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Stamets @lemmy.world

21h ago

Because I just know it needs to be said, read the sticky

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I find TV annoying for a while. Though not adhd specific but background music (any music, not the 'chill beats' lol) can help focus sometimes for some, including me.
- Listening to Deathcore as my focus music
  
  yes

There's got to be two kinds of ADHD. One where you need background noise, one where you hate it. I fit into the second category.
- All of my adhd friends need noise, I need silence. I'm the only one with a separately diagnosed sensory disorder, so that might explain it for me.
- I oscillate between these.
  Thankfully the whir of the engines on the Enterprise give a happy medium.
- I’ve not been in silence for decades. Can’t even sleep without something on.
  
  Me too. Thanks to tinnitus, I haven't experienced silence for decades. Best I can do is drown it out with some pink or brown noise.
  Thisisfine.jpg
- i can't stand silence, it gives me anxiety. it doesn't have to be tv, but something has to make some sound
  
  something has to make some sound
  Have you tried tinnitus? 0/10, would not recommend.
  _please _make _it _stop
  
  huh, sounds a lot like my mom. I wonder if she's undiagnosed

If I don't have background noise how can I focus on what I'm going to be distracted from?

I cant have TV or music in the background but I always have fans and a white noise machine going in my room. Anything with voices, though, distract me to much.

Honestly extremely true as a diagnosed ADHDer. I would go nuts without background noise, I didn't even realize my sheer need for stuff in the background until I got medicated and suddenly could sit in silence for hours and hours doing work, and even found it preferable, even having background music is distracting.

If i don't have something in the background that i find a minimum interesting i space out from what i need to do too often and time disapears.

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