• PixelProf@lemmy.ca
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    For those undiagnosed wondering about the accuracy of this, let’s play real ADHD bingo. Gather 5 of these and have experienced some form of it for most of your life:

    • Losing and misplacing things very frequently
    • Restlessness, squirming, seeming like you’re motorized
    • Blurting out answers to questions before the questions are completed
    • Lots of thoughtless mistakes, not focusing on details
    • Avoids talks requiring extended concentration
    • Struggle to wait your turn
    • Overly talkative
    • Forgetting daily activities

    I’ll note as someone who took a long while to really accept my diagnosis: And to a distressing degree.

    Like, I didn’t just forget where I put my phone regularly, I’d lose expensive electronics on my ride home from school. I’d regularly forget my backpack on my way to school. I regularly needed replacement keys for my dorm.

    I wasn’t just overly talkative, I’d miss busses constantly because I couldn’t stop talking. I don’t even like people all that much, I just can’t stop. Unless it’s a topic I’m not interested in. Then it’s agony.

    I didn’t just avoid unnecessary things that needed my focus; my heart would race and I’d get aggressive because I needed to checks notes copy information from one page over to another… Carefully.

    I wouldn’t just cut someone off to answer them before they finished, I’d get this feeling of a ringing in my ears and internal screaming, digging my nails into my hands, to try and be nice… Before cutting them off to answer before they finished anyways, but later than I intended.

    Every day.

    It’s not fun. I’ve spent tens of thousands of dollars on late fees, extensions to degree because of missed deadlines, procrastinated dental bills. It’s agonizing. It’s pain. You will know what it is to talk to other people, have them go, “Oh my God, me too! Like sometimes, I clean, and I just don’t stop” and when you say, “I know, and then I’m just on the ground sweating and crying and feel like throwing up because I e been there for like 3 hours and missed my appointment” and you get the, “What’s wrong with you?” look. The ADH is often related; the Disorder, I’ve been surprised to learn over the years, often isn’t. I assumed people hid this distress, too.

    Positive note for any concerns: Medication, therapy, and education are huge helpers. It isn’t perfect, things are just harder and that’s how it is, but they improve. I’m a professor, I have nearly 1000 students, 50 teaching assistants, and need to schedule, effectively, 120+ meetings and put out around 400 documents that must all line up every 4 months. It’s not hopeless, it’s just hard.

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      This is uh… one of the worst examples of “internet horoscope” I’ve ever read lol. I’ve been diagnosed, am currently unmedicated, and resonate with… practically none of this.

      And one of them is literally “explaining things with metaphors”. That’s one of the most generic things I’ve heard in my life lol.

    • breakingcups@lemmy.world
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      Nah man, if you explain things with analogies and metaphors you definitely got the ADHDs! Better get on those meds, yo!

      Lately every vaguely relatable thing I read on the internet is a sure-fire sign of ADHD it seems.

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      And it can go faster than the maximum 2x on ytb !

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    Wait? YouTube and audio books at 3x speed is an ADHD thing? Man, is my whole personality just ADHD?

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    Looks like I’m managing my ADHD pretty well. I got a bingo on the bottom row, plus the hot drinks one, but those are things that don’t bother me at all. The major problems in my life are gone with the help of medication, routine, a shared calendar with my wife, password manager, and choosing the right job.

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      I parked my car almost half an hour ago. Still here. Scrolling lemmy. I don’t know why. I’m hungry, I should make dinner. Help.

    • pHr34kY@lemmy.world
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      I spent 30 minutes sitting my car last night trying to think of a better way to mount my phone because I just got a 3d printer.

      It turns out that inventing still requires thought, and lots of it.

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        Honestly, it’s probably not worth the effort to try and use a 3D printer for that unless you are printing with the more difficult materials like ABS or similar.

        PLA gets droopy just from the sun shining on it and will melt in a car in the summer. PETG is a bit better to the point where I personally haven’t had it deform from heat yet but from what I have heard the differences aren’t that big.

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          I was initially going to do a dashcam mount, but I did read about the sun melting PLA. I live in Australia so it’s a bit of a put-off.

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      not sure but i would imagine checking something from your phone and ending up browsing lemmy for an hour. this has happened to me. or cleaning up the car. this has not happened to me.

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      I don’t know - I’ve avoided ever getting a license.

      It’d make more sense if it was going to a social event… since getting to the door and then perseverating about whether it’d be easier and less painful to go home is definitely a mood.

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    I feel i am escaping this with only 1 bingo based on technicalities and coping mechanisms…

    • the lost keys were in my pocket because my hands re full…
    • I’m not awake and productive at 2 am anymore because sleep deprivation is killing me. So now I’m awake and unproductive.
    • I don’t do daily lists, i do task specific breakdowns; but i do have an alarm to remind me to eat lunch.
    • password manager👌
    • thermal mugs 👌
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    Fuck.

    No seriously, how accurate is this thing? Is it possible to have the whole bingo and not have ADHD?

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      This has essentially no overlap with ADHD. It’s just a pop/incorrect understanding of ADHD. People with ADHD won’t do many of those things, and people without ADHD can do all of them. There’s even some reason to think this graphic could be inversely indicative of ADHD. For example, the only research of which I’m aware on ADHD and metaphor or analogy is actually that individuals with ADHD are worse at processing and understanding metaphors and are worse at analogical reasoning.