AuADHD Problems

„You most definitely WILL experience phases of intense doubt and of questioning your diagnosis. You’ll think ‚what if I had just a really weird day when I had one if the appointments’ or ‚what if she was wrong?‘ It‘s normal and usually such doubts ebb and flow. Don‘t be discouraged by them. Your diagnosis is sound.“

1. I can see how people’s names and the cities and the countries are spelled.

2. I don’t miss any words, so everything they say makes sense.

3. I get to know what background noises and conversations are.

4. The descriptions of the noises people make are freaking awesome. Ex: splutter, grunt, chuckles.

5. I can see who says what.

6. I don’t have to have the volume super loud so I can hear the dialogue, and I don’t blow my eardrums out because the ambient noises and music is SO FREAKING LOUD.

Hello anon!

Yes! That’s an ADHD thing. It’s fairly common for ADHDers to need subtitles to help keep up with what’s being said. It’s not unusual for people with ADHD to have difficulties with auditory processing. Auditory processing is our brains ability to interpret what we’re hearing. 

Auditory processing issues can include:

Mixing up the words we hear (yesterday I thought my mother said that my dad had bought ‘partridges’ online, he had actually bought ‘ink  cartridges’!) 

Having difficulty separating out what’s being said to us from background noise (as in, you might have difficulty hearing someone speaking while a kitchen appliance is on or something.)

Having difficulty understanding what someone is saying if you can’t see their face (you’d be surprised the amount of lip reading you might be doing! If I take off my glasses I start hearing all sorts of garbled nonsense!)

Experiencing delayed comprehension of what’s been said to you (you know when you suddenly understand what someone said while they’re halfway through repeating themselves? That)

It can vary from person to person. Personally, I find I only need subtitles for certain shows/films, mainly fantasy and sci-fi. They contain so many unusual words I can’t hear any of them! And those genres are very fond of, what I like to call, The Dramatic WhisperTM. No matter how high I turn up the volume, I can’t understand a word of what’s being said in The Dramatic WhisperTM T_T

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Up to 99% of teens and adults with ADHD are more sensitive than usual to rejection. And nearly 1 in 3 say it’s the hardest part of living with ADHD.

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People with RSD may:

Be easily embarrassed

Get very angry or have an emotional outburst when they feel like someone has hurt or rejected them

Set high standards for themselves they often can’t meet

Have low self-esteem

Feel anxious, especially in social settings

Have problems with relationships

Stay away from social situations and withdraw from other people

Feel like a failure because they haven’t lived up to other people’s expectations

ADHD can feel like it gets 'worse' when we get older and have to organize ourselves more - the same thing can happen when we start working from home. For me, wfh is a double edged sword. It has it's upsides, but was also the reason I almost got fired and had to seek a diagnosis.

While I learned that I can generally concentrate better at home where I'm able to be inunterrupted or walk around when I need to, I was also unable to get myself to work for WEEKS without medication (and sometimes even now). I want to make a comic about how to deal wih this, but as I'm still trying to figure this out for myself (I feel like hardly any coping strategies work for me), I'll need a some more time to make it right. Also, this isn't trying to make a case for or against wfh!

Pomodoro technique = set a timer to 25minutes, then take 5 minutes break, repeat and adapt to your own time preferences

Yep! 

Shaking your arms is quite a common form of stimming.