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I keep seeing memes about ADHD that I relate too.
As with disorders in general, the metric is how much it disrupts your life.
I’m assuming you don’t have adhd?
It’s also a spectrum as well some people have different types and people with the same type may have it worse. Some people even technically have ADHD, it’s just the symptoms are so mild it doesn’t really impact them or might as well not have it
in my experience it, for the most part, amplifies some things. Sometimes people have some brain fog and can’t focus, sometimes people take time to process what was said, sometimes people can easily get overstimulated.
But my favorite thing to say is yes those are true, everyone also pees, but when you pee 100 times a day you usually go see a doctor
I've never been diagnosed. I'm an adult and I get along fine, so it's not crippling. But I've always struggled with procrastination and it feels like the amount of mental energy I have to expend to get tasks done is higher than most people. And certain tasks I get to much anxiety about and don't even start them, whereas other people just do it.
Heck, you could even just have some level of anxiety. Aggresively calling one specific set of traits “neurotypical” has led to anyone outside of that needing some kind of diagnoses when in reality the state of the world is kinda fucking destructive towards people’s mental states. The people “just doing it” are largely either also expending a tonne of energy and just afraid to say anything, or made up of the sort of people who just pretend that everything is ok despite all the evidence because they can’t face the harshness of what’s happening. It’s not a desireable place to be, in my opinion, to be the kind of person who can get act like the world isn’t fucked enough to grind out their 9-5 for increasingly little pay.
I hope you can figure it out, ADHD or otherwise.
Such is life
Put your distraction away, get up, clean.
That's an issue for most everyone, and an issue that even adhd people can overcome. Let go of your instant little dopamine drip and pick stuff up for an hour, non-stop.
It's not about the distraction. I can throw my phone across the room and still not be able to get up. I can remove all distractions, and I will still stare off into space and not get anything done.