I’ve never really understood the whole ADHD thing. They never spoke about it when I was a kid, and I’m skeptical about it now. Probably me just being an old codger.
But something that happens all the damn time is during my driving. I listen to an audiobook for any journey but I end up relistening to the same part constantly rewinding because I get distracted either just in my own thoughts or to what is happening around me. And this meme depicts exactly that. Interesting.
But something that happens all the damn time is during my driving. I listen to an audiobook for any journey but I end up relistening to the same part constantly rewinding because I get distracted either just in my own thoughts or to what is happening around me
That’s ADHD. Ok, not literally, and I’m not saying you have it, but that’s one of the behaviors most of us will exhibit. When driving your attention is split between many tasks (speed control via 2 different and opposing control methods, steering, traffic, etc.) so it’s perfectly understandable for your brain to do that. When you re-listen to catch what you missed your brain is auto-skipping the part it remembers, but because it’s also busy with a ton of other shit it misses when to engage listening again. ADHD is that all the time even if you’re sitting alone in a room.
If that’s your only one, or one of few, you’re a normal person with quirks and flaws, all good! Basically every mental disorder is doing a normal thing too much/too little/in a weird way, it’s the part where it becomes constant or often enough to cause distress in life where it becomes bad
Essentially: if you scroll this community and half or more of the memes hit home, talk to your doctor. If less than half, you’re probably normal (and by that I obviously mean broken but differently)
ADHD is like autism. It’s a new diagnosis, but people have likely had the symptoms for centuries. It just didn’t have a name until now. This will keep happening as more and more is learned about the brain.
If sounds like you might have ADHD. Whether or not you want to get treated depends upon how badly it affects your life. Personally, my symptoms interfere with my long-term planning, and that has made my life much worse.
That used to happen to me. I found I could only listen to audio books if I was doing something else to use up some extra “processing resources.”
I would describe it to other people as an overloaded circuit. If I applied all my brain power at the book, it would overload and shutoff.
If I was doing some tedious task that required some attention, but not too much, I could divert some of that excess energy away without overloading it. So for me that was, stocking shelves at work, doing the dishes, folding laundry, etc.
Driving wasn’t enough so I couldn’t listen to the book. (Though, later, I did train myself to and now I can do it fine)
I’ve never really understood the whole ADHD thing. They never spoke about it when I was a kid, and I’m skeptical about it now. Probably me just being an old codger.
But something that happens all the damn time is during my driving. I listen to an audiobook for any journey but I end up relistening to the same part constantly rewinding because I get distracted either just in my own thoughts or to what is happening around me. And this meme depicts exactly that. Interesting.
That’s ADHD. Ok, not literally, and I’m not saying you have it, but that’s one of the behaviors most of us will exhibit. When driving your attention is split between many tasks (speed control via 2 different and opposing control methods, steering, traffic, etc.) so it’s perfectly understandable for your brain to do that. When you re-listen to catch what you missed your brain is auto-skipping the part it remembers, but because it’s also busy with a ton of other shit it misses when to engage listening again. ADHD is that all the time even if you’re sitting alone in a room.
If that’s your only one, or one of few, you’re a normal person with quirks and flaws, all good! Basically every mental disorder is doing a normal thing too much/too little/in a weird way, it’s the part where it becomes constant or often enough to cause distress in life where it becomes bad
Essentially: if you scroll this community and half or more of the memes hit home, talk to your doctor. If less than half, you’re probably normal (and by that I obviously mean broken but differently)
Thank you for this insight. I’ll be more aware if this in the future.
ADHD is like autism. It’s a new diagnosis, but people have likely had the symptoms for centuries. It just didn’t have a name until now. This will keep happening as more and more is learned about the brain.
If sounds like you might have ADHD. Whether or not you want to get treated depends upon how badly it affects your life. Personally, my symptoms interfere with my long-term planning, and that has made my life much worse.
I didn’t have a clue just how badly it was affecting my life because, well, I have ADHD.
That used to happen to me. I found I could only listen to audio books if I was doing something else to use up some extra “processing resources.”
I would describe it to other people as an overloaded circuit. If I applied all my brain power at the book, it would overload and shutoff.
If I was doing some tedious task that required some attention, but not too much, I could divert some of that excess energy away without overloading it. So for me that was, stocking shelves at work, doing the dishes, folding laundry, etc.
Driving wasn’t enough so I couldn’t listen to the book. (Though, later, I did train myself to and now I can do it fine)