#dopamineattentionvariabiltyexecutivedysfunction — Public Fediverse posts

I can't even blame autocomplete! 😆🤣🤣
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For the record, it feels good to be putting things on paper. I constantly forget that life feels more meaningful, intentional, and manageable to me if the things I need and want to do live outside of my head where I can perceive them visually. It helps calm the wild jungle full of scary gibberish that is the inside of my brain.

#ADHD
#DAVE
#DopamineAttentionVariabiltyExecutiveDysfunction
#priotities
#GettingOrganized
#GettingClarity

In other news:

"Oops. Well, I'm glad that wasn't breakable."

--me, daily

#HumanProblems
#ADHD
#DAVE
#DopamineAttentionVariabiltyExecutiveDysfunction
#graceful

I will open this app in order to post something I thought of and then get distracted by all y'all's shiny new posts and forget what I got on here for in the first place, in case anyone was wondering if I like to party

#distractible
#HumanProblems
#adhd
#DAVE
#DopamineAttentionVariabiltyExecutiveDysfunction

RE: https://mstdn.social/@GayDeceiver/116970168941784840

THIS

And also, taking the emotional temperature of an entire room EVERY TIME its occupants change is damn exhausting, y'all.

#neurodivergent
#AdultDiagnosis
#ADHD
#DAVE
#DopamineAttentionVariabiltyExecutiveDysfunction
#empathy
#tired

So, a person who goes chasing dopamine -- somebody like me who has ADHD, for instance -- is a miner for dopamine. A dopaminer.

✳️✳️✳️A dopa-MINER.✳️✳️✳️

#dopamine
#dopaminer
#Dopaminecraft
#ADHD
#DAVE
#DopamineAttentionVariabiltyExecutiveDysfunction

...

13: OAF!

me: I'm not an oaf! you take that back!

13 *can't talk for laughing*

me: how very dare

13 *gasping between laughs*: i was trying to say opoe, but my lip caught on my braces!

Reader, I almost had to pull the car over.

🤣🤣🤣

2/2

#laughter
#teenager
#teen
#7thGraderLife
#ADHD
#DAVE
#DopamineAttentionVariabiltyExecutiveDysfunction
#MotherDaughterConversations
#family
#ILoveThisKid

RE: https://toot.cat/@woozle/116324189191503185

Hi, I'm Courtney. I'm not autistic, but I do have ADHD, which does, at times, trigger neurodivulgence.

Also, I am liking the application of inflectional morphology to DuckDuckGo.

The existence of DuckDuckGo implies not only the existence of DuckDuckWent (as @woozle demonstrates below), but also of DuckDuckHaveGone and DuckDuckWillHaveBeenGoing.

It's completely delightful.

#EnglishLanguage
#grammar
#IHeartLanguage
#ILoveWords
#ADHD
#DAVE
#DopamineAttentionVariabiltyExecutiveDysfunction

"Courtney's house is that stereotypical explosion in a watch factory that somehow produces a watch. But, like, daily."

-- @JoshuaUnruh

He's not wrong about the explosive watch factory part, but I don't think I produce "watches" with anything like daily consistency. 😆

#DailyLife
#ADHD
#DAVE
#DopamineAttentionVariabiltyExecutiveDysfunction
#adulting
#IHaveNoIdeaWhatImDoing

RE: https://mastodon.social/@structuredsucc/116280921374869517

Same.

And what's extra difficult is that while we're following our breadcrumb trail of seemingly random associations, we generally get interrupted every other thought with NTs' messages that we think wrong, we learned wrong, we're just doing it wrong, ad infinitum ad nauseam. It's exhausting.

#ADHD
#DAVE
#DopamineAttentionVariabiltyExecutiveDysfunction
#HyperkineticDisorder

Me, I need subtitles on everything because I have the ADHD and that's how my brain works.

But if Christopher Nolan is purposely turning sound effects up and dialogue volume down "because he likes it that way," then yeah Chris dude, you're doing it wrong.

Why we all need subtitles now:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=VYJtb2YXae8&si=FNrM5Gr9tWzdq1aC

#subtitles
#enunciation
#ADHD
#DAVE
#DopamineAttentionVariabiltyExecutiveDysfunction

me: okay, I need to not forget these fried eggs I just made and actually eat them

me *picks up plate with fried eggs* *walks across kitchen to take meds* *sets plate down*

also me *takes meds and promptly forgets plate of fried eggs exist until three hours later*

Braining while ADHD-brained means this sort of thing happens a lot.

#ADHD
#WheredIPutThat
#BeforeTheMedsKickIn
#RFKCanHaveMyAdderallOverMyDeadBody
#DAVE ✨✨✨
#DopamineAttentionVariabiltyExecutiveDysfunction

#DAVE
#DopamineAttentionVariabiltyExecutiveDysfunction

Signal: We will occasionally ask you for your PIN so that you remember it.

me: ha ha cute of you to assume I remembered it 10 minutes after I set it

#memory
#MemoryProblems
#ADHD
#ADHDBrain
#DAVE
#DopamineAttentionVariabiltyExecutiveDysfunction

tfw you, ADHD mom, want to show ADHD kid the photo of the guinea pig in a "Your prescription" packet (see prev repost) but you know you'll utterly derail kid from homework, so you turn to show your spouse but he's sitting there trying to concentrate on a score study and there's no point in showing the cats the guinea pig bc they won't care about a photo so you sit there boiling with suppressed #ADHD excitement energy that has nowhere to go

#DAVE
#DopamineAttentionVariabiltyExecutiveDysfunction

@mjt I've long felt that the name "Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder" is a label invented by a person who thought people like me were annoying and just not good enough.

So I own it by calling myself a Filthy Chaos Gremlin.

The "label" I prefer comes from Connor De Wolfe:

Dopamine Attention Variability Executive-dysfunction.

Hi, I'm Courtney, and I have ✨🌟 DAVE 🌟✨. 🤘🖖

#ADHD
#DAVE
#DopamineAttentionVariabiltyExecutiveDysfunction
#FilthyChaosGremlin

@jk This thread & all the replies describe my life.

Most of the time, in order to remember to look at the list I've made, I have to put it somewhere it will be a physical obstacle to future me *enough to make future me irritated*.

It now occurs to me that this might somehow be the explanation for the mystery of why I found a pair of my sweatpants in the freezer.

Anyway, yeah, #ADHD is exhausting.

#DAVE
#DopamineAttentionVariabiltyExecutiveDysfunction
#hyperkinetic
#HyperkineticDisorder

...for at least half an hour:

"Nichts. Aber auch gar. Nichts. Die Kätzchen sind verschwunden, Madame sprintet von einer Ecke des Wohnzimmers in die andere, und ich--habe kalte Füsse."

Over and over. I can't remember what came before or what comes after. It's just Roquefort with his cute little German dialogue until my #DAVE brain gets distracted by something else.

2/

#DopamineAttentionVariabiltyExecutiveDysfunction

To Whom It May Concern:

If your individual post is so long that I have to scroll up more than 2x on my phone, that's gonna be a tl;dr from me. My attention span for reading longer pieces on my phone is sketchy at best (hi #DAVE)--and when I'm on here, my brain is looking for the microblogging flavor of dopamine hit. Make me work for it, and my brain skips merrily away.

So what I'm saying is, break up posts & thread 'em. 😘

#DopamineAttentionVariabiltyExecutiveDysfunction
#ADHD

I think most DIY crafts sites don't understand that when I am looking for "simple, easy DIY" anything, I mean something I can do with materials I already have at home in less than 30 minutes. 😆

#diy
#crafts
#CraftingProblems
#DIYproblems
#gardening
#GardeningProblems
#ADHD
#DAVE
#DopamineAttentionVariabiltyExecutiveDysfunction

STATUS: in an entire SEASON of #ADHD #hyperfixation on #WRITING

GOOD! I'm accomplishing oh so very much #wordsmith-ing! Yay!

NOT GOOD! I'm completing ~5% of tasks & other projects that *need* *my* attention!

Also, spouse & offspring are making noises about missing me?😬

Also, I live in the hope that during my literal 6-8 hours of daily butt-in-chair writing, something external will remind me to drink water & eat. 🫤

#DopamineAttentionVariabiltyExecutiveDysfunction
#DAVE
#HyperkineticDisorder

"I don't clean when my house is a mess. I clean when my mind is a mess."

Not sure who said this, but I do know they were describing #ADHD, and they are 100% correct

#DAVE
#DopamineAttentionVariabiltyExecutiveDysfunction

Related:

🎶 Old MacDonald had a farm,
E-I-E-I-O
And on that farm he had a cow,
Sheep, horse, duck, pig, cat,
Heyyyyy Macarena! 🎶

https://godforsaken.website/@pisscotheque/101403740195630744

#DAVE
#DopamineAttentionVariabiltyExecutiveDysfunction
#ADHD

@pisscotheque This is me on #ADHD. 😆🤘🖖

#DAVE
#DopamineAttentionVariabiltyExecutiveDysfunction

..."-gnosia" from "ginosko" = "I know").

So. Hi, I'm Courtney, and I have DAVE-related time agnosia.

#DopamineAttentionVariabiltyExecutiveDysfunction

3/3

@masukomi I don't have this problem on YouTube. I have this problem with opening tabs for Articles That I'm Going To Read Later. I have well over a hundred tabs open just on my phone's browser. 😫

#ADHD
#ADHDprobs
#DAVE
#DopamineAttentionVariabiltyExecutiveDysfunction

I AM NEUROSPARKLY ✨✨✨

#ADHD
#DAVE
#DopamineAttentionVariabiltyExecutiveDysfunction

@samir @mathiasverraes When my #ADHD kid is doing math homework especially, I (also with ADHD!) tell her all the time: "Stand up. Let's get moving so we can think." As the body moves, so the brain moves.

And that's not confined to ADHDers who *can't* sit still!

#DAVE
#DopamineAttentionVariabiltyExecutiveDysfunction

@oatmeal This was me with my #DAVE #ADHD having gone undiagnosed until last year, when I was 46. It has all vastly improved since I got on meds.

Still, when those wear off around 8:30pm every evening, I crash hard -- and am back up, ready to do ALL THE THINGS, 15 minutes later. 🙄

#DopamineAttentionVariabiltyExecutiveDysfunction
#LateDiagnosedADHD

I do genuinely appreciate the confirmation requests and reminder messages from various businesses and medical offices concerning upcoming appointments. These messages provide me with a helpful service and save the other parties money. I get that.

But I really don't need 3 confirmation requests and 7 reminders. I have #ADHD and I don't even need that many!

#DAVE
#DopamineAttentionVariabiltyExecutiveDysfunction
#notifications
#ConfirmationRequests
#reminders
#FirstWorldProblems

I find that folding and putting away the three weeks' worth of couch-mounded laundry really opens up a room.

#housekeeping
#HouseKeepingTips
#HouseSpouse
#ADHD
#DAVE
#DopamineAttentionVariabiltyExecutiveDysfunction
#SparkJoy