“Oh I’ve just got a lot on my mind today.”

We are all ADHD Alice, tumbling down the rabbit hole.

Me: Laughing out loud at my own thoughts

My mom, furious: Can you please show some respect and decorum at your grandfather’s funeral?

“How can you expect me to concentrate when there is one (1) empty coffee cup on my desk? I need to clean up this chaotic mess. It’s Too LOUD!”

This sounds like an SCP.

I’m in this picture and I don’t like it 🐧

Yes, this is, in my limited but growing understanding, very normal behavior for us neuro-divergent types (ADHD, Autism, etc.)

ADHD dialogue options:

• Backstory leading to conclusion.
• Backstory NOT leading to conclusion.
• Tangent! leading to nowhere!
• Interrupting them.
• Wait, what?

Just got diagnosed last week, and I am well into adulthood.

It’s a bit early yet. I am on starter meds and have a follow up appointment in a few weeks. Already though I have noticed impulse control is much better. It’s like I have a time machine that’s given me a few extra moments to respond to stimuli. Anxiety levels are also way down, and I don’t feel the frazzled need to jump to the next thing, trying to get a dopamine fix.

Trying now to pursue a 3 prong style of treatment: medication, forming new habits, and mindfulness/observation. I am doing mood journaling to try to capture my experience.

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.”

The ADHD tendency to hyperfocus and write super detailed descriptions.

vs.

The ADHD tendency to say: Nope! Too long, not reading that!

There was a case in Canada where the judge ruled in favour of the plaintiff, where a chatbot had offered information that differed from Air Canada’s written policy. The judge made them honor the guidance generated by the chatbot:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/air-canada-chatbot-lawsuit-1.7116416

I mean he’s not wrong about the former, but he can fuck off about the latter.

It’s a built in, central facet:

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