#adhd studying

monday. march 23, 2026.

-> breakfast of champions. didn't eat all of it but it was all still very good.

-> didn't want to do stairmaster and didn't want to do my reading so i did both at the same time to minimize time spent on tasks i didn't want to do. adhd hates to see my coming. this worked scary well and i wish i could do it with my massive modern & renaissance philosophy textbook bc i genuinely cranked out 30+ mins, reading at about a page per minute.

-> also had a research meeting and a clothes mending event for work.

-> finished up a lab, onto the next one.

-> folded & put away laundry.

THREE STRATEGIES – with funny titles because I'm hilarious

1. Mr Beast speedrun: get most out of time before brain shuts off and loses interest.

-ADHD MAKES YOU HAVE A SHORT ATTENTION SPAN, SO YOU HAVE TO GET AS MUCH AS YOU CAN OUT OF YOUR TIME BEFORE YOU GET DISTRACTED

-use flashcards – rereading your notes is ineffective because it's passive.

-if you can only focus for an hour, don't push; just get as much as you can out of that hour.

-don't actually rush, just make sure you stay as focused as possible in the time you have.

2. Tick, tick... Boom!: biggest reward, quickest convenience

-COMPLETING A TASK GIVES YOU A QUICK HIT OF DOPAMINE AND WE'RE ALWAYS CHASING THAT DOPAMINE, SO MAKE FINISHING THE TASK FEEL MORE REWARDING

-ADHD – you can't regulate impulsivity, there's always a dopamine craving.

-use to-do lists to organise what you want to do and motivate you to do them.

-short-term rewards – create a 30-minute-at-a-time schedule, after every 30 minutes, cross/tick off the item, and make sure the task will only take 30 minutes so your goals are realistic.

3. The Rosier twins: body doubling; complete tasks alongside somebody else

-A LOT OF PEOPLE WITH ADHD FIND IT MORE MOTIVIATING TO BE AROUND OTHER PEOPLE WHILST THEY WORK

-but be careful in case you end up talking with the person, because you could find it hard to focus.

-make sure you actually get work done instead of just hanging out with a friend.

I'm reading an online text book now (while YouTube is playing) and I wanted to do this right now real quick on how I do notes and people can add how they do notes with ADHD or other learning disorders. (Also at least I am doing this when I started this who knows if I'll add this to my drafts)

I write in differnt colored pens. -- I find writing in one color kind of makes everything blend together just like, bleeeeggghh. Writing in different colors separates the points to me and also when I inevitably lose my reading place, I have a general idea where I was.

I also think the routine thing works in here. Some say routine helps ADHD, I disagree, I think routine irritates me. I think of routine like the Doctor from Doctor Who does. It's appalling to me and it makes me want to scream or rip off my arm just so something happens. (You may think that's overdramatic but who are you to judge me, likely neurotypical person!?) I think routine bores my brain and makes it drift off and the different colors helps that.

I write one side of the page, not on both sides -- When you write and you turn the page, it caused the led or ink to smudge on the page and it kind of messes me up and also if you write in ink it bleeds slightly even with gel pens that I use and that also messes me up so I write on the front side of every new page which I know is wasteful but so is writing notes that don't help me.

I always seperate each line of words with those notebook lines -- When I was in elementary school (because I had a motor skills problem) I would be brought out of class to work on my writing and I was taught to write inside the line which is how most people probably do it but I've found if I go to the next line it also makes it blend in together and it like, where am I, there's too much in this one spot. There are hanging hooks of J's and Y's and I slanted my writing a little, so I put one clean space of notebook lines between my writing.

It's been working well, but it also feels like this:

Me: I wanna use my phone a little more

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