Relatable

Let me take at stab at this...
- It do be like that sometimes
- Hummus is the closest stuff to elixir of life we have

Ah yes when you read something but forget to understand
- That's such a good way to describe it
  
  Yes I have read the words, no I didn't think about what they meant
- I’m sorry, can you repeat that? I lost my train of thought
  
  Umm, I forgot what it was but anyways where were we?

This is why I exclusively do audiobooks now. Still happens, but nowhere near a tenth as much.
Also, ingesting a Discworld novel in stead of traffic noise while still being able to see where you're going so you don't die is pretty damn rad!
- I feel like audio books might help me, but I also really prefer having physical books (one reason is I distrust digital media services).
  
  I guess you could do both if you prefer 🤷
  If the worry is that you might lose access to your digital library by relying on a corporation not to fuck you over, you could always pirate them.
  And if that feels wrong to you, I'm pretty sure that most authors have patreons or the like that you can donate to 🤷
- I've tried listening to podcasts before but at some point I forget to keep listening too
- Yeah I have to do audiobooks too.

Combine it with autism for that echolagia effect. It feels like my inner voice is in a large cave or canyon with lots of reverb and echos. I sometimes explain it to others that words or sentences has to go round my inner roundabout a few times to find the right path.

me reading this meme multiple times:

Hard take but medication solves like 78% of the posts here. Its no taboo, its scientifically documented; its genetic and medication helps overcome the hurdles. Don't be ashamed, someone with depression also shouldn't be ashamed for taking medication but it is cringe AF to make memes when the mindset seems to be coping by group association.
- I used to be on anti-depressants, and I won't deny they are a great tool to protect yourself. But don't pretend like there aren't cons to taking these types of medications, ADHD meds included. When I finally developed good enough coping skills, and healed past the trauma that caused my depression, I got off the anti-depressants because I did not like how they made me feel (or lack there of). I do not take ADHD meds because I would rather learn how to cope without meds. There are plenty of reasons why someone wouldn't want medication, and it feels more like you are the one shaming people for how they cope. I am on enough medications as is, I do not want another one, and I do not need another one as I am learning to cope without it.
- Fr. Methylfenidate is giving me a chance at life. It still takes effort. But instead of near impossible, it is now realistic.
- If you don't like ADHD memes, then why are you here?
- Careful. It's easy to be seen as an enemy in this comm. Once I was banned for saying I didn't know something was an ADHD symptom. I suffer from many of the issues posted here but not all. For me, medication is helping but not magic. But it might be because I went decades untreated and undiagnosed. All that to say don't be surprised if you get jumped on for saying something like you did. I think you're even keeled but I'm not sure a certain mod will
  
  Personally I find it a kind of privileged and toxic perspective. You never know why someone isn't taking medication. I am not and gave my reasons in a reply to the original comment. How people cope is their business as long as it isn't harming themself or others. And posting memes in communities to feel heard and not alone is an entirely valid way to help cope.
  While I don't know the context of your ban, it doesn't sound like it was a valid reason for it and I am sorry for that. And while I don't think the original comment that we are replying to deserves to be deleted (definitely not banned), I wouldn't be opposed if it was because I do see it as toxic and privileged.

I hide it. But as a adhd person. I can’t really read because of my dyslexia. I have hidden it for decades. But it makes life terrible to learn anything.

Or when you've finished about 80% of your task, but the remaining 20% might as well be millions of miles away because it's almost impossible to finish anything.
I will actively go and do other people's work for them, just to avoid the remaining 20% of the work I need to do. It isn't even hard work! I could get it done in an hour if I put my mind to it! My brain will simply not turn towards what needs doing!

Also on the Menu: completely losing the topic mid-sentence.
- Thank fucking God adderall like 95% solved this one for me, because it was getting really embarrassing at work
  
  I just did it 3 times in a meeting with my boss. Fml

I hate this. My mind literally goes into scan mode and I cannot focus on what I’m reading it’s like my brain is just looking for key words. Wtf is the rush? Idk

On "normal" day I often have troubles even with single sentences. Then again some days I understand and remember (almost) everything quite easily.

I've never really understood the whole ADHD thing. They never spoke about it when I was a kid, and I'm skeptical about it now. Probably me just being an old codger.
But something that happens all the damn time is during my driving. I listen to an audiobook for any journey but I end up relistening to the same part constantly rewinding because I get distracted either just in my own thoughts or to what is happening around me. And this meme depicts exactly that. Interesting.
- But something that happens all the damn time is during my driving. I listen to an audiobook for any journey but I end up relistening to the same part constantly rewinding because I get distracted either just in my own thoughts or to what is happening around me
  That's ADHD. Ok, not literally, and I'm not saying you have it, but that's one of the behaviors most of us will exhibit. When driving your attention is split between many tasks (speed control via 2 different and opposing control methods, steering, traffic, etc.) so it's perfectly understandable for your brain to do that. When you re-listen to catch what you missed your brain is auto-skipping the part it remembers, but because it's also busy with a ton of other shit it misses when to engage listening again. ADHD is that all the time even if you're sitting alone in a room.
  If that's your only one, or one of few, you're a normal person with quirks and flaws, all good! Basically every mental disorder is doing a normal thing too much/too little/in a weird way, it's the part where it becomes constant or often enough to cause distress in life where it becomes bad
  Essentially: if you scroll this community and half or more of the memes hit home, talk to your doctor. If less than half, you're probably normal (and by that I obviously mean broken but differently)
  
  Thank you for this insight. I'll be more aware if this in the future.
- ADHD is like autism. It's a new diagnosis, but people have likely had the symptoms for centuries. It just didn't have a name until now. This will keep happening as more and more is learned about the brain.
  If sounds like you might have ADHD. Whether or not you want to get treated depends upon how badly it affects your life. Personally, my symptoms interfere with my long-term planning, and that has made my life much worse.
  
  I didn’t have a clue just how badly it was affecting my life because, well, I have ADHD.
- That used to happen to me. I found I could only listen to audio books if I was doing something else to use up some extra “processing resources.”
  I would describe it to other people as an overloaded circuit. If I applied all my brain power at the book, it would overload and shutoff.
  If I was doing some tedious task that required some attention, but not too much, I could divert some of that excess energy away without overloading it. So for me that was, stocking shelves at work, doing the dishes, folding laundry, etc.
  Driving wasn’t enough so I couldn’t listen to the book. (Though, later, I did train myself to and now I can do it fine)