I’ve been doing this lately too, after always cringing my whole life whenever I would see people on TV do it. Now it’s become a stim with me too, as well as scrunching my toes to kind of crack my ankle - like popping knuckles/wrists, just the foot version.
My ankle now hurts and I’m wondering if I’m doing lasting damage to my joints and ligaments 😔
I found this on a reddit post via Google. I don’t want to send anyone to that site so to save time here’s the post. Hopefully this can work for you. The post is 1 year old, and I haven’t checked these links still work. Good luck!
This is just how I, a person with ADHD, keep track of my events. This shortcut just sets alarms for 30 minutes before each calendar event to remind you about it. I have it automated to run every morning. Only downside is you end up with a whole lot of alarms.
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/c997e06e177e42dda12d298a8ad39434
For those who prefer reminders over alarms, here’s one for reminders: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/12711e7e1556457f927f4f91969527fc
Try alarm calendar plus in the play store (android). I’ve used it for years. The developer is called ‘Moyou’.
I have it go off x minutes before the work shifts that I enter into my Google calendar, and I also use it for “time signals” - little beeps throughout the day to remind me ‘hey, it’s 12 o’clock now, better get some lunch’, or more typically - time to get up and take a 5 minute break.
Of course I have to have th corresponding time signal to go back to work or my ADHD brain would get distracted and forget 😁
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I have one of those cheap fitbit clones that let’s me set named alarms and timers. When I have an important event coming up, i out it on my app and when it’s time my watch will buzz and say 'event name" and remind me. No distraction necessary by picking up the phone to silence it and getting bogged down in notifications and games, scrolling, forgetting what I was doing, etc.
Me and my AuDHD deciding it’s time to code another metric on the excel spreadsheet and tweaking the colors instead of actually doing what I need to do.
I have considered the Uberman sleep schedule, but I already subsist on only 4.5hrs per night as I work a desk job from 5am and a gig job in the evenings. I could do it but still have to support my family. But in my twenties I highly considered it.
I would go with this. If it were me, going along would give me more anxiety. Like being called in to the manager’s office so a coworker can apologize to me for something that happened. Somehow you’re still a victim at that point.
That analogy happened to me IRL and it was not pleasant.
Seems like the server side infrastructure is already there, and the clients just need to integrate it. It’s not as simple as an API call though but I guess it utilizes the Don’t Repeat Yourself and keep it simple (stupid) software development principles. Would be good to see this implemented
I always have this harrowing thought every time I was there (I lived in AZ, it was a once-every-few-years sort of affair). I have a memory of my Dad posing for a picture there, right where there’s an ankle-high wall leading to certain doom. He didn’t fall, but it wouldn’t take much and it gives me such Call of the Void vibes looking at that photo.
<shudder>
I thought it was odd, too - but from the article it seems like he has.
He was flown to hospital with serious injuries but has since been discharged.
Always has been
I just looked it up and your doc was right. It seems that it can often follow a chiropractic adjustment because believe it or not chiropractic is not a real medical field, similar to acupuncture and acupressure.
This is enough to make me think twice about cracking it - time for my AuDHD to find a new stim!