Charadhdes
Some people here should take a look at the sticky post in this community…
A painful amount.
This is like…a normal thing that everyone goes through though.
I’m noticing a very common trend for this sub…posting about very normal, common, everyday things that people go through and just blaming it on ADHD.
Other extremely common things that normal people go through:
- “Lost glasses” by holding them.
- Walk in a room and forgot what you were looking for.
- Opening fridge wanting something specific to eat, and immediately not wanting that thing afterwards.
- Trying to fix something, but get distracted by having to fix something else before I fix said thing.
- Stopping a chore, because another chore should be finished first…and then starting yet another chore because that should be finished first (i.e. wanting to clean room, decide to change bed in the middle of it, realize that you have no sheets, so go do laundry, etc down the rabbit hole).
- Going to the store for specific thing, leave with 12 things that are not that thing. Realize when you get home.
- Saying you have to go, but starting up another conversation with friend numerous times.
- Start chore, think you can do it more efficiently, check internet, realize you spent about an hour on the phone. And have yet to actually research said thing.
- Say you’re going to bed at a reasonable time, and then realize it’s 2am like 5 minutes later.
Like… literally everyone does something like this. Especially when your tired. I bet like half the people here are just chronically tired and don’t even realize it.
Rule 1.
Whether it’s ADHD or chronic fatigue, the same stims will fix it.
That may be bad because if the treatment works, people assume the diagnosis is correct.
I describe ADHD as a purely executive disorder that harms your progress/goals. Which is why I agree with your statement as all those claims don’t really harm an overarching goal.
People with ADHD do things like frequently forget their driver’s license or frequently forgetting their office key card. It affects their day to day lives in more noticeable ways than just “whoops I put my thing in the pile of clothes, now ive lost it”
In many cases like this, it’s the frequency these things happen. Once in a while is normal. Every single moment isn’t.
What’s kind of lost in your sentiment, but it’s nonetheless necessary to understand, is that ADHD experiences exist on a spectrum, as do normative ones. We are the ones who draw the boxes around biology and decide that “five times a week is normal but six is not.”
The key part of ADHD that makes it distinct is the final D(isorder). Disorder means it’s a behavior or tendency that’s causing disruption or otherwise preventing you from living in a way that makes you feel safe, whole, or stable. It brings disorder instead of order.
So while I agree that frequency can point to ADHD, my SO experiences this particular phenomenon about as much as I do, and I have high confidence that they do not have ADHD. Sometimes, it’s just a common human experience.
I dunno bro/broette — you should talk to the other people in your life about how often they experience the last few on your list. You may find you’re one of us.
“Peeing is normal too, but if you’re doing it 27 times a day there’s a problem”
So, I always thought this was more a autism thing
Pretty sure this isn’t ADHD. I’m kind of tired of all this “ADHD is” posts that are just straight up unrelated behaviors.
Now, I play this game if charades but so does like … Everyone … Pretty sure we don’t all have ADHD.
And I’m tired of comments like yours that blatantly ignore the sticky and rule 1.
But here we are.
I have ADHD and SO doesn’t. We both initiate this “game” and with about equal frequency.
Sometimes you just don’t word good.
And you have a crystal clear mental image of your intent, but there is absolutely no other way to describe but “you know, the thing that does the somewhat tangential word that still isn’t right… the thing!! Y u no understand!?!”
Ah, but watch out for the surprise single player edition where I get annoyed with my dialogue partner having the audacity trying to guess what I wanted to say.
It’s like I always forget what I’m going to say when I walk through… Uh… Those things you have to move aside if you want to enter a room? Fuck! What are they called?
Bellhops.
They can get lost in their thoughts sometimes, but usually they are very helpful.
This happens to me a lot, I didn’t know it was a symptom of adhd.
I’ve always had this where I “know” what I want to say but the right words aren’t there, or I’ll be thinking multiple words to articulate the thought and mash them together. Is that the same thing?
I also change topics a lot and then jump back, which my brother hates, but it’s how I naturally follow trains of thought.
I don’t think it is a symptom.
I seems to have that to. Also not knowing it was adhd… sounds possible
Every fucking day multiple words and concepts a day. Sometimes only days later the word comes back and then “fuck that’s what I wanted to say” and keep repeating the word for hours in hopes of not forgetting again.
That’s not ADHD, that’s early-onset Alzheimer’s.
And they don’t get it right but want to move on with the conversation. Now you don’t hear anything they say, just trying to remember the word. You try to force yourself to listen but you can’t stop your brain from going through every word you know.
Two hours later you yell out “effervescent”. You’re overcome with relief only to realize the other person is one and now you’re in a work meeting.
My wife wants to play this stupid-ass game all the time, I hate it. It would not be too bad if the gesticulation and words trying to hint at it made sense…but It’s just her waving her arms like she’s having a seizure while mumbling nonsensically, and her getting annoyed at me becauae she doesn’t make any fucking sense.
Maybe you just aren’t good at the game. Have you thought about taking a remedial adhd charades class to get better at it?
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