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tricked myself into actually focusing on writing by doing a timelapse video of myself working so now i feel shamed into doing work by my own camera + my phone is now out of reach i am a productivity mega genius
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ADHD Tip: Learn to Love Podcasts
I always need to be consuming some sort of media--it comes with my ADHD--but if I'm consuming any sort of visual media I will just stay stuck in front of the screen.
So, if I need to be doing chores or exercise, I will put on a podcast I really enjoy.
It's kinda like when you're on the phone with someone and you find yourself walking around the house or doing random chores!
Since visual stimulation isn't available, it forces me to find something else to do. This way I can exercise, clean, run errands, or work on my art without getting bored from lack of stimulation!
Also, if podcasts aren't your thing then try audiobooks!
Here are my current fav podcasts:
Sawbones
Ologies
Dungeons and Daddies
Last Podcast on the Left
All of these have hundreds of episodes for your enjoyment <3
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I made a possible ADHD hack discovery
I like snacking. I like eating regularly. I crave variety. My partner and I rarely have spoons to make dinner, despite having a meal kit service.
So this week, on the suggestion of a therapist (and with the dim memory of seeing a tiktok of an ADHDer doing something similar), I've been having.. snack meals?
We went to the grocery store together with the express purpose of buying mix-and match snacks. We got cottage cheese, chives, a couple types of cheese besides cottage, peanuts, 6-layer bean dip, wheat thins, tortilla chips, a few kinds of fruit, a few kinds of yogurt, fully-cooked sausages of various varieties, etc.
I'll mix and match, with minimal prep (cutting up the chives if needed, slicing cheese as needed, etc.), and put things in the numerous silicone cupcake liners I own, all piled on a plate.
Tonight's dinner is as follows:
-Cottage cheese with chives
-Peanut butter and a banana
-Wheat thins, smoked gouda, and honey dijon mustard
-Mixed fruit
-Peanuts
-Bean dip and tortilla chips
-Blueberry yogurt
Mind, I only have small portions of each, but together it more than fills my plate and I can snack my way into a dinner while I play WoW. Picture under the cut.
I feel like I'm dining like a Roman emperor.
#ADHD#ADHD hack#meal hack#ADHD meal hack#food#food picture#meal made of snacks#Look ma I'm regularly eating again!#mostly
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I've been terrible at procrastinating my actual work at my actual job that I get paid to actually do and I've discovered that if I hide my phone from myself or even just chuck it across the room, I am too lazy to get up and get it which forces me to be productive
#ADHD hack#the trick is hiding it when I get my coffee#because I'm already up at that time#and then once I sit in my little chair#I do not want to get up again#I have to treat myself like an ipad kid#adult myself into doing my homework#helpimstuckrambling
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I want to share the best ADHD hack I've come up with lately.
Put a picture of your blorbo on your to-do list.
It will:
A) Attract your attention to the list
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B) Motivate you to complete the list, lest you disappoint your blorbo
#adhd hack#the only downside is how many blorbo pics are saved to my phone now#if that can be considered a downside?
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hack for people who 'enjoy reading but can never really get into books': get the book/ebook AND the audiobook (i use a library app)
either listen and read along for the whole book, or just use the audiobook for the first few chapters/until the plot picks up. spend the first few pages working to adjust the speed of the audiobook so it matches your reading pace.
if you're a person who gets easily distracted, it keeps your mind on the book in two ways. if you're a person who gets bored by all of the exposition in the first few chapters, the audiobook can help keep your mind from wandering while you read the 'boring' bits and then you can read the rest normally (or switch the audiobook back on if a chapter is particularly slow)
this hack got me through The Picture of Dorian Gray in a week after being a "i never read unless im rereading a book i know i like" person for YEARS.
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i've started treating life like bunch of resource management minigames that combine mcu-style to create a mostly coherent overarching narrative that is my life story, and it's so much more bearable now???????
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being able to book doctors appointments online is fucking revoluionary for my executive disfuction!! I can type in the type of doctor i need and then find the one that has availability the soonest! no having to call tons of practices hoping hoping they take new patients and have availability.
#i do cross check to make sure they have decent reviews#just booked myself appointments with 4 different specialists#literally been procrastinating some of them for years#(I'm using doctorlib for this btw not sure if it exists outside of Germany)#adhd#adhd hack#sophie.txt
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Hey blah blah idk who needs to hear this whatever.
I did NOT want to cook dinner for myself today. Just didn’t want to. I convinced myself that since I have the energy now, I could cook it for myself and save it for tomorrow. By the time it was done cooking, I had an appetite to eat it PLUS I made enough that I don’t have to cook tomorrow.
Treat your future self by cooking dinner tonight, it’s kinda worked and it’s kinda worth it
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Just found out a new adhd hack:
If you are craving something i.e Cheesecake and literally want to eat nothing but Cheesecake for weeks then get some shitty Cheesecake. Because it'll give you the ick and make you not want Cheesecake anymore
(If you can tell I've been Cheesecake crazy and got some at the local grocery store that was very bad and now I no longer want cheesecake.)
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neurodivergent transmasc iphone layout just makes sense
#reminder#you are loved#fucking love my husband#inspirational#motto#aesthetic#minimalist barbie#adhd hack
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i used to be so good at writing strong, thoroughly-researched, thoroughly-edited essays.
as a kid in hs, my teacher literally came up to me, holding my 40 page essay on the intersection of the European witch hunts and capitalism/exploitation/gender roles (it was supposed to be 7 pages...whoops) and went like "this is literally a master's-degree level thesis. what are you doing?? you could literally use this as your final dissertation in a master's program, what the fuck."
NOW??? NOW?? you'd think I'd be oh so skilled. but alas. i can barely piece together two ideas. adhd skill-regression is so so real. im SOBBING
#this is just me ranting sorry#im very tired and hungry#and i want to sleep but brain go brrrrr#well i used to be nice and smart and now im neither of those or however the song goes#pretty sure he was exaggerating cause looking back. it was good. but some of the wording was a lil wonky#adhd#actually adhd#executive dysfunction#actually neurodiverse#adhd paralysis#adult adhd#attention deficit hyperactivity disorder#adhd hacks#academia#neurodivergent#adhd skill regression#confessions of a burnt out gifted kid#<< i guess#former gifted kid#burnt out gifted kid#gifted kid burnout#realizing i sound rly pretentious here sorry -- formal speech patterns i picked up as an autistic child and never put down again haha
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just realized im adhd hacking myself. my bedsheets are on the floor because wash day and i really wanna finish this one piece of cosplay but i need my floor to be clean first so im making my bed
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There's an adhd hack which I wanna describe but it's going to sound sort of fake and sort of like I'm saying "just do the thing" which I'm not.
Basically it can be impossible to start doing the thing, but once you've started it, it's actually fine right? It's just FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE to start it, especially because you don't want to do it.
So I've got this way where I start it "without meaning to" a bit like if you were standing on the edge of the cliff and unable to make yourself jump off but... but you can jerk your body violently-- then you're falling and you don't really get a say in the matter any more.
A good example of this is not wanting to make a call. So you'd sit there and plan what you want to rehearse and hit the button when you're ready... or not, because actually you'd put the phone down and run off to do literally anything else.
So instead, I just hit call really fast, with no actual intention to make the call. Oh shit I really don't want to but now it's ringing and oh shit someone picked up and now we're already rolling and it'd be worse to hang up than to just talk--
I do the same thing with timers and work tasks where I've trained my brain to only be 'winning' the 'game' when the 15m timer is running so now if I hit the timer I'm like 'oh shit work started and I'm LOSING' and I'll jump up to do exactly 15 minutes of work... Only now I've already started and I might as well keep going, right?
Turning tasks into "reactions" not "actions"-- And reacting is way easier.
It's kind of setting the "poor impulse control" part of ADHD against the "Procrastination" part and making them fight.
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in an attempt to not overshoot each and every single one of my friends and family's birthdays, i have purchased all of their birthday cards in advance this fine black friday weekend.
it seems kind of crazy to spend so much money up front but i realize with all the time i spend getting to the store, choosing a card, writing it for each person, i feel too rushed and stressed to finish it so spending an exorbitant amount on stationery upfront may actually save me some time and gas money. with the time/cost investment principle maybe i'm more likely to write the cards on time too.
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