Is ADHD a meme? What has been your guy's experience with it, particularly those who weren't 100% sure if they had it or not.I've never done poorly academically but not particularly well either, however would spend 100% of my concentration on school and nothing else. I always struggled to balance school with hobbies or a social life and would spend my free time either working, studying, or doomscrolling online in my room. About to shill out 600$ for an evaluation at my local uni in the hopes of reaching normiehood and want to know what I'm getting myself into.
>>32600974It's not a meme but it's just a diagnosis and abnormality. You can ignore it and just try and stay focused.
>>32600974>Is ADHD a meme?Yes>What has been your guy's experience with itThey literally do not understand the difference between "can't" and "don't want to". Also they think they're undiscovered prodigies, despite producing 0 work to show it.
>>32600974Not a meme, real disorder, just grossly overdiagnosed due to lazy psychiatry as of late. Real ADHD is your prefrontal cortex of your brain is underdeveloped and abnormal, means it can hold onto dopamine about as well as a geriatric can hold onto piss – so not at all. This causes 24/7 chronic boredom to the point you can’t focus for shit, you suffer non-stop overthinking due to your brain whoring itself for stimulation in thought non stop, causing perpetual fatigue, dissociative states, maladaptive daydreaming, eating up constant energy which means constant fatigue, no restful sleeps, disturbed sleeping patterns, and non-stop forgetfulness and inattention with a flick of impulsivity or hyperactivity when you happen to feel manic or in a good mood.Basically crazy shit happens if your brain can’t regulate dopamine like a healthy-brained individual. And this is non-stop, all the way until childhood until death. That’s real ADHD. Psychiatrists give out the disgnosis like confetti now. If your child happens to be an active child and wants to play all the time? Must be adhd, sell the meds to the parents $$$. You got depression and became ruminative and a bit brainfogged due to a recent trauma? Adhd diagnosis son, $$$ thank you please come again.
>>32600996How do I get a real non-meme diagnosis? I plan on using the psychological clinic on my university with a sliding scale plan (cheapest path I could find). Wouldn't mind coughing up more for a more accurate assesment.I have a lot of the symptoms you just described but on the same hand I'm aware a lot of people say the same shit that most likely don't have ADHD and are just lazy retard, so I might also be one of those afro-mentioned people.
>>32601015If your parents are still alive, you’ll get an accurate assessment. So psychiatrist will interview you for multiple sessions, spanning multiple hours, and then will independently speak with whoever was your caregiver as a kid.
>>32601015Also I will meme diagnosed you right now for a joke. You probably have ADHD (because you type in parenthesis like this to add ‘bonus content’ to your thoughts). Every single person I ever known who did this was adhd as fuck.
>>32600974>Is ADHD a meme?Absolutely. When I realized that ADHD was just a label that I used to excuse my failures, that's when I started to be a better person. Even if it is a brain difference like >>32600996 says, that still isn't an excuse. Addiction is also a brain difference but it's still your behavior that decides how it affects you. It's tough to quit the ADHD drugs and I miss them sometimes, but I'm happier to be rawdogging life and not giving money to some evil pharma company.
It's real, and it's physiological, you literally have brain damage. Your prefrontal cortex didn't develop. There's nothing you can do if you have it, you're cooked. Enjoy dying of heart disease at 45 from stimulant abuse just to function or experience actual hell where you are alone, incompetent, and nobody cares and hates you for it. Anyone saying it isn't real doesn't actually have it.
>>32600974A LOT of it is incorrectly applied by lazy schoolteachers who don't want to cope with normally high-energy kids. But enough people are helped by the relevant meds to indicate that it is a legitimate syndrome
>>32600974>Is ADHD a memeYes, question is why you're doubting something that you already now
ADHD is a catchall term to describe people who cannot fully commit to any one single action without receiving softer forms of stimuli during it. A good example is entering a fast-moving 4chan thread, seeing that it isn't refreshing quickly enough for you, and then opening up fifteen fucking tabs of random shit until you've let 200 posts go unread.We lie to ourselves about multitasking. There's actually no way to consume media while working, or fully appreciate music during a videogame, or have two separate conversations with people. That doesn't mean it's better to become a single-minded person, much less an ascetic hermit, but you have to learn to commit to solitary actions. People who can't focus whatsoever are typically just lacking good sleep, though. That's not an illness, they need a fucking tranquilizer gun to the neck so their body can reset (half-serious here, of course.)
>>32600974If you asked me 1,5 years ago, everyone and me included would say I had ADHDI was hyper constantly, talking to myselfI still am, but I suffered a break up in 2024 and throughout that year, I became quietI was obsessed with the girl and I was no longer obsessed with my lifeEverything was put on pause, and now it's been a year, and if you ask everyone (me included), I don't have ADHDSo make of this what you will. I think it's just a mindset. Everyone can be depressed. Everyone can be hyper. And when your emotionally distracted, while still hyper, that mindset is what we'd call ADHD. Not something worth "curing", just figure out the emotional trauma and the person will be well again.
>>32604093>>32603552Lol see, what did I tell you OP:>>32601241adhd niggas doing that typing style, all of them. its really a sight to be hold (by typing style, I mean this right here, putting extra thoughts in brackets).Every time. Also be careful OP!! Adhds like to deny adhd existence cuz they’re in impostor syndrome mode rn and will doubt their own diagnoses often, lol
>>32604156Holy kek I had no idea about the parenthesis thing, lmfao. I do it all the time (I am this: >>32604093, ironically, here was another paragraph)Fucking kekI also need to stop myself from yapping otherwise I can type books that literally no one will read. I fight against this consciously all the time
>>32604206yeah the adhdisms are hilarious to identify and laugh at in yourself.>Be me>Have a fantastic convo, really engaging one either on instant messaging or voice call>Randomly step away from the device/computer abruptly>Wander into kitchen, brain fogged and just stand there>Get nothing from kitchen>Wander back to device to continue typing/talkingas if that didnt just happen
>>32604156I think we do the parenthesis because we don't keep up with our thoughts and as we write, we realize we need to squeeze something in, and we do it via parenthesis. Sometimes, when it's important how my text reads, I pause and reflect, and I focus on some abstraction that keeps me calm as I rewrite the sentence. The need for the parenthesis goes away. If you know what that is, I would love to know.For example, if I had paused and reflected in the previous post, instead of writing:>Everything was put on pause, and now it's been a year, and if you ask everyone (me included), I don't have ADHDI could've written:>Everything was put on pause and now it's been a year. If you ask everyone, including me, I no longer have ADHDThe latter is much more coherent, because I maintain a coherent train of thought. I reflect over what I write. When I'm ADHD, I don't think. I just let my thoughts run and no one has the patience to deal with that (and why should they when literally I don't have the patience to think in the first place, another impulsive parenthesis, incredible)
>>32604224Lmao
>>32604225Personally, I think it’s our ADHD way to set up verbal defence measures. We said our opinion, and we risk rejection or confrontation, (so now we need to make sure to appease every potential perspective just to be safe).
>>32604234Yeah it could be. I felt a need to take their side in the last paragraph I wrote. I did not need to entertain their POV there with "and why should they"What a fucked up state of mind.I can break it though. I pause. Take a deep breath and think about something that keeps me grounded and calm. Then I start typing, while maintaining that grounded thought. Suddenly, my writing becomes perfectly coherent.I could rewrite this post and it'd seem like ChatGPT, if I did this mental exercise. But if I relax, it immediately becomes jibberish.
>>32604252I fucking love autistic people so much dude. I envy the shit out of them in fact. They are able to concisely express all of the things we want to in usually one simple sentence or two, blunt and straight to the point. I try to imitate autists as much as I can personally
>>32600974ADHD is not a disease, it's a syndrome. A group of symptoms that we gave a special name to. It doesn't have a single cause. What causes ADHD for you isn't necessarily what causes ADHD for someone else. Adderall, Ritalin, etc.. deal with the symptoms but they don't solve the cause of your ADHD. Just like antidepressants don't solve depression.If you want to solve your ADHD, you need to find what's fucking with your attention. Personally, that was my Internet addiction. I was spending so much time scrolling on social media that my dopamine receptors got basically fried. Once I stopped using social media, my attention dramatically improved.
>>32604322pitching in as an autist, I fucking love ADHD people. You mean what you say, you push our non-existant social skills to come out, and you pick up on emotions much faster than we to. I swear ADHD people are a dream for autists. I love you anon, especially if you are my date <3
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>>32604529Literally this. I don't have ADHD myself. But when I spend 6 hours on my phone I start to notice my attention waning. I start to get agitated at YouTube videos that don't get to the point within 3 seconds, I skip around. I open multiple tabs, and half skim articles.It's shit.If I put my phone in a lock box for 3 days I notice my attention span returns to normal.
Nah. ADHD isn't a "meme". Only a mentally ill person would suggest otherwise. >> I just focus on schoolYou probably don't have ADHD then. My wife has ADHD and she can't focus on anything.
>>32604966>I swear ADHD people are a dream for autists.That made me feel nice inside. That’s rare for me to feel from reading text. Thank you anon, your words mean a lot to me and I’m almost never moved by words often. I am married to an autist, and my biggest fear is whether or not I am doing a good job at loving them. I know my adhd causes many issues, especially for someone with autism, so I can sometimes feel like I’m fucking it all up by simply existing. So hearing your autist perspective made me feel better, thank you.
>>32607654I'm happy to hear this and I really mean it. Your spouse and you have a foundation many people do not have, simply because your brains are so similar and you get each other's weaknesses. Clean, direct communication is key and you know they are capable of that. Tism and ADHD are shortcuts to non-bullshit communication. Share your feelings and ask what your spouse would want from you (be it a cake or you doing the laundry while they do something else), and you will hear if something's off.TL;DR: ask if they need something to feel loved by you because you have doubts you're doing a well enough job, they will tell you directly what they need if something's missing.I swear this board and my personal experience with ADHDlers as a femtist repeatedly shows what good of a match we can be.
>>32608366Thanks for the tips. I’m happy to say that’s something we already do, it’s just I forget how important it is. Me and my femautist wife practice this as default lol. I enjoy the adhd x autist relationship dynamic too.Life as an adhd feels like having all the pieces of the puzzle, but always missing the last piece. Something always missing, and we don’t know what and get unfocused and confused all the time. Then I met my autistic wife. And she feels like my missing piece. She makes me feel complete. I also find it astounding too because autism symbol is a single jigsaw piece lol. And my autist wife told me her life felt like being that jigsaw piece, and having no puzzle to fit into, no where to fit in and call home. And we made a home in each other. It just feels so right.
>>32600974https://youtube.com/watch?v=N_JdfJveUiEIf the song lyrics describe what feels like your entire life instead of sounding like just poetic imagery, then you ADHD as fuck cuz the guy who wrote this is adhd and its a song about what adhd feels like.
