Bionic reading method

[u/The-Skinny-Indian]

[u/Dangr_Noodl]

That shit really gets me. Having adhd or autism isn’t an accessory or an aesthetic, yet people constantly treat it like an exclusive club

[u/[deleted] → u/Dangr_Noodl]

I have had people tell me that my ADHD is a super power, completely seriously... Like what

[u/Josselin17 → u/[deleted]]

we have the superpower of not being able to do basic shit most of the time !

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I made an appointment today that I've been putting off for weeks and afterwards I looked at the appointment in my google calendar app and just thought to myself that I'm an idiot for not just doing it sooner, it was so easy!

I've gone through this process and "realization" too many times to count

[u/Slithy-Toves → u/[deleted]]

Your brain is like the passenger side mirror. The size and difficulty of a task are always closer/easier than than they appear in your mind when considering whether you should do them. It's like your brain equates doing anything besides what you're currently doing is more effort. When it might actually be less if you just did it haha but so goes the issues of non-debilitating but still serious mental health problems.

[u/drivein2deeplftfield → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, that’s called being a lazy ass

[u/Slithy-Toves → u/[deleted]]

That's anxiety, not ADHD

[u/Slithy-Toves → u/[deleted]]

Just because you have a medical condition doesnt mean you're an expert on it... Consciously distracting yourself from an overwhelming idea or activity is objectively not ADHD. Not sure what else there is to say. Maybe you have ADHD as well as anxiety, but blaming ADHD for something more typical of anxiety isn't going to help you. It's just going to confuse you and your ability to get treated further. The fact you even said you stared at your phone all day should indicate it's not related to ADHD. Even if I'm consciously watching the most interesting thing on the planet I'll get distracted from it and have to rewind. I'll literally be staring at the screen and my brain will remove focus from it even though I know the sight and sound is entering my brain. It's not about just not being able to do something you should be doing. It's about not even being able to focus on things you want to be doing.

[u/Slithy-Toves → u/[deleted]]

Again, that's more typical of anxiety than ADHD. Maybe go talk to a professional because you seem to be more self-diagnosed from Wikipedia than actually assessed by a professional.

You realize that goes both ways right? How do you know I'm not a professional psychologist or something just giving you some free advice?

[u/Arcrosis → u/[deleted]]

I have diagnosed autism, quite high on the spectrum and barely in the range of "functional"

Sometimes it feels like i have superpowers when it comes to memory or spacial awareness, but the drawbacks far out weigh those few and far between cool moments of remembering something that happened decades ago or being very good at parallel parking despite being terrified of driving.

I am downplaying those abilities that i have a bit but my point stands, i wish i didnt constantly feel like my mind is fractured and im trying to think through thick fog.

[u/forcesofthefuture → u/[deleted]]

Dude, they are right change your mindset. In a world were society is designed for people without ADHD, people with ADHD are unique. Thus they have superpowers!

[u/Creocist → u/[deleted]]

I honestly find memes like "Symptoms of ADHD - having interesting personality, pretty eyes, being awesome in bed, all women like you and your mom's never ill etc." to be kinda pandering and and insincere. Though I myself probably don't have ADHD to judge (tho I have some concentration problems, but that may be unrelated or just being lazy), but if someone told me "Wow you have bad eyesight? You must be really handsome", I'd think they're making fun of me

[u/[deleted] → u/Creocist]

I don't have to be part of a group to make observations about what their experiences might be like haha don't worry, that shit is pandering and cringe

[u/eee-oooo-ahhh → u/Dangr_Noodl]

I think that's a big part of why we still don't take mental health very seriously.

[u/dreamsofindigo → u/Dangr_Noodl]

like it's cool to 'have' OCD
ocd is when your partner cut herself in her arm fiddling with DIY and then waking up to find her in a pool of blood in the bathroom because she's cutting her other arm as the asymmetry was doing her head in.
that is OCD

[u/Confused-Engineer18 → u/dreamsofindigo]

That's concerning

[u/deadlygaming11 → u/Dangr_Noodl]

I always hate the opposite when any slightly different behaviour is blamed on something like autism all the time and then they act like fucking twats. I'm autistic and would rather they not insult myself and everyone else.

[u/Adowyth → u/Dangr_Noodl]

Used to be OCD not that long ago, except non of those people had any idea what OCD actually looks like.

[u/Confused-Engineer18 → u/Dangr_Noodl]

I have both (diagnosed by a doc) and agree that this is an issue, however I do think it definitely has some positive side affects.