How does one go from “we’re funny riffing on this movie” to “we should do a podcast” instead of “we should do a rifftrax”?

I’m pretty sure they used to do this, at least a hundred years ago, way back when companies first realised that there’s endless free real estate for adverts on the internet. Always wondered why they stopped.

Honest question: why do you want that? What would you do with it? Tbh, I’m not even entirely certain I know what it is you’re looking for. “Character templates”?

A new Whovian, how nice!

Also why we endlessly do the hip wiggle to avoid going to the loo until it hurts.

“Just do [X]” does not compute, whether X is “yoga”, “sports”, “[specific diet]”, “the laundry”, or simply “it”. It is never simply “just”. The inability to “just” start doing a thing (especially without any immediate reward) is one of the central symptoms of ADHD and if you say “just do [X]”, you’re essentially saying “just don’t have ADHD”.

ADHD also doesn’t mean you are/were bad in school. Not by a long shot.

True.

Doesn’t even need to be directions.

“You know, [place], over in [major part of city]?”

“Oh yeah, haha, [major part of city]. (Discretely take out phone because I have no idea where anything is in this city that I have lived in for 20 years)”

Thank you, Great Circle of Obviosity, for guiding us in these uncertain times.

Ask your parents to take you to a psychiatrist and have you tested for ADHD. Throw things at them until they say yes.

Ah yes, I should’ve figured.

Any explanation why the elk did that? (Other than “because he can”, of course)

You may have seen it by now, but just in case: there’s a bunch of us in the comments whose experience of their ADHD is exactly like yours :)

So, uh, hey, that’s one aspect in which you AREN’T weird ;D

The fuck are you on about? Where is any of this in your original post? What does it have to do with anything?

“Meme” is not another word for “joke”.

Edit: lolshit wall of text about ADHD of all things. Sorry!

Attention DEFICIT is a misleading term. It’s more an issue of not being able to willingly direct your attention.

That’s why ADHD brains hyperfixate on something and we’re are unable to switch to something else, even though we KNOW we should/want to/have to do the other thing - we can’t direct our attention away from the thing our brains are hyperfixating on.

What sometimes looks like rapid “task switching” is again the inability to direct our attention so it flips around uncontrolled.

This also often leads to a weird state of paralysis where we’re doing absolutely fuck all because we can’t activate our attention properly but we’re yelling at ourselves on the inside to DO THE FUCKING THING YOU FUCKING LAZY SHIT.

For ADHD brains to be able to consciously, actively direct attention, there needs to be some immediate reward. It can’t be some vague reward that might come in the future, like “you won’t have back pain when you’re old (so exercise!)”. That doesn’t work.

For me (and others, I hear), it’s often the thought that others are depending on me doing The Thing. That’s why I was absolutely insanely good at organising shit in my last job - my coworkers depended on me having prepared all kinds of data. Without this reward, I am completely useless at organising stuff.

Unless it’s interesting, of course, which is again an immediate reward.

Does this sound in any way like you?

Edit: and did you have trouble directing your attention to get through this text? :D

“I am very self-reflected and think carefully about everything.” (x_X)

If I said I’m good at switching tasks, that would be a total lie.

I don’t think it’s “glossing over”, it’s that actual mental health problems are outside most people’s frame of reference so the thought doesn’t occur to them. It’s less active ignoring, more simply not knowing.

Yes.

See this comment by me: https://feddit.org/comment/3984361

Rainbow by Kesha

Makes me cry like a baby every. single. time.