their ADHD symptoms.
Like most others with ADHD, these individuals have a few specific domains in which they have always been able to focus very well, for example, sports, computer games, artistic or musical pursuits, reading self-elected materials. Parents and teachers tend to assume that these very bright persons could focus on any other tasks equally well, if only they chose to do so. These observers do not understand that although ADHD appears to be a problem of insufficient willpower, it is not (Brown, 2005).
Many also reported that they often demonstrated considerable prowess in performing specific tasks in which they had little positive personal interest but did experience considerable fear of immediate negative consequences if they did not complete that particular task by some external deadline. Often subjects described this as a character trait, “I’m just a severe procrastinator” or “I always work best under pressure.”
that’s not all.
In an unpublished study of 103 treatment-seeking adults with IQ 120 or more diagnosed with ADHD, Brown and Quinlan (1999) found that 42% had dropped out of postsecondary schooling at least once, although some did eventually return to complete a degree. Those data together with this present study suggest that individuals with high IQ and ADHD, despite their strong cognitive abilities, may be at significant risk of educational disruption or failure due to ADHD-related impairments of EF.
and now?
Biederman et al. (2006) […] found that adults with ADHD who self-reported elevated levels of EF impairments on the CBS tended to be significantly more impaired on measures of global functioning, had more comorbidities, and held lower current socioeconomic status than did those with or without ADHD who scored below the median on that scale. […]
¯_(ツ)_/¯
So, like, I don’t know how many of you-all this stuff describes, but it was awfully familiar to me and what my life has been like, so I wanted to share it since it’s an actual freaking pattern for us ADHDers who are also “gifted.”
-J
Is this saying that high IQ is basically a “disqualification” for the consideration of ADHD? Because that makes no sense.
No, they were trying to say it was underdiagnosed in the high IQ population due to that very misconception. They also detailed the very specific problems “gifted” people with ADHD have as compared to those of equal intelligence but neurotypical.
Ah, gotcha. That just seems weird to me that someone being smarter than usual would somehow make the other stuff no longer point to ADHD as a diagnosis. Their other symptoms are still the same regardless.
Also the part under “summary of my educational career” is way too relatable.
Executive Function Impairments in High IQ Adults With ADHD
are you ready for the latest in research-based [ingroup] demographic stereotypy? this one’s a doozy.
In our clinical practice, adults with IQ scores in and above the superior range have sought evaluation and treatment for chronic difficulties with organizing their work, excessive procrastination, inconsistent effort, excessive forgetfulness, and lack of adequate focus for school and/or employment. They question whether they might have an attention deficit disorder, but often they have been told by educators and clinicians that their superior intelligence precludes their having ADHD.
Typically, these very bright individuals report that they are able to work very effectively on certain tasks in which they have strong personal interest or intense fear of immediate negative consequences if they do not complete the task at once. Yet they are chronically unable to make themselves do many tasks of daily life they recognize as important but do not see as personally interesting at that moment. When provided treatment appropriate for ADHD, these very bright individuals often report significant improvement in their ability to work effectively while their medication is active.
yes. so. how would you like a summary of my educational career?
Clinical interviews with patients in this study indicated that individuals with high IQ who have ADHD may be at increased risk of having recognition and treatment of their ADHD symptoms delayed until relatively late in their educational careers because teachers and parents tend to blame the student’s disappointing academic performance on boredom or laziness, especially as they notice the situational variability of their ADHD symptoms.
Like most others with ADHD, these individuals have a few specific domains in which they have always been able to focus very well, for example, sports, computer games, artistic or musical pursuits, reading self-elected materials. Parents and teachers tend to assume that these very bright persons could focus on any other tasks equally well, if only they chose to do so. These observers do not understand that although ADHD appears to be a problem of insufficient willpower, it is not (Brown, 2005).
Many also reported that they often demonstrated considerable prowess in performing specific tasks in which they had little positive personal interest but did experience considerable fear of immediate negative consequences if they did not complete that particular task by some external deadline. Often subjects described this as a character trait, “I’m just a severe procrastinator” or “I always work best under pressure.”
that’s not all.
In an unpublished study of 103 treatment-seeking adults with IQ 120 or more diagnosed with ADHD, Brown and Quinlan (1999) found that 42% had dropped out of postsecondary schooling at least once, although some did eventually return to complete a degree. Those data together with this present study suggest that individuals with high IQ and ADHD, despite their strong cognitive abilities, may be at significant risk of educational disruption or failure due to ADHD-related impairments of EF.
and now?
Biederman et al. (2006) […] found that adults with ADHD who self-reported elevated levels of EF impairments on the CBS tended to be significantly more impaired on measures of global functioning, had more comorbidities, and held lower current socioeconomic status than did those with or without ADHD who scored below the median on that scale. […]
¯_(ツ)_/¯
So, like, I don’t know how many of you-all this stuff describes, but it was awfully familiar to me and what my life has been like, so I wanted to share it since it’s an actual freaking pattern for us ADHDers who are also “gifted.”
-J
Is this saying that high IQ is basically a “disqualification” for the consideration of ADHD? Because that makes no sense.
the two adhd moods in a nutshell
- overstimulated: can’t do it because everything is too much
- understimulated: can’t do it because everything is too boring
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