Full of ideas and trying to write them

"kids don't pay attention in class anymore Because Of Phone" is so funny as an argument. students haven't paid attention in class since school was invented. my parents' generation were in there making flipbooks out of the corners of their notebooks and doodling random shit instead of taking notes. and they didn't have phones.

also pro-'banning phones from school altogether' people are like "well instead of being on their phones during recess, they can do creative things to pass the time!!" okay well when my classmates did creative things to pass the time instead of being on their phones, they found a random earring on the ground and pierced a guy's ear with a needle right there so he could wear it. do you want that.

one time during recess one of my classmates poured some suspicious powder onto his desk and snorted it all. is that creative enough for you. he did it instead of being on his phone.

At my school someone yelled "look what i can do!" And ran headfirst into a two layer glass door, shattering it completely. The teacher said he won't report that he did that and will say that it was an accident to not embarass him. He did that instead of being on the phone too

so we have a conversational safeword in my group of friends and it’s great, idk why more people don’t do this. whenever someone wants a subject to be dropped immediately no questions asked we just say “spleen” and we stop immediately and it’s a really good way to avoid crossing the line between teasing friends and genuinely upsetting them by accident, or stopping debates from turning into actual arguments

Wait but no this is actually a brilliant idea. 

ok i know this is a joke but genuinely walk around and give them to your neighbors. even if you don't know them. "hey i made too many cookies to eat by myself, will you please take some?" top tier icebreaker 10/10. step 1 of community building is being able to have a chat with the people in your community

moral of the story and a lesson i think everyone can take from this is don’t expect yourself to just get over your bad habits through sheer force of will. it won’t fucking happen. instead make them as annoying as possible to continue. make them completely unsatisfying. sabotage your bad habits.

what people don’t understand about how adhd is disabling is that it’s not just getting temporarily distracted from, like, school work or hobbies. it’s getting distracted/being unable to motivate yourself to go to the doctor, eat regularly, do hygiene tasks, etc. it’s not knowing when or how long it will take you to do something, ANYTHING, and in many cases that thing is taking a shower or keeping your house from turning into a biohazard. it’s about being fundamentally incapable of controlling your attention and focus on anything, even and especially things you need to do to survive.

I am consuming a media and you are going to hear about it

and the thrilling sequel: i consumed a media months ago and you are still hearing about it

and the cautionary conclusion: the media has consumed me