ADHD culture is saying “what?” when you heard the question someone asked you but… It didn’t fucking… Register… In the brain? And then you hear the question before they ask again and interrupt them when they’re talking because now you’re An Asshole™ who understands
Someone: Hey what time is it?
Me: What?
Someone: Wha-
Me: It’s 3:20
This is actually a thing, while visual info takes 0.1 seconds to process, auditory infor can take 3 to 4 seconds to process, which is why you ask, and then actually hear the question because your brains only just processed it
My husband has ADHD and does this, and I hate repeating myself constantly. One thing that I feel has saved us from so much stress in our marriage is that I’ve just stopped repeating myself. After a while he caught onto what I was doing and stopped saying “what” over and over when I didn’t respond. Now occasionally he’ll ask me “what?” when I said something because he actually didn’t hear me, and I will happily repeat myself for him, but most of the time I just say silent and let his brain compute what I said. So now our conversations go one of two ways:
Me: Hey hon, where is the tv remote? Him: What?? Me: *silence* Him: I left it on the couch.
Or
Me: Hey hon, where is the tv remote? Him: What? Me: *silence* Him: Ok, I really didn’t hear you that time, what did you say? Me: *repeats question*
Even if you don’t have ADHD, I mean, auditory delay happens with a lot of people, not just ADHD folk. If you deal with it, try this approach with your friends and loved ones. It has helped us so much.
I jokingly suggested something similar to my gf called the “3 second rule”. If i don’t respond in 3s, assume I really didn’t hear you.
Tho Im p good at just masking the processing time with UUhhhhHhHhh
Also pro tip for communicating with ADHD people: say the name of the person you want to talk to before you share your thought and wait for them to acknowledge you. That way if we are distracted or otherwise occupied you know can be sure are listening. We very well may still need to process, but it will greatly cut down on the number of times we genuinely didn’t hear a word you just said.
THAT LAST NOTE
PLEASE
I AM BEGGING
Yo I’m just like an Alexa with legs. Ya gotta say my wake word if you want me to to pay attention.
This goes for autism too. And hell yes for the wake word. You can stand there talking at me for five minutes and I may not hear you if you didn’t get my attention first.
hey, remember how I had that post that said that MAPs shouldn’t follow me?
yeah so TERFs need to get off my blog too, thanks. take your rhetoric somewhere else this is a pvp enabled zone where I beat your TERF ass and exile you from the fandom.
k thx!!! <3
reminder that this is a no terfs and no MAPs zone. I will NUKE your asses.
IT GOT MINE RIGHT TOO…
What kind of sorcery is this?!?
This quiz tellin me I got green eyes but I have brown. :/
Anyone taking this test with tryptophobia beware! They show a close up photo of lotus seeds in it and i know it can be heavily triggering to anyone with it.
not to be a “this whole website is one giant social experiment” but it honestly blows my mind on how tumblr has completely twisted the genuinely good philosophy of “be thoughtful and think critically of the media you consume” and turned it into this extremist mindset where something is either completely ideologically pure in every single way (which, bad news. is impossible) or it’s the work of Complete Evil and must be banned and ignored in its entirety if found to be slightly problematic. and from this mindset has blossomed a black and white lens on human nature and a terrifying 1 strike and you’re out system with no growth mindset whatsoever
the fact that the users on here decided to deflect this post by trying to go through my blog to find any “problematic post” i may have ever posted EVER so they have reason to cancel me and completely ignore my point is the most on-brand tumblr thing ever
and OP hasn’t been accused of anything btw. people are just reaching for reasons to cancel this post. I wonder why???? Could it be….. does it hit too close to the uncomfortable truth?
homestuck canon is so wild that you can tell me virtually anything happened and i’ll believe you. like you can say “terezi murdered dave” and i’ll be like “that sounds about right” and actually i’m gonna have to refrain from writing the rest of this post because i just remembered that terezi did, in fact, murder dave
a disgruntled government employee murders his boss after the dress code changed
nepeta decapitates two monsters at once
someone finds erotic fanfiction about the white queen written in first person
john reenacts con air with several newborns
a former revolutionary eats an entire goddamn chunk of uranium
equius asks for belly rubs
Tell me which one of those didn’t actually happen in canon.
I wanna say its the nepeta one. 1) Bec Noirs main motivation 2) I dont remember that 3) John found the eritic fanfiction in the prospit library 4) its how jade and rose got their bunnies 5) its why jack killed WV 6) Equius asked for belly rubs when roleplaying as nep on the meteor
@silver-tongues-blog ok so im not sure if this is the right page but she does decapitate two heads at once at least
objection: that is one single monster with two heads (due to the biclopse prototype) not two separate monsters
I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.
