So you think you have ADHD?

This was blunt and real view of some of ADHD’s most prohibitive and debilitating symptoms present in adults with ADHD. Many times ADHDers have their difficulties dismissed by family members, partners and employers as laziness, inability or even stupidity. Our brains are different, profoundly so, and when inspired and positively motivated ADHDers are some of the most intelligent critical thinkers, problem solvers and creative people you will ever meet. But what happens behind the scenes? Check it out.

Original piece by Reddit user cloudybabyla See original content here.

“We’re all a little ADHD are we?”

An insight to adult ADHD.

Do you also spend your days feeling paralysed; unable to get up and do the things you need to do no matter how hard you try?

Do you also sit on the sofa endlessly scrolling through Pinterest whilst your body is crying out for water, and you know you should get up to hydrate yourself but you keep scrolling? Body laying still and fixated on something you wish you could just switch off?

Do you finally get up and do the thing you wanted to do 6 hours earlier and instead of continuing onto other tasks whilst you’re up, feel yourself re-diverting back to the sofa under a blanket even when your mind is screaming at you to stay up and get sh*t done?

Do you look at your house slowly becoming more and more untidy, with three mugs, a pack of biscuits, and empty food wrappers on the coffee table waiting to be taken out, but you get up and can’t muster the energy to pick it all up and take it out with you?

Do you leave clothes washing to pile so high you’ve run out of underwear, and when you do get around to washing it, do you leave the freshly washed clothes in the drum for days on end whilst they become riddled with the smell of damp?

When you do finally get them out, do you leave the clean washing on the clothes drier for 2 weeks, letting it sit as though it was intentionally part of the decor?

Do you sit in silence on the sofa in the evening, wanting to put the TV on as some form of entertainment like a normal human being, but can’t bring yourself to do it and when you finally do, you switch it off after 4 minutes because you physically cannot listen to the sounds coming from your favourite show due to being overwhelmed?

Do you long to make a cup of tea at night, but the milk is out of date and you’d rather die than go outside to the shops because the process involves way too many steps? Putting clothes on. Putting shoes on. Making yourself look semi-presentable. Leaving your house. Bringing keys. Making the journey. Coming back. Undressing again. Having to fold the clothes you wore for 10 minutes and put them away. And not to mention, actually making the tea and waiting for it to brew. Even if you so desperately want to?

When you sleep, (or try to, in my case) does your mind race with 1000’s of thoughts; your best ideas pop up at 2 am, and you simply must start re-organising your pantry right this second, or the momentary interest in the matter will disappear and you will never do it again?

Do you lay in the dark for two hours, trying to think of nothing but then fixating on nothingness and realise you’re actually still thinking too many thoughts?

Do you feel riddled with fatigue at all times, so much so that you end up sleeping to such excess that your body is overtired and achy from all the time you have spent in bed avoiding the world?

Do you find it hard to feed yourself, often leaving yourself to starve because you just can’t face cooking anything, and the selection of food you can actually tolerate is so low that nothing is appealing anyway? Do you hate yourself every day because of this?

Do you find yourself growing tired of writing this because it is now understimulating and knowing you have thousands of more things you could write about seems tedious and overwhelming now?

Well, do you?

Reddit user cloudybabyla See original content here.

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