So I haven’t been taking my ADHD meds on this trip, which is what one often does. It is mostly fine except for these things that I used to have the ability to ignore before meds has come to visit and I can’t ignore easily.

Brain, I want free of this song on LOOP please. 😂

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My stupid #ADHD brain can't pay attention long enough to read 1 damn paragraph...🤦🏻‍♂️

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Welcome to my #ADHD life.

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I wish I could make my entire online experience like this.

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I’ve been extra anxious this week so I’m trying 20 mg Vyvanse today instead of 10 mg and I just feel kinda weird? A bit spacey. Not sure it helped with focus at all (or not more than 10 mg does, anyway). It would be neat if brain could do its own dopamine! #ADHD #ADHDer

I forget what I'm saying sometimes in the middle of saying it....don't ask me to remember something.🤦‍♂️

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Now THIS is my kinda #Barbie :kek:

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me during reasonable hours of the day: "I never want to do anything in my life, ever."

me at 3 am: "I have to learn how to play the piano IMMEDIATELY!"

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Shout-out to Vyvanse, the true MVP. It had been described to me as "dulling emotions," and "made me feel like a task accomplishing robot," and that was really off-putting to me. I don't want to feel like a robot!

What it actually does is helps me focus my attention to get things done that I want to, and gives me some emotional space so I don't tend to react as strongly or as quickly. My anxiety is almost entirely gone since I started it at the lowest dose. #ADHD #ADHDer

The struggle is real...

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Welcome to my #ADHD social media experience...

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My brain with #ADHD

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Shout out to my personal friend and #AIart and fellow #ADHDer @st0neybrat, go give her a #follow! She's fairly new to #Mastodon.

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Who wants to be an #ADHDer?

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@ginger Hi Ginger, nice to meet you! I'm a fellow #ADHDer. We live in Calgary and the transit here isn't super great but I got a cargo ebike this year to try reducing our car trips. I love biking, fountain pens, my husband @Vosskah commutes to work by bike as often as he can (a 40 km round trip). He's from MTL originally so we've visited there a lot. :D

Procrastinators with a terrible sleep cycle, listen up! I'm fixing my sleep cycle using procrastination, and its working

Here's what happened:

I had been trying to "fix" my sleep cycle for years, but only made it worse. Every day, I would try to make myself go to bed earlier or wake up later than I wanted. Sometimes, I would try to book appointments earlier in my day to force myself to wake up early. I would wake up earlier, but then be sleep-deprived and sleep later the next day. All my efforts only made everything worse, and last week, I was waking up at 5pm to start my day. I finally said enough is enough, and it was time to try something new.

Since any plans that deprived me of sleep didn't work, I had to go the other route. I decided to finally utilize my ultimate skill: procrastination.

On Tuesday, I slept for as long as I could. Instead of waking up at 5pm, I woke up at 8pm I stayed awake as long as was feasible, putting off going to bed. I went to bed 5 hours later than normal. The next day, I did the same. I woke up even later, and went to bed even later. By now, I had gone from experiencing 1 hour of sunlight a day to 9 hours. What a relief! I was essentially living life as if a day was 28 hours, not 24. I procrastinated going to sleep and waking up in the morning until, after 5 days, I had procrastinated myself into waking up at 8 a.m. like a normal person. It's a miracle!

I don't know if it will stick yet. I'll have to update you on that. But so far, I've made the most progress I've ever made in this.

Some things to note:

1. I am not working right now. That makes this a lot easier. That said, no longer working is part of why things got so bad.

2. This process felt a lot like jet lag, minus the stress of actually traveling. I felt incredibly hungry all the time, felt quite anxious, and pretty unsettled (that might be the autistic need for routine). Nothing too bad, certainly much less stress than weeks of getting one hour of daylight a day. But it was stressful.

3. I need a lot of sleep due to my chronic fatigue. I average 10 hours a night. Through this experiment, I was doing 11-14 hours. I imagine this would take a lot longer if you usually only need 7 hours.

4. I did have one false start. Last weekend, I tried it, and at the time I usually would sleep, I decided to "take a little nap" which just turned into regular sleep. I would recommend avoiding naps if that's likely to happen to you. But maybe you have more self-control than me.

I'll report how the next week goes. I haven't woken up at 8am with a full night's rest in ten years. I hope this helps someone else who is struggling with a terrible sleep cycle!

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It do be like that though....

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#ADHD #Tips of the day! If you're having a rough day and everything just seems out of control, it's okay to take time to stop, drop, and regulate your emotions.

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For my #ADHDer friends today, if you want something to consider about #ADHD #Masking https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-adhd-masking-5200863

Read the list and ask yourself how many of the things you’re doing, and what toll is it taking on you? There isn’t a single item on it that I haven’t done at some time, if not now. I feel like I don’t even know myself, and I need to start figuring out how to rebuild, and who it’s safe to be myself around.