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  • Novamdomum@fedia.iotoADHD@lemmy.worldPerfect world for ADHD
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    12 days ago

    What a brilliant question! All feature films would have a maximum run time of 30 minutes. All books would have a TL;DR at the end. If anyone takes longer than 5 minutes to explain a simple concept, they owe you a dollar. Neurotypicals would be highly incentivised to work as diary managers and time keepers for us. Forgetting what you are about to say just as you launch into a great speech would be considered good luck and there would be clapping and hugs. Commas in sentences would become optional. If a Neurotypical stops responding to your text messages half way through a conversation until a week later and then pretends they didn’t just trigger a week long RSD anxiety attack - straight to jail.


  • Thank God for Trello. Since I started using it about a year ago, anything I put in there gets done. Also I found out that if you put a Party Popper (🎉) emoji in the title of a list, then whenever you pick up a task and move it to the next stage it blows confetti all over the screen. Yay! pat on the head dopamine 😁 Who’s a good boy? I’m a good boy that’s who!



  • ADHD is falling down a rabbit hole trying to find an answer to this question and realising that there IS actually a definitive answer, which turns out to be that it’s a “half empty glass” if the last thing that happened to it was that liquid was removed, but it’s a “half full glass” if the last thing that happened to it was that liquid was added, BUT you also have to factor in evaporation which is happening constantly, so really every glass that contains an amount of liquid that corresponds to half of it’s containment ability is actually “half empty” except for the few seconds after water was added to it, in which case it is, briefly, half full, then describing your findings in a single, insanely long sentence.













  • It’s not that. I’ve always felt more comfortable when there is a lot of information in front of me (hence my original question). I love shopping in large supermarkets for example. All those packages and brands, colours and words. It literally makes me happy and I often walk around just smiling because my brain feels peaceful when there’s lots happening all around me. The caveat to that is if I’m being compelled to do anything in particular with this information by anyone, like a teacher or a manager. So long as there are no bad consequences if I don’t take in all the information and process it according to someone else’s rules, then it’s blissful. It also makes me basically unemployable, which is why I’ve mostly run my own businesses all my life! 🤣 Also, because of this, I didn’t have a very good time at school, specially at a time when no one knew about ADHD. The habits I’ve described may look like addictions but they aren’t. It’s just the way my brain has worked for over half a century now.