I’m not really sure if I have adhd or not at the moment and I just realised this. I’m not sure if this is related to adhd at all but I just find it weird looking into peoples eyes, when I listen to people I usually look out a window or something and sometimes people ask me weather I am listening and I didn’t even realise I was looking out a window I kind of just assumed they knew I was listening.
Also as a side note, I have a lot of symptoms of adhd but I’m not sure if to enough of an extent, since I see a lot that everyone has the symptoms of adhd just not to the extent of someone that actually has adhd has.
Do you also have that one comment in the bottom of your lemmy inbox that you’ve been meaning to respond to for the last several weeks or months but you keep putting it off?
Do you also sit on your couch or bed and just stair out the window for like 30 minutes or longer at a time?
I also have struggle focusing on school work, this hasn’t always been the case but it’s a lot more now. Once the coffee from the morning wears off I can’t focus for long enough to finish a small portion of a single Maths question before I’m staring out the window thinking about something completely unrelated, then about 5-10 minutes later I realised I’m distracted.
You’ve probably also noticed a pattern at this point, I love staring out windows!
I don’t do it intentionally, but my wife often tells me to look at her when she’s talking so she knows I’m listening.
The rest you wrote sounds a lot like ADHD inattentive type, especially executive distinction. And caffeine is a stimulant which can have similar effects as meds. If you can still sleep without problems or even better after drinking coffee, that’s an additional indication.
The problem with ADHD is that most of our struggles are things “everybody has once in a while” but it’s so much more often and extreme that it makes our lives harder.
Get checked if you have the possibility.
Coffee does help but I dont notice it a ton, and it only lasts for like 2 hours.
I always thought caffiene was overhyped because it had like no effect on me. But now i have noticed it helps me focus.
Yeah, that’s why I drank about 8 coffees a day before I even suspected having ADHD. I just knew I can work better with it and thought that this is the effect others experience too when they say that they need one.
I wish I had known this was a symptom decades ago. Ever since I started drinking coffee, I knew it didn’t keep me up, but I only found out I was ADHD a few years ago.
Same here. Never understood when people didn’t drink coffee after dinner, saying that they wouldn’t be able to sleep all night.
Try stimulant meds + caffeine and you’ll find out :)
Caffeine without stimulants will do something similar to only stimulants, but combined those have an effect much like what a neurotypical person would experience using only caffeine.
Yes I learned this lesson pretty fast after changing meds. I started with methylphenidat and took it for two years, with that caffeine had the same effect as b without stimulants. But after trying different doses I wasn’t happy with the result, so I changed to Elvanse. Now I drink 2 or 3 cups a day but also don’t feel the need for more.