If you are expected to be productive, that is by definition, not “free time.”

I was diagnosed at 32 in my last semester of my undergrad. I just ended up with more stress than I could handle and ended up in therapy and thats when I found out.

When I was in junior high there was a project that was worth half my grade that was announced on day 1 and due at the end of the semester. I waited until an hour before it was due to start working on it. I got an A. I can only imagine what I could have done if I had worked on it consistently throughout the semester like a normal person.

Intentionally tone deaf system strikes again.

This reminds me… I should try hallucinogens some time. Just to see what my brain does with them.

The whole point of ADHD being diagnosed is that it has become a problem. Enough of one that people wait months if not years on a list to be assessed and pay hundreds, thousands of dollars for that assessment depending on insurance or lack thereof. And because of the pandemic shortages, a lot of people have trouble obtaining medication or in my case, they had bad reactions to specific types and need to find ones that work without those side effects. I was fortunate. My therapist was neurodivergent and made sure that I got support even before I was formally diagnosed.

Far too much emphasis is placed on what “the founding fathers” intended. So even if they intentionally mixed religion and government, I’d still believe that religion should be yeeted out of government because our government should be written to serve people living today and not elevate religion to special status.

Tbf windows defender is pretty good.

That only really happens if there is no immediate threat of doom. If there is, I am the most productive person on the face of the Earth but only due to the sheer terror that results from last second procrastination.

CBT therapy is the tutorial. The drugs are aim assist. The game is still set to hard but at least now you have a fighting chance

If they were assholes due to Lead poisoning theyd be sympathetic to a nonzero degree. But the reality is that they have no one to blame but themselves.

Or find a flock of other ADHD people that do the exact same thing.

My nicknane was “walking encyclopedia” when I was a kid so that tracks.

In my undergrad I went from being a chemistry/physics double major to a biochemist and finally finished my chemistry degree. (I am not far from having 3 degrees) I studied ASL, German and Japanese, modded video games and competed in a semiprofessional starcraft league. I wrote instrument guides and procedures for undergrads, contributed to papers on bioremediation, synthesized nanoparticles using genetically engineered enzymes. I developed a method for a plant alkaloid assay and a new way to reduce noise in an experiment designed to measure the rate of certain reactions that occur in extremely diluted systems. i.e single or double digit number of molecules in the entire sample.

Now I tutor college students in chemistry, physics, math and biology and work on computational chemistry projects.

Living through an event isnt the same thing as being knowledgeable about it. eg. There are plenty of 911 truthers that were around when 911 happened.

Good old emotional dysregulation… Everything you feel, feels stronger and harder to control.

I was officially diagnosed with ADHD three years ago.

There is no one test to get diagnosed and you can’t self diagnose. Even your therapist can’t if they don’t have the training and experience to do so.

ADHD diagnosis involves interviews with people that knew you when you were a child, any mental health professionals youve worked with and a series of tests measuring intelligence, executive function, self questionaires and how you interact with the tests and the people testing you. i.e that indecisiveness would be taken into account in a professional screening. You aren’t really being tested for ADHD or autism so much as trying to rule out alternative explanations.

And its also why you shouln’t diagnose yourself with either of them despite what a lot of people think. Because sure it could be ADHD or autism but it could be a lot of other things that dont respond well to the same things that autism and ADHD do and you need people that actually know how to rule those things out or if it happens that you arent in the ADHD/autism tribes, figure out what tribe you actually belong to.

Do people actually get mad over that? Why?