ADHD memes

Not me buying The Shire route in The Conqueror Challenges in Spring-ish 2024 to motivate myself to go on more walks and getting a neat little medal at the end with the One Ring inside and being 70% done when I suddenly lose motivation.

The app is still waiting for me to get this challenge done and I just haven't. I hope I'll get it done this summer break because it's a lot of money to just throw out the window.

I love ADHD posts because they always contain condescending people that are incapable of understanding that they’re being condescending. They make assumptions that everyone hopping on the bandwagon isn’t doing any sort of therapy themselves, and we’re all just wallowing in the doom.

Here’s the actual reason why these things help:

• It’s easier to understand yourself when you see others describing similar struggles
• Sometimes this leads to discussions about how to cope and deal on a daily basis
• Sometimes it leads to doing your own research on things (which has been the case for me multiple times, like recently learning about somatic therapy and how it helps deal with dissociation, etc)
• Sometimes it’s also just nice to have a group to cope with together, especially when we all live in a world run by the worst fucking people imaginable

If things have worked for you, that’s amazing. But save the shrugging and dismissive language for… your internal dialogue because zero people need it, unless you’re willing to reframe it in a more constructive way.

ADHD is a broad spectrum and is never a 1:1 between people. For me, openly identifying as someone that has had ADHD since the 90s (diagnosed) can help others understand why I am the way I am. It also helps bond with others which is in itself a support mechanism. Being more open about my brain has also helped friends identify their own struggles, which also lead them to do more research. So it becomes a “pass it on” kind of thing, not just some vapid “hehe suffering” circle jerk.

If you’ve been “weird” like me since childhood and struggled hard in school and life for an eternity before finally finding ways to consistently cope and endure (things that will start and stall a million times over because of ADHD brain), finding community and talking about it is massively helpful. The reality is that at this point everyone could have ADHD brain. It’s a spectrum and we know so little about the brain as it is.

Sometimes it’s also just fun to meme about it.

Wait, we are supossed to change hobbies? I just pick up new ones.

I don't know if I'm ADHD or just lazy.

There's also "racking up student debt for years and then dropping out because your ADHD spirals out of control", that's a really expensive one.

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How did you find my bingo card?

Oh yes. Before my partner and I got diagnosed these were the source of so much tension in our relationship too. Now we are able to laugh about it and shrug it off but you never stop paying these.

The most recent expensive one for me was a bunch of clothing returns that needed to go back in 30 days. I really thought i still had time but when the stars finally aligned some 70 days had slipped by. Then you gotta fess up to what you did so you end up paying more than just the monetary tax.

Looking at fines and cost for more than a months salary because my car insurance had lapsed... Fml

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