Honestly I really enjoy doing this. Have done it constantly for decades hah.
You end up having a graveyard of fascinating things that you can rediscover, and repeat the same cycle on. My small dwelling is full of surprises and discovery. Same shit I have been staring at for years. It's great.
Ah. Not just me then. Good to know.
Sometimes I’m frightened to think about using something.
Urge or compulsion?
Bcs the process is a drag, takes hours & a bunch of irrelevant decisions.
The ceiling fans in my garage call to me on occasion. Usually that occasion is "sitting in a warm room with no air flow."
It's been about 6 years now.
My rowing machine
In its box
In the basement
For the last year and a half
Hi me!
If you are not physically active in other ways I encourage you to fetch it from the basement and set it up this weekend
Thank you. My partner and myself have not at all been active for a while due to medical issues. There is no raisin we couldn’t use a rowing machine now, though. We need to.. be people.
Easier said than done, and I'm in the process of doing it right now as well, but you gotta get used to breaking the constant cycle of "I gotta do it" and replace it with "I will do it now".
Doesn't work every time, doesn't work every day, but every time is a large success that makes my day better and my head a nicer place.
The ADHD cope to research a thing for tens of hours across weeks or even months, agonizing over the purchase of the thing (especially if multiple options are available) before ultimately deciding that it isn't worth the relatively minuscule cost.
I have a problem where everything that I want to buy has been discontinued years ago, so my days of research end up being all for naught by the time I'm ready to pull the trigger. I really need to start reading the publish dates on web pages...
I’m so glad I’m not the only one. The stereotype of impulse buying is overshadowed by the compulsive need to absolutely make sure the dopamine high off the product is worth the money spent.
Multiple options will one day be my demise.
Why do we do this, and then sometimes buy crap on impulse and then regret such low quality products without any research? I hate that trait of mine. There's no in-between.
Fuck.
Ouch, man. Why you gotta attack me like that?
Oh man, this one is a direct hit.
I just tell myself that I should be happy that I can afford to buy the thing in the first place. There have been times in my life when I couldn't, and it's definitely better than that.
I have two raspberry pi’s just sitting in their boxes. It’s been two years 🤦♂️
I'm pretty sure this is the intended use case for them, though.
I feel ya. Two still in their boxes JetKVMs and a new Pi 500 is just the start for me. Soooo much stuff, so much money, and hundreds of hours of research into all of them.
At some point I had three, and thought of buying newer more powerful models or the small versions for tinker projects I will never do.
Eventually sold and gave away the unused ones, the only one I have ever actively used is effectively just my music system (hard drive with music collection and my Hifi speakers attached via HifiBerry DAC).
What's worse, in the last 2 years I bought 3 hardware synthesizers and learned a shitton about sound design. Still haven't created a single track or interesting patch with any of them.
Right now I am writing a short story, because I had a cool concept idea. Maybe I will complete at least one hobby thing for once? Oh my dear ADHD brain, you do really have a will and life of your own.
Are you me??
He missed a step before and some after:
Do everything humanly possible with the thing, learn exactly how it works, become subject matter expert, then put it somewhere.
Have someone randomly ask about the thing, knowledge dump, excited to show the person the thing, forget where you put it.
Be at home a few weeks later, find the thing, be sad you couldn't find it earlier, put it in a new pile, for sure you'll remember where it is this time!
I see this guy also bought a Flipper Zero
I used mine to get into my office building until someone got suspicious.
How’d you do it
I scanned and copied my RFID keycard.
It's pretty easy to scan and emulate NFC keycards and such on the flipper. I'm guessing that's what they did. I've been meaning to try it out with mine.
Me too thanks. I can read my cat's microchip now, which is cool, I guess.
It actually came in handy for that since we got a dog with a chip but not the paperwork, and were able to register her with the service.
Gotta figure out how to make it work with my garage doors next
My entire foray into home automation.
There's a box full of AliExpress zigbee sensors of all sorts in my office.
Someday...
Literally me. I should get to setting this stuff up, probably.
I mean, you can take it out of the shipping box but it stacks pretty good with the others if you don't.
Thank you for the reminder. Pretty sure I have two random gadgets sitting around on month 3 or 4 somewhere, so now I have a great activity for the weekend, or not, we will see.
I have everything I need to build an enclosure for my cheap-ass laser. I have things I want to do with the laser when I can use it without smoking up the house. I have not started on it yet.
I have everything I need to make the rc planes I have been designing. Its all sitting on a shelf waiting for me to do my thing.
One of the things has been waiting for me to do my thing since before I moved.
I'll get to it.
Eventually.
Maybe.
If that’s ADHD, then capitalism is ADHD for the masses
Capitalism does prioritize engagement and spending by exploiting short-term dopamine rushes, so in a way kinda-sorta yes?
ADHD as a clinical diagnosis though is the chronic inability for the brain to absorb/retain dopamine; a neurological or chemical issue that isn’t “caused” by behavior. Severe enough and you get to the point where you desperately want to play a video game or watch a show but can’t even press the start button 🥲
I want to do soooooo many things and almost always end up doing nothing at all 😭 (being medicated helps with that, luckily)
My Retroid Pocket Flip 2 arrives on Monday. Soon I'll have more consoles than ever before I can emulate but probably won't.
Currently going through this watching videos of Walstad method aquariums lol
You really should put an explicit comment like that behind a content warning.
I have no idea how I got past this phase in my ADHD. I think at some point my brain went “okay only buy thing you’re going to use like every day”
I am pretty sure this is anyone, not really ADHD specific. More like a "makes me feel good to buy something" specific. Which is many many people.
It's the other steps that make it ADHD.
My Japanese saw and shinto rasp just sighed in annoyance.
Hey, I'm in this picture!
Oh, is that what I have..
The lighter side of ADHD
