Chris has ADHD

British guy with (at least) #ADHD/#TDAH, living in London. For now.
He/him

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@ND_Anka This sounds like me? If there are metaphorical sirens I'm leaping into action whether it's warranted or not; when there are no sirens, I'm just drifting around not paying attention to much.

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@ADDeeCee He was maybe right, but the important thing is what you do with your judgement. I will judge anyone out drunk at 2am on a Tuesday morning, but I will keep that judgement to myself. Unfortunately, when I judge myself, keeping it to myself doesn't help! 😞

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@ElizaBeaHD I wonder what these people would say if their job was to literally count sheep. "There are so many sheep to count, how can I be sleepy!"

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@danidonovan I can come up with ten different ways of doing something whether you want them or not, and then never choose which one to go with,

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I have three very important things to deal with in my life and have mental and emotional bandwidth for maybe a quarter of one of them. This is gonna be hard.

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@evan_just_evan Like in French (and others) where the person's father is always 'his father' because father is masculine. Like, you'd say 'please meet my girlfriend and his father' or something

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@evan_just_evan I've never really been super clear on why we need to use gendered pronouns at all. Also, it's probably a vastly different conversation in languages where possessive pronouns are gendered by the item being possessed.

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@evan_just_evan No. Hopefully someday the shops will learn to stop wasting paper unless someone asks for the receipt. And if you have a loyalty card it can just be emailed directly to you (or available on the app or whatever)

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@Finnattentive @ADDeeCee 😬

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@ADDeeCee @Finnattentive I very much do this. But this doesn't feel like ADHD to me. Is it an 'everyone' thing or a 'some aspect of my ND-ness I'm not yet aware of' thing? 🤔

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@AlisaADHD @ADHDelaide @gerogerigegegf I made it about 20% of the way through the first one because I didn't like the colours I picked and didn't try again. Maybe a paint by numbers one would be better, but then again maybe I'd make a mistake and use the wrong number and hate it.

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@Neurosapp @AskADHD Who am I? Like, *really*, when you strip away all the negative conditioning from my life, who *am* I?

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@coachcamg I'm still in the learning skills stage but goodness do I wish I could get on with the mental deprogramming.

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@coachcamg It's about so much more than taking pills. And it's still about *so much more* than acquiring skills. It's about unlearning a lifetime of criticism which has been internalised as "objective truth" - I'm lazy, I'm flaky, I can't just *do* things - and coming out the other side.

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#AskADHD #neurodiversesquad Questions for the ND perfectionists out there ... how do you get past the blocks of 1) What I create will be imperfect and worse than what I have in my head so as long as I don't start I haven't fucked it up yet or 2) I might want to //

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@GeraintWorks @AskADHD I'm hoping that a combination of therapy, introspection, mindfulness etc can help me tell the difference and understand which I'm feeling at any given time.

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@bdtdah @AskADHD Besides "oh sorry didn't realise it's been three weeks since you messaged me in my mind it was ten minutes ago"?

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@DailyAub Fred & George were clearly ADHD. And probably would be the ones to make the stimulant meds to be honest.

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@GhoulishlyRaven @AskADHD I remember the psychiatrist talking to me about a lot of other things, like comorbidities such as depression etc, but not with a form or anything