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A casual community for people with ADHD

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Acceptance, Openness, Understanding, Equality, Reciprocity.

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Discussing other neurological problems like autism, anxiety, ptsd, and brain injury are allowed.
Discussions regarding medication are allowed as long as you are describing your own situation and not telling others what to do (only qualified medical practitioners can prescribe medication).

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Funny memes.
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Questions on confusing situations.
Seeking and sharing support.
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Relevant Lemmy communities:

Neurodivergent Life Hacks

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[Meme] The struggle is real, especially when The Focus hits on new creative work (i.imgur.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/adhd@lemmy.world

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Image description:

Depicted in the image is Sisyphus pushing his legendary boulder up a hill, written in the boulder are the words, "The fucking dishes and the fucking laundry."

End image description.

Straight up though I recently learned a really weird way of editing pictures for creative distortion (it involves Audacity (the sound editor)) and I straight up forgot to do both before work.

Yesterday and today.

Good news is I learned a lot on how editing those pictures works. Bad news is tonight's dinner was cereal eaten out of a mug with a fork.

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[–] thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not sure where you got the idea that approaching things from a different viewpoint isn't an effective coping mechanism for ADHD, but you're mistaken.

[–] snooggums@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Different ways of approaching things can be effective coping mechanisms, but the specific one for breaking chores up into smaller chores is not about completing multiple different chores. It does nothing to address getting sidetracked and never completing the main chore you started on because you did a bunch of non-essential things that you noticed.

Example of someone who just does whatever chore is in front of them when they notice it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbSehcT19u0

[–] thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It does address it because it approaches chores in a different way. Instead of a few BIG chores, you now have many small ones that can be done mostly at any time. That way you can go and do multiple different chores and it doesn't matter if you bounce around from room to room as long as forward progress is being made.

As an added bonus, you get a little bit of a dopamine hit when you complete the tasks.

[–] snooggums@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Did you watch the video?

You should watch the video.

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