ADHD memes

I have at least two concurrent trains of thought running simultaneously at all times; I don't have the energy to be outwardly expressive.

What's probably even more confusing is when the quiet turns loud suddenly because the topic has shifted to something interesting.

Yep "ADHD inattentive type" here. Chuck in Autism and dysgraphia and I was a quiet kid.

/raises hand

This was me during my youth - quiet, polite and serene on the outside, white noise on the inside. Teachers couldn't work out why I excelled at some things and failed totally at others, they thought I was smart but not applying myself to my work. It took me til my 30s to get a diagnosis.

I'm shy, my brother who is many years older than me would tell his friends how I'd yap his head off. They couldn't believe it cause I'd say almost nothing around them.

yes that sounds like inattentive type adhd, its the spacey daydreamy type, and fun fact, as its less disruptive its less likely to be diagnosed and funner fact its much more common in girls which contributes to the

How often do you have a feeling that there's too much information to convey right now, and speech/mouth feels like a bottleneck not capable of delivering all that needs to be said in their really specific details?

Women tend to exhibit inattentive ADHD more frequently than men. This is part of why boys are 16x more likely than girls to be diagnosed with ADHD. It's because women and girls don't fit the traditional media representation of what ADHD looks like, and more parents become oblivious to the fact that their child needs help.

When I was a kid, it was just called ADD, attention deficit disorder. Then at some point they slipped the hyperactive in there, and it made everyone think that it's just energetic kids. Then you got pushback in the media saying it's just excusing people not wanting to discipline their kids. And that's why I never even considered that I might have it until after I flunked out of college.

Literally me

I have a psychiatrist appointment coming up, and I am saving this to show him.

I've heard the inattentive type is more common among women. My wife definitely fits the description. People usually mistake the blank stare for intimidation, but I know better. (⁠っ⁠˘⁠з⁠(•_•⁠ ⁠)

This is why my parents dismissed my childhood diagnosis of ADHD. My older brother has the hyperactive type, but I am more of the inattentive type.

The outside is calm, but the inside is a tornado of thoughts that doesn't cease.

I have 2 settings. Highly engaging radio talk show host who ~~won't~~ can't shut up, or "wallflower mode, pls don't notice me or I may burst into tears /flames."

I'm energetic and extremely talkative when talking about the things I'm currently into. All other times I'm exactly this.

The neat part of the Internet is having communities like this explain things I've been feeling my whole life, but couldn't quite find the words to describe it.

Figuring out that I have ADHD (4 years ago at age 33) made a lot of things make sense.

My fiancé has combined type nominally, but other than racing thoughts and some stimming, he's definitely the quiet type. I would say that's probably the case for many (most even?) AuDHD people, as autism doesn't usually go hand in hand with the endless social battery that the ADHD stereotype portrays.

Is it weird that I kinda have both?

I got diagnosed with ADHD at 25 , and I’ve been like 90% quiet most of my adult life. However I recall every now and then when a memory hits, I used to be suuuper energetic, talkative and all over the place overall as a kid.

Since my family thought that getting me mental help = being put into an asylum for life, I never got assessed and was instead chastised/shamed into not talking (and in parallel the regular kids would mock and tease in the school system) so I’ve sorta just got quiet which just got me more inwardly chaotic

Frick. I should really get a proper diagnosis. Anyone here found out they had ADHD well into adulthood? What changed?