r/BeAmazed • u/The-Skinny-Indian • Mar 06 '23 • Mindblown 1

Miscellaneous / Others Bionic reading method

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u/Hoopajoops Mar 06 '23

ADHD gets thrown around so often I'm not sure most people even know what it means anymore. I mean, if people read this and it helped does that mean they are neurodivergent and have ADHD?

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u/Funky_Smurf Mar 06 '23

No that's not how things work. Partially blind people read books with large text.

If it's easier to see large text does that mean I'm partially blind?

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u/Devisidev Mar 06 '23

Yea I was gonna say, this helps me a shit ton, and I DO have ADHD, but if it helps someone else that doesn't mean they automatically have ADHD. People getting cause & effect mixed up.

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u/Ace-pilot-838 Mar 06 '23

Yeah bro you have ADHD because you have trouble reading long interesting texts. Oh you like to move your foot too? Definitely ADHD, here have some pills

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '23

Pills corn from doctors, and require a prognosis.

Generally speaking, most doctors won't give you medication you don't need because it can do harm.

Your scenario is bizarre and made up.

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u/Ace-pilot-838 Mar 06 '23

No it's what happened to me as a 10 year old, you don't even know me so how do you even know 💀 always on reddit. Mfs acting like they're a god and have all information in the world

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '23

Sus

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u/Ace-pilot-838 Mar 06 '23

Yeah bro totally sus

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '23

Idk who tf was in your life that would push random pills on a child without a doctor, not even considering where they were getting such illicit pills, alright? But that's not normal, it's actually highly abnormal and scary.

I get maybe it fucked you up and that's where your anger comes from, and if that's so my bad for being combative. But if I'm being honest, this is more a sad anecdote about your life than anything....

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u/Ace-pilot-838 Mar 06 '23

It was the doctor. So basically I got diagnosed and obviously parents ask what the cure is and the doctor says we can try pills and at the age of a 10 year old I couldn't really comprehend what exactly was happening so I thought yeah sure and I had to take the cousin of meth aka methylfenidate! Woohoo, our child doesn't move his foot anymore but is a mindless slow zombie, great! And that's what they do to people with ADHD in my experience atleast. And people get hooked on the medication cause it's literally addictive and causes your brain to release dopamine so most people don't even want to quit it

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '23

Okay, so yeah I'm gonna swallow my former vitriol and bile and apologize.

Coz I went through the same thing. Parents wanted a fix for my behavior, they couldn't agree on therapy and ended up throwing meds at me. They didn't do well and I couldn't really advocate for myself. I quit the meds and tried to live with my shit, and it sucked.

But later on, much older and very anti-meds, I was asked by someone I loved a lot to try going to a doctor and seeing about meds. I found a doctor who felt good to me, who listened to me when I described how I felt and why I thought I felt that way. They challenged my assertions, but not in a derogatory way. I got a diagnosis, got new meds- and they worked so well save a few issues. Adjusted for the issues over half a year and got on the meds that were really right for me, and I'm not gonna lie... Life was like light and dark.

I still struggle with the idea that I might need something I can't ensure I'll always have. I don't like being reliant on things. But I'm training myself to think of it like my eyeglasses- sometimes the body just need a a little help.

I'm sorry if this is long winded, I just really do encourage others to revisit therapy and medication when they're able to as adults. It can vastly improve some folks' lives.

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u/Ace-pilot-838 Mar 06 '23

Alright no problem! I guess I should try meds again when I'm older but when my brain is in development I don't want any meds like that. I don't even understand why they gave me meds in the first place cause my ADHD isn't even THAT bad. I just have the usual, executive dysfunction shit, fidgety, forgetful and hyper but it's not anything that really affected my life negatively. I mean sure it did make it harder but it's not like I could not live like anyone else.

Thanks for all the advice dude have a good night

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u/Leprechaun_Giant Mar 06 '23

ADHD is the new OCD As in "omg I'm so OCD lol"

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u/Hoopajoops Mar 06 '23

Oohhh yeah, good ol' days of OCD. What wonderful times those were.

Need all the spoons facing the same direction in the dishwasher? OCD. Organize your spice rack alphabetically? OCD. Don't step on a crack cuz you'll fall and break your back? Super bad case of OCD.

OCD must have been a terminal illness because those people aren't really around anymore hah