My doctor had me do an ADD test a few months ago.

It was a short questionnaire relating to the past 6 weeks, about a third of which wasn't relevant because it specifically pertained to school, and a couple of tests requiring me to hit the space bar whenever I heard a particular sound or saw a particular letter.

The doctor said the results didn't indicate ADD.

Now, I don't really believe in self diagnosis, but the kinds of things I've said that have made professionals think I may have it have nothing to do with focusing on a single task on a computer in a small silent room.

Idk, I feel like that test is out of date or something.

I get lost in my own house.

Decided to take some online adhd tests just bc (and yes I know they are not equivalent to a diagnosis) and i've tried several sites and my results keep coming back as like 27/30, 8/9, 33/40 (or it was 33/35 im not entirely sure) LIKE WHY IS THIS MY LIFE

During a test for ADHD, I stopped to write down “Ratatouille is the antithesis to the Lion King.”

I'd absolutely love to see a hearing disabilities herb guide!

I'm deaf in one ear, so now I'm curious if there are any cats in the rewrite like me? I imagine they might avoid Gatherings because HEARING IN CROWDS UGH.

I need to pick a bunch actually! At some point, I plan to just toss more sight, smell, and hearing disabilities onto the various cats. It should be SUPER common, actually.

Especially in RiverClan.

Like... when I get around to these, RiverClan is going to keep coming up as having a notably higher proportion of deafness and scentlessness. Rivers are filthy. Their ears and snouts are going to be dunked full of gunk ALL the time, they develop a ton of infections. I'm guesstimating that around 15% of RiverClan should have some degree of hearing and/or scent loss, especially as they get older.

Also; Clan cats should be protecting their noses like tools. The same way that you might get scolded for misusing gym equipment, mentors should be chiding their apprentices for doing things like;

Sticking their noses in mud or snow

Eating food that is too hot (damage to the Jacobson's organ)

Sniffing ripe puffballs or other spore-forming mushrooms

Hanging out in dusty dens or unclean, musty spaces (this one wouldn't actually do anything bad, just makes a good superstition.)

But anyway! That's SCENT loss, which should be a waaaaaay bigger disability for Clan cats, but in humans we just don't really take as seriously. In WC, blindness should not have the same weight and scentloss should be a lot heavier.

For hearing loss in one ear, so far, there's just Strikestone, who canonically can't hear out of one of his ears. I will be casually throwing this onto more cats.

Daniel on Ted’s Notebook | Testing Day 3 | pt.1

Ted: Might RB be podium people?

Daniel: *calls Ted a bear (🏳️‍🌈?) Bills obligatory shoutout* What did you ask first?

Poll: Health and gender re medical malpractice

if you feel comfortable please share your choice as well as whether you have ever experienced medical malpractice

not to be that person but please consider reblogging this, my tumblr don't have a ton of traffic and i'm genuinely interested in the results.

I relate to Tina and Linda on a personal level here😂

Bob's Burgers, Boys just wanna have Fungus (S10: E2)

Dick: Let’s see, you got… 94%!

Jason: HAH! I GOT AN A PLUS!!

Bruce enters

Bruce: Congrats Jay! What did you score so high in?

Jason: En-

Dick: ADHD questionnaire.

Bruce:…

Yeah if my dm pulled out actual tests for us to take I would make a joke about how I need accommodations for my learning disabilities.

If my dm told me to write a 300 word essay in 5 real world minutes that shit would not be a joke.

I’m sorry Mr Mulligan I have a 504 that says I get time and a half and you will be honoring it or I will be crying in your office and writing a strongly worded email to the accommodations office.

update the obnoxious nt staying in my house just told me, a deaf auDHDer, that "we're all a little bit disabled☺️!"

SHUT THE FUCK UP

me, taking a test that determines the outcome of my immediate future: focus focus focus -

my brain: 🎶ten years of war they've killed us slowly, but now we'll be the ones who SLAAAAAYY 😌💅🏽✨🎶

I am on a short 5 weeks hiatus everybody

Everyone dont miss me to much (joking if you forget about me I understand)

Hi everyone,

So I found a quiz on where you are burnt out or not. I took the quiz from ADDitude and did some math. Apparently I’m 78% burnt out…

I’ll leave the quiz below:

I hope this helps some of you.

Burnt Out Test

Life with ADHD is apparently one of two things.

Working too hard on too many things at all times, chasing that newness and the rush of being challenged, and feeling exhausted as a result.

Trying to take a break to get the rest you need, where your brain starts screaming at you about the 400 different, interesting things you could be doing, while you're simultaneously getting bored.

Thanks, brain. Oh, the joy of discovering you're neurodivergent.

I wish in general discussion of ADHD that executive dysfunction wasn't used to just mean difficulty with task switching and task initiation.

Like, there's so much more that is a part of executive functioning! Executive functioning includes impulse control, emotional regulation, working memory, attention, awareness of time, goal formation, planning, and that's not even all of it. It's a broad catogory of cognitive processes, not just a single symptom.

ADHD symptoms do mostly fall under executive dysfunction because ADHD is an executive functioning disorder.

In general terms, it's not wrong to include difficulties in task switching and initiation in executive dysfunction! They are certainly a part of that! But oversimplifying executive dysfunction to only be task switching and initiation difficulties isn't accurate and gives an inaccurate picture of ADHD as a whole (or at least, from what I've seen, it impacts the discussion surrounding ADHD negatively).

It might just be me. idk. But discussing precise problems while calling them by a blanket term can make it hard to identify what exactly the block is. For example, if I'm having trouble getting started on a task and I just say "oh I'm struggling with executive dysfunction right now" that doesn't tell me anything about what's wrong. But if I say "I'm struggling with task initiation; I keep meaning to do it but don't know where to start" then I can think through the steps to start. Or if it's motivation, "I'm struggling with motivation" means I can think of how to overcome that. "This is overwhelming" means I can plan. "I don't want to stop what I'm doing/this is a task switching problem" means I can decide if I need to finish the task at hand or trick my brain into swapping.

(This is a separate problem but then you also have people saying execytive dysfunction is laziness or results in laziness when they are meaning that difficulty with task initiation. Even if it was true that difficulty with task initiation was laziness (it's not), saying that executive dysfunction = laziness is so incorrect. That would mean poor short term memory = laziness. That would mean hyperactivity = laziness. That would mean emotional dysregulation = laziness. And none of these are even CLOSE to true. That's another issue though.)

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