Do I Have ADHD? ADHD Symptoms & Signs from ADHDers
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- Опубликовано: 4 июн 2024
- The first question we asked as our suspicions grow and our ADHD journey begins is do I have ADHD. I began asking lots of seasoned ADHDers about the most prominent symptoms of their ADHD and how it affects their daily lives. Let's look at 30 real-life examples, symptoms and signs from real-life ADHDers.
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00:00 - Intro
00:36 - 30 Symptoms of Adhd from ADHDers
04:18 - The real cost of these ADHD symptoms
06:35 - What are your top ADHD signs & symptoms?
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I was diagnosed with ADHD since my teenage, spent my whole life fighting ADHD. Also suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Not until my mom recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. This is something that really need to be use globally to help people with similar health challenges.
Congrats on your recovery. Most persons never realizes psilocybin can be used as a miracle medication to save lives. Years back i wrote an entire essay about psychedelics. they saved you from death bud, lets be honest here.
Can you help me with the reliable source 🙏. I'm 56 and have suffered for years with addiction, anxiety and severe ptsd, I got my panic attacks under control myself years ago and they have come back with a vengeance, I'm constantly trying to take full breaths but can't get the full satisfying breath out, it's absolutely crippling me, i live in Germany. I don't know much about these mushrooms. Really need a reliable source!! Can't wait to get them.
YES very sure of Dr.alishrooms. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction and Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.
Mushrooms are very medicinal. This is why anybody familiar with psilocybin and any other kind of fungi will tell you, "They are alive." They have a very ancient wisdom. To my experience, all mushrooms have always said, "Pay attention to your life. How you think, how you feel, and what will you do with the information that you always knew, but now are seeing in this point of view." This is why mushrooms are so respected in tribal cultures. This mental health treatment works for me too. Half micro doses do the trick for me. At least a few days at a time with lengthy time in between. Thank you for sharing this point!
How do I reach out to him? Is he on insta
A symptom of mine: Constant burnout from overcommitting and having to work harder than normal people to keep up with everything.
100%!!!
Same with me. Hang in there. : )
I Know, working 3 times harder, than others, and getting less work done.
My whole life....
I feel your struggle
A lot of my "symptoms" are actually coping strategies and overcompensation for symptoms, like checking if I have my keys in my pocket when I leave the house, sometimes up to 3 times, despite only just putting them in my pocket.
Sometimes I even check if I'm wearing all my clothes, despite never having forgotten to put clothes on.
...I have literally walked out the house without my trousers on once. Sigh!😂 But yes, it's a really good point - how much of our behaviours are developed from coping strategies is a really useful magnifying glass to put ourselves under
Are you diagnosed with OCD too?
@@AlaaYahia No.
I just looked up the diagnostic criteria for OCD and don't meet them.
Someone with OCD would feel like they have to engage in certain behaviors, maybe even believe someone they love could die, if they don't follow this behavior, while I'm just worried, that I will be locked out, if I don't have my key in my pocket.
I've seen some cases of OCD and if someone with OCD would always check their keys and forget it, they would probably go back inside, check their keys and only then leave the house, while I don't care for the act of checking, I just care about being able to get back inside, when I get back home.
@@pixelmotte An OCD person would go through "compulsions" in this case, checking their keys multiple times because of "obsession", in this case the fear to later find out they locked themselves out and don't have their keys.
@@AlaaYahia There are more components to OCD than a simple "any bad thing could happen if I don't do something regularly".
I for example wouldn't check if I have my keys in my pocket, if I would just take out the trash and a window is open, because even if it would be embarrassing to climb through the window, I would still get back inside.
People with OCD often suffer immensely from their disorder, they feel like they have to act that way, which I don't.
I don't feel like I have to look for my keys against my own will, I want to know, if they're in my pocket.
Did you even read the diagnostic criteria?
I am diagnosed ADHD. There is a symptom that I don't hear others talking about. I can be thinking of a thought, then forget it as I am thinking it and just be left with the feeling of it, or I try to hold onto a thought to talk about when it is my turn to speak and then it's completely gone before I can talk about it.
One of the things that made me first think I had ADHD was someone saying "for neurotypicals attention is a 1-10 scale, for ADHDers it's a dice roll or a 15"
😂 this is a great summary! - thank you! We're very much 'Now' and 'Not Now'.
Oh I love that so much! too funny! And very true!
That is utterly brilliant and I'm mentally filing it away for future use, but I'll probably forget where I stored it, but hey, the thought is still very much there. ❤
Im binge watching videos bout adhd for the past week. This is a new level of adhd to get hyperfocused on adhd
Welcome to the wormhole!😂 It's why I started making these videos....and the more I discover and research, the more fascinating it gets!
@@welcometothewormhole yesterday I got my official diagnosis so ig its only the beginning of my journey 🫠
😂 i do it too!!!
This week/month my hyper focus is “How to TikTok” and ADHD/OCD…
First symptom I can remember having of ADHD (in 6th grade), which got me sent to the school speech therapist instead of a psychologist, in my own words: my mouth has trouble keeping up with my brain.
But the biggest sign is simply that my brain doesn't turn off. Ever. I've mentioned this many times over the years in conversations, especially any time the idea of "mindless work" comes up, and literally nobody ever suggested to me I should look into ADHD.
This hit me hard, and I am crying as I am writing this.
I got diagnosed with ADHD just yesterday, at the age 47, and now everything suddenly makes sense! It is like a huge relief knowing that I am actually not a lazy human and a complete failure.
Thank you so so so much..! ❤❤
My symptoms are: queen of procrastination, doom scrolling (I have a frozen shoulder as the effect), hyper fixation, someone is talking to me and I only focus on what I am going to say coz I am worried I might forget them, I pay for my grocery and I leave it at the cashier until the cashier call me and sooo oooon....
I so understand you. I have realized I most likely live with ADHD at 40. I had an appointment with my GP to discuss possibilities of being diagnosed but was told that unfortunately NHS no longer assess adults for ADHD (I live in the UK). I now tend to keep it to myself as having shared my concerns with some friends and family members I didn't find much of understanding and support. Sometimes I had to hear: " ... all of those autisms and ADHDs are bullsh*t that people are using as excuse to be lasy inattentive and careless!.. " It's really hurtful.
I'm 46 and this is exactly me too
@aliaksandrkasiak4582 is that still the case? Will.I have to go private to seek diagnosis?
- not being able to put anything in a drawer ever, because the moment it's out of sight I forget it exists. (for example I can't put perishables in my veggie box in the fridge because it's opaque and the food will go bad, so I have to keep them on a shelf and I put longer lasting packaged stuff in the drawer instead)
- on bad days, leaving my apartment, and having to go back up again the moment I'm on the street or when I'm already on the way somewhere because I forgot something essential. My record is going back and forth 5x
- as a consequence of this spending at least 20 mins anxiety checking my pockets and bag before leaving, going through my list of essentials in my head up to 10x
- still in a similar vein, hating having to get ready when someone else is present in the room, even if they'e not talking to me, because their mere presence distracts me so much that I'm basically guaranteed to forget something
- ignoring messages and emails because "I'm busy" meaning to answer later and then completely forgetting about them, sometimes for months. this has cost me friendships and got me into trouble at work several times. I have to either reply to messages immediately or leave them "unread" sometimes helps, but not as much because I'm good at ignoring those too
- loosing interest and abandoning a project the moment it gets momentum and some attention (eg on social media) basically incapable of consistently posting in order to build a following for a potential 2nd stream of income
- becoming super involved, genuinely passionate and active in one online community or another and then dropping off the face of the earth from one day to the next when my interest wanes. feeling hella guilty about it but unable to stop it or rekindle interest on command.
- saying "yes" to too many things when in a good mood only to very quickly get overwhelmed with all the appointments I've made because I didn't factor in time to recuperate
- completely incapable of forming longterm healthy habits. If I'm very motivated I might be able to keep it up a couple of months but I will inevitably loose steam and something else will have captured my interest more. constantly regretting not having continued the thing. restarting same thing over and over again, each time basically from zero.
- conversely, being able to get so thoroughly obsessed with something that I am able to sometimes reach relatively high levels of skill or knowledge in a VERY short amount of time. unfortunately everything else in my life suffers when this happens tho. but eyyy I'm queen of random factoids and weird hobbies!
- always feeling like I have no time for myself and all the things I want to do when I am under contract and actually have structure, and hating the structure, but completely falling apart the moment I don't have it anymore and never getting any of the things I wanted to do "if I had time" done anyway, once I do actually have time to do them.
- experiencing almost physical pain when I have to force myself to do something I don't want to do and procrastinating the thing until panic mode sets in, suffering anxiety the whole time because I STILL DIDN'T DO THE THING.
- leaving short novel length comments on things when my interest is peaked or I feel like I have something to say............. XD
..... I could go on and on and on but I'll leave it here for now....
Oh my days! So so much yes! 😂 I’ve just been reading these aloud and laughing so much (in a very relatable way - not mocking).
Thank you so so much - these have hit so so close to home, and even in our tiny household, sharing these has had a real effect, especially on my wife. I’m seeing this so much even from these comments - it really helps make us feel less alone, acknowledged and understood.
I have an inkling you have some really rather valuable stories and insights…I began recording a podcast a month ago, talking with other everyday ADHDers and NDs about their highs and lows and everything in between. I’m resisting the incredible urge to go live until I have 6 episodes recorded and edited. I’d really love to chat! Drop me an email (in the about RUclips page or from the website I’ve just started building www.welcometothewormhole.com) - it’s all very executive function friendly 😊 Also, no pressure, and no offence taken if not ❤️❤️❤️
@@welcometothewormhole I know it's been 2 months but I finally wrote you that email 😅♥
So very relatable. Also somehow I assumed you are a man until I noticed the "queen of random factoids" (we could start a random facts kingdom together), and noticed your avatar. I know that adhd has made me maybe 10% of the person I could have been, but on the other hand the 10% that I am, I probably have to thank it for. I also make way too long comments to random strangers, and then after that edit them, just like you did.
Reading this made me feel like I'm the one who wrote it because I 100% relate to absolutely everything you've listed xD
28/30 of these are things that affect me every damn day. just recently got evaluated at age 23, waiting for the follow-up appointment, and i'm still terrified that I've made it all up and have been doing it for attention! :')
...and even now, I still find myself thinking that I've just made it up...that I just need to try even harder that it buries me. You are not alone, and how you are experiencing life is equally as valid as the next persons.❤️
@PurpleElla has a good video about this! ruclips.net/video/Bhj4X7IY9bM/видео.html
I know this feeling, one moment you are ready to believe it all and next moment you are questioning if you are making it all up !
I think it’s a girl thing. We doubt ourselves so much, we are always looking for a reason to say “actually I was just making excuses for myself. I am as crap as I thought all along. “ stay strong sisters. 😊
@@emilywilcockson941 I'm a male but I'm still scared to get evaluated because I'm afraid I'm just making it all up for attention, even tho i do have all of these things, and the symptoms
Also... I got to the end of the video, and I'm almost I'm tears. I've never ever been so perfectly described before. Every point you mentioned is me....
I'm finding these little videos, I'm making of more help to me than I ever thought possible, and reading the comments and how simply sharing experiences is helping people has made my day time and time again. Thanks for taking the time to comment Christian. X
I was literally just getting ready to comment. Then I read yours and this is EXACTLY how I feel too. I have almost every one of these traits. I'm 64 and still haven't found a doctor to take me seriously. Looking forward to more of these videos.
I feel exactly the same swear...I was smiling all through the video though!
Girls and women are often missed for this diagnosis and struggle there lives with it.
bloody hell, you just described my life.
😂 I've been gathering even more from ADHDers...there's so many - the reason I'm loving sharing and watching others is that for a little while, I feel so much more understood and a little less alone. Thanks Matt for your comment :-) xxx
Lol I do almost all of these! I was diagnosed at age 29. All of my 20s, I was trying to figure out why I had chronic memory issues. Despite my mom being a nurse, she never figured it out. I figured it out myself from research and pursued a diagnosis. 1.) looking for my glasses and forgetting I was wearing glasses 2.) Not hearing when people are speaking directly to me 3.) Asking for people to repeat things multiple times so that I can comprehend what they were saying 4.) Unable to sort or organize items so my place is chronically messy 5.) Impulsively shopping or impulsively buying food from food cravings 6.) Cant remember phone numbers even for family 7.) Cant remember most peoples names, including most celebrities 8.) Overly chatty and sharing all of my thoughts without a filter or saying nothing at all 9.) Playing with my hair all of the time 10.) Being really bad at math (it is common for adhd females to have problems in math) 11.) Obsessively researching interests instead of doing responsible adult things lol
Every. Single. One. of those 😂 (bar the hair playing)....it's pretty cool when we see we're really not as alone or isolated as ADHD makes us feel sometimes❤️
@@welcometothewormhole Lol yes! I'm lucky enough that both of my siblings also have ADHD, my cousin, and so do my 2 best friends. It was definitely a hurdle when it came to my parents though. They were convinced I did not have ADHD because I did well overall in school (except math), and were not thrilled about me trying meds. My mother was in complete denial, and fought with me over it, til I got an official diagnosis. My dad is still in denial that he has undiagnosed ADHD lol. But it is clear as day.
All this is me but I was refused a referral.
@@suew000 😱 that’s terrible!! By whom were you refused? Did they give a reason? I had to fight my GP (I’m in uk) who didn’t think it was worth it “at your age” I was 49/50! I had to wait 4+ years but finally diagnosed 6 weeks ago. Now awaiting good bp results in order to try medication 🤞🤞
@@annabelcleare138 bp isn’t the issue many doctors still think it is, not even for stimulants. I hope you can make sure they do give you some appropriate medication to try!
My favorite personal moment was realizing that sometimes the professor/lecturer asks the class rhetorical questions that aren’t meant for me to jump in on their train of thought… that was a big one. If someone stops talking to think or take a breath my brain wants to put words in their mouth to continue the conversation but sometimes that’s just interrupting and I’m not always right about what they meant to say. I try to be more aware and practice patience, because I don’t want to influence their wording of their thoughts and opinions with my own
I seem to have a need to fill any kind of silence in any social situation😂
That’s when I would get chalk thrown at me. Lol. I needed expanded explanations because I have LDs. She would get frustrated for all of my questions. But that was the way I had to roll.
@@omalou42 yup! I still learn best through conversations, things are way more likely to stick & make sense & stay with me if I can have a back and forth question and answer type of learning situation.
Like your glasses, each lens in a pair of glasses represents a unique perspective. One may see the world as a CIRCLE, with all its fluidity and interconnectedness, while the other may see the world as a SQUARE, with its structure and precision. Together they create a unified view that embraces both creativity and logic, and it will allow you to see the world in all its complexity.
A beautiful reading Seraphim! Thank you. You would love the work of Enrique Enriquez - his work on the use of metaphor and analogy to create readings from anything is astounding.
No amount of symbolism will prevent the asymmetry from making me twitchy. I think that's one of my ASD things.
@s3ra9h1m Those glasses really annoy me, I need symmetry and regularity.!
I didn’t notice it until I read your comment 😂
Just been diagnosed aged 55 🥺 …. Almost everything you’re saying rings true. My life is 2/3 over, and it has been a rough ride :-/
...but...that 2/3rds has given you a huge amount of perspective. Good and bad. I've went through, and still get occasionally, the mourning for what could have been...but I realised that I'm valuing so so much more in my life now, simply because I have the perspective of the adult life before, and now the after ❤️
@@welcometothewormhole thank you 😊❤️ and thanks for the incredibly helpful insight into your experience
Girl I feel your pain. I was 40 before someone said I think you have ADD. I was actually 68 years old before I got a real diagosis and meds. I am now 70...yep on the tail end and it is still rough going. But hey I pray to live long enough to make improvements. God bless you.
Great list. I’d add two of the biggies: not going to sleep on time/various sleep issues and emotional dysregulation. Maybe these were on some of those notes you haven’t yet found 🤔😅
YES! Absolutely! I really struggle to shut my thoughts off. I have to have RUclips or Netflix playing in my ears so I can quell the thoughts bouncing around my skull in order to sleep. I've been struggling to get to sleep my whole life, usually around midnight as a child and 2-5am now as an adult, when I function best with 9 hrs normal hour range (between 8pm and 7am, best time for restorative non REM) of sleep.
I'm literally shaking cuz I have to pee, and I'm like "nope, I can hold it..."
I'm undiagnosed, but my siblings are. I've been chasing a diagnosis for almost a year now. I have an ongoing list of the adhd things I've done my entire life lol
Good luck - I hope you get it!
Don't wait till you have a total meltdown. Yeah, when you finally get someone to test you, really think about the questions and if you are wishy-washy on something bump it up a notch. I am combined type and I kept underplaying the hyperactivity, because I'm don't "get" the driven by a motor part of one question, and the "inability to remain seated" part of another. I'm female. Honestly, haven't the Dr"s ever seen a boy running around(boys will be boys) while his sister is being yelled at for not sitting(quietly) like a lady?
Every time I watch something like this. I think oh no maybe this is the one that shows I'm wrong about seeking diagnosis. It never seems to happen 😅
The other day, a lady told me with a serious face I could “pray the ADHD away” 😂😂😂 and that it was something modern that could be cured through Jesus 🤔🤔🤔 Maybe we’re watching the wrong channels...
ohhh I feel this. the imposter syndrome is strong with me too XD
@@welcometothewormhole oh dead, oh dear. Like seriously, people out here unhinged
I have a little hack, so to speak. Set up google on your phone so it listens, then when you can't find your phone just say "Hey Google play music". If you're in the right room it should play music. Easy to find.
Yes! And tiles! And Airtags! I use them alllll the time 😂
Omg that’s a great tip! Thank you!
Here's this guy on the video, that I don't know, telling me about myself, almost spot on EVERY SINGLE TIME! You sir, have earned a subscriber! :)
After watching one of your videos last night, I took online ADHD test and I scored high now after watching this one. I definitely have ADHD. Thank you.
Seriously, though, if I do have ADHD, it would explain so much .
I was also late diagnosed at 36. It runs in my family, my mother always told me growing up I seemed to have it (she called it mild because I got good grades in school), school was so easy i didn't have to pay attention, i was the class clown, getting kicked out of classes in high school but easily got straight A's - later to realize it was only due to me having to keep pace with older sister who didn't have adhd and got straight A's. competition was always a driving force to do things. I became an alcoholic, not knowing i had adhd, but i used it, to quiet my mind, to shut it off at night, for 20 years tell i pretty much perfected that hobby. quit but now realizing how much alcohol helped provide me concentration, ability to focus and work. Now facing / struggling with nearly, if not every single one of the things you mention in this video. 36 years to finally learn that others actually can relate to this, not knowing even the smallest things are familiar to others with adhd has been freeing yet difficult. thanks for your vids, just came across them recently.
Great list of symptoms . I don't have your capability with words but i would add a certain naivety in different fields ,an outstanding intuition , a strange type of empathy , to much trust on others , not understanding many important schemes unless someone explain them to us , a critic is seen as an offence etc etc
I have all of those and still only got diagnosed in my twenties, because I finally couldn't compensate anymore for my adhd brain in university.
Meds make sitting down to study a whole lot easier.
That’s amazing to hear! In the WHO manual for diagnostics the phrase “when societal pressures exceeds limited capacities” really stuck with me - it’s so true for so many adults left undiagnosed.
I'm a new worm in this wormhole (both because I just discovered you and because I got my diagnosis about six months ago...and I'm 54), so forgive me if you've heard this five million times, but I feel a visceral need now to own a pair of glasses just like yours! Almost forgot-I tick almost every box on the list. All the hobbies, the curiosity, the sharing the results of the curiosity, the piles of stuff coalescing in the corners...yeah. Great video! Thanks for making me feel so much less alone.
Some of these really resonate with me… I can’t say all of them but it’s really validating to hear that some of these are from other people experiencing the same things I do.
I have almost all of these😯 even the bonus one of all my special piles of paper scraps, notes, receipt, etc🤣
I'm working through the possibility of an adult ADHD diagnosis and this is really helpful, especially to know I'm not alone and that a lot of these things aren't my fault. I hope I can get help soon.
one fo the biggest things for me was when I realized "oh. the average adult doesn't put off doing things they enjoy, or avoiding something because it's "mindless" " No matter how quickly I can do it, I won't do it if it's super boring. Like emials, asnwering texts', etc.
I have 6,000 email in my in box. Some I have read some I haven’t. Afraid if I delete it all I will have deleted important info. Mail piles up and taxes due day after tomorrow and haven’t even started. Sucks. Totally relate.
These are the things that are slowly killing me as a human being. I don't think they will ever stop
I’ve been binge-watching ADHD videos here for the last week or so while I await my diagnosis. There are lots that made me cry, sometimes tears of joy as I discovered how many people are going through the same thing when I thought I was alone and totally misunderstood but with no way of explaining how I felt to people in terms they’d understand.
Your explanation is so clear and emotion-free that I feel I could use this to perfectly demonstrate just what my life is like, as I recognise all but one or two of your examples.
Your medication video mirrors others I have watched but again in your calm and rational way clearly shows the difference of how you -and I -are without meds and how I hope I may be one day. It gives me hope i never thought was possible.
I'm 60, but there's no need to recount my life story and struggles here because you've just summarised it pretty much perfectly.
Thanks and keep up the good work.
You have totally smashed it. This is it in a nutshell. Amazing job.
Best explanation I’ve seen yet ❤
3:05 I watched this video while doomscrolling LOL
"Time blindness" - love this description
Thank you for this , it really helps, and your glasses are amazing 🎉
This is the kind of content I've been looking for; not in clinical terms, but ones that I actually really relate to! Thank you!
This is definitely not a symptom(i guess) but every time i watch a movie let's say the movie is 90mins long i end up watching it for much longer. Many times even for 3 hours(180mins). I search the actors during the movie, watch their awards, other movies, "hey what plant is that i love it. Let's google it". My girlfriend gets quite annoyed sometimes but with her i can watch a movie for a tiny bit longer and not for hours on
EDIT: i'm not diagnosed. but im currently visiting a Psychologist to aid me through it. Im searching for answers
bruh...i feel you so much....i think in my youngster years i could really hyper focus during movies, i have the tendency to watch movies or series for days with no end but nowadays it´s a struggle for me to watch more than 20 minutes without a thought popping into my head and therefore having the urge for search something. Social media hasn´t help my adhd brain a single bit.
on point! great video.
Thank you for your videos, I have been recently diagnosed aged 60. My life would have been so much better if I had known before. I feel like I am shutting the gate, after the horse has run away and dropped dead of old age. I hope to get my first medications in the next two weeks. I loved your video about the effects, may I be able to put it to good use. Thanks again for sharing your thoughts and ideas xx
dude I can't say how much ur vids have been helping me. I am a 22 year old nonbinary person who is in the works of getting diagnosed. I have struggled with so many of these all my life but as I have gotten older and needing to do more "adult" things on my own its gotten soooooo much worse and so much harder to manage. I have my follow up appointment tomorrow with a psychiatrist and we are going to talk about where I fall on the ADHD spectrum and also what medication will most likely work for me! I'm so excited to see what this will do for me :)
I am only just beginning to look into all of this after my wife was told she may have ADHD and might need assessing. I have since noticed how many of these things apply to myself, especially as I am having a hard time at work ATM as it has all become so monotonous . I used to have a job that constantly challenged me to problem solve and think on my feet, so I feel it helped me deal with my quirks. Not any more! feeling so overwhelmed with the struggle to concentrate and feel motivated to get my work done, that seeing videos like this nearly have me in tears to know its possibly not just me! Maybe there is help! I even tried you r test and scored an 18. might not be high, but it's just something else pointing the way for me. You have really encouraged my to try and get this all looked into... Thank you.
I wish I'd seen this video when it came out, as that list described me near-perfectly.
I got a diagnosis 2 weeks ago.
Music playing in brain that won't turn off and keeps repeating overriding other thoughts. (Earworms) and nonstop thinking.
Is it normal, that I've got a dopamine rush after hitting 30 out of 30 and jump on my bed at 5am in the morning?
I'm not sure what convinces me more to finally see a professional therapist, your video(s) or me celebrating after hitting the bull's eye in this one... But I promise to you, the world and to myself that I will see one! I'm 40 and I hated myself for not being able to fix myself over the decades in fields, that seem so easy for most other people...
I was trying to follow along and count how many of these I hit, but there were several that I couldn't tell if they were one symptom/trait or two from the way that he described them🤷♂️ so without literally making a list of all of them my score is more like a guess where I think I got approximately 28 or more out of at least 33🤷♂️
I put on this video on my TV and then instantly pulled out my phone and started scrolling through Instagram lol. Looked up because I realized I was missing the video and you were doing the outro
Thanks a lot for sharing. Recently diagnosed Gifted and Asperger, I am 200M sure I have ADHD too, the overlap of the 3 conditions fit perfectly to me.
I like the 3 conditions, for the good and the bad, all of them bring positives/potential and negatives traits/issues.
Thank you for sharing
My pleasure
Well said!!
I started doing these adhd tests as a joke. But I've taken several now and they all point to me having it. 😮
Brand new ADHDer here! I happened upon one of your videos the day before I started medication. I felt seen, so thank you. I have almost all of these symptoms and I'm incredulous that neither I nor anyone else ever suggested ADHD. I constantly put things down and forget where they are. I have an Apple Watch and the "Find My Device" app is a game-changer for finding my ever-elusive cell phone. I have a shortcut on my watch face and I use it EVERY day.
we kept our land line so we can locate our misplaced cell phones at home. I hardly ever turn off my phone so that I can ask someone to call it (easy number) so that I can locate it. I've done the same for other ADHDers.
If I was in a lecture I would have to sit right in front of the speaker and watch his face all of the time to concentrate and then afterwards forget what he just said.
Same , sitting in front, but I'd have to doodle to concentrate.
Took me a few videos to notice your awesome glasses!
3:07 made me laugh on how relatable this is.
Found myself skim/skip reading news articles and looking for pictures, then annoyed if there's no pictures, then looking through it for a smaller paragraph or totally closing the page and doing some else.
Then sometimes I focus on details *nobody else even begins to care about*
Gonna check with my Dr at some point for a referral to get checked
Ooooo those bloody details! I feel that! So so many good projects and peice of work that never saw the light of day because I was wanting to get things just perfect!
@@welcometothewormhole
Even being forgetful is getting really annoying now that I've taken note of it :/
Afraid of talking to my Dr though, and when I think of doing it I feel lost on where to start it.. kinda like there's a ball of yarn instead of a string attached to the action, then when I go to find the start of the yarn it's just an infinite ball of yarn lol
I have 14 minor jobs that have been unfinished varying in 1 to 12 months behind my imagined schedule and 6 enormous jobs I jumped into with great enthusiasm. Now all of them have turned into a pack of wolves following me and making me slower with virtually everything! Thank god for LLM's this year.
I'm relieved, I only have a little over half of those symptoms. 😉
I am 59 and recently retired, so it's no longer a struggle to function in the working world. My main issues now are a lack of motivation, still quite disorganized, constantly online, constantly bored, and I don't have enough friends. I still need to finish many projects, but I can't decide which to begin with, so I sit on RUclips. Although I'm not heavy, I have gotten out of shape and really need to exercise.
On a positive note, I recently enrolled in paramotoring lessons. It seems like something I'll enjoy and hopefully, I'll make some new friends through it.
I'm 32 but since I'm unemployed at the moment because of my mental health issues, this is what I'm going through. Without any external structure, I just...don't do anything. There are so many things I want to do, and know I "should" do, but I just mindlessly watch RUclips instead. I'm pretty sure I have adhd and am in the middle of testing right now, but I keep driving myself crazy second guessing and doubting myself because I don't fit all the symptoms perfectly. But what else could this be... Sometimes I feel like an impostor and sometimes I feel finally seen and understood.
Thank you so much for your videos on this! They've really helped me understand, I'm 99% sure I have ADHD but I want to get an official diagnosis in the UK, can anyone please tell me what's the best way of going about this? I hear the waiting lists are incredibly long for psychologists. I'm happy to pay but if I do have it and choose to go on meds, would I then have to pay the prescription?
By the way - cool glasses 🤓 Was starting at your glasses for a while trying to understand what is it about them that draw my attention?
100% relatable. For me, I cycle through extremes of focus and distraction... staying with something, or controlling impulses is so taxing that I need regular blowouts where I just do absolutely nothing or follow my impulses.
Oh, one other thing... (and I'm always doing this too: adding more details or ideas before finishing the first one) is with budgeting, I just spend hours imagining and planning what to do with my money. It helps prevent impulse spending, but is a time suck. Luckily, my wife handles it all now. I still have impulses, but she keeps me from going nuts on shopping sprees. (As you can see, being concise and to the point is a struggle.)
I have been drawing my entire life, have 1000s of them, maybe 8-10 that I actually finished. Played percussions every day for 35 years, never took a course or a sec to learn from another source. I have so many hobbies that I stopped counting them, not one of then at 100%. I can talk role-playing or videgames, psychology and Astronomy, percussions and visual arts, hell name it I did it. But again, never at 100%. It's very frustrating.
I've had and still have a fair amount of these even after starting ADHD medication a couple months ago. Watching things like these feel validating when you've been told most of your life they are just excuses.
Even now I have to be conscious of this for fear of loved ones still thinking they are excuses and not an actual mental health diagnosis.
I subscribed to this channel, and think I've finally found a channel that can really help. But I should have known, as an ADHDer, of course, the host had started this channel 9 months ago with lots of good content all coming out in the first month, and stopped uploading and moved on to something more interesting already.
Thank you so much 🥹
Thank you for your kind and positive way of explaining what ADHD can be like. This is very helpful to many, perhaps recognizing that they too have been challenged with the like. I don’t write this to be picky, or snobbish, but to uphold the seriousness and credibility of the disorder, and to increase our accuracy in using terminology when describing ADHD to the public. Just for reference, ADHD causes “Symptoms” like inattention, impulsivity, hyperactivity etc… The behaviors he is explaining …are not “symptoms”. They are actually called “Functional Impairments”. These are the things that happen as a result of, or are caused by the symptoms. I have been an ADHD educator for many years and have the disorder myself. I think if we have the correct language, we should use it. This keeps the naysayers in check and has helped me to better understand this very complex disorder. Has anyone else heard this term of “functional impairments” before?
Please don't justify - having and sharing knowledge shouldn't ever need to be ❤️ - I've never come across the terminology 'functional impairments' for ADHD, but have now banked this. Thank you for sharing!
The more I reflect on making videos like this, the more I realise, as with everything, a middle path needs to be taken. Whilst I now know the correct terminology, honestly, I still wouldn't use it for something like this. Don't get me wrong, the video I've just finished recording took 2 weeks to research, cross reference and script to make sure what I was saying was bang on, watertight and referenced... and rightly so! It covers certain facts and myths. But for the more informal things where topics are anecdotal, humorous or tongue in cheek, applying the same level of scrutiny would mean nothing would ever get produced or be palatable. Everyone understands and relates to "signs and symptoms" - but describing it differently wouldn't work. (p.s - I know things can be read wrong, but none of what I just typed had a drop of negativity in it - just enjoyed the small discussion, and as odd as it sounds to many, I really like being shown things and appreciated being given something to chew over). Hope that made sense, C x
@@welcometothewormhole yes it makes perfect sense but, any medical condition that can cut your life by 9-11 years, to me needs the language to be unified. We don’t say there is liver inflammation when there is really a tumor. I learned the term from working with some of the best ADHD experts in our country to create treatment guidelines for complex ADHD. While I knew this was a redundancy in naming the disorder “complex” it was something that had not yet had a name. Now it does. Complex ADHD is ADHD with one or more coexisting issues ( Anxiety,depression etc) and/ or confounding problems like treatment resistance. I believe it was in these three years of writing, the term came into being for me as well. Before then I had never heard of it. It takes they say, 17 years for research and the like to get into people’s household name list or in their vocabulary. I want it to go faster because I’m tired of fighting the ignorance of those who don’t understand it or mock having it. You did a great job and I appreciate all the work that you put into this, I felt all what you went through. I wasn’t diagnosed until I was 42 and that was in 2007. Keep bringing the information.
31) When riding in a car, you randomly read the names of restaurants, signs, etc. out loud for no reason whatsoever.
32) Starting a project at 9:00am, working on it for 10 minutes, only to find out that it’s now 2:00pm.
33) Using the flashlight on your phone to look under the bed to find your lost phone… which is the same phone.
34) Not being able to remember what you needed to do today but easily remembering that Tina Collins brought a pet frog named Cecil to school in third grade and it was snowing that day and you had hole in your sock.
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31) It's supermarket food labels for me....and then I hum at the checkout because I hate awkward silences
32)....and realising you need a wee so bad you almost make it to the loo
33) Glasses....all the sodding time - putting them on and spending 30 minutes searching for them in the morning...
34)Tina sounds like a great person!
Oh, and
35) When you know you have an appointment at 4pm (or a parcel arriving) so spend the entire day unable to do anything else but restlessly pace and fidget....and then still be late for said appointment
@@welcometothewormhole I’ve done the “missing glasses on top my head” thing many-a-times.
My best ADHD moment was looking for my missing backpack… which I had on.
"When riding in a car, you randomly read the names of restaurants, signs, etc. out loud for no reason whatsoever. "
ok so I have TALES about my parents getting mad with me for constantly doing that as a child
Recently diagnosed......40+ years of struggle, and now I know why. Always thought I was just a terrible person.
Amazing, how thankful am I! Many of those things you mentioned I suffer in everyday life from. No wonder everything has been so hard. 😭😭😭😢 I wish I knew this at rage of 9, I’d be a doctor by now. 🤬💀
Impatience and impulsivity! If something doesn‘t work out the way I wanted it to or if I feel being treated in an unfair way or just being overwhelmed this can lead to outbursts of anger. The problem is, I can’t control the rage, even when I recognize I am over the top and my behavior is doing some damage. My ex husband kept saying I had no breaks … he was right 😬
Just started the vid & noticed your glasses!! How cool! Where did you get them from? Would love something like that just to mess with people's minds. 😊
Hehehe....its why I got them! Instantly fell in love with them ❤️ I got them for £30 inc lenses...but the online shop has closed down 😔
@@welcometothewormhole I’m definitely going to find some. Sometimes I put my 😷 on off kilter just to freak people out. So much fun. Imagine that combo! I’ll definitely need to tuck a pant leg into a sock then! 😆
I used to set up rooms for meetings in a well known British sporting organisation. I used to love putting the tables at diagonals or when feeling particularly mischievous, just a slight angle… 😬
Walking into traffic is scary, I've been hit a couple times. One of my earliest memories is being pulled out of the path of oncoming traffic at a set of traffic lights by an elderly woman and collapsing on the sidewalk.
Following instruction manuals is also very tough for me. I read them, then spend ages thinking about it, even if it's only a few steps. Took four days to put wheels and a few accessories on a push bike...
I was diagnosed with ADHD, and other people with ADHD complaining about it, gives me headaches. Thats a real life symptom.
I feel called out. The only one I wasn't called out by was the financial one. I'm pretty good at budgeting and saving. But one that I fight with (not sure if it's the ADHD, the depression, or a little of both) is the urge to yeet myself because I hear the call of the void a lot.
Attention to detail my god yes. In job interviews I can never think of examples but know there are plenty of both extremes.
It works positively in my biggest hobby though. In brass banding the inability to filter out unwanted noises is great for intonation and balance, but because I'm enjoying it so much I can also focus on making sure I play everything right, most of the time 😁
That's a real bonus of ADHD, when you've found a passion you have long term to keep you engaged ❤️
I've been very uncertain about what I have. I know for a fact that I have an anxiety disorder (confirmed by my therapist), but I've also wondered if I have a combination of ADHD and autism. I relate to a lot of classic signs/symptoms/behaviors for both, and yet I can't help but wonder if all of those stem from my anxiety instead. I have two sisters, both with ADHD and one with autism (and I suspect that we got the ADHD from our father), so I can't help but hope.
Since my ASD diagnosis 6 years ago when I was 42, I have researched my condition and have noticed through videos like yours that I likely have inattentive ADD, as a far back as I can remember I will go into a deep daydream type state, the only thing that I can’t work out is that I’m a total time freak and I’m always early for everything, I’m not sure if my ASD counteracts the ADD. If you or anyone else have any ideas on this I would appreciate your opinions as I have been trying to work out why my brain does this since my school years started back in 1978. Thank you so much for making and sharing these videos as they are truly helping me to work out who I am and why my mind works the way that it does at the age of 48.
Diagnosed with ADHD in 2023 (age 49) after decades of depression and anxiety. No doc or therapist ever had any clue. Started suspecting I could be autistic and/or have ADHD in 2021 after my daughter was showing symptoms and realising I was very similar myself. Me and her do show some of the typical ADHD behaviours, but sometimes we are the exact opposite: we don’t loose or forget stuff, we are on time, we don’t like surprises or change of routines … still waiting for my ASD assessment. A therapist told me recently, all autistic people also have ADHD of some degree. In my personal experience the somehow contradictionary symptoms sometimes even each other out and sometimes one side „wins“ … mostly the ADHD side! 😂
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That's very interesting Daniela. I always ruled out that I had ADHD as a lot of people make you believe that it is only hyperactive kids that run around manically with a zero attention span that have it ,that is so different to how I am, and I truly did not realise that there are 3 different types of ADHD.. Thank goodness for Google and RUclips videos which have helped me educate myself and have a little more understanding as to the person I am.
@@jasonclarke7422 Yes, you‘re right there Jason, little did I know about ADHD and Autism other than some clichés. Also learned a ton from RUclipsrs who are diagnosed and interviews with the few docs who seem to get it. Well, growing up in rural Germany in the 70s and 80s they just did not know, even though my school report from first grade stated I was spacing out most of the time … 😜
The best thing about getting to know yourself better and accepting yourself how you are is the very nice online community … and after joining a self help group in my town I even made some new neurodivergent friends in real life.
Thankfully!👍❤
Glad I found your video, I was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome many many many years ago, it was quite obvious in my youthful days I was obviously ASD, but now that I'm in my sixties I'm starting experience many of the symptoms you mentioned here, I pay all my bills will ahead of time, but my special interest takes priority over the necessities and I constantly put these things off, if I don't put my stuff back where it's supposed to go it takes an act of Congress to find it, i can take no thought to grab my camera and go into the woods today but tomorrow I probably would not be able to talk myself into it, the highs and lows you mentioned. In the last couple years I've been researching the symptoms of ADHD and ASD seeing much overlap, do you have any thoughts on this? PS, my 4 year old granddaughter just got diagnosed last week with ADHD but yet I see classic Asperger syndrome symptoms in her???
I came across a claim that about of of people with ASD have at least one comorbidity, most often ADHD. Check out YoSamdySam for a good YT channel by someone who knew they had ASD for awhile but more recently realized they have ADHD too.
I've yet to be formally diagnosed, but I'm confident I have ASD and ADHD. Listening to YTers who have been formally diagnosed discuss their experiences was invaluable to reaching that conclusion. Besides previously not having correctly understood either (but especially not ADHD), not knowing I could have both at the same time was a longstanding hindrance to figuring out what was going on.
There's definitely overlap in some of the symptoms. On the stuff that doesn't overlap, the interplay between the two can be interesting - seeing which one is more dominant or how they might cancel out. For example, while I have the short-term "say it before you forget it" impulsiveness in conversations, I have very little of the larger scale impulsiveness (i.e. recklessness) because the ASD drives me to meticulously plan some things and simply steers my interests away from traditional reckless behaviors.
@@jliller yes the 'say it before you forget it' that's something I developed here in the last few years, but it's funny I'll remember three days later exactly what it was I wanted to say! I honestly believe the autism spectrum, ADHD, and others have a common denominator that science has not put its finger on, and thanks for the link.
The neurodivergent community has coined the diagnosis "AUDHD" combining autism and ADHD. I forget the exact %s but the comorbidity is strong.
@@jamesbryson9542 I've heard estimates as high as 50% for people with Aspergers that also have some form of ADHD. However, there isn't a reverse correlation. (In other words, you're much more likely to have ADHD without ASD than you are to have ASD without ADHD.)
Me too, I sometimes wonder what is what because they present quite similar. I like the term AuDHD and am selfdiagnosed AuDHD. I also still like the term Asperger’s and wish it would be still in use today. Formally diagnosed by several psychologists with ADHD in 2023 (age 49) and on a long waiting list for ASD assessment, but it seems to be difficult for the professionals to spot it in women. They don’t seem to see it in my daughter either, just that she is gifted. But even if we don’t get further diagnosis and we are „just“ HSP and quite bright and creative, I‘m seeing ourselves as neurodivergent and am proud of our „rainbow brains“!
At the age of 52, and recently losing my mum. I've become aware through conversation, of how hard I have had to work to stay on track. I've been called lazy, had endless school reports that said "must try harder". But I am rarely doing nothing at all, I often find myself at the bottom of a rabbit hole late at night with an obligation to get up early the following day, leaving me exhausted a lot of the time, I have numerous interests and am able to gain competence quickly, but often find new interests before I can capitalise on my new expertise. I prefer one to one conversations to groups and my conversations will often take wild detours. I've had some certainty for quite some time (since my son's ADHD diagnosis) that I have ADHD, but it's only recently that I've come to realise what that means on a daily basis
I understand stand you,
I was diagnosed at 51 yrs old. I was in denial at first. I thought no way I went this long without the diagnoses. Especially when I was being treated for anxiety and depression for two decades. I describe in someway that the mundane things were like pushing a boulder up a hill. Yet, when my father had some health issues which he still does and we had an emergency situation I then was on top of everything. Alert, focused, doing what I needed to do, making long trips to the hospital, marathon stay in ER and the whole time I had it together. Not overwhelmed. As soon as he was out and the situation calmed I crashed. I slept hours and was back to everything mundane being back to a struggle. Now as a little more dust has settled I am borderline panic attack thinking about those struggles. I use to think that my anxiety caused me not to think straight even in an emergency. I can’t explain it.
Sorry for carryon, I am sorry for your loss.
@@KB-tu4zw Thanks for sharing that, I completely understand where you're coming from complete with marathon stay in ER, having done a few myself
Wow this video is actually quite shocking. I don't "think" I have ADHD but I can see so so so many of these things in my own life. I am constantly thinking,to the point where I have to go on a walk and listen to an audio book to shut my brain off. I can easily get analysis paralysis. I don't hear a crowd of voices but maybe thats just an analogy for thoughts?
I always thought what I have is more like OCD where I obsessive over something intensely for a short time. I am always thinking about problems and solutions--always. People often think I look too serious, but it's only because my head is down at the ground and i'm intensely thinking about a problem, software related thing, or an idea.
I have a ton of hobbies and I'm always collecting more, but never get very far with them because well, my interest is INTENSE for a couple weeks and then onto the next thing. Even though I will spend a fortune on it. Sometimes after work I will try to relax and play a game, but I will play a game on my phone, ipad and watch a youtube video on the computer at the same time.
I'll come up with an idea for a program and I will literally stop everything else and code for hours and hours focusing solely on it for 3 weeks straight until I burn out the idea to 75% of its completion and then never touch it again. I think the only reason I still have a job is because I try to do walks everyday and listen to an audio book to calm my mind down a bit, but during the work day, my brain is still half thinking through an idea and most things can wait until tomorrow. Also that example of traffic, I learned a long time ago that I will never take shortcuts like walking across the street on a red light because there is no traffic. I have to stick to the rules because most of the time I am so lost in thought that I could easily get run over lol
I feel like I'm moderately good with finances but only because I had a really bad experience as a kid with my finances lol. Like I'd basically loan stuff from my allowance and like either my parents pointed it out to me or like I experienced like how I actually didn't want a lot of the stuff I bought. And also it certainly helped to have a sibling who always saved their money who I was tbh a little jealous of lol. So at some point I just kinda tried to spend as little money as possible which I've only now recently allowed myself to have a bit of fun with
I mean you listed so many symptoms that pretty much anyone can relate to at least 5-10 of these symptoms or faced these symptoms quite a lot. Doesn't mean that its a mental disorder
Seems normal to me. 😉
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Definitely looking into medication after seeing one of your other videos thank you.
Jumping from task to task. Not because I got bored with what I was doing but because I thought of something else and immediately forgot what I was doing before. As a result I am all over the place but failed to complete a single thing.
The same about switching the subjects when trying to tell the story. I start to tell the story and constantly branching off to tell other stories to explain details or background of the story I started with. Two minutes into my monologue and I completely forgot why am telling what I am telling and what was that I wanted to tell in the first place?
Well-done!
thanks so much for all your supportive comments - I'm finding it hard to reply to everyone, but they are all read and very much appreciated ❤️
🤦🏼♀️ oh my god, yes. All of it. Subscribed!
I've ended up re-buying things just because I either forgot I already owned it, or it was just way easier than finding it. I need to have everything (I own) where I can see it...including on my computer, my desktop screen has everything I'm working on because if it's in some documents folder somewhere it will get forgotten and ignored and never finished.
I've been struggling with ADHD-like issues for a long time. The problem I have is that I was just "naturally good" at school and stuff when I was younger so it was never really an issue (I never did my homework, never studied for tests or anything, still got good grades in primary school). I'm now 30 and struggling in my daily life. My sister just got diagnosed and heard my dad probably also has ADHD, so I decided to call doctor and i'll have a talk with psychiatrist in a week.
I keep constantly "zoning out" (I had to rewatch parts of this video too because I was zoning out). I forget to do projects for uni classes or I just can't focus at all to do them. I can't do my own personal projects either. I waste my money on useless stuff that I'll never use. I moved into my current apartment in may and all my stuff is still in boxes 6 months later. I can't even play video games anymore because I just start doing something else after 5-10 minutes. I forget to wash my clothes. I forget to cook food. I forget to brush my teeth. I forget to pay my bills. If I reading something, I need to read every page like 3-5 times to remember anything. I can even read out loud and still not remember a thing. I need to add notifications and alarms for everything or I'll definitely forget about it. School counselor called at 1pm and wanted to meet with me, I told her I'll visit at 3pm and in those 2 hours I forgot the whole meeting because I didn't set an alarm for it.
I just hope whatever it is that causes these issues to me, we can figure out next week or i'm just fucked.
Has anyone taken the TOVA test? My clinic says I need to take this in order to be fully diagnosed with ADHD and to have the option to take stimulants. I'm about to start Straterra as my PNP is giving me a soft diagnosis of ADHD. I'm taking the TOVA test this coming Monday and I'm nervous that I'll get anxious and fail. Any advice would be greatly appreciated 🙏
so accurate omg, i agreeeach and everything
I really need to go to the loo but I'm not gonna until I leave this comment here cuz this is what I'm focused on now! Btw thank you for reminding about food, I woke up 6 hrs ago and haven't eaten yet because "other things got in the way"😅
But seriously, love your videos and the perspective you give on this strange thing called ADHD🙃
thanks for hold it it to comment 😂 Really does mean a lot to hear these comments x
Thank you for this video. I struggle with marijuana use as I am constantly trying to find dopamine/stimulation... Does anybody else have a similar experience?
I smoked a lot in my twenties, but as I got older it tended to stress me out. I didn't like worrying about time management and I didn't want to be a bad parent. My dad was an alcoholic, and I knew if I was stoned too much I wouldn't be attentive enough as a dad. Besides, I sort of got bored with the buzz over the years. Sort of like traveling the same route over & over. I really enjoy mushrooms & DMT, but rarely use them. I don't know why not, but keep thinking I should occasionally. Have you tried psychedelics?
You nailed it😅
I have almost all of these. 🙈
Please look under the how i felt on medicine 💊 video for my question. Tyvm
I'm so broken, I read a sentence over and over again because I forgot what I just read. When talking, I forget mid sentence and repeat myself A LOT.
Yep
My depression symtpoms are from not believing myself to follow-through and to stick it out. Almost like I have to admit I will be a dabbler for life even in career. . . unless I get diagnosed with the last 567 question psyche eval and they can help my brain do better. . .
Jesus, man. This entire video felt like I was describing myself. One thing after another. Check, check, check.
So many of these actually made me laugh because it felt like you had been reading my imaginary journal.
I can’t stop feeling weird about your glasses. The fact it’s a square and circle 😅
same very distracting lol
I hadn't noticed. Now it's all that exists.
😂. I have everything that you said. Wow. I am untreated ADHD. It’s really hard. I try to use the crazy voices and energy’s to my advantage. It’s really hard to turn the energy’s into useful energy. 😅
I so have to get tested...