You got the last part wrong. I tripped over it on the way home from the library…

Wait, were you going to the library? I’m sure there was somewhere else you need to go to run errands. Was it the grocery store? Better check the pantry and fridge to see what you need. End up on the couch eating and watching TV for the rest of the day.

You check again. It has been two years since you didn’t throw out that box beside the door you put there to take to the garbage.

You check the clock. You check again, because you didn’t actually read the time because you were too absorbed in the process of checking the clock that you forgot to check the clock.

You check the clock again. You have a new email. You consider checking the clock again, but give up and accept your fate because checking the clock a (second? Third? Tenth? First?) time is just too much right now, you’re already running late anyways so it was kind of all procrastinating in the first place. You don’t even know what you were supposed to be checking it for. Just wait and see, it’s probably not that important. Maybe you’ll check the clock and see if it sparks your memory.

You check the clock. You finally see the time. The bus drives past you.

That one hit a bit too closely to home

Thats a fairly common aspect of ADHD, hyperfocus on some specific domain. Its like we min/max what we think about.

I don’t to my knowledge have ADHD but if there’s a movie on it’s hard for me to completely ignore it. I memorably had to switch seats at a restaurant once with my partner at the time because I could see some shitty movie playing behind them and it was too distracting

Definitely me. I’m big time into movies because when I was a kid my parents, my brother and I would all watch movies together. Legitimately like 3 times a week.

I was ALWAYS the last one awake. I’d get up, put my brother to bed, and let my parents sleep.

I could also quote the movie exceedingly well even after one watch at a young age - just because the world around me basically ceased to exist when a flick was on.

Mom would sometimes wake up and go to bed in their bedroom on her own and I wouldn’t notice, with her sitting 5 feet from me.

Very similar experience for me, even down to being the last one awake. If someone wants my full attention the movie has to be paused.

Same for the most part, but I do often put on a familiar movie to be in the background. Usually extended LotR series while I play switch or something.

I think you’ll find that awful or lazy was never true, and the potential was always there buried deep. You just didn’t have the right tools.

so many people with executive dysfunction have come to this realization thru memes ❤️

I would add: beyond executive dysfunction, people who also have low intrinsic motivation (ability to “just do it”) and/or difficulty initiating, are also not bad people!

while it is our responsibility to always work on and improve our weak points, these aspects of temperament exist as they are, no matter how much moralizing busybodies insist otherwise.

Recognizing where some of our habits come from makes it easier to tackle them sometimes.

Well no, but actually yes

The Fun part of ADHD is there’s nothing unique to ADHD. Being overwhelmed with anxiety doesn’t mean you have anxiety disorder. It’s when you have frequent overwhelming anxiety and it’s interfering with your life.

Having a tendency to put things down and lose them doesn’t mean you have ADHD. Constantly having to find that screwdriver that was just in your hand and realizing that desk has been half complete for six months because you keep spending thirty seconds looking for it before getting distracted by other tasks? That’s ADHD. Unless it’s focus issues rooted in something else. Like anxiety or depression, which can cause ADHD like symptoms. But also ADHD can cause anxiety and depression, or be comorbid.

That said, you are here voluntarily on an ADHD community finding common ground with an ADHD meme. If you’ve wondered specifically about ADHD or more broadly felt there’s something different about you’ve just never been able to put your finger on - this is your sign. My advice is to find a psychiatrist who really understand it, dig as deep as you can for hard evidence that you have or don’t have it, and keep an open mind to alternative explanations. A diagnosis of “no you don’t have ADHD” is also important information.

They’re certainly common if you have ADHD, and ADHD is actually quite prevelent.

I think they meant gothic as in gothic horror; so the adhd symptoms in the right light sound like a gothic horror story where your mind is deceiving you

edit, yup its a play on this meme format: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/regional-gothic