ADD/ADHD feels

>>35446240
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>>35446240
it's hard to tell for sure; most of my symptoms are contraindicted with ADHD, autism, sluggish cognitive tempo, and maladaptive daydreaming

>have to go over lines multiple times
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>constantly need to tell people to repeat themselves
I feel for you on this one bro. It's like the words spoken by people sometimes just sound like noise; if I can't subconsciously figure out what someone said by the third time I pretend I understood what they said (this makes me feel like I'm lying to people - and that increases the distance of intimacy between us)

for stimulating activites (or any of my special interests, or sometimes a particular thought stream) however (such as gaymen and movies), I tend to hyperfocus rather than lose attention

for anything that isn't stimulating though, or things that I find boring, I end up constantly switching between doing the task and daydreaming. it's almost as if (like a coping mechanism) my brain comes up with creative ideas and daydreams that are somehow much more interesting and important than what I'm trying to do, and inevitably preempt it

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>>35446240
>Try to talk to people on discord but keep getting distracted by my phone, a game, a movie im watching, and homework.
>end up doing none of the above effectively


>click on a youtube video
>while it's playing browse r9k, look at discord, scroll through porn
>realize i didn't watch the video and start it over again
>repeat this about 5 more times


>trying to talk to people irl
>keep getting distracted by phone, by whatevers behind them, or by thinking about what im gonna say next.
>realize i have no idea what anything they said was despite "hearing" it

I'd been living with it for about 20 years before officially being diagnosed ADD/ADHD. My psych asked if i wanted to continue managing how i have been and I've gone with that route. But now it feels like knowing i have it has just made it worse.

>>35446240
>>can't read an entire novel, often need to go over lines multiple times
>>can't have an uninterrupted game session longer than 20 minutes
>>constantly need to tell people to repeat themselves
>>need to watch certain movies more than once to understand story
>>constant impulse to go outside to a store
you needed to say you're not alone, friend

>>35447413
i needed*
fucking adhd....

I think the internet is just killing our attention spans. It's probably in my shitty diet and excessive energy drink/coffee consumption.

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OP here. Even reading these responses are a struggle,

fuck.