Relatable

Its weird how many of those overlap with ADHD. I definitely do the info-dump thing, but there's kinda a meta enjoyment of "Lol, this dude thinks I don't know that he doesn't care, so I'm just going to see how long it takes before he gets pissed off and does something entertaining." The need to over explain personal stuff is also another parallel. ADHD people process information a lot faster than normal people, but we have this tendency to loose our train of thought mid sentence and skips, and then there's this nonlinear "Oh yeah, they need to this info and that info in order to understand how I arrived to that conclusion." It has turned me into a stickler for accuracy. Another thing that happens with ADHD which could resemble the autistic sensory overload is because we cycle through thoughts so fast, often times the brain just kinda shorts out, hence why we tend to get very spacey. This gets worse if we don't get proper sleep. Our brains quite literally lag if we aren't given time to defrag. In autism, its kinda the same thing, but for external sensory data rather than random streams of conciousness like "In order to calculate the trajectory of how that dude in the previous hypothetical situation flew through the air, I first would need to acquire the average max running speed of a llama... Oh shit! That's right, they're beasts of burdens, not mounts! Scratch that! Start over!"

@projectotakux Oh yeah. I think all neuro a-typicals get them pretty bad. OCD get the worst ones, but ADHD just amplifies them into entire episodes in their own right. For those that don't know, here's two examples of what the ADHD flavor of intrusive thoughts looks like. https://i.imgur.com/JmsB9ZB.jpeg https://i.imgflip.com/5f9yl8.jpg

@chocopyro Yeahh its all confusing, I feel like I have symptons of both, could be more ADD now but I definitely was the hyper cant stay still, twitching fast thought as a kid. I grew more chill after awhile but I still see the symptons.

@joemama711 Yeah, same here. Truth is, ADD and ADHD are actually the same thing, and it's perfectly normal to experience symptoms of both. Back when the diagnosis was first created in the early 1900s, they paid more attention to the symptoms, and misclassified it as a learning disorder. And since those symptoms stayed with the medical community for so long, some people still think they are two different disorders. Most people with a real diagnosis of it grow out of the hyperactivity. Meaning that one trait could be attributed to literally just being a fucking kid, and when they were diagnosing children willy nilly just for being hyper, a lot of people got misdiagnosed. I blame the pharma companies. Then we got older, most of those misdiagnosed people didn't grew up being perfectly normal, where as people with a real diagnosis were given the degrading diagnosis of "Adult ADD". Nowadays, the diagnosis has changed. Its just ADHD now, even those of us who don't have the traditional stuff associated with the H. Took neurologists finally looking at our brains before they said "Hold on, this is actually real. This dude's brain is not wired pretty differently form a neurotypcial." For example, The reason we have trouble starting tasks isn't laziness. It's a brain chemical called dopamine. For normal people, it fire to get them motivated, or give them a sense of satisfaction for completing a task. In ADHD, It doesn't fire in the same way that it does for normal people. Instead what fires is the same response from the brain we get when experiencing PHYSICAL PAIN. Since there's no pain to respond to, we just feel exhausted instead. And that's why we take procrastination to an extreme. Literally doing ANYTHING other than the low stimulation tasks we've been trying to mentally prep ourselves for. Hence why we make this face when we get around to doing the dishes three days after we intended to. https://i.pinimg.com/736x/b5/9b/04/b59b04da6261122f6265a803e952dad7.jpg (That reminds me, I was going to go to the bank this morning.)

@chocopyro that makes a ton of sense since back in the day pharma companies weren't as developed as before/ could have been lazy probably both. I try to do tasks early just to get them out of the way but I get so bored with most long videos or having to read a lot. My step brother was born with low functioning autisum so I did question having it myself