Reacting to Our Discord Community's Favorite ADHD Memes! 

Your story just warmed my heart

You look under 81 years old you look 27 at the most and this is a complement. Dale buck

At 55 years old my co-worker pointed out that I have ADHD. It really is great to know I'm not alone🖤

❤ Thank you for sharing this. I’m 66 and I think I have quite a few ADHD tendencies! What you said gives me hope that I can figure out how to navigate this dance and thrive.

..if you were 8o + AD/HD , you'd tell such another story, my girl. U may be a lot autistik too :D

MOOD

lol

Same!

I resemble that remark!

Yes! Same!😂

My wife thinks my 60 or 70 browser tabs are amusing. Enjoys seeing how my brain moved along

30? Rookie numbers 😂

​@@waffles3629 Seriously. My phone gave up on giving me the count ages ago.

@@pamelaj.betz-baron2420 yep, now it just smiles at me :D

​@@pamelaj.betz-baron2420 I just keep downloading new Internet browsers as each one starts freezing from having too many tabs open

FOR REAL.

Saw this video while being caught in this exact loop lol. Kept trying to find a good one to end on before I go to the store and I'm writing this comment to get even further from the loop. To the store I go! 🙂

Huh... Maybe I shouldn't read just one more comment, thanks 😅

I call this "onemorethingitis"...

Before I was diagnosed, my favourite expressions were: NOW, not now, MORE, NEW, and next. Also: My ears don’t hear as fast as your mouth speaks. But never: mornings?!?!

Thank you for the comment. I love Twin Peaks and Kyle ❤

I think this is another ADHD superpower; we retain some of the best facts in our heads. Rarely the most useful, but if you ever need to know why an actor looks familiar and as a bonus who they played in A Game of Thrones, there's a person with ADHD who can tell you.

@Merciful_Angel My daughter & son in law (both adhd-ers) have that superpower! I also have adhd and don't have that power, so I'm glad they're available. When it's before their time, my portable library (aka phone) is great! I rarely forget a face, even if it's been 40+ years, and yet, struggle with the names. Same with musicians from my youth, I remember the songs, but unless I had the album, I don't remember who performed it.

Love that you supplied your super power, and I agree: Kyle MacLachlan is so fine. I've loved him since Blue Velvet.

Totally agree! Actually there is another great positive thing in being ADHD: It's a sure way to get in JEOPARDY! I finally found a way for my crazy recall of obscure facts to actually make money! And I got to play with Alex ❤️🥲

“I want to fix the grammar on this. It should be ‘Doing the thing that helps me not forget…’”

I related hardcore to that one.

Seconded. Also, what happens next? Does the guy turn around and deck the bear?

@@Citielightme:this doesn’t make sense. Pause to verify it is in fact incorrect. Correct it in my mind and then realize she came up with a better correction😂.

It makes more sense when you look more at the bear and my self awareness goes down because I say it's fake in my head

I'm both rats

@@abhiswarakumbhare5468 Same.

The rat version of Pinky and the Brain.

A field of cats was one of my favourite ones

Based rats

Love it, thanks for keeping us laughing!

@@brendashope1558 You’re welcome! :) I have a bunch of ADHD quotes that I wrote and put on t-shirts just for myself. I had no idea that anyone else would relate to those quotes. Kinda funny how if I said those types of quotes out loud to someone, they’d think I was crazy. But when I put the quotes on a shirts, people are like “Brilliant!” Lol.

I like your second quote! Do you have a online shop? I would like a mug with it 😀

Ohhhh so it is!!! Yay!

🤔🤔 the more one knows?

@@HowtoADHD yess!! its also autism awareness and acceptence month :D

im thinking ill wear my pins more often but im also afraid of judgement so idkkkk

Wait, what that’s a thing? Tell me more.

see if your oven has "cook time" This is a timer that will literally turn off your oven. It is a quite literal lifesaver since otherwise I might burn down my house. I also set the timer on my phone for a few minutes after that goes off because it usually jingles and makes little song noises for about 2 minutes. I literally have the top of my stove covered and my dials covered because I kept bumping into them with things and melted numerous items so I got a glass top stove covered it with heat resistant bakery boards and then silicone on top of those. I have instapots I use for almost everything because it has timers on it. I have a rice cooker that I plug into a timer so it'll turn off at 20 minutes because I haven't found a good one with a turn off timer which is what I would love. If we're having a large meal and I need to cook something that I absolutely have to use the top of my stove we remove the boards and I put a extra wide masking tape roll on my wrists like a bangle bracelet then I write on it What time it has to come out.

I use the vibrating alarm on the fitness tracker/smartwatch for that. :-)

Honestly, as someone who is desperately trying to move into a smaller apartment than my current one, I feel this. Tonight I'm on my own in my boyfriend's tiny studio and I feel so much calmer and more capable of existing comfortably with the much smaller living space

@@aoibhinquinn7310 A friend (in her 50's) and I (60's), though half a continent apart, are just now "discovering our brains" together, she in her new tiny house, me in my tiny RV with no engine. We're both writers of a sort and I've been considering exploring this idea enough to consider it for some kind of literary project, so I appreciate your input, and anything more, if so inclined. The change has taken a long time, but a primary benefit has been that of far fewer stress related, unconstructive behaviors. The very first step for me was to fill small boxes with items for the homeless shelter and local charity shop, emphasis on "small". Making it many minor successes, the boxes removed from my space and delivered promptly, was key.

A high proportion of folks living in canal boats are neurodivergent... Me for one 😉 ...takes one to know one, as it is said... I see is everywhere on the canal

@@amandachapman4708 Canal Boat! Where do you live on a canal boat? I'm a huge fan of the t.v. show Detectorists, in which one of the secondary characters lives on a canal boat. Cool. I want a canal boat.

@@amandachapman4708 I too would LOVE a canal boat. I fear they are a mostly European/UK thing though as I've not seen them in the USA sadly. Good on you for living the dream!

It CAN be. It's not always so clean cut :) But it is a very common ADHD experience!

@@HowtoADHD You know, I've never been officially diagnozed with ADHD, but the more I've been learning about it in the past few years, the more I get what's been "wrong" with me all my life :)) Thank you for explaining first-hand what ADHD is about and how to ADHD on a daily basis. Works much better for me than scientific articles and lectures :)))

I definitively am a "night owl" since decades and have been diagnose a year ago. Of course even for me there was many other reasons but theses are now healed thanks to psychiatrist, yet sometime I like to do a lot of stuff at night 🦉

It's a chicken or egg scenario for me 🙃 well after being diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, I went to a sleep doctor and they diagnosed me with circadian rhythm disorder delayed sleep phase. After discussing it further with the doc it seemed almost evident that my "strange" sleep schedule was the result of me not having a bedtime growing up (instead my mom encouraged me to stay up with her and watch 3-hour long musicals 😂). Fast forward a few more years and mom is finally diagnosed with ADHD and has always been a night owl. So...which is it for me? Sleep disorder (comorbidity)? Or the inherited ADHD? Or...both?! The world may never know, but meanwhile I'll still be awake while everyone else is sleeping 😆

Welcome friend! Xoxo

Same here - diagnosed last November at 36 after stumbling on this channel.

@@KellyDeBardelaben Thanks!

@@joe-skeen I get ya!

Often when I go to grab something in the kitchen I get lost in thought halfway there, resulting in me mistakenly opening 2 different drawers etc; before realizing and questioning myself on what I actually wanted to get to begin with. I am also so very glad that my oven just turns off after the timer ends. Imagine the massacre to be found inside the garbage bin otherwise.

OMG yes! 58 year old here, this is an issue for me. My imagination is too good? 🤷🏻‍♀️

Yassssss

Me

RIGHT?!?

Me!!! I took my son to get tested and the Dr turned to me and asked if I ever considered getting tested. 😂 32 years old when I learned found out, about months ago. 🤦🏼‍♀️

I was the opposite; I got diagnosed in my 40s and then I realised my son (and also my dad, one of my cousins, probably my maternal uncle too) likely has ADHD.

I ended up diagnosed with ADD AND Dyslexia when my kid was screened 😂 I was 40. Love the memes too

I use Alarmy too - it's my "absolutely must get up now" alarm. I have it set with 3 snoozes, on top of my regular alarm app having gone off several times already, because mornings are HARD for me. Yes, I have a formal diagnosis of delayed sleep phase! Anyway, the setting that works for me is that to turn the alarm off, I have to go to the bathroom and take a photo of this little turtle mosaic in there, to match a photo previously stored on the phone. Because honestly, the math problems and pattern recognition stuff can still be done while lying down, and therefore don't guarantee that I'll stay vertical!

Nice, I use Sleep As Android (only available on Android😅) because I can set the length of snooze, do tasks to shut it off, and it's a sleep tracker. Lifesaver.

I learned the word palanquin today. Thank you!

I didn’t realize the Cinema Therapy guys had ADHD. They do some really interesting movie breakdowns.

RIGHT?!? Mine was (and still but I don't get to lean into this as much anymore) 4am and waking up refreshed at like noon. It's wild.

I wish I could go to bed at 2-4 am, but 4 is when I wake up for work because bills, man. I would love to wake up at my own pace instead of to the uber-annoying Chocobo Song.

Letting my kids sleep to their natural rhythm is one of the reasons I homeschool my kids. I was perpetually exhausted as a child and teen. I hadn't grow in height since I was 12 but then I actually grew two inches my freshman year of college because I was finally getting to go to sleep and get up regularly according to what my body needed. No classes earlier than 9 and I was a two minute walk to most buildings!

I love the community that is here in the comments and in other ND online groups.

omg that's amaaazing

Right?! Same

Ahaha I love it!

So, love has blinded you? 🤣

I've heard some smart watches can buzz to wake you up when it senses you in light sleep, whenever that happens in the ~90 minutes before your alarm time, apparently it works pretty well!

It truly does, but then you wake up earlier than you *have to* haha Brain no likey

I actually worked an 11:00 p.m. to 7 a.m. shift for almost 10 years & I found it much easier to sleep during the day ! (Helps if you have a dark apt!) Always been a "night owl" 🦉

Yep. Never made it to the cookie sheet or the oven. ARGH! Turn the oven off!!!!

Hehehe that's just Jessica's genuine reaction to them!! She knew we'd have it split screened.

@@HowtoADHD I kinda figured. 😅 Delightful, either way!

Ahhhh what even is time.... besides a slippery lil creature that likes to disappear or elude uuussss

Mine are set to every 15 minutes and I have to do math to turn them off....(me asleep is better at math the awake me) Ps. Snooz is disabled.

Me screaming "I TURNED NOTIFICATION SOUNDS OFF-oh," internally

AWWWWWW you're welcome!!! And thank you in return for supporting us being straight out of the box people!