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Kept forgetting to mention a seemingly minor issue every time I brought my car in for maintenance. Car died at a stop light. Had to pay for a tow and diagnostics to discover it was the battery.

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 2d

13. What was your last ADHD tax?

(ADHD tax is the price you pay for mistakes due to symptoms of ADHD)

seodra.bsky.social @seodra.bsky.social · 2d

Forgetting where I put small objects.

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 2d

12. If you could remove one aspect of your ADHD, what would it be?

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seodra.bsky.social @seodra.bsky.social · 2d

I’m not ‘smart but lazy’ I’m drowning and I need help.

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 2d

11. People who grew up with ADHD, what do you wish adults knew about you that you couldn't express as a child?

seodra.bsky.social @seodra.bsky.social · 2d

Get a drink, put it down in some incredibly improbable place, forget I poured it, get another, and find the first one the next day. I could, in fact, hide my own Easter eggs 🙃

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 2d

10. What is the most ADHD thing you do?

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seodra.bsky.social @seodra.bsky.social · 2d

A quote post answers the question : ADHD people, what are some things you wish more people knew about ADHD or is misunderstood about ADHD.

The answer: Object permanence issues are REAL. Yes I still love you, yes I would still do anything for you. You haven’t heard from me because you haven’t been right in front of me and life is lifing right now. I’m not ignoring you and I want to hear how you’re doing, but executive dysfunction said later.

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seodra.bsky.social @seodra.bsky.social · 2d

First of all, figuring out that I have ADHD as opposed to being ‘smart but lazy’ like I was told my whole life. Also, my whiteboard for lists, a collection of treats for completing tasks, and a new way of cleaning when overwhelmed. Walk by the mess, pick up 3 things, then move on. Rinse, repeat.

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 2d

8. What things better help you function with your ADHD?

seodra.bsky.social @seodra.bsky.social · 2d

I ordered a batch of expensive teas I couldn’t afford without a second thought last week.

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 2d

7. When is the last time you made an impulsive decision?

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seodra.bsky.social @seodra.bsky.social · 2d

Cardi B’s Pretty and Petty. I’m hooked on it, repeating that chorus.

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 2d

6. What is the last song you stimmed on?

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seodra.bsky.social @seodra.bsky.social · 2d

Think of your executive function as a vastly overworked assistant, trying to stay on top of everything at once. Things get filed wrong, or lost entirely, and there’s always something new demanding attention. And every so often they leave the desk completely and you’re just … stuck.

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 2d

5. How would you describe ADHD to someone who knows nothing about it?

seodra.bsky.social @seodra.bsky.social · 2d

When the kids were diagnosed. A lot of things became really fucking clear.

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 2d

4. How did you find out that you had ADHD?

seodra.bsky.social @seodra.bsky.social · 2d

ADHD paralysis, or executive dysfunction. I am not actually (all that) lazy. Sometimes I’m sitting on the couch with me brain begging, pleading, cussing out my body to move but I just … can’t.

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 2d

3. What things about ADHD that people don't understand?

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seodra.bsky.social @seodra.bsky.social · 2d

Had some dentistry done so currently can’t stop running my tongue around my back teeth.

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 2d

2. What are your current stims?

seodra.bsky.social @seodra.bsky.social · 2d

Homemaking. I have been pouring into my younger son so much I had no energy for anything else. Now his mental health is in a good place, and I’ve gotten my mental health better and some of my energy back. It’s all cleaning, organizing and cooking real meals over here.

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 2d

1. What is your current fixation?

seodra.bsky.social @seodra.bsky.social · 2d

Pathetic, really. How are you doing?

seodra.bsky.social @seodra.bsky.social · 2d

That’s pretty perfect.

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seodra.bsky.social @seodra.bsky.social · 10d

#TodayinADHD

Pulled clean clothes out of the dryer, swapped clothes from the washing machine to the dryer, put clean clothes back in the wash and took dirty clothes upstairs to fold. 🙃🙄😖

How’s your day going?

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seodra.bsky.social @seodra.bsky.social · 11d

Age yourself with a film you saw in cinema as a kid.

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seodra.bsky.social @seodra.bsky.social · 12d

What I learned from her was incalculable. What I see now because of her is fucking abominable.

demian 😷☭⚧ (he/they) @camaradademian.bsky.social · 13d

On September 26, 2024, Tinu was a martyr of COVID eugenics.

Abayomi-Paul was well known in the Long COVID and disability community for her writing, speaking, and mutual aid organizing.

thesicktimes.org/2024/10/04/t...

Tinu, rest in power
On September 26, 2024, Tinu was a martyr of COVID eugenics.

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seodra.bsky.social @seodra.bsky.social · 12d

Exactly that. I don’t understand why so many people will get in a relationship with someone they don’t respect or even like. I do have mild autism and a natural emotional remoteness that made me a little better than most at separating what I want from what I need.

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