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Let's talk about emotional regulation and ADHD. it's important to note that people with ADHD experience normal emotions. We get mad when somebody calls us a flippin' flapper duper.
Not in my house... not not in Catie's house.
However we are garbage at moderating them. The reason why lies in a part of our brain called the Anterior Cingulate Cortex.
It's like right here, it's like it's like there in our frontal lobe like you know on the inside of your head.
In a neurotypical person it's sort of like the babysitter of your limbic system, your emotional brain.
Sometimes your limbic system is like 'If this guy doesn't stop talking in the next three seconds I'm gonna strangle him' but then your Anterior Cingulate Cortex is like 'Buddy this is a Wendy's and you need to sit down'
It's the thing that stops you from punching everybody you want to punch, crying every time you want to cry although I mean go for it come on, and laughing at your boss' funny voice.
The Anterior Cingulate Cortex of a person with ADHD is generally much smaller than somebody without ADHD.
Oh and yeah it also kind of just doesn't do anything. It's supposed to look like that but there's nothin'!
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GOT NOTHIN IN MY BRAIN
Thank you so much for this. Um, it was entirely unhelpful but thank you nevertheless.
I can totally understand why people who don't have ADHD don't believe in some of the symptoms like object permanence and stuff,
but when I tell you that I can drink a smoothie every day for six months straight and then the day that I put my blender into the cupboard I completely forget that I've ever drank a smoothie before I mean it.
Like that is why I'm so messy it's because I have to see everything. If I don't see it it just doesn't exist. It's gone, vanished so bizarre.
My most toxic trait is thinking I can take my medicine while doing other things and then remember if I took my medicine or not.
there we go and then cereal goes...
god damn it
Okay so if there's anyone out there that has a partner or child that has ADHD this is what a good motivation day looks like.
Not only am I cleaning my room I'm also rearranging it. It looks crazy. I'm acting crazy, but it's gonna work.
So my plan is to rotate this queen-size bed because it's like about six feet by about nine feet so technically it will be longer going this-
And then move my dresser to the foot of the bed so it'll be right here like almost like a divider coming in like a hallway and then try to hook that up as a second monitor.
I haven't used it but if I can use it as a second monitor that'd be cracked.
I did measure to try to get the bed in the closet but it doesn't fit because the bed doorway isn't even five feet long and is- or five feet wide and the bed is six feet long. Wide. What?
But my mother has been wanting to get this mattress downstairs in the guest bedroom in the guest bedroom mattress up here because that one's a twin and this is a queen.
So I could sacrifice leg room for bed and closet. Also I'll have more room to get a bigger computer desk.
I haven't eaten all day.
Thank you so much for this. Um, it was entirely unhelpful but thank you nevertheless.
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Is it terrifying?
No. I don't think so. It's the way it is you know.
Everything must come to an end. The drip finally stops.
You're done. You're done.
I just want to know how you would describe a couple of the symptoms that you're experiencing starting with hyperfocus.
That's a doozy because it's either 90% the reason why I get anything 100% done or it's a 100% the reason why I don't get 90% of the things that I need to get done done.
Okay um, we'll come back to that but focusing in general?
Which is ironically so distracting because you have to focus on focusing so then you miss what you're supposed to be focusing on.
Maybe try not focusing on focusing like maybe you're putting too much pressure on yourself and in the meantime...
Hello?
I'm focusing on what you're saying instead of focusing on focusing.
Sorry it looked like that you had spaced out.
See you thought I was being rude which is why I focus on focusing or on the performance of focusing because if I don't then it seems like I'm not paying attention, that seems rude.
But when I do focus on focusing I miss what's being said and then I don't know how to respond and then it seems like I'm not paying attention anyway and people think I'm rude, so it's a dilemma.
Hey it's the internet. I've got a solution for your ADHD problem.
Oh this should be rich. Is it just gonna be another thing that I can't do because of my ADHD?
Wow! Trust issues much? Anyway, so you know how you were telling me that you have, uh a poor relationship with food?
Mhmm, I tend to feed myself when it becomes an emergency.
Right, you don't notice that you're hungry so you don't eat the entire day and then you eat everything in the pantry.
Yeah I mean if there's anything in the pantry because most of the time I don't want to go to the grocery store because it's so overstimulating.
Right and that over stimulation sort of compounds the PTSD that you experience from being overseas because when you were overseas any time you had to make decisions they were life or death and now you're like why are there seven kinds of peanut butter??
It's weird that we're agreeing this much but, go on?
Right, anyway so life hack uh just make a list!
That's your big hack? Listmaking?
Yeah, yeah. I think it'll solve everything. I mean it's not like planning for the future is something that people with ADHD struggle with.
ADHD people with the end of the year happening soon there's still one thing that you haven't done yet this year and that's be hydrated. So you should grab some water drink it right now and do that before the end of the year.