• @[email protected]
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    141 year ago

    I think you might be lost. And, just for clarity we all have moments but ADHD is about this happening constantly.

    • @PurplebeanZ
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      -51 year ago

      Why am I lost? And yes the particular scenario in this post is a regular occurrence. No matter how much time I have I will always put things off until the point where if I don’t do it now I won’t have time. Then I’ll try and start it but the up doing something more interesting and thinking of excuses to get away with not finishing what I was supposed to. It’s always something easy too and when I finally do it I tell myself that’s next time I’ll keep on top of it but never do.

        • @PurplebeanZ
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          -31 year ago

          No, I’ve just always thought that I am a bit lazy or self absorbed and only want to do the fun things. I do give through periods where I make an effort to correct it but it never sticks.

          • @[email protected]
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            131 year ago

            It sounds like trolling because it’s so typical of those of us with late diagnoses. We also believed this about ourselves prior to getting evaluated.

            • @PurplebeanZ
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              11 year ago

              Definitely not trolling no. My comments are genuinely how I am but I don’t think that because I put things off until the last minute that it’s anything out of the ordinary. I am actually now a bit curious because more than one person is saying the same thing but I’m not going to self diagnose based on comments on the internet.

              • @[email protected]
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                The thing that makes people with ADHD think they don’t have ADHD is the “hyperactive” part. Not everyone with adhd is actually hyperactive, but if you find be yourself unable to muster the motivation to do things you know you’re supposed to do, but the ability to hyper focus on things you want to do, that’s incredibly characteristic of ADHD.

                • @dai
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                  31 year ago

                  Me not emailing my negative UDS and EKG results to my psych until the day of my diagnosis.

                  Instead for that week I was procrastinating, trying to unspaghetti my NixOS installation, installing a PS2 emulator to play a title that dankpods reminded me of.

                  I’d been beating myself up over this shit for years, people in my life too just thinking I’m lazy and disorganised. Only took me until 36 to get a diagnosis 🤘 Happy I did.

            • @PurplebeanZ
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              -31 year ago

              I am genuinely not trolling although I have no way of proving it.

              • @TrousersMcPants
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                141 year ago

                If you’re not trolling you just perfectly described what it’s like to be in denial about having ADHD

                • @[email protected]
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                  131 year ago

                  He sounds like one of those conservative men who talks about resisting ‘temptation’ and genuinely doesn’t realise that straight men just aren’t interested in boning other men in the first place. It’s the same energy.

                  • @PurplebeanZ
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                    41 year ago

                    Sorry I don’t mean to come across like that. I just always assumed these types of posts were like Horoscopes and designed to contain elements so the majority of people reading it would go ‘oh wow that describes me’. Reading the responses I’m realising that this assumption may well be completely wrong and I should re-evaluate.

          • @breakingcups
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            71 year ago

            If you live somewhere with sane health insurance, consider a small conversation with your doctor to rule it out. You might consider yourself normal because it’s all you’ve ever known.

            • @PurplebeanZ
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              21 year ago

              In the UK so no insurance to worry about. I’m actually considering it based on the consistency of the responses from multiple people.