I did not realize that ADHD can literally ruin your fucking life. DAMN! Anyone else dealing with a late neurodivergence diagnosis? I always knew that having autism, OCD, and ADHD "sucked" but I had zero idea that it can be an actual nightmare. It really feels my entire life was hopeless no matter what I did.
>>83077615Posted it again awardIs this the power of adhd?
>>83077615Your life can be pretty much good with any disorder except ADHD in my opinion. I am almost positive i have it and it literally prevented me from doing anything meaningful or posititve with my life because i just couldnt focus on or even had the energy to do literally any hobby.And i have a fucking ~135 IQ. SOMEHOW. I can learn things really fast if i just put my mind to it and i'm a master at using computers but thats basically it.Because you literally need a college degree to get literally ANY fucking job these days even as a basic IT guy or technician i was locked out of a normal life from the start just because i can't force myself to sit through hours of literature, humanities and shitty classes that arent related to the degree id be taking whatsoever.
>>83077648>everyone can live a good life except for meAbsolute retard take btw, adhd is on the lower end of "fuck your life up" disorders.Just take your meth and you'll be fine little bro. If you actually had "135 iq" you wouldn't be posting this garbage
welcome to the club, adhd bro
>>83077648Ever considered getting an official diagnosis? I'm currently putting my faith on the right medication saving me. I've had moments where I was actually progressing in something but obviously I just end up losing interest and falling apart again. Based on testimonials I've read it seems like meds can potentially fill in the gaps preventing me from being functional. >>83077668kick me out please
>>83077615it's not all bad, just gotta learn to wiggle your way around ithaving it and letting it define you are two very different things
>>83077615meme tier mental illness
>>83077615I'm getting a diagnosis next week, it feels like I got a thousands things I really want to do but I freeze and bedrot looking at the ceiling instead of putting in the work, I can only cycle like a street rat.
>>83077777https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLdjsSNpknY
>>83077615Not if you're a girl. My sister claims to have it and she's literally a former sorority girl and currently the poster girl for the cheerleading squad at her university. She goes on a date with a new guy like literally every weekend. ADD is even worse, in my opinion, because it doesn't include the extroverted qualities that some ADHD people have.
>>83077837i don't think it matters much for a woman because men are supposed to take the lead in relationships anyway. women have less responsibilities in general, and men have lower requirements from women
>>83077837Well maybe she's just young and hot and it buffered any real damage the ADHD can cause. It's really good combo to have.
>>83077858>Well maybe she's just young and hotShe is. I'm not trying to sound like an incestous faggot. Just the truth. She literally has a rotation of guys that she goes on dates with just to get free food. Not to mention, there was even this simp software engineer at some point who'd pay her hundreds just to simply talk to her. And I don't mean explicitly either. Literally just basic conversations. The parallel between her life and mine is genuinely insane. It's hard to believe we're even related.
>>83077897Well there you go. Her having ADHD is effectively irrelevant to her right now and possibly never if she plays her cards right.
>>83077648When will people here understand that almost all symptoms of any disorder are on a spectrum? How hard it is for you isn't decided by just the condition you have. Plenty of normalfags with careers and flourishing lives diagnosed with ADHD
>>83078053yeah, honestly it's kinda hard to tell how bad the ADHD is after a late diagnosis because now factors like built up bad behaviors and trauma are now in the mix. Like how much of my freakouts are because of the ADHD and not a completely legitimate response to how dogshit my life is? I'm barely like half a year into dealing with this so it's all a new world to me. Now I know why I had that random lady pulled me out of class to give me special lessons for like a month during elementary school....
>>83077648I'm in a pretty similar boat to you except I'm managing to suffer through school, barely. Does make me want to kill myself tho
>>83077663I took a mensa iq test 5 years ago so it might be lower after i got jabbed and had covid twice + extreme social isolation but you get the point>>83077742>Ever considered getting an official diagnosis? Yes, i have, but my parents who pay my health insurance REALLY don't want me to see a psychiatrist. They are terrified for some reason. I think it's because i'd tell them about my upbringing and then my parents would be forced to confront the fact they were extremely bad parents and neglected me growing up >Based on testimonials I've read it seems like meds can potentially fill in the gaps preventing me from being functional.I heard you basically start functioning like a normal person with a healthy amount of motivation but your libido goes to complete shit and you get ED.>>83078053Yeah because they're DIAGNOSED. Those people get diagnosed at like 8 and they are medicated for much of their life so they actually were able to function like a normal person. I'm 20, undiagnosed and i've never visited a psychiatrist for any reason despite obvious symptoms and not to mention me being extremely suicidal, because my parents are retarded 3rd worlders.>>83078503I've decided to drop out of college because i just can't tolerate anymore and i already failed 4 classes. My parents are obsessed with college and are paying for it for me but at the same time discouraged any attempt from me trying to actually get help and get ahead in it, so i'm giving up. Fuck them.
>>83078515You sound basically just like me with slightly worse parents. Good luck anon. The world is cruel out there
>>83077615I'm almost guaranteed to be an autist. Was nearly diagnosed on two seperate occasions as a kid, but my parents refused to go any further because they didn't want to consider the possibility that their son was a sperg. As a result I never really got any special support like the other spergs did, and I think that's probably fucked me over in the long term. It is what it is.
>>83078537Prob just gonna kms or work at a gas station and live with my parents foreverThey aren't that bad i just hate how insensitive they are
>>83078555My mom told me the school refused to screen me because I got good gradesI may have autism, but they're the fuckin retardsNice trips btw>>83078570It hurts to hear that from others but honestly I don't have any better ideas. Sometimes I wonder what I/we did to God to make him subject us to such treatment
>>83078596>Sometimes I wonder what I/we did to God to make him subject us to such treatmentGod as in the jewish, islamic or christian definition isn't real, i'm pretty sure. theres no entity manipulating every aspect of our lives, it's all just random chance.Only we can fix our own lives, some of us just have better circumstances than others.
>>83078515that's valid to factor in but what I mean is that ADHD itself is broad and affects people differently, you can be high or low functioning depending on it https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/adhd-spectrumYes I'm just arguing semantics so you could ignore it
>>83078515>I heard you basically start functioning like a normal person with a healthy amount of motivation but your libido goes to complete shit and you get ED.fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck..... I actually didn't know that. Fuck it, I probably got dead dick from years of porn addiction anyways. If ED is the price for finally being a normal person then I'm taking it. I'm just gonna put my faith in a combination of exercise, good diet, no fap, and potentially having confidence for the first time in my life to avoid ED. I'm running of options dog. >>83078570Anon, I don't know you or your relationship with your parents but this shit isn't something that you can just wave away. ADHD is a literal disability with real consequences that will hinder your life (imagine a one legged man avoiding a prosthetic) and you will probably end up looking into it eventually during your life. With all due respect, you're fucking 20, you're ALLOWED to be a loser right now and if you're anything like me then deep down you know this. I'm 27 right now and if I've had gotten my diagnosis when I was 18 when I first started going to therapy for depression or at the very least 23 when ADHD shutdown one shotted my entire fucking life it would've saved me from so much wasted time and disappointment. From what I'm gathering it seems like you're not completely without hope. You've acknowledged that your capable of actually learning things and you don't seem to actually fully hate your parents so there's something to work with here. Please figure out a way to get a diagnosis even it means kissing your parents ass anon. If you're anything like me then deep down you want more from life. Good luck dude. Also pick up exercise if you haven't already. Even if it's simple cardio.
It did mine. It made me apathic in high school and not care. I could get away with it then since it is easy mode and I didn't have to try. I ended graduating with a 3.5 gpa. College you cannot. I failed the first time around, and my life sucked. It wasn't until I got diagnosed with ADHD that my life took a turn for the better. Fuck all those years wasted being diagnosed with meme diagnoses and being give ssris and mood stabilizers that made me feel worse. All because a therapist and psychiatrist were too lazy to do a proper eval. It wasn't until my first psychiatrist retired, I got the new one hired with a fresh perspective on things and noticed it right away. I asked for a new therapist after he argued with the new psych that it was not ADHD and filed a complaint. The psych prescribed me Ritalin and it fucking changed my life. I wrote all of this in the complaint. All the improvement in everything after years of no improvement. Yet the therapist said I and the psych was wrong, and now apparently I'm a drug seeker. Thankfully my new therapist saw it right away as well. I fucking hate persistent therapists and psychs who keep insisting they are right. They are playing with our fucking lives just fot their own ego. At least now my life has improved since then.
>>83079382as someone who was prescribed ritalin in primary school, fuck ritalin.i was on ritalin from around 1996 - 2000, and i've never been the same since, sure i was a hyperactive nieusence sometimes, but that shit didn't just dull me temporarily, it dulled me permanently. i was also for most of that time on the pre-SR version of it, so i was taken out of class half way through the day to take it, so everyone knew i was on something.i knew something was up when i found some in the kitchen a couple years after i was taken off it, and my parents acted like it an an illegal drug, hurrying me to throw it away. not that i even wanted to use it voluntarily.
>>83077615Nicotine, exercise, healthy diet and proper sleepThat's all you need my dude
>>83077615>AuDHDjust say retarded. you people are retarded. aka slow, aka incompetent. how many fucking acronyms do you need for this shit? are you able to function? no? retard. yes? normal
>>83080167Itis a lifesaver for me. I was on debating on whether to commit suicide or not. That's how bad things were for me.>>83080186>NicotinePoor choice for seld-medication.>exerciseIf that worked I wouldn't need medications. I did this prior to my ADHD diagnosis.>healthy dietSame with exercise.>proper sleepSame.This is no different than normies saying "just be urself XD".
>>83080287Enjoy your meth anon, it will catch up with you eventually
>>83077615I have noticed my low-key schizo thoughts have become a lot more intense over the years and I worry I might actually have to see a doctor about it eventually. Sometimes the ridiculous tangents become so visceral I feel physically ill and I struggle to stop them and return to reality.
>>83080191>SARSjust say sick. you people are sick. aka unwell, aka diseased. how many fucking acronyms do you need for this shit? are you able to function? no? sick. yes? normal
>>83080287>Itis a lifesaver for me. I was on debating on whether to commit suicide or not. That's how bad things were for me.i'm sure it affects people differently. i've heard people well after the fact, normal people, who say ritalin is a /stimulant/, which is just baffling to me, because it sure as /fuck/ didn't feel like one to me.all i can say is be careful. if something seems too good to be true, it isn't. this also applies to seemingly miracle drugs.
>>83080191you think retarded people can't act normal? adhd doesn't mean retarded. sorry to say, but there are people much smarter than you that can't "act normal".
>>83078515huh meth makes you hornier right?
>>83077615ADHD meds don't really work on me. the only thing it really does is make me not want to stuff my face constantly and gives me the motivation to go to the gym. I still suck ass at reading and want to play vidya.
>>83078717I'd say i'm extremely low functioning>>83078778I absolutely won't care if i get ED. My life was completely ruined by doomscrolling and being unable to focus on anything for the last 8 years. I would trade porn and cooming for just being like everyone elseAlso i don't think it's 100% that you get permanent ED or whatever i just was friends with a guy once who was on them and he said he literally can't get hard when he takes his meds so he used to avoid taking them.>you can just wave awayOf course i can't wave it away i just lost motivation for life in general and i'm pretty depressed. I don't really see the point in living anymore when i've completely fucked over my life path for the forseeable future. I'm just... Tired. I used to be a straight-A student who read at a 12th grade level when i was in elementary. Once i wrote an essay in 7th grade so good my teacher accused me of getting my parents to write it for me but somehow i was able to convince her otherwise. Everything went to shit after 8th grade though. Kept all A's and B's because the info was spoonfed to me and i'm a quick learner but i absolutely cannot self-study anything.Im just tired, in general. I'm tired of studying and all that stupid shit. I don't think i hate anything more in the world than studying because of how much stress and sorrow its caused me over the years. I just want to kms to be honest. >>83080439I dont know if adhd meds are exactly the meth you smoke. Dont know much about drugs because i'm a prude about that
>>83080316Don't care if it does, though it is unlikely. I've met people in the support groups who were the same as me, and getting medicated changed their life as well.>>83080372Stimulants act differently for us with ADHD. It works great and my brain is finally quiet. I can actually sit down and actually study without being so easily distracted. I can finally pay attention to lectures and understand what the professor is saying. I can finally read and not have to read the same paragraph 10 times for my brain to finally absorb it. I'm actually passing my classes.I'd take it any day now. I wish I knew about this sooner so I didn't waste a major amount of my life. I wish anyone who says it doesn't exist would live like I had to being misdiagnosed and being put on major medications with no improvements and negative side effects. They'd love to get gaslighted like I did.
>>83080508if it works for you, then i'm glad for you. it turned me into a zombie. all i'm saying is be mindful of what effect it has, and that such effects may not be as temporary as you think.i was really young when i was put on it, and i didn't have a choice, so i naturally can't say what i'd be like if i didn't take it. maybe things would be even worse if i didn't. i can't really imagine it, but i suppose i haven't killed myself, so there's that.
