Just let me fire this pistol right next to my goddamn ear real quick.
this post was submitted on 15 May 2025
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My first thought too.
Meanwhile neurotypical people:
Lol I can't even find my firearm. I know it's around here somewhere. Somewhere really stupidly obvious. I just set it down like two seconds ago. 🤔
BANG
Found it!
Months later you remember that it's in the gun safe in a drawer you don't use.
Just have to find the key now...
And pray you don't move out and forget it (i lost a fairly nice set of silverware doing that)
You will force me to implement an inventory system by doing that >:(
Probably better at this point to pick up a new hobby like lock picking/bypassing to be able to open it up and once you get the tools for the job and learn the basics. Wait why did we bother learning to lock? Probably was just for fun. Then you can abandon the hobby, lose the tools and eventually maybe you'll realize you haven't seen your gun in a long time. Wherever could it be?
Looks like you need to buy more
Did you check the back pocket of your pants that have been through the washer and dryer 3 times already because you forgot to hang them properly and they got wrinkly and you didn't feel like ironing them?
Yeah, you're the guy on the left, for a few months... Then it becomes normal, and then you up your dosage, until you hit 70mg of Vyvanse daily, and need to take drug holidays just so they work well enough, not to look like the guy on the right.
Drug holidays sound fun until you realize what it actually is.
When did we stop calling them tolerance breaks?
I can't tolerate not calling them drug holidays.
I get by on never taking my meds on my days off. It works pretty well for me. I'm aware I might be one of the lucky ones.
How many years have you been taking it?
4!
So true lmao.
One thing I do appreciate as something of an upside to ADHD unmedicated is just how able I am to spring into action when shit hits the fan.
Like, I could be nearly crying because I can't get up to do laundry for 3 days or because wiping down the kitchen stove is unstimulating and hasn't been done in months.
Buuutut... if I overslept for work and now am late for a meeting with my boss and the rest of the team where I'm presenting and prepared nothing?
You'll be damn sure I have the best presentation they ever seen even though I don't know what it's about.
As a kid I once got kicked out of Literature class because the school didn't want me to drop the averages and because all I ever did was play temple run, make beats and text on Skype during lessons. At the end of the year, they told me to go take the exam anyway for some reason. So I did. Got the highest grade in class too and was praised by the very teacher who kicked me out, he personally praised me for a deep understanding of books I never actually read in full.
I once did this during an end of term Spanish competition. I was a D student all term long, but at the end of it one girl jokingly proposed. I was a rock star.
Been chasing that dragon for the last two decades.
Lol, I hadn't thought about it, but that probably why I was able to get all of the people and dogs out of my residence in less than two minutes after the earthquake a couple weeks ago. Everything is fine, we barely felt it, but it was close enough to worry about aftershocks.
I didn't get diagnosed until I was in my early 60's. I was so used to masking and using my bag of tricks that meds totally fucked my life up.
Had to stop after about 6 weeks of hell.
Sometimes I wish I'd been born later or born a boy cause either of those could/would have helped a lot.
I think girls and women are often overlooked and failed by the system when it comes to ADHD and Autism. Girls and women are taught by society to fit in and not rock the boat. I think that's why they're better at masking; it's a social necessity. That and the very different neurochemical makeups across the gender spectrum. Because these disorders continue to be viewed through the erroneous paradigm of 'How well does this child fit in? How well do they perform in a classroom?' -- something which is evident in the very name of ADHD -- boys and men are more likely to get caught by the system early on. Girls and women are often failed by it.
Whatever works, it's not the fancy coz we want to be fancy, it's a survival necessity/tactic
Funny meme, sure.
But meds don't solve all problems and make you neurotypical or something.
(To a certain degree I think that's a good thing. I don't want to be boring.)
The implication is that on meds they're super-focused and goal-oriented. Without they're having fun and trying new ideas. Neither is good or bad, right or wrong. Rings true for me.
Meds aren't going to make anyone neurotypical -- they just help them harness their awesomely chaotic mind so they can do something more productive with it.
@FQQD@lemmy.ohaa.xyz :3
this is how we do 🔥
And here I am 30 years after my diagnosis and have never been on meds. I did do 2 to 3 years of neurofeedback training though.