46*
I fucking wish I was 30
You become thirsty.
47, first time seeing a family doctor on the 30th, long road before diagnosis. And got an appointment for my finances. Now I need to make one for my teeth. I’m getting there.
If I can just keep at it a little longer.
Right?? The time stretching ahead of you like a vast unexplored country…
Even now that I’m medicated I still do this everyday. Things are better, but medication has its limits.
It also doesn’t last all day, much to my dismay.
I get four hours out of supposedly 12 hour extended release Adderall.
Ironically, I started actually building stuff when I hit 30.
but ADHD meds don’t work on me
How many have you tried? Also it never fixes everything, like for me it mostly just helps with maintaining focus on things, but executive function is still fucked.
Are there drugs for executive function? Asking for a friend.
If there is I also wanna know lmao
All the ahdh meds I’ve tried have done jack shit for that part unfortunatelyYeah and honestly, it’s the most frustrating part of ADHD
I also have a friend who is wondering the same.
I wonder if we all have the same friend, because mine was just asking about it as well.
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Got mine less than a year ago at 41. My whole fucked up life makes sense.
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I’m in that cabin. Slowly pushing the outside world as far away as I can get it, while maintaining access to hospitals and whatnot.
Can’t say I haven’t had similar thoughts lately… use up my savings, sell all my shit (except video games probably lol), and just move out to rural Vermont or the Canadian wilderness or some shit, and opt out of this bullshit society for real. I know it’s easier said than done though…
Just moved to far northern Maine, myself. It’s a house, not a cabin, but I have 10 acres of land, and almost nobody in Maine feels the need to fuck with you. Everyone wants to do their own thing, and be left alone, so everybody leaves everyone else alone. I feel like I have come home.
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I’m 53 and have been questioning it for a few years. I just have to make that doctor’s appointment to ask about it . That’s my goal for next week. It was also my goal last week, last month, and the last couple years… one day/week at a time.
After my morning coffee everything sounds like a great idea, but it’s too early in the morning to do anything about it because that window of time is designated peaceful quiet moment before I have to work. I’ll just do it this afternoon after work…
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25 for me and had just been fired for the second time. I was lucky enough to find coping mechanisms and a support structure that worked for me with people who had my best interests in mind otherwise I’d probably still be struggling.
That was over 20 years ago and now when I tell people I’m ADHD they don’t believe me. Makes me feel good!
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
Such a good song. Kind of fucked up to listen to on a morning commute tho xD
Used to love this song and listen to this band so much in my late teens/early 20s. I do remember with these lyrics wondering at that time if that’s how it would go. Funny to get to my 30s now and be like, “yep, hard relate”
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Getting my shit together < the sweet embrace of the status quo
Yeah like it’s only a problem when I’m expected to cover the duties of the two friends who got laid off, on top of my own job description.
I wouldn’t need drugs to “lock in” if I wasn’t continually being squeezed for more more more focus more productivity more time more fucking unwavering attention.
It’s not normal! It’s this stupid grind culture that makes me disabled. When the workload is evenly shared I don’t need drugs.
Try 45 and but yes I agree.
51 and yes. I bet we can go higher.
I think we’ve got to get in at least 10,000
No I have hope “Holly Hope” that I can turn it around. Just got my webcomic back up, and ready for my second one. And going start a positive podcast with my sons. Just got to motivate me back into writing.
Better don’t worry about tomorrow and ask yourself why you didn’t get up today.
Could be a trick question if you don’t find a reason for not doing something.
Yep. I wasn’t diagnosed until I was like 35.
30 is as great a time to start as any
I brought it up to my doctor and got a referral to get a diagnosis, finally. That was 4 years ago. I need to ask again for another referral but keep forgetting/not being able to, while im there. If I can bring myself to do it, I might just ask my doctor to help me make the appointment while im there. :P
Make yourself a calendar reminder now while your thinking about it
