I just wanted to find some people to talk to about ADHD, but didn’t see anything here. Hoping I can see what other folks on Lemmy are focusing/not focusing on.
I’m a 33 year old who was diagnosed 2 years ago, and when I talked to my dad about it, he just said, “well yeah, you’ve always been a little…Insert vague hand wave here” I’m currently taking straterra because the psychiatrist asked me if I wanted to do scheduled or unscheduled, and the scheduled stuff scares me a bit.
I often wonder if it’s working, because attention is such a subtle thing. I am getting better at remembering things I need to do and mustering the initial momentum to get started on small tasks. I am also becoming painfully aware of how my brain is working differently than other people’s but I’ve been badly masking so long that I don’t know how to reconcile the differences.
Anyways, I love talking to people face to face (probably to absorb all of their social cues apparently?), so I’ve never figured out how to connect to people online. As a card carrying millennial, I want to figure out how to fix that.
I had a rough day because I was passed up for a raise due to having inconsistent paperwork (focusing on repetitive tasks is kinda a weak spot of mine) despite being good at my performance as a service technician. How about you?
Thats a rough time. I recently lost a much better position for a similar reason. The actual work was always accurate with documentation on point but keeping up with emails, meetings, office politics, and yaddayadda is always a chore.
Fun times. At least my last few days have been pretty chill, taking a breather and “resting”. How are the kids going?