How much of this is accurate and how much of this is internet horoscope shit.
this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2025
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Diagnosed for years. Only 2 of these apply to me.
This is uh... one of the worst examples of "internet horoscope" I've ever read lol. I've been diagnosed, am currently unmedicated, and resonate with... practically none of this.
And one of them is literally "explaining things with metaphors". That's one of the most generic things I've heard in my life lol.
Nah man, if you explain things with analogies and metaphors you definitely got the ADHDs! Better get on those meds, yo!
Lately every vaguely relatable thing I read on the internet is a sure-fire sign of ADHD it seems.
For those undiagnosed wondering about the accuracy of this, let's play real ADHD bingo. Gather 5 of these and have experienced some form of it for most of your life:
- Losing and misplacing things very frequently
- Restlessness, squirming, seeming like you're motorized
- Blurting out answers to questions before the questions are completed
- Lots of thoughtless mistakes, not focusing on details
- Avoids talks requiring extended concentration
- Struggle to wait your turn
- Overly talkative
- Forgetting daily activities
I'll note as someone who took a long while to really accept my diagnosis: And to a distressing degree.
Like, I didn't just forget where I put my phone regularly, I'd lose expensive electronics on my ride home from school. I'd regularly forget my backpack on my way to school. I regularly needed replacement keys for my dorm.
I wasn't just overly talkative, I'd miss busses constantly because I couldn't stop talking. I don't even like people all that much, I just can't stop. Unless it's a topic I'm not interested in. Then it's agony.
I didn't just avoid unnecessary things that needed my focus; my heart would race and I'd get aggressive because I needed to checks notes copy information from one page over to another... Carefully.
I wouldn't just cut someone off to answer them before they finished, I'd get this feeling of a ringing in my ears and internal screaming, digging my nails into my hands, to try and be nice... Before cutting them off to answer before they finished anyways, but later than I intended.
Every day.
It's not fun. I've spent tens of thousands of dollars on late fees, extensions to degree because of missed deadlines, procrastinated dental bills. It's agonizing. It's pain. You will know what it is to talk to other people, have them go, "Oh my God, me too! Like sometimes, I clean, and I just don't stop" and when you say, "I know, and then I'm just on the ground sweating and crying and feel like throwing up because I e been there for like 3 hours and missed my appointment" and you get the, "What's wrong with you?" look. The ADH is often related; the Disorder, I've been surprised to learn over the years, often isn't. I assumed people hid this distress, too.
Positive note for any concerns: Medication, therapy, and education are huge helpers. It isn't perfect, things are just harder and that's how it is, but they improve. I'm a professor, I have nearly 1000 students, 50 teaching assistants, and need to schedule, effectively, 120+ meetings and put out around 400 documents that must all line up every 4 months. It's not hopeless, it's just hard.
I used to do the top left one. But it wasn't ADHD, it was acute depression.
Comorbidity! Yay.
ASD allthethings!
Wait? YouTube and audio books at 3x speed is an ADHD thing? Man, is my whole personality just ADHD?
I speedrun lectures too. I skip the live one and just watch a recording at 2x speed
That's the ticket! Webinars too. So many use 12 words even 4 words would have been enough. Not that I'm better when I'm hosting but when I'm listening I want just the meat.
it's easier to focus when my mind doesn't have the time to wander into something more fun
Without a doubt! Who knows when I'll come back to reality once I'm gone.
I think it’s also a blind people thing. So there’s that…
Edit: I heard about it in a podcast (maybe 20k Hz or 99pi?) and they demo’d text-to-speech at 5x. Listening to 5x at 3x was incomprehensible.
5x, wow!
I dunno, audiobook people talk soooo sloooow.
Some of em painfully slow! The readers of Fredrik Backman books I swear are in slow motion!
There's a browser extension that lets you set the default speed of yt to whatever you desire.
And it can go faster than the maximum 2x on ytb !
Looks like I'm managing my ADHD pretty well. I got a bingo on the bottom row, plus the hot drinks one, but those are things that don't bother me at all. The major problems in my life are gone with the help of medication, routine, a shared calendar with my wife, password manager, and choosing the right job.
Bottom row gang!
Bro, same. All bottom row, for sure, and I do forget about drinks, but everything else I manage through coping habits.
6/9 what do i win?
What's the staying in the car thing?
I parked my car almost half an hour ago. Still here. Scrolling lemmy. I don't know why. I'm hungry, I should make dinner. Help.
I spent 30 minutes sitting my car last night trying to think of a better way to mount my phone because I just got a 3d printer.
It turns out that inventing still requires thought, and lots of it.
Honestly, it's probably not worth the effort to try and use a 3D printer for that unless you are printing with the more difficult materials like ABS or similar.
PLA gets droopy just from the sun shining on it and will melt in a car in the summer. PETG is a bit better to the point where I personally haven't had it deform from heat yet but from what I have heard the differences aren't that big.
I was initially going to do a dashcam mount, but I did read about the sun melting PLA. I live in Australia so it's a bit of a put-off.
not sure but i would imagine checking something from your phone and ending up browsing lemmy for an hour. this has happened to me. or cleaning up the car. this has not happened to me.
I don't know - I've avoided ever getting a license.
It'd make more sense if it was going to a social event... since getting to the door and then perseverating about whether it'd be easier and less painful to go home is definitely a mood.
Fuck.
No seriously, how accurate is this thing? Is it possible to have the whole bingo and not have ADHD?
This has essentially no overlap with ADHD. It's just a pop/incorrect understanding of ADHD. People with ADHD won't do many of those things, and people without ADHD can do all of them. There's even some reason to think this graphic could be inversely indicative of ADHD. For example, the only research of which I'm aware on ADHD and metaphor or analogy is actually that individuals with ADHD are worse at processing and understanding metaphors and are worse at analogical reasoning.
It's not. "Normal people" are likely to have more hits on this than those with ADHD.
I've got 5/9 but no ADHD.
2 of 9 for me, and I do.
I feel i am escaping this with only 1 bingo based on technicalities and coping mechanisms…
- the lost keys were in my pocket because my hands re full…
- I’m not awake and productive at 2 am anymore because sleep deprivation is killing me. So now I’m awake and unproductive.
- I don’t do daily lists, i do task specific breakdowns; but i do have an alarm to remind me to eat lunch.
- password manager👌
- thermal mugs 👌
2/9!
diagnosed...
Oops, I accidentally bingo'd.
Hey, what's that over there?