Let’s be honest here the person who keeps reporting me to work for every little thing I post seems a very obsessed with me and it’s very stalker-ish and VERY creepy! And as soon as I find out who it is, I will be reporting them for stalking/harassment. 👍🏻
People think ADHD means you’re always hyperactive. They don’t see the moments when your brain completely locks you out of your own body. A thread on the Dopamine Debt and the invisible wall of ADHD burnout.
Yesterday, I stared at a basket of clean laundry for two hours. I wasn't lazy. I wanted to fold it. My brain just refused to send the signal to my hands to pick up a shirt. When you have ADHD, your brain runs on dopamine. When you're burned out, your dopamine bank is completely bankrupt.
This is where the Invisible Wall happens. To the outside world, you're sitting on the couch scrolling on your phone, looking relaxed. On the inside, your brain is screaming at you to get up, a wave of guilt is washing over you, and you are trapped in a state of mental paralysis. It takes ten times more energy to fight your own brain than it does to actually do the task.
If you are in this phase, stop trying to climb the wall. The wall wins when you’re tired. Give yourself permission to do things poorly. Don't fold the laundry? Just live out of the basket. Can't cook? Eat a slice of cheese and some crackers. Survival mode means lowering the bar until your brain finally decides to come back online.
For neurodivergent people, a 4 PM appointment doesn't take up an hour. It takes up the entire day.
From 9 AM onward, you are in "Waiting Mode." You can't start a hobby, you can't relax, and you can't do chores because your brain views the upcoming social event as a looming system update that requires 100% of your background processing power.
You spend the whole day paralyzed just preparing to look normal for 60 minutes.
Well, rather sad to say, I don’t think it’ll just be five Police Officers leaving based on my DMs… 👀
Firearms permits handed in, driving tickets given up, and Tasers handed back in too. 😮
This is all avoidable, but Police Officers are truly losing faith. 🤦🏼♂️
#ThinBlueLine 🚨
Let’s be honest here the person who keeps reporting me to work for every little thing I post seems a very obsessed with me and it’s very stalker-ish and VERY creepy! And as soon as I find out who it is, I will be reporting them for stalking/harassment. 👍🏻
Please help if you can. Finch HQ Small Bird Rescue is in financial difficulty due to the cost of living and have a massive rescue undertaking coming up soon.
https://t.co/DSKows39c5
@DrAmirKhanGP@birdhism@ChickyThoughts@JamesMelville please share. 🥰💜
I work 9-5 in an office. Shops open from 9-5. Appointments run from 9-5. Banks close at 4 pm. Everyone is only available when I'm not. I can't go to your shop, the bank, or book anything without taking time off work. Why did we design society like this?
“Fidget toys are ridiculous. ADHD and autism didn’t exist back in my day.”
Oh yeah? That’s because we had:
- clicking pens
- chewing pencils
- speaking into fans
- peeling Elmers off our hands
- rubbing that broken shirt seam
- drawing the cool S
- bouncy balls in all sizes
- slap bracelets
- rubber bands
This is sensory seeking and self-regulation, before it was commercialized.
The Millennial Angry Daughter Pipeline
1. Be born between 1981–1996
2. Get called “too sensitive” growing up
3. Learn to suppress your emotions
4. Become hyper-aware of everyone else’s moods
5. Mistake survival mode for maturity
6. Become emotionally independent too early
7. Become a mother
8. Suddenly understand your younger self
9. Break down trying not to repeat the cycle
10. Start grieving the love you needed too
11. Reparent yourself in real time
12. Become softer without becoming weak
13. …add yours 🫶🏼
Hey @RoyalMail how come is it that I post something signed for and a week later it’s still not arrived? And also your app won’t allow me to track it through the system? I’m now out of pocket for the item presumably being lost at this point! 🤬
I did not come up with this, I stole it from the internet but it doesn’t make it any less true.
ADHD is only motivated by 5 things:
- urgency
- challenge
- novelty and play
- interest
- being a contrarian little bitch
The amount of things that I do strictly out of spite should be studied 😅
“AND YOU STILL DARE TO OPEN YOUR MOUTH…”
Sasha Legerman: This is too accurate not to share.
This Australian’s response to Trump’s rant that “NATO does nothing for America” is absolutely devastating:
“Mate. You run a country where 600,000 homeless people will sleep on the streets tonight.
A country where 40% of adults can’t cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money.
A country where insulin costs more than a car payment, and people ration it just to stay alive.
A country where medical debt is the number one cause of bankruptcy.
A country where women die in hospital parking lots because doctors are too afraid of abortion laws to treat miscarriages.
You imprison more of your own citizens than any country on Earth.
More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea.
In the land of the free, 2 million people sit in cages, and a quarter of them haven’t even been convicted of anything.
They’re simply too poor to afford bail.
Your life expectancy is declining. You’re the only developed nation where that’s happening.
Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba’s.
Your children practice active shooter drills between math and English classes while you sell defense stocks to your friends.
Your minimum wage hasn’t changed in 15 years.
Your teachers work two jobs, your veterans sleep under bridges, and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that never attacked you.
And now a convicted criminal — found liable for sexual abuse, defending a pedophile, sleeping with a porn star, and running the biggest dumpster-fire campaign since the Taliban — is thanking you for yet another disaster.
And you call Greenland badly governed?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world.
Nobody there goes bankrupt because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because insurance refused treatment.
‘NATO wasn’t there when we needed them.’
When exactly was that, champ?
September 11?
Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU.
Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU.
Australia wasn’t even in NATO, and we still showed up. For twenty years.
And then you left at 2 a.m. without telling anyone and left everybody else to clean up the mess.
You don’t care that a great nation is being terrorized by your friend, and you haven’t shown it a single ounce of sympathy.
So maybe before calling other countries badly governed, take a look at your own backyard, you aluminum siding salesman with a spray tan.
The only thing badly managed in this picture is your damn mouth.
And you still dare to lecture the rest of the world?”
apparently three days is the standard ADHD crash period after any big life event. finish a semester? crash. amazing vacation? crash the moment you get home. doesn’t matter how high functioning you are.
so stop shaming yourself on day two.
three days is best case scenario.
Scientists confirm that adults with unmedicated ADHD often develop anxiety as a compensatory activation mechanism. The body learns that worry produces the chemistry the brain needs to start. The strategy works for decades. The cost is a body running on cortisol that was never meant to be a primary fuel.