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Hello, I’m unfiltered.
If you're medicated you can say "I do drugs." 😎
I just say ADHD'er
I’m so quirky!
Neurodivergent, no need to be specific
Neurospicy
absolutely hate this phrase.
Ok, it's your moment. Let's hear it all. Dump it. Why do you hate it?
I can't speak for hypnicjerk, but I personally dislike the term because it feels too glib.
I can't do shit because of executive dysfunction and I forget things all the time, that's not "spicy", it's preventing me from having a life.
I like neuranno peppers.
This makes me think of Tabasco. Not that it's good or bad. It's neutral. I'm just sharing.
I hate this, but I use it because "I'm from a neurodivergent family" sounds worse to my ears that "My whole family is some flavor of neurospicy."
We have 2 ADHD+anxiety, 1 dual ADHD+Au, and 1 dual ADHD+NVLD.
I like to call it the "ta da!" because the Spanish acronym is TDAH. Who doesn't like being able to say "ta da!"?
remember back in the early days of windows.. like 3.1 era... when windows started, it did that. like "see? i actually booted up!! TA-DA!!"
Dopaminded
I usually describe myself as "a bit much."
I started there, but I eventually got to the heart of it now and just say I'm an asshole.
I'm fine in small doses...
Just don't get me started.
This is the disclaimer
To that I say "if you think I'm too much, go find less."
We all tried to come up with a nice concise term for ADHD but ended up writing multi page papers instead.
I started thinking about it, and thought that adhd kinda looked like a palindrome, which made me think of anagrams and how they're often used as a reveal in bad mystery plots. So I wrote a program to generate anagrams from an input in rust because I wanted to learn rust and never thought much about the algorithms for generating anagrams before. I then hit some complexities with multiple words as anagrams. I'm currently optimizing the dictionary look up by refreshing my knowledge on searching and sorting algorithms.
I expect to make more progress on this task tomorrow.
Derptistic
At-def
Not neurotypical? No need to get into specific diagnoses
I've used "spicy brained" and people seem to get it.
It might be that I am approaching middle age but I wouldn't have got that. I would have thought you were calling yourself hot headed or something. Like you had major anger problems or maybe act kind of unstable. Is it a reference or common saying?
There is the term neurodiverse, which is an easy catch all for neurologically abnormal, but not broken.
Neurospicy is a play on this, spicy vs bland. People have strong opinions on spicy, very few have strong opinions on bland food.
I gave a joke answer, but I also have heard the term "kaleidoscope" to describe the shifting mental state, and I liked it. Maybe "kalaidoment"?
It's not exactly what you're looking for but I have described having ADHD as like having a TO-DO list except any time something new is added to the list you have to roll a dice and decide which thing on the list you're going to do right now. On the rare occasion nothing else comes up before you finish one task you'll be golden. But if anything should pop into your mind it throws the entire things back into the random TO-DO list which you will then reroll.
This is the perfect visual example of what living with ADHD is like: https://youtu.be/AbSehcT19u0?si=EwsCg-xZVZOpbbLN
Maybe spaz.
Nah, that's kinda derogatory in the UK (apparently).
Spaz is short for spastic. There are a variety of disabilities that have spastic symptoms, such as Spastic Diplegia, a form of Cerebral Palsy.
It gained popularity as an insult in the 60s.
Spez on the other hand...
gained popularity as an insult in the 2010s