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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hmm. The one that is irritating AF is getting lost in a thought train or narrative, getting really into in, thinking about something else briefly and then completely forgetting what your train of thought was. And if you do regain it, it’s no longer interesting.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, with ADHD it's very easy to lose all your thoughts when interrupted even a bit. Our working memory is broken and it sucks. Especially when you have severe ADHD like me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Whoa, yes. I also hate when I have a sequence of 5-10 thoughts in a few seconds and try to remember the third or fourth thought again because it was something I needed to do..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

And the others are just gone for what feels like years until you remember you had to make that important phone call

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

More like I get to reverse engineer who I am and what my motivations could be, based on what I wake up finding myself doing

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love that description. haha

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks I was pretty happy with it, too

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It’s called “The Doorway Effect” and it’s something that can effect anyone. The action of passing through a door can affect short term memory causing you to forget what you were doing a moment before. It’s possible that it’s attributed to self preservation in causing you to assess your surroundings on entering a new room.

Not to say it’s not a problem for ADHD, but it’s a more common issue than you’d think.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Most ADHD symptoms are things everyone can relate to, this one included . The difference is most people do some of those things occasionally, while ADHD people tend to do many of those things multiple times a day. For example in my case I have this so-called doorway effect multiple times a day, but I also lose track of what I'm talking about or forget words really often, lose my things all over the place, need to work with alarms and reminders to be remotely close to functional due to severe time blindness, etc.

Also a gentle reminder not to party poop - although you were pretty respectful and didn't downright downplay the symptoms, some people suffering from ADHD tend to get rightfully tired of these comments altogether.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But what is the second image?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

We will never know... 😞

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sometimes it's entertaining (and frustrating) to backtrack my train of thought. I'll think about it for a while and eventually go "Ahhhh! That's why I was thinking about X".

Then I realise that it's not really that interesting and that I was bothering my SO with all this thought process out loud expecting her to (somehow) be interested and share my excitement for finding out whatever I was thinking about.

Am I alone in this?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

You're not alone.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

That's dissociation - is dissociation part of ADHD?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No, it's daydreaming. Simply getting stuck in your thoughts and doing stuff without thinking about what you're doing until you break out from daydreaming.

Edit: I experienced dissociation quite a few times in the past but not even close to the amount of daydreams I had.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's also lack of working memory

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah it happens to me sometimes. But what’s real scary is it happening while driving. I left work one afternoon and felt like I had teleported 30 minutes into the future and ended up at my house. Didn’t remember anything in between. Luckily it’s only happened to me once.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I just looked it up and there seems to be a link between ADHD and dissociation. I don't know how strong this link is though: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/adhd-dissociation#what-is-dissociation

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Dissociation and distraction by you inner conversation can look the same from the outside. I always thought that I was dissociating, because the descriptions fiit very nicely. Dissociated state is however a trauma response and the onset somewhat predictable, I lack the trauma part. (unless you subscribe to the theory of complex ptsd and adhd, but the same distinction applies nevertheless. The distracted state remains unpredictable)