It’s usually quite obvious when someone didn’t understand what I said but acts as if they did and I respect them less for lying about it.

I get how they feel - I’m the same way. I just don’t lie about it. I make them repeat it untill I do get it.

Yes, I too compare my internal experience to what other people seem on the outside.

Other than getting access to medication, I’ve personally never quite understood what difference a diagnosis makes. Having an ADHD diagnosis is an explanation, not excuse. My dishes will remain undone independent of whether it’s due to laziness or executive dysfunction. What matters is what is, not why it is.

I can often justify buying nice things if it’s of high quality. I still own and use most of the nice things I’ve ever bought. What also helps is to have a relatively cheap taste. I think my 18 year old pickup truck is pretty damn nice.

The correlation with psychopathy is a bit unclear to me here.

I’ve been perfectly respectful this whole time. Insulting me personally and calling me a bullshitter just because you disagree is completely uncalled for. There’s enough mean people on social media already - I wish you wouldn’t contribute to that.

Yes, that’s exactly what I’m saying - but at the same time, I recognize that I only have access to my own stream of consciousness. I couldn’t possibly know for certain what someone else’s subjective experience is like - and neither can you.

That’s self-reporting, which is notoriously unreliable. It’s not that people are lying - they just don’t know. Most people are thinking without realizing they’re thinking. They couldn’t stop their thoughts for ten seconds even if their life depended on it. It becomes painfully obvious once you start meditating - actually paying attention to what the brain and body are doing moment to moment.

Nobody can. Thoughts occuring isn’t ADHD thing - it’s a human thing. Even Buddha had thoughts.

Living in a two-story house is such a blessing - the stairs make perfect shelves for clothes. There’s a workout-clothes stair, an indoor-clothes stair, an outdoor-clothes stair, and let’s not forget the laundry stair, from where I (in theory) move dirty clothes up to the basket as I go upstairs, as well as the clean-clothes stair, from where I (in theory) move them back to the closet which is also upstairs.

I might be a person with ADHD in a ADHD community but that doesn’t mean that I need to view everything through that lens. ADHD explains many things in my life but not all things. It might be a sensory issue for some but I’m talking about myself here. Me disagreeing with a meme is not an attack on your identity.

It’s not a sensory issue - I just like wearing socks. Not everything needs to be pathologized.

Finances is one of the few thing I don’t need to worry about.

I still do though.

Made me think of this