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Cleaning with ADHD is all about momentum. It's like being a shark, if you stop moving you just straight up die.

ADHD is all about momentum.

!It's like being a shark.!< If you stop you just straight up die.

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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 48 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Wake up, do small job

Cleaning mode engaged

Every small job I notice today is getting done on the spot

[–] Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 49 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ok what big task are you trying to avoid today?

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 35 points 4 days ago

Why are you attacking me unprovoked like this

[–] ConstantPain@lemmy.world 24 points 4 days ago (2 children)

A lot of things people associate with ADHD sound like depression to me.

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago

You wanna know how I got these depressies?

Yeah. I need to finish what I started or I'm going to lose all motivation and lay in bed all day instead

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Agreed. And cooking. You need to keep pace. Then it goes smoothly

[–] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

And that's why I usually cook while doing the dishes.

I call it "wirbling" and imagine myself as the Tasmanian Devil from the Looney Tunes cartoons when I blitz through the house doing all the chores. Once the momentum has been built it's much easier to keep going, even on stuff I've been putting off.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 days ago

Oh no, I sat down.

[–] HoodieGyaru@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

How do sharks sleep if they can't stop moving?

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 4 points 2 days ago

Animals sleeping is a pretty big science. Humans are the outliers on this, because we almost shut everything down while sleeping whereas most animals only shut down partially, and/or for much briefer periods. Our sleeping routine is very much based on being in a group, where someone would keep an eye out while others sleep.

Dolphins sleep with one part of the brain at a time. Some birds do the same, but if they're in a group, the innermost individuals can sleep fully, while the outermost keep one eye open away from the group.

As for sharks, yes, they do require a constant flow of water through their gills to breathe even when sleeping. Either they keep moving or they die, or as one shark was found to do: sleeping against a current.

[–] SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 14 points 4 days ago
[–] sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 4 days ago

No joke, if I start tidying my room, I won't stop until I've dusted under my couch and scoured my oven.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Those blanked out words don't change any of the meaning, they just make the sentence shorter.

[–] Vigge93@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Which makes it easier to keep up the momentum

[–] Caboose12000@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

the removal of the word cleaning is pretty significant imo. it certainly happens this way for me for way more than just chores

[–] TheCoolerMia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 4 days ago

this is so true X3

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 7 points 4 days ago

straight up

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I mean yeah. Any kid with ADHD simply cannot sit still.

Somehow I did in school, and I was always quiet in school. But when my brother mentioned my son is a carbon copy of me at home growing up.

Oof. I guess I tended to enjoy literally bouncing off the walls too. I used to manage it by bouncing my leg, then somehow that got trained out of me

[–] cpaq47@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Not true with everyone. I'm excellent at sitting still and doing nothing, always have been. I've never felt even the normal amounts of energy ppl seem to have. Def have ADHD tho. Dr called it ADD at the time I was diagnosed tho, since I didn't have the hyperactive part of it. Apparently thats not a thing these days.

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

oi OP your formatting got messed up, you can use \ before the > to fix it:

without

> with