ADHD memes

This is the kind I got

Yeah you're right Pete, you're much smarter and faster than everyone else buddy, I'm gonna put this tweet up on the fridge because it's so clever

circle j***ing much?

running in circles doesn't make you faster

going blahblahblahblah doesn't make you smarter

Smarter and faster* ! Yey !

Effect only applies in the last 10 minutes before a task is due*

When you have ADHD and Dunning-Kruger.

It does not affect IQ, but the average ADHD brain is smaller.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3493096/

I thought of a quick mental pace, frequently jumping from thought to thought, inevitably going off on tangents. That's what I interpreted from the line about being "smarter and faster." However, having that quickness translated into "smartness" is far from the only way for it to manifest.

You may have a quick mental pace, but it doesn't help you find solutions - it just repeatedly pulls you into depression or anxiety by effortlessly connecting negative thoughts to literally anything that crosses your mind. Or you have quick thoughts, but struggle to track back to things from earlier on - leading to a feedback loop of distraction that makes conversations, movies, and sometimes even your own ideas, very difficult to follow.

Side note: I feel like if I lived in a pre-literate society, I'd be far more disabled than today. I don't know how I'd function if I weren't able to write down my thoughts, or read (and re-read) information. The written word provides a structure and direction that the spoken word and abstract thoughts don't have. I may be seen as "smarter" in the modern world, but someone like me from the ancient past would've been at a massive disadvantage.

Smarter: lmao, thats the autism, the adhd hyperfocus gives me super task-avoidance

Faster: LMFAO. My reaction time is noticeably slow. I was a lifeguard for a while, which is why I am very aware of this

The only upsides are the coping mechanisms I have been forced to develop for it have been super helpful in my adult life

please stop glazing my mental condition it will get more confident and take over the world

all i can say is ive met many people with adhd who are definitely not smarter than, well, anybody.

There’s a point in the movie Frank where the protagonist is talking to the parents of the mentally disabled musical savant he rode to fame and the subject eventually turns to his disability. The protagonist suggests to Frank’s parents that Frank’s experiences with mental illness are probably what made him so good at music. The parents object, and insist that he was always good at music; his illness only ever held him back.