Theory

Downvote because it's a bad ADHD meme and for the goddamn motherfucking censored fuck.

Censoring a meme on the internet is stupid.

Shit, I just bounce back and forth between the 2 depending on how I feel today
- Saaaame

Fuck

Sometimes it's both, where you mask to seem like the first, while being the second.

Fuck it, I don't seem to have AD(H)D. That's why I've spent the better part of the day recharging so I could pretend to be social in the evening while on vacation with the in-laws and a 2-year old niece. I can't fucking filter her screams, the noise of having 7 adults around me and I'm so fucking glad of not having kids myself.

fuck.
we can just say cuss words.
fuck
- fuck
  
  fucking thank you.

After years and years of hard work and therapy, I'm now a hilarious mix of the two.
You might ask, "How is your sink so empty and your kitchen so clean, but your clean laundry is piled so high that this is probably your entire wardrobe here on the floor next to the dryer?"
Well, I would answer, "How did you get in my house and would you like something to eat?"
- I climbed through the window, because I thought I saw a kitty, but turns out is just a pillow. and yes
  
  If you check under the blanket next to the pillow, there is a sleeping kitty. He is greedy for pets and will meow at you.
  This is a trap. If you start petting him, you're never allowed to stop.
- Get out of my house!
  
  ...You didn't even offer me a snack for the road! What kind of host are you?
  Also I brought tea bags. They're quite nice.

This was posted WITHOUT the dumb fucking censoring earlier today...

Sometimes I'm too tired to unmask.
- ~~ Sometimes I’m too tired to unmask.~~
  Sometimes I’m too tired to mask.

FUCK
You can say fuck on the Internet!
For fucks sake.
- Cussing is a goddamn dirty habit and you should cut that fucking shit out.
- no u cant the lemmy cuss brigade will arrest u, my uncle said so and he works at nintendo
  
  idk if working at nintendo is a fitting punishment for saying fuck
  
  My Nintendo works for U.N.C.L.E.
  
  Joke's into him: I'm into it.
- Filtering swear words is a dark path the masses are willfully following. It's a subtle way to see if they can use AI to force us to change how we speak to align with a worldview. People need to fucking resist it.
  
  Interesting take. Care to elaborate what role AI plays in this context? Recognizing swear words in image files, I guess?
  Also I'm willfully using more swear words on Lemmy if it means they won't farm my comments for training their fucking piss shit AI without my goddamn consent. Horsefuckers!
- Don't fucking say that word please

There's also the type that constantly has extra (possibly clarifying) thoughts in the middle of their typed sentences. So, they use parentheses to add those clarifications because having to retype the sentence would derail their train of thought and they'd then completely fail to convey anything.
- So, so much. Then realizing you typed two paragraphs replying to a text. Then spend 30 minutes on full re-edits until your self doubt makes you eventually delete it all and simply respond “ok” where normal people only take 10 seconds to type that and yet you get annoyed by their lack of communication. And thus the self hatred spiral continues, as ever.
- I use dashes - like this - and feel called out.
  
  Listen there is nothing wrong with having used both commas, dashes and parentheses in the same comment. It's perfectly normal.
  Right?
  
  Use m-dashes and no spaces, and you'll be doing it right. The m-dash—which look like this—is the appropiate punctuation for this purpose.
- I don't appreciate being attacked like this.
- I absolutely detest that kind (the kind who writes a giant parenthetical in the middle if their sentence before one or two words at the end. Just put the fucking parenthetical after the sentence! jfc) of person.
- got that built in bottom text
- Some try to compensate for that by editing sentences to remove it, but then only change like half the sentence, breaking it without realizing.

I had to set up a project management software to manage my housework. That's normal, and not a coping mechanism.
- Goddamnit, another thing I do to cope. I keep asking my doc how to get diagnosed, I just keep getting antidepressants prescribed which do not help.
  
  So here's some important facts I've learned from my doctors over recent years. Keep in mind, I'm not a doctor, and this information might be out of date (but I don't think it is).
  People with ADHD are often comorbid with depression, so if a doctor doesn't treat the depression first, and gives the person with ADHD the medication to focus, it can result in the person with ADHD having enough focus to successfully make an attempt on their own life.
  Fact two: many persons with ADHD doesn't make enough seratonin on their own to function, which means if you're being prescribed SSRIs, you don't have enough seratonin to selectively reuptake inhibit.
  But since the antidepressants for ADHD are a different class of drugs, many doctors will run through the 'standard' list before they get to the stuff that helps ADHDers. And then once they've done that, and ruled out all the things, they'll move to "unconventional" treatment. Partly, this is because the process of trying different antidepressants can rule out things other than ADHD, and partly because they seem to want to rule out every other possible thing in addition to ADHD, before treating the ADHD. And if I were to guess, it's because giving a person ADHD medication who has a secret something else (like bipolar as an example) even though the person has ADHD, the ADHD medication can worsen the other condition to such a condition that it's better not to give ADHD medication at all.
  This is why the process takes so fuckin long. And a couple years ago, I would've said it was stupid and a massive waste of time and harmful to the person with ADHD. But a year ago a friend of mine with bipolar was prescribed stimulant medication and his life absolutely went off the rails as a result, and seeing that first hand... I'd rather low and slow and not have to experience something like that.
  Sorry for the word wall. I hope this helps!
- As someone with severe ADHD this sounds like a great idea. Management is talking about moving me up into a project management role so I've been studying the concept and tools, I can totally see how this could help. Thanks for the idea!
  
  Would recommend. It's a lot of work up front: room by room, task by task, repetition rate by repetition rate, priority by priority. Then I found I forgot some things and have to add them. I'm constantly working by what's the highest-priority>most over-due task. But things are getting done.
  Before, I'd notice the shower would need cleaning stepping into it and forget the shower needed cleaning stepping out of it. Now, the shower still always seems to still need cleaning, but only on the software, I never step in the shower and think it needs cleaning... Rarely anyway.
- How the fuck do you get enough energy to use project management software to manage your housework?
  
  I don't understand? I press the link on my phone's home page, that takes me to the "things due today page" and then press the little tick box to say I've cleaned the shower. After a time the "clean the shower" task will be due again and so the cycle continues. If I'm honest things are usually over due, but it still means that the shower is getting cleaned more frequently than it did before.
  Before, I noticed the shower needed cleaning just as I was about to get in it. The shower would then stop existing just after I got out of it, but a little dirtier.
- Trello?
  
  Vikunja

Huh. I guess I'm the fuckit type. I got no patience for pretending to not be me. Not anymore.

I'm one of the "fuck it lmao" types and I wouldn't change it for anything. Life is suffering, but I'm also very easily amused and thrive in chaos.

I'm held together by anxiety, caffeine and an unhealthy amount of self hate.
I also have 7 list, a board, 3 reminder app and leave sticky notes everywhere but I least I'm productive ( please help )

Mask at work and chaos at home!
- I stopped masking at work and it was one of the most liberating things i did in life

I've learned to appreciate my chaos for life's spice. I'm an Absurdist. I like to be the reason others do things. All that to say i rather enjoy the freedoms of peace and everyone should add a bit of flower magic to their life.
- I found out I'm different from the populace in college when a colleague told me that I reminded them of the main character from the bullet storm game. It took me until my twenties to realize I'm different. I legit thought everyone was "pro-good stuff" until then. I have been losing faith in my fellow countrymen ever since. Sometimes I think I would've been better being left in the dark.
  
  I still think most people are pro-good stuff, just that capitalism incentivises the worst behaviors and makes quite a few bad things overwhelmingly good for whoever is perpetrating them. This includes influencing/manipulating others to believe backwards, bad stuff; which one would have to do by telling them that stuff is in some way "good" actually. Whatever your framework for determining "good" from "bad".
  
  My coworkers used to call me Superman, due to my rather lawful good alignment. LOL. I actually feel guilty about it sometimes, like maybe I shouldn't be that way.

I'm the second until i am stressed enough to start disassociating, then i become the first one :)
- My disassociations are boring. I basically just stand there while I'm swept away by my chaotic stream of thoughts.
  But, I somehow figured out if I let things get super chaotic, it becomes background noise and I'm suddenly meditating. As an added bonus my brain decided that would be my pain response, so now my pain tolerance is crazy high (like getting a vasectomy without anesthesia and only saying ouch under my breath a few times).
- I do Uber in a tourist area during peak times. And I feel this comment.
  Weekdays it's silence other than the NPR radio talking points. Friday to Sunday it's chatter that I submit to in fear of losing out on the seldom tip.

Totally type 1 here. People even ask if I’m ok when I’m not random and chaotic as shit.

Type 2 here. I literally just walked out of a therapists office who essentially said exactly this.

There's the "I'm 60 and I don't realize I have it and it annoys the fuck out of my colleagues" type that I had to deal with...

I'm like one in public but the other in private.

I'm type 2 and a joke, can confirm.

I went from the 2nd type to the 1st type and I don't regret it. My life is fun now.

Mask?
- Are you asking what the term means? Masking is basically wearing an imaginary mask to hide whatever about you isn't deemed "normal" by society. Some typical examples are people with ADHD focussing very hard on noticing when it's their turn to speak, people with autism forcing themselves to make eye contact, people with depression putting on a happy face. Normal Person cosplay.
  
  "Normal people cosplay."
  I was sorely lacking this definition in my vocabulary. Thank you for the correction.
  
  Thanks for the explanation!

It's too relatable to be a joke.

(No, it (really) isn't.)

fuck

FUCK