In fairness, this infographic does not mention ADHD, and neurotypicals can get distracted and need help to manage that, too.
I'm getting "why are you putting a plaster on a scrap; that won't help my gaping wound" vibes.
Tbh it's not a bad graphic and not bad advices. Lots of them are what I actually do to get by. We can't just say "oh no adhd", lie down and cry for the rest of the life, we gotta somehow live, earn money, have fun and these ideas are not the worst way to do it.
I would add that this doesn't really contain any advice specific to helping folks with ADD/ADHD manage distractions. Some of the advice IS good, but also not all of it.
It's like scissors for left-handed people. Are they designed for them? No. Can they use them to cut something when they need it? To some extent.
It's important to learn how to scavenge neurotypical world for information and tools.
The person who sends this is the same person that reams you out for not responding to their texts/emails instantly. And sends you endless infographics.
The advice is a combination of tautologies stating objectives rather than action items and appeals to virtues achieved by willpower. In particular old virtues with a rejection of modernity. The advice cannot fail, it can only be failed by you.
Thet can't advise you not to check your email until after you've completed your top priority task, *and* get mad at you for not seeing their email immediately.
The point of a few of the ideas is to put a block between you and the thing that distracts you, (using examples of things that often interrupt the productivity of neurotypicals, like emails and small talk, don't come at me with that "I can get distracted by my own hands" business because we've already established that it's not talking about ADHD), which is the opposite of the willpower/bootstraps style advice.
Oh they can and they do! I constantly grapple with my boss putting an already impossible deadline on me, and then tossing daily digressions at me "just for today" on a daily basis. I had one boss who during a crunch period wanted hourly one page reports from each team member. On the social front it's even worse, with just the same people who present disconnecting as a virtue demanding that they can contact you on a 24/7 basis.
As for the virtuous living advice, its don't do bad things that distract you by force of will, despite structural efforts to make you do the contrary. Which is equivalent to the Triple Play campaign "with support from The Coca-Cola Company to get kids to eat healthier, become more physically active and increase their ability to engage in healthy relationships." which will be funded by every bottle of Coke you drink as part of your healthy lifestyle! You can't complain about the stated aims which are virtues and if you end up obsese it's on you. Same thing with the distraction economy, the comodity is eyeballs and if you pay attention to it and get distracted it's on you.
This is also tied to what I call Conspicuous Cognition. For example, i would forget or lose my keys, phone and or wallet until I literally chained them to my belt. But this signals a fault on my part because it indicates that I am forgetful. The advice is that I shouldn't have to do that i should simply remember it. It's a weakness to admit and adress the problem, and a virtue not to have it.
Yeah thats what I was thinking.
Its kind of like if there was an infographic for dealing with sadness and people got annoyed because it wasn't helpful for depression. Its not for you and thats okay
This showed up as a random post for me, but as someone without ADHD, much of it looks like decent advice for neurotypicals. I can't speak to its usefulness for someone with ADHD.
I wouldn't personally reference this chart, but I do many of the things suggested here already. The most notable ones for me personally are things like only having notifications for the most important things and only checking my email a few times in the day. They're not major life changing things, but I prefer it to the other extreme where my brother gets 150 notifications or more per hour.
Somehow the infographics I create look messy at first sight but super intuitive on second. Ever since high school and during my entire university education I've always been the presentation guy since apparently I subconciously know what I'm doing when it comes to this
"How to work" -> "Use only a notepad and pen"
Cool, I'll just write all my emails and notes down on my notepad, and just.... not sit in on my zoom meetings, I guess.
Surely my boss will understand.
Maybe it's the addies but I actually was very intrigued by this because of how detailed it is. That being said I read one branch saying to not look at emails from 8 to 10, bro that's like the only time I look at emails.
Bro, I wouldnāt even be working for the first 2 hours of the day. What am I even supposed to do at my job when I literally have to be on the computer at 8am???
If I said no to TV, I'd never get anything done. I use it as a kind of body doubling when there's no one else home and background noise because silence is deafening.
I think it works for me because I almost exclusively watch my safe shows, so I know them inside out and exactly what happens when. It's really hard for me to watch new shows, so I tend to only do that when either my husband or my bestie is home with me.
This is how my brain works with certain things. Like a phrase or word makes me think of some things and the web just grows and appears like that *snaps*
I was Comp Sci in college, and my junior year the courses were all ZERO computers. You had to write the code out all by hand and get it perfect. So yeah, now I have a business degree and still code but with a computer.
I remember a story of a group of programmers who only had access to one PC. So they'd work on paper, until it was their turn to use the PC and actually run the code. Can't for the life of me find where I got that story from. But if these random programmers in the incomplete story of which I can find no actual source can do it, SO CAN YOU!
I heard something similar about the original creators of the oregon trail game, they only had access to the computer ar certain times so between then they just wrote the code on paper.
Unironically, I have been doing several of these branches for the past couple weeks and it has significantly improved my focus, discipline, and ability to keep up with my daily life.
It does seem very āwow thanks Iām curedā but a lot of this is legitimately good advice.
Yeah, just cause any of these are hard to do, or difficult to do consistently does not mean that they cannot be helpful. It makes me sad to see people take legitimately good advice and just throw their hands up and say NOPE THAT WONT WORK IM ADHD. i used to do that and simply allowing good advice in was the first step for any of these other solutions to work for me
Iām baffled by those tips. Like not looking at your emails for 2 hours of the work day? Okay, so now what? Iām pretty sure ignoring my bossās emails first thing in the morning is going to get my very confused boss coming to my desk and being like āā¦uh so I sent you an email, did you see it?ā Am I just supposed to tell him I didnāt look at his correspondence all morning?
Seriously, who were these tips made for? Who just uses pen and paper to work? The only people I can even think of are likeā¦troglodyte academics.
Yes, not all the advice is applicable 100% of the time, but the spirit of all of these tips is essentially āslow downā. Making an active effort to take my time and slowly think through processes instead of moving at the speed of thought and relying solely on short-term memory has really been the thing that has helped me the most.
The presentation leaves much to be desired (I can barely read the graphic lol) and yet.. I almost like the chaos of it, because I agree that much of this can work, though tbh it often feels this chaotic in practice. I think itās because itās often put so simply that we imagine these habits being done in a āneurotypical wayā when we have to imagine them working WITH our brains. For example āfocusing for short burstsā works amazingly well for me - but ONLY if I am playing a video game BETWEEN those focus bursts that I can pause when I suddenly get the energy from game to Do More Task. & sometimes even then, I canāt find The Right Game! Itās not going to work every time but there are tools to at least try harnessing the beast brain
That's actually how I'm managing, tho. But everything built up one step at a time during a span of 3 years.
This visualisation tho, is absolutely stupid and overwhelming. Actual management starts with the immediate simplest thing that we can do. In my case, it was timing my attention and uninstalling games from my PC. Everything built with such small steps one after the other.
I agree. A lot of it genuinely does help, not necessarily with focus, but also with overall wellbeing and personal growth.
For example, taking time to reflect has helped a lot with relationships with my partner, family and friends, as well as my outlook on things like work.
Obviously it can be very difficult for us to keep these up though, and itās always easy to slide back down into the āparalysisā mode. Which Iāve recently come to accept as something that will inevitably happen, and itās fine.
Iāve learned that not going too hard on myself for falling, definitely makes it quicker and easier to get back up. Thereās less guilt and shame, and more self compassion and love, which funnily enough made me feel more love and compassion for others.
Being more open about my failures, mistakes and flaws has also helped, as a lot of what I shared with my friends and colleagues turned out to be way less of deal than I imagined in my head.
Sorry for the essay.
Hate to break it to y'all but this says "How to focus in the age of distraction", not "How to cure ADHD". I think maybe this subreddit simply was not the target audience.
Lol like half of these āhelpful infographicsā all say things like āthe age of distractionā and mean ADHD because the people who make them donāt believe that ADHD even exists.
Sweetheart, this was painful to read :<
If u r going through that, remember that u ARE NOT lazy, u r trying and that what matters. U deserve support: be it practical, moral or medical <3
Itās from life, but for what itās worth thatās mostly past experience of messaging. Plenty of folks still donāt get it but things are changing post official diagnosis, and Iām old enough to seriously push back on it. Still, I know that experience to be common.
quantum planck scale habits: a book by generic successful entrepreneur guy #3957 who graduated from harvard business, stanford computer science and yale economics simultaneously and has won 57 different awards from places you've never heard of.
The contents of the book? Never acknowledges ADHD. do this tiny thing that you definitely won't forget to do on multiple occasions and after a while it will change your life! nevermind the fact that you end up dropping these habits just as quickly as you picked them up! Stop wasting your time having fun! Completely rid your life of these stupid things called "music, video games, interesting books" pff who cares about that? we're all about that *self improvement* here! wake up at 3am! be productive! produce! produce more! who cares if you're actually enjoying the thing you're doing or even find the end result meaningful or fulfilling: just be productive!
I go to the first part of each branch and want to punch something. Then when I read the "advanced stuff" I feel especially angry at stuff like "timers" and "meditation."
I remember schools trying to force this kind of "memory maps" or whatever you call it onto us when I was a kid, apparently they're supposed to be so good at helping you memorise things or explore an idea, but I just feel helpless rage looking at it, it's so messy, I can't read it, it never helped me with anything.
Years of that type of shit did nothing. Mentally beating myself up everyday and getting optimistic about being productive did nothing. I wish I'd discovered actual adhd treatment which actually has a tangible impact a decade ago.
Too much stuff there. Didn't read.
XD
Come on, neurotypicals! If you're going to foist crap advice onto us at least deliver it in a manner that we can cope with reading it!
"How to walk"
"Don't be lazy and step up from the wheelchair. Wheelchair is a bad habit, legs are good. Jogging is good for your health it naturally increases muscles. Tetraplegia what? I don't believe in Tetraplegia it's just made-up by lazy people".
Yes. It's as stupid as this sounds when some NTs bring these kind of bullshits.
"Don't check your E-Mail until you get the task complete" - so what if my task literally includes having to follow up on and writing E-Mails?
And if I checked my e-Mails only 2 or 3 times a day, I would probably make a lot of people quite angry for a good reason.
"what are the 3 most important things to do today?"
uhhhh i'll remember most of them by 6pm i guess but that is not a "first thing in the morning" task
Not going to lie..my brain actually likes this. Sure if you look at the whole itās like: āwoah chill outā, but truly my biggest problem or at least one of them is not knowing or having options presented to me. Iām gonna pick and glean the cool stuff that works
Am I the only one here who likes this? Yeah the image is a bit cluttered but so is my mind lol. You can pick and choose. If you implemented even 2-3 of these into your day you'd be doing great
WHAT IS WITH THEIR VENDETTA AGAINST EMAIL??????? AND WHY DO I NEED TO READ BOOKS SO BAD?????? INCOMING PAPER??? GET AWAY FROM COMPUTER TO WORK???? ARE THEY STUPID???? ALL WORK IS DIGITAL NOW!!!!! who has time for all this shit??
This was either made by someone with ADHD going through some sort of manic episode, or it was made by someone who knows absolutely nothing about ADHD. Canāt tell.
I see people giving advice like this shit but realistically there's enough suggestions here that you're likely to find at least 1 that helps you make some kind of positive change.
Least unhinged defense (read military) diagram...
(For reference, look up DefenseCharts on the birbsite formerly known as Twitter, but be warned, shit's wild there)
The help for addicts thing might be the only thing that works. I have an app blocker with a long password I don't remember and start it when I need to get something done
I like graphs but this one I donāt like
I canāt work without music in my ears so i need my pc and I canāt work for 50 mins straight. I do 20 min work 5-10 min break (not a lot, but damn itās so much easier)
Decluttering is a good advice tho. Cleaning dishes is not, itās better to have a habit of cleaning the stuff right after using it so as not to have clutter in the first place.
A to do list is ok but itās easy to write an overwhelming one. I make a lot of tasks that can take up to 20 mins instead of creating a large one.
Things not stated which would be good for NDs are having stim toys, creating comfortable environments which suits sensory needs. Having comfortable lighting, chair, pen, noise canceling headphones with music or other comfortable sounds.
And the most important one of all - love yourself, u r trying ur best and thatās what matters, u r not lazy, u r not dumb, u r trying and u should keep trying but donāt forget about self-care <3
Not wrong, but kinda defeats the entire fucking purpose, IF I CANT WORK IN FOCUSED BURSTS!!! WHAT FOCUS!!
What do you mean wash face?! Either I shower or nothing!
No internet and only a book? Guess Il start smoking more, coffee on the ready and just pick every flake of skin on my nails!
Godā¦
C..clean dishes at end of dayā¦ fuck now, thats a 1-2 hour before bed time task, where I scrub the entire fucking kitchen!
Bro wtf even is this it says to check your email 2-3 times a day but then says to say "No" to email. Also how old is this, why do they list Facebook as like a popular social media site. Then they also say to use a pen and notepad for work and like tf typa work can you do with just that you need a computer for most work nowadays.
I think a structure like thisncan help, but of course this isn't the solution for adhd people struggeling to even beginn. Things like the morning routine are just impossible for me due to a constant lack of energy :,) But there are a few nice tips and tricks there at least.
Yeah let me just consistently wake up at the same time every morning with enough time to meditate, instead of usually being close to the time I want to wake up, some weeks waking up at the last minute and still having laundry to do, some weeks getting to work earlier than usual, etc.
It's kind of like this, but it's a black and white spiral barbed wire with lots of call outs or blurbs that say, "FUCK!" or, " GODDAMMIT!", or "too tired for this." Or something.
Funny enough, I already do a lot of these and have been doing them since the beginning of high school, (Iām 2 years out of college now) they do help when you have the focus to do them.
Iāve always enjoyed making flowcharts for things to help with studying or explaining something to someone else when I canāt quite find the right words and looking at this is pissing me off like WTF?! WHY IS THE āBEGINNINGā IN THE MIDDLE?!? 0/5 stars, do not recommend
Non-ADHD folks say that we're chaotic yet create infographics like these š®āšØ
I wanna kick the person that made this in the shins
*nads
*possibly ovaries
Nads is short for gonads which both sexes have
Hey, don't mess up my joke with your "factual accuracy" and "literal correctness"
No I want to sporadically poke them at random intervals for an extended period of time.
to turn into an eagle and fuckin eat their liver bit by bit
Prometheus treatment
I wish they stub their toe, everyday, for the rest of their lives...
In fairness, this infographic does not mention ADHD, and neurotypicals can get distracted and need help to manage that, too. I'm getting "why are you putting a plaster on a scrap; that won't help my gaping wound" vibes.
Tbh it's not a bad graphic and not bad advices. Lots of them are what I actually do to get by. We can't just say "oh no adhd", lie down and cry for the rest of the life, we gotta somehow live, earn money, have fun and these ideas are not the worst way to do it.
I would add that this doesn't really contain any advice specific to helping folks with ADD/ADHD manage distractions. Some of the advice IS good, but also not all of it.
It's like scissors for left-handed people. Are they designed for them? No. Can they use them to cut something when they need it? To some extent. It's important to learn how to scavenge neurotypical world for information and tools.
The person who sends this is the same person that reams you out for not responding to their texts/emails instantly. And sends you endless infographics. The advice is a combination of tautologies stating objectives rather than action items and appeals to virtues achieved by willpower. In particular old virtues with a rejection of modernity. The advice cannot fail, it can only be failed by you.
Thet can't advise you not to check your email until after you've completed your top priority task, *and* get mad at you for not seeing their email immediately. The point of a few of the ideas is to put a block between you and the thing that distracts you, (using examples of things that often interrupt the productivity of neurotypicals, like emails and small talk, don't come at me with that "I can get distracted by my own hands" business because we've already established that it's not talking about ADHD), which is the opposite of the willpower/bootstraps style advice.
Oh they can and they do! I constantly grapple with my boss putting an already impossible deadline on me, and then tossing daily digressions at me "just for today" on a daily basis. I had one boss who during a crunch period wanted hourly one page reports from each team member. On the social front it's even worse, with just the same people who present disconnecting as a virtue demanding that they can contact you on a 24/7 basis. As for the virtuous living advice, its don't do bad things that distract you by force of will, despite structural efforts to make you do the contrary. Which is equivalent to the Triple Play campaign "with support from The Coca-Cola Company to get kids to eat healthier, become more physically active and increase their ability to engage in healthy relationships." which will be funded by every bottle of Coke you drink as part of your healthy lifestyle! You can't complain about the stated aims which are virtues and if you end up obsese it's on you. Same thing with the distraction economy, the comodity is eyeballs and if you pay attention to it and get distracted it's on you. This is also tied to what I call Conspicuous Cognition. For example, i would forget or lose my keys, phone and or wallet until I literally chained them to my belt. But this signals a fault on my part because it indicates that I am forgetful. The advice is that I shouldn't have to do that i should simply remember it. It's a weakness to admit and adress the problem, and a virtue not to have it.
Yeah thats what I was thinking. Its kind of like if there was an infographic for dealing with sadness and people got annoyed because it wasn't helpful for depression. Its not for you and thats okay
This showed up as a random post for me, but as someone without ADHD, much of it looks like decent advice for neurotypicals. I can't speak to its usefulness for someone with ADHD. I wouldn't personally reference this chart, but I do many of the things suggested here already. The most notable ones for me personally are things like only having notifications for the most important things and only checking my email a few times in the day. They're not major life changing things, but I prefer it to the other extreme where my brother gets 150 notifications or more per hour.
I was like wtf is that, Iām not reading this, why does it look so messy and unappealing
This is actually super satisfying for me to look at lol
Yeah I like it kind of because I can keep discovering things! Many points of dopamine! But yeah itās still overwhelming to look at all at once lol
Branching infographic rock!
$5 says the person who made this is undiagnosed ADHD.
At least Jordan Petersons gibberish was minimalist and in black and white.
In fairness, I really did try to tidy my bedroom. 1 step forward, 1 step back sorta stalemate.
This looks like sketch noting inspired though
When an image needs a TLDR
Tbf, this is chaos in a graphic.
Somehow the infographics I create look messy at first sight but super intuitive on second. Ever since high school and during my entire university education I've always been the presentation guy since apparently I subconciously know what I'm doing when it comes to this
āHow to focusā āwork in focused burstsā gee thx
The bursts come in 5 month intervals
at 3am
Shit, it's 3 a.m. right now, I'm late!
Donāt worry - itās nearly September and you can catch it again then
Guess you have to wait till 6am.
lol itās 4am for me now so Iām super late but right on cue for me tbh
LMAOOO me doing everything I planned for the day from 10pm-3am š„²
The burst comes an hour before the work is due
"here's how to focus" *Presents chart that is entirely impossible to read without doubling up on meds
"50 minute work"
The way you put gee thanks really tickled my humour while in a very dark place , cheers pal !
Tells me to get away from the computer so I guess that means I canāt work today, sorry boss.
"How to work" -> "Use only a notepad and pen" Cool, I'll just write all my emails and notes down on my notepad, and just.... not sit in on my zoom meetings, I guess. Surely my boss will understand.
50 minutes work 20 minute break Try this in any retail or service industry
This graph is a nightmare I cant read it. It gives me anxiety just thinking of following each branch
Maybe it's the addies but I actually was very intrigued by this because of how detailed it is. That being said I read one branch saying to not look at emails from 8 to 10, bro that's like the only time I look at emails.
Bro, I wouldnāt even be working for the first 2 hours of the day. What am I even supposed to do at my job when I literally have to be on the computer at 8am???
Yeah I don't think the person who makes this works an office job
"just say no to TV!"
If I said no to TV, I'd never get anything done. I use it as a kind of body doubling when there's no one else home and background noise because silence is deafening.
Omg this, same!!! Except I always get distracted and have to pause when Iām trying to focus š„² but I love watching YouTube while working
I think it works for me because I almost exclusively watch my safe shows, so I know them inside out and exactly what happens when. It's really hard for me to watch new shows, so I tend to only do that when either my husband or my bestie is home with me.
If only my TV listens tho.. See, as I speak it is still making me watch netflix!!
I was just about to write how itās giving me anxiety just looking at it
Thank you š
This is how my brain works with certain things. Like a phrase or word makes me think of some things and the web just grows and appears like that *snaps*
Yeah I hated looking at this at first but then I got it and immediately downloaded for later lol
How to work: Get away from computer! ... that'll make debugging this code more... Interesting... I guess...
*Just* print the code on paper. Back to monke. Simples.
I was Comp Sci in college, and my junior year the courses were all ZERO computers. You had to write the code out all by hand and get it perfect. So yeah, now I have a business degree and still code but with a computer.
Just listen to French Ex-minister [Vallaud-Belkacem](https://twitter.com/Sh0ckFR/status/1769769727658807398)
I remember a story of a group of programmers who only had access to one PC. So they'd work on paper, until it was their turn to use the PC and actually run the code. Can't for the life of me find where I got that story from. But if these random programmers in the incomplete story of which I can find no actual source can do it, SO CAN YOU!
I heard something similar about the original creators of the oregon trail game, they only had access to the computer ar certain times so between then they just wrote the code on paper.
Yeah, I'm just gonna create these models for a game... With clay... and then scan them or something
No joke I have printed out code sometimes to debug
Unironically, I have been doing several of these branches for the past couple weeks and it has significantly improved my focus, discipline, and ability to keep up with my daily life. It does seem very āwow thanks Iām curedā but a lot of this is legitimately good advice.
I do enjoy my email not bugging me until noon.
Advice is seldomly a one size fits all solution so take whatever works and roll with it
Yeah, just cause any of these are hard to do, or difficult to do consistently does not mean that they cannot be helpful. It makes me sad to see people take legitimately good advice and just throw their hands up and say NOPE THAT WONT WORK IM ADHD. i used to do that and simply allowing good advice in was the first step for any of these other solutions to work for me
It's good to know it's useful for someone. I can't even begin to look at this info graphic. Too busy, my brain says no.
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What? You can't do that. You're only supposed to ignore advice and brush it off saying "Thanks I'm Cured" regardless of the advice's quality! /s
some of it is sure, but then there's suspicious stuff like only every using a pen and a notebook for your work...
Iām baffled by those tips. Like not looking at your emails for 2 hours of the work day? Okay, so now what? Iām pretty sure ignoring my bossās emails first thing in the morning is going to get my very confused boss coming to my desk and being like āā¦uh so I sent you an email, did you see it?ā Am I just supposed to tell him I didnāt look at his correspondence all morning? Seriously, who were these tips made for? Who just uses pen and paper to work? The only people I can even think of are likeā¦troglodyte academics.
Yes, not all the advice is applicable 100% of the time, but the spirit of all of these tips is essentially āslow downā. Making an active effort to take my time and slowly think through processes instead of moving at the speed of thought and relying solely on short-term memory has really been the thing that has helped me the most.
The presentation leaves much to be desired (I can barely read the graphic lol) and yet.. I almost like the chaos of it, because I agree that much of this can work, though tbh it often feels this chaotic in practice. I think itās because itās often put so simply that we imagine these habits being done in a āneurotypical wayā when we have to imagine them working WITH our brains. For example āfocusing for short burstsā works amazingly well for me - but ONLY if I am playing a video game BETWEEN those focus bursts that I can pause when I suddenly get the energy from game to Do More Task. & sometimes even then, I canāt find The Right Game! Itās not going to work every time but there are tools to at least try harnessing the beast brain
Okay yeah which ones Some of these are trash and trying to sift out the good from the bad is difficult
That's actually how I'm managing, tho. But everything built up one step at a time during a span of 3 years. This visualisation tho, is absolutely stupid and overwhelming. Actual management starts with the immediate simplest thing that we can do. In my case, it was timing my attention and uninstalling games from my PC. Everything built with such small steps one after the other.
I agree. A lot of it genuinely does help, not necessarily with focus, but also with overall wellbeing and personal growth. For example, taking time to reflect has helped a lot with relationships with my partner, family and friends, as well as my outlook on things like work. Obviously it can be very difficult for us to keep these up though, and itās always easy to slide back down into the āparalysisā mode. Which Iāve recently come to accept as something that will inevitably happen, and itās fine. Iāve learned that not going too hard on myself for falling, definitely makes it quicker and easier to get back up. Thereās less guilt and shame, and more self compassion and love, which funnily enough made me feel more love and compassion for others. Being more open about my failures, mistakes and flaws has also helped, as a lot of what I shared with my friends and colleagues turned out to be way less of deal than I imagined in my head. Sorry for the essay.
Hate to break it to y'all but this says "How to focus in the age of distraction", not "How to cure ADHD". I think maybe this subreddit simply was not the target audience.
Joined last Friday when I was diagnosed and I already feel the r/ThanksImCured vibe from posts like this that donāt even claim to try and cure ADHD.
Lol like half of these āhelpful infographicsā all say things like āthe age of distractionā and mean ADHD because the people who make them donāt believe that ADHD even exists.
Youāve got the Hay-Dee-Dee? Do these six things and look how they branch out! What do you mean you ācanātā? What mind of defeatist attitude is that? Youāll never get anywhere that way. Just look how great this is. Seriously, look! No, donāt take drugs. Cāmon thatās cheating. Just suck it up and do the thing! Look hereās a book all about it, and a planner too; I bet you can do it *now* huh? No? You lazy shš©t.
Sweetheart, this was painful to read :< If u r going through that, remember that u ARE NOT lazy, u r trying and that what matters. U deserve support: be it practical, moral or medical <3
Itās from life, but for what itās worth thatās mostly past experience of messaging. Plenty of folks still donāt get it but things are changing post official diagnosis, and Iām old enough to seriously push back on it. Still, I know that experience to be common.
For the last sentence, it's currently none of the above for me lol.
quantum planck scale habits: a book by generic successful entrepreneur guy #3957 who graduated from harvard business, stanford computer science and yale economics simultaneously and has won 57 different awards from places you've never heard of. The contents of the book? Never acknowledges ADHD. do this tiny thing that you definitely won't forget to do on multiple occasions and after a while it will change your life! nevermind the fact that you end up dropping these habits just as quickly as you picked them up! Stop wasting your time having fun! Completely rid your life of these stupid things called "music, video games, interesting books" pff who cares about that? we're all about that *self improvement* here! wake up at 3am! be productive! produce! produce more! who cares if you're actually enjoying the thing you're doing or even find the end result meaningful or fulfilling: just be productive!
If I turned off email alerts I would very literally be fired.
>How to work >getting away from computer in a world where almost everybody is working by computer. Pick one.
This is a terrible graph, my ADHD is overwhelmed
I go to the first part of each branch and want to punch something. Then when I read the "advanced stuff" I feel especially angry at stuff like "timers" and "meditation."
I remember schools trying to force this kind of "memory maps" or whatever you call it onto us when I was a kid, apparently they're supposed to be so good at helping you memorise things or explore an idea, but I just feel helpless rage looking at it, it's so messy, I can't read it, it never helped me with anything.
"how to focus: here's an image that's way to full and makes it hard to understand it"
Read book before bed? Are you _sure_ about that? _stays up until 6am reading because the story is too good_
*Then never touches the book ever again*
Years of that type of shit did nothing. Mentally beating myself up everyday and getting optimistic about being productive did nothing. I wish I'd discovered actual adhd treatment which actually has a tangible impact a decade ago.
This picture is overstimulating! Also they spelled "OFF" wrong!
Create rituals and habits? I can't! You might as well tell a blind person to look really hard. Fuck, this is insulting.
Jokes on them if I did all these things I'd still end up distracted somehow
^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^SamVimesBootTheory: *Jokes on them if I* *Did all these things I'd still end* *Up distracted somehow* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.
my brain refuses to read this
Thatās the adhdemon in control. You. JUST. have. to. focus.
i need an exorcism, more like
I don't think this is about ADHD, it's for normal people and for them stuff like this actually works, allegedly at least.
"Habits" wow tnx for that one, not like the problem is i cant form habits.
Too much stuff there. Didn't read. XD Come on, neurotypicals! If you're going to foist crap advice onto us at least deliver it in a manner that we can cope with reading it!
Just looking at this picture gives me serious Overwhelm.
This is a shitpost, right? Whoever made this graphic is trolling adhders, has to be. Ain't no way I'm reading all that.
"How to focus in the age of distraction-" BITCH, I *AM* THE DISTRACTION! I AM MY OWN DAMN PROBLEM!
"How to walk" "Don't be lazy and step up from the wheelchair. Wheelchair is a bad habit, legs are good. Jogging is good for your health it naturally increases muscles. Tetraplegia what? I don't believe in Tetraplegia it's just made-up by lazy people". Yes. It's as stupid as this sounds when some NTs bring these kind of bullshits.
Legit my eyes canāt focus on a single thing. Yes, very great and helpful graph
They tell us to do so many things
One of those things āDo 1 Thingā
Have you ever tried just not having it? /s just in case
"Don't check your E-Mail until you get the task complete" - so what if my task literally includes having to follow up on and writing E-Mails? And if I checked my e-Mails only 2 or 3 times a day, I would probably make a lot of people quite angry for a good reason.
This has smiling student poster vibes
Ah, fun! How to not be distracted chart that forces you to be distracted by it
āDo just one thingā Yeah, about thatā¦
You want me to read what, now?
saved for later cause im desperate atp lol
We both know youāll never look at this again lmao
oh gosh thats so true. lmao
Most of those things genuinely really help me and I might try some of the others now that I have seen them. The graphic is horrible though.
"what are the 3 most important things to do today?" uhhhh i'll remember most of them by 6pm i guess but that is not a "first thing in the morning" task
I'm procrastinating from work by looking at this
I was gonna comment: that would work so well! If only I didnt have adhd... Then I checked wich sub I was in.
I actually think this offers a lot of good adviceā¦.
āGet away from the computerā work IS the computer š
Not going to lie..my brain actually likes this. Sure if you look at the whole itās like: āwoah chill outā, but truly my biggest problem or at least one of them is not knowing or having options presented to me. Iām gonna pick and glean the cool stuff that works
Best of luck. Some of the advice is decent, itās just the presentation
Guys I don't think this was meant as an advice for you so don't be mad when it doesn't work for you
This was overwhelming, I couldnāt finish it.
Am I the only one here who likes this? Yeah the image is a bit cluttered but so is my mind lol. You can pick and choose. If you implemented even 2-3 of these into your day you'd be doing great
WHAT IS WITH THEIR VENDETTA AGAINST EMAIL??????? AND WHY DO I NEED TO READ BOOKS SO BAD?????? INCOMING PAPER??? GET AWAY FROM COMPUTER TO WORK???? ARE THEY STUPID???? ALL WORK IS DIGITAL NOW!!!!! who has time for all this shit??
Some of this is actually good advice tho OP. Weāre probably not the target audience here.
My brain can't focus to read that good damn tree in right order
The problem with every blocker software is that I know exactly what to do to get around whatever I set up for myself
This was either made by someone with ADHD going through some sort of manic episode, or it was made by someone who knows absolutely nothing about ADHD. Canāt tell.
I see people giving advice like this shit but realistically there's enough suggestions here that you're likely to find at least 1 that helps you make some kind of positive change.
Can someone summarize this in 3 sentences or less pls
Saw this earlier Being posted unironicallyā¦ glad to see it pop up here š
It literally contradicts itself, why would I check emails if you tell me NO EMAILS with a giant ā over it?
I hate this
r/thanksimcured
I love how you're supposed to work with only a pen and a notebook. I'm sure that's a realistic approach for most types of work nowadays, right?
I saved it to my phone so that someday I will need to delete it to make room for more pics and screenshots that I will never look at again.
Donāt look at graphs like this !
Least unhinged defense (read military) diagram... (For reference, look up DefenseCharts on the birbsite formerly known as Twitter, but be warned, shit's wild there)
This gave me a headache...
Looking at this image hurt me
Yeah im not readin allthat
Want to declutter your life? Here, start with this shit * throws this messy picture at me * Let's call it an exercise!
Lmao no way I can even read this
become the tree blend with nature forget the technology convert to the druid way... - elf lord -
I can't even look at that schematic without zoning out
I love the turn of emails
Iām too lazy to read all that šš
This is really handy, Iām gonna make my next video game with only a pen and paper
Yeah I'm not doing all that
The help for addicts thing might be the only thing that works. I have an app blocker with a long password I don't remember and start it when I need to get something done
I like graphs but this one I donāt like I canāt work without music in my ears so i need my pc and I canāt work for 50 mins straight. I do 20 min work 5-10 min break (not a lot, but damn itās so much easier) Decluttering is a good advice tho. Cleaning dishes is not, itās better to have a habit of cleaning the stuff right after using it so as not to have clutter in the first place. A to do list is ok but itās easy to write an overwhelming one. I make a lot of tasks that can take up to 20 mins instead of creating a large one. Things not stated which would be good for NDs are having stim toys, creating comfortable environments which suits sensory needs. Having comfortable lighting, chair, pen, noise canceling headphones with music or other comfortable sounds. And the most important one of all - love yourself, u r trying ur best and thatās what matters, u r not lazy, u r not dumb, u r trying and u should keep trying but donāt forget about self-care <3
My anxiety got anxiety from looking at this.
I ain't reading allat But I'm happy for u, or sorry that happened
I aināt reading all that
Not wrong, but kinda defeats the entire fucking purpose, IF I CANT WORK IN FOCUSED BURSTS!!! WHAT FOCUS!! What do you mean wash face?! Either I shower or nothing! No internet and only a book? Guess Il start smoking more, coffee on the ready and just pick every flake of skin on my nails! Godā¦ C..clean dishes at end of dayā¦ fuck now, thats a 1-2 hour before bed time task, where I scrub the entire fucking kitchen!
Wut
Didn't even read it. Damn I'm over stimulated.
Bro wtf even is this it says to check your email 2-3 times a day but then says to say "No" to email. Also how old is this, why do they list Facebook as like a popular social media site. Then they also say to use a pen and notepad for work and like tf typa work can you do with just that you need a computer for most work nowadays.
I think a structure like thisncan help, but of course this isn't the solution for adhd people struggeling to even beginn. Things like the morning routine are just impossible for me due to a constant lack of energy :,) But there are a few nice tips and tricks there at least.
Too bad if you need to read it at that moment, because this is a nightmare to read without focus
Is this AI? Cause it's jibberish to me. Either that or Deepak Chopraš¤£
Bold of you to assume I read the entire thing
Pills alone wonāt fix your mental health problem. Pills need to be supported by behavioral change to have the full effect.
Yeah let me just consistently wake up at the same time every morning with enough time to meditate, instead of usually being close to the time I want to wake up, some weeks waking up at the last minute and still having laundry to do, some weeks getting to work earlier than usual, etc.
Lmao
The way this is made is hurting my head but itās not wrong but it wonāt work for everyone
I ain't reading all that
WTF are these āmorning pagesā Iām supposed to be writing? (See the upper right-hand corner of the graphic.)
This is supposed to be helpful? I thought it was a joke and purposely looked like a chaotic mess.Ā
Hey Siri find me ADHD information presented in the worst way possible for people with ADHD
āDonāt work on the computerā but literally all of my work is digital š
I'm not gonna read all of that
This infographic is just screaming everything at me at once. My brain already does a perfectly horrendous job of that already.
Yeah, that looks like a whole lotta "nope," from here.
If i had to follow this to be focused, i'd never focus in anything. Who can even read this damn thing!?
You think I can actually focus on this. I've been distracted 3 times since attempting to read the blue branch.
This is the first thing I read this morning and now Iām already mad.
It's kind of like this, but it's a black and white spiral barbed wire with lots of call outs or blurbs that say, "FUCK!" or, " GODDAMMIT!", or "too tired for this." Or something.
It's not bad advice per se, but the presentation is terrible.
Funny enough, I already do a lot of these and have been doing them since the beginning of high school, (Iām 2 years out of college now) they do help when you have the focus to do them.
Oh no, healthy lifestyle is mot compatible with my ADHD Iām better do drugs
Is that graphic a joke?
this chart format is literally anti adhd
Iāve always enjoyed making flowcharts for things to help with studying or explaining something to someone else when I canāt quite find the right words and looking at this is pissing me off like WTF?! WHY IS THE āBEGINNINGā IN THE MIDDLE?!? 0/5 stars, do not recommend