Coffeedate with ADHD
PetraOh look, it's me!
alsvha@adhd_coffee Ends up reading completely unrelated topic for two hours.
kit@adhd_coffee sometimes I like to think it would help if I could read the words in a consistent order.
Graceless HippoThis is a wake up moment for me 🤯
Marian Scales@adhd_coffee accurate! 😅😅😅
707Kat@adhd_coffee At times my brain is being particular obstinate I use the basic voice feature (not generative AI) of the FOSS project ReadAloud set to my liking. It helps keeping me focused on the text as I read along or take notes.
There's both a plugin for Chromium and Firefox based browsers.
Here's the github repo: https://github.com/ken107/read-aloud
GinevraCat@adhd_coffee @[email protected] For me, it's even worse with videos.
grmon@adhd_coffee wait, that's adhd as well? not everyboy reads like that? #typo
Daniel ☀
@adhd_coffee All my life it has been like this.
And I thought there was something wrong with me.
And it makes me angry to realise now, in my forties, that my mind simply works differently.
Everything is harder for me than it is for most people.
I have always felt bad when comparing myself with others.
I have always felt lesser than other people, misunderstood, even pushed aside.
It’s a miserable way to live.
And I thought there was something wrong with me.
And it makes me angry to realise now, in my forties, that my mind simply works differently.
Everything is harder for me than it is for most people.
I have always felt bad when comparing myself with others.
I have always felt lesser than other people, misunderstood, even pushed aside.
It’s a miserable way to live.
SoftspeakWhen I encounter something I find dull, I learned to trick my brain in hyper-fixation by telling myself there is hidden knowledge that will useful to flex in future to impress people.
Two things might happen:
1 I become an expert of the dull-ass subject and impress no one.
2 The subject is just too dry I will never use it ever and I impress no one.
🐜
Sassinake!that is absolutely how it feels
Jade P.@adhd_coffee umph. I dunno. I remember Life Before the Internet (pardon me while I go shake my cane at those kids in the yard) and I could *read* then, I put books away like candy, 25 years before diagnosis. Now, not so much. But if I'm without a phone for a couple of days it comes back.
frpz@adhd_coffee I guess I have adhd too !