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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by pineapple@lemmy.ml to c/adhd@lemmy.world

I'm not really sure if I have adhd or not at the moment and I just realised this. I'm not sure if this is related to adhd at all but I just find it weird looking into peoples eyes, when I listen to people I usually look out a window or something and sometimes people ask me weather I am listening and I didn't even realise I was looking out a window I kind of just assumed they knew I was listening.

Also as a side note, I have a lot of symptoms of adhd but I'm not sure if to enough of an extent, since I see a lot that everyone has the symptoms of adhd just not to the extent of someone that actually has adhd has.

Do you also have that one comment in the bottom of your lemmy inbox that you've been meaning to respond to for the last several weeks or months but you keep putting it off?

Do you also sit on your couch or bed and just stair out the window for like 30 minutes or longer at a time?

I also have struggle focusing on school work, this hasn't always been the case but it's a lot more now. Once the coffee from the morning wears off I can't focus for long enough to finish a small portion of a single Maths question before I'm staring out the window thinking about something completely unrelated, then about 5-10 minutes later I realised I'm distracted.

You've probably also noticed a pattern at this point, I love staring out windows!

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[-] Nangijala@feddit.dk 1 points 1 month ago

I know this isn't about me but tried taking the test just for fun, expecting to be in the low end and it rats me out as having a 50% chance of being on the spectrum.

If it wasn't for the fact that waiting lists and my non-existient patience are completely incompatible, it would be pretty cool to get tested to see if there's something to all this adhd and now autism thing or if I'm just normie-weirdo.

Anyways, I wish you the best, OP. Big hugs also yes to all the things you mentioned in your OP post @pineapple@lemmy.ml

I do indeed have moments where I just zone out for a long time. Fx i have been meaning to go to bed for close to two hours now, yet im still sitting on my couch and shifting between spacing out and checking my phone. Tend to daydream a lot.

Yes I have several comments/messages both here, on signal and on texts waiting for my reply for days, weeks or months and several unfinished drafts for those comments/messages in my notes.

And yes I struggle with eye contact, but mostly when I'm speaking. I have gotten fairly okay at keeping eye contact while listening to someone talk, only breaking it when I think about something they are saying or if they ask me a question.

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