Edit: Friendly reminder to report posts that violate the rules. The mods have their own stuff to do and won’t necessarily notice unless you report it too!

  • @[email protected]
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    31 hour ago

    Luckily my friends get it. I just say a bunch of similar words or things related to the vibe of the word I’m searching for and they get it.

    • @[email protected]
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      47 hours ago

      I describe ADHD as a purely executive disorder that harms your progress/goals. Which is why I agree with your statement as all those claims don’t really harm an overarching goal.

      People with ADHD do things like frequently forget their driver’s license or frequently forgetting their office key card. It affects their day to day lives in more noticeable ways than just “whoops I put my thing in the pile of clothes, now ive lost it”

        • StametsOP
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          2 hours ago

          Typical whinefest of “UM ACTUALLY THIS ISN’T ADHD SPECIFIC”. Bit more preachy than most given it was multiple paragraphs long.

    • @[email protected]
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      27 hours ago

      Whether it’s ADHD or chronic fatigue, the same stims will fix it.

      That may be bad because if the treatment works, people assume the diagnosis is correct.

    • @dmMeYourNudes
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      610 hours ago

      “Peeing is normal too, but if you’re doing it 27 times a day there’s a problem”

    • @[email protected]
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      510 hours ago

      I dunno bro/broette — you should talk to the other people in your life about how often they experience the last few on your list. You may find you’re one of us.

    • StametsOP
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      57 hours ago

      And I’m tired of comments like yours that blatantly ignore the sticky and rule 1.

      But here we are.

      • @[email protected]
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        56 hours ago

        I don’t think it’s “party pooping” to comment on a post and my opinion on how it is not an ADHD specific trait and humans as a whole do this.

        Soooo … You can feel however you want to, I have ADHD myself (diagnosed by a doctor) so I’m not totally talking out of my ass. But it doesn’t mean I’m some sort of expert either.

        Given this is a meme community and none of this actually matters, I think we’ll all be ok.

        • @[email protected]
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          12 hours ago

          Given this is a meme community and none of this matters

          People with ADHD should have a space where they can meme their symptoms, and be safe from some assholes giving the tired, constant, shows-up-all-the-time BS about “well NORMAL people experience this TOO!”

          It is minimizing and it’s exhausting. A community is allowed to say no, thanks, we don’t want to see this same conversation under every single damn post. And having ADHD yourself doesn’t give you a pass to be that guy.

        • StametsOP
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          6 hours ago

          You should try actually reading the sticky that is attached to that rule instead of just assuming what it is about. Because yeah. Your comment directly is in violation of that which is why your comment was removed.

    • @[email protected]
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      10 hours ago

      I have ADHD and SO doesn’t. We both initiate this “game” and with about equal frequency.

      Sometimes you just don’t word good.

  • Björn Tantau
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    1011 hours ago

    Ah, but watch out for the surprise single player edition where I get annoyed with my dialogue partner having the audacity trying to guess what I wanted to say.

  • @[email protected]
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    410 hours ago

    And you have a crystal clear mental image of your intent, but there is absolutely no other way to describe but “you know, the thing that does the somewhat tangential word that still isn’t right… the thing!! Y u no understand!?!”

    • @[email protected]
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      12 hours ago

      And the extra side game of; “I found a word thst kind of does the job, and I’ve explained what I needed to, but it wasn’t that word and I will be unsatisfied until I figure out what that word is!”

  • @[email protected]
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    11 hours ago

    And they don’t get it right but want to move on with the conversation. Now you don’t hear anything they say, just trying to remember the word. You try to force yourself to listen but you can’t stop your brain from going through every word you know.

    Two hours later you yell out “effervescent”. You’re overcome with relief only to realize the other person is one and now you’re in a work meeting.

  • @[email protected]
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    210 hours ago

    Every fucking day multiple words and concepts a day. Sometimes only days later the word comes back and then “fuck that’s what I wanted to say” and keep repeating the word for hours in hopes of not forgetting again.

  • @[email protected]
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    211 hours ago

    This happens to me a lot, I didn’t know it was a symptom of adhd.

    I’ve always had this where I “know” what I want to say but the right words aren’t there, or I’ll be thinking multiple words to articulate the thought and mash them together. Is that the same thing?

    I also change topics a lot and then jump back, which my brother hates, but it’s how I naturally follow trains of thought.

  • @[email protected]
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    212 hours ago

    My wife wants to play this stupid-ass game all the time, I hate it. It would not be too bad if the gesticulation and words trying to hint at it made sense…but It’s just her waving her arms like she’s having a seizure while mumbling nonsensically, and her getting annoyed at me becauae she doesn’t make any fucking sense.