I should take my #Adderall more often. I am loving everyone on this platform this morning.
Does anyone with #ADHD have any good tips on how to remember to eat when medicated? That’s the only reason I don’t take it every day and I really should take it every day.
I eat before I take it so at least there’s that, and I smoke a lot of weed that will give me the munchies, but that gets expensive. And I can only do that on the days that I don’t have to go out in my car to do things.
This could be the connection between Ehlers-Danlos and neurodivergence. (People with EDS, like me, are 7 times as likely to be autistic and 5 times as likely to have ADHD -- also like me.)
I know people with estrogen have said their ADHD gets worse during perimenopause/menopause, but I'm wondering if people with testosterone 50+ also notice their Autism/ADHD symptoms getting worse. Especially more "inattentive"/stuck in their thoughts.
I feel like we really need more research on all of this.
How can stuff be more accessible for neurodivergent people? I think this gets pushed aside sometimes in favour of more visible accessibility needs
If you run a club or have recurring events, ‘we have a calendar for you to check’ can be a lot less accessible than ‘we run regular events, sign up for weekly reminders / reminders for upcoming events’.
Less need to remember to go check something, on a schedule, to keep up to date, which can be hard for folks with executive dysfunction- among others, those with ADHD. Issues reasoning about time can impact this, too.
It can seem like a style preference or a design choice, but it can be really helpful!
Do you have things you wish people knew could make the world more accessible to neurodivergent people?
So happy I took the time to learn #Dataview. It's going to be revolutionary for my vault. It'll help me create main topic pages to keep track of my notes. I used to manually link every note to a "MOC" but I kept forgetting and found it tedious. This is going to be a "leave it and let grow" thing, and it suits my #ADHD brain immensely lol.
And how great it is that the #Obsidian anticipated our annoyance with YAML and come up with the properties feature? Genius.
I had a Rockstar energy drink, coffee, and a small Red Bull can, and it made me so sleepy I passed out for 14 minutes and woke up feeling like I slept an hour.
Energy drinks are supposed to make me functional, not take a nap after 240mg energy drink caffeine + whatever 4oz coffee is.
My current world order, where my morning and overnight schedule has largely shifted to accommodate a crazy early start to get kiddo ready for alternate school pickup, has resulted in my not being up as late at night as I used to be.
What I’ve realized is this seriously impacts my productivity. I’m way more productive at quiet times in mg day, and now my working time is constrained to when others are around. This sucks.
It's worse when there's a test involved afterwards ( lemmy.dbzer0.com )
I'm at my most motivated just before falling asleep ( lemmy.dbzer0.com )
I just turned into a puddle of goo. Thanks for asking. ( lemmy.dbzer0.com )
I can't tell if it's my ADHD or ASD, but it happens a lot... ( lemmy.dbzer0.com )
Executive paralysis ( lemmy.world )