Hello - I loved this episode and RELATE so much. Especially to the frozen part. By 3pm most days I feel like my battery has completely depleted and I need an actual reboot. But a part of me still can't stop thinking: doesn't everybody's brain work like this though? Isn't everyone doing too many things and getting distracted all the time? Doesn't everyone need a nap at 3pm? Isn't that just modern life? Why did I used to be able to work 10 hour shifts for a big company but I can't do it for myself?! Do non ADHDers wake up without a narrator?! I would love to know what that feels like?! Are we SURE there are people walking around with only 1 thought in their heads?!
It's an interesting one, isn't it? For sure everyone has SO many demands on their attention because of the wonders of the internet and mobile phones which is exhausting. This is one aspect of that busy brain feeling and the busy brain is only one aspect of ADHD – someone can resonate with that without having ADHD because they don't have the other traits too. (That's why we aren't all 'a little bit ADHD'.)
The able to work for someone else for hours but not yourself thing – do you recognise yourself as an Obliger in Gretchen Rubin's Four Tendencies? (I need to catch up with the interview you did with her.) The accountability of meeting someone else's expectations can be so much more powerful than being only accountable to ourselves – hence the accountability thread in the Quiet ADHD Club 😉
I've spoken to people – I had to feel sure they're neurotypical as it turns out us neurodivergent types attract like so you may know far more than you think – and it does seem that there are people walking around with single trains of thought going through their heads, or at least not 47! 😆 Why not have a chat with NT folk you know?
Hello - I loved this episode and RELATE so much. Especially to the frozen part. By 3pm most days I feel like my battery has completely depleted and I need an actual reboot. But a part of me still can't stop thinking: doesn't everybody's brain work like this though? Isn't everyone doing too many things and getting distracted all the time? Doesn't everyone need a nap at 3pm? Isn't that just modern life? Why did I used to be able to work 10 hour shifts for a big company but I can't do it for myself?! Do non ADHDers wake up without a narrator?! I would love to know what that feels like?! Are we SURE there are people walking around with only 1 thought in their heads?!
It's an interesting one, isn't it? For sure everyone has SO many demands on their attention because of the wonders of the internet and mobile phones which is exhausting. This is one aspect of that busy brain feeling and the busy brain is only one aspect of ADHD – someone can resonate with that without having ADHD because they don't have the other traits too. (That's why we aren't all 'a little bit ADHD'.)
The able to work for someone else for hours but not yourself thing – do you recognise yourself as an Obliger in Gretchen Rubin's Four Tendencies? (I need to catch up with the interview you did with her.) The accountability of meeting someone else's expectations can be so much more powerful than being only accountable to ourselves – hence the accountability thread in the Quiet ADHD Club 😉
I've spoken to people – I had to feel sure they're neurotypical as it turns out us neurodivergent types attract like so you may know far more than you think – and it does seem that there are people walking around with single trains of thought going through their heads, or at least not 47! 😆 Why not have a chat with NT folk you know?