There's also research that says blood sugar is really helpful for people with ADHD so having something sweet to sip on while you work can be really helpful

I cannot start rewarding myself before starting. I at least need to get started first. Granted i usually reward myself with beer and weed so that could be a factor

I misread this as erectile dysfunction and was super concerned about the solutions.

Well, one of the non stimulant adhd meds gave me light ED while I took it

This is why I’ll never truly be able to quit nicotine. Apparently I don’t meet the threshold for adhd medication despite regular debilitating functional freeze, so nicotine and the dopamine it gives me is only reason I’m a functioning adult.

The hat man?

I feel seen.

That final hashtag really caught me off guard, made me realise that's exactly what I've been doing to myself my whole life.

Gosh, when I smoked, I punctuated my life with cigarettes. Get dressed, smoke. Coffee, smoke. Do the pots, smoke. Start laundry, smoke. Finish laundry, smoke. Vacuum, smoke. Shave, smoke....

I stopped smoking a decade ago, but I've recently got into rum in a properly way. Which I think might be worse.

Just switch to pony beers and shake, it's like eating Snackwells instead of actual good cookies.

And if you're also diabetic, you can just sip a little bit of your own piss

Just pretend that if you don't get shit done, you will flunk school, get fired and eventually your family will give up on you and you'll be on the streets.

I can see guanfacine doing this, as it lowers blood pressure.

Instructions unclear. Now I just don't feel like I deserve any of those things.

Correction - instructions were clear. I later realize how that's supposed to work, but still not functioning.

This seems like a good reading recommandation. Thanks for it and for the tip.

I did try guanfacine, but it was actually the atomoxetine that did it. Can’t remember if it occurred with the 25mg, but for sure did with the 40mg

Thats when my brain starts thinking of how I'd survive on the streets and making plans for that. It doesn't really help much lol.

Found Bear Grylls' account

Me: "Man, I'm so fucking hungry rn..."

still doesn't make anything to eat

This assumes executive dysfunction only ever comes from lack of (available) dopamine though.

It's better advice than stressing yourself out, sure, but it may just be useless.

The only thing that has ever worked for me - and I have tried giving myself treats before and during a task - are hard, immovable deadlines.

Put your cock 15 minutes ahead.

Uhhh. I mean. You could also have Gatorade if you're diabetic. You're not without other options 😅

I did but always came too early

They're not saying it'll fix everything, they're saying try it. It'll either help, or it won't; but you're no worse off for trying a gentler-on-yourself approach

They were a bit too absolute-y in my opinion.

But yeah, there's no harm in trying to see whether it will work for you.

Anyone have any clarification on what "pretend the hat man is pointing a gun at you" means? I've never heard that phrase before.

Is the hat man the guy people see when they abuse cough syrup Benadryl?

Ngl, within the pharmacology thing because they keep changing shit literally every year there's never an exact treatment. Next year autism could have a level 4 or a 2 1/2 because of symptoms people notice woo-hoo treatment plans will change and then you might not be able to get the same treatment you currently have now because insurance will want you to be diagnosed with a lower level of autism and you'll be shit out of luck.

Or you could be like me who's being treated for autism with medical cannabis and you're 33 and you don't have a psychiatrist and you have really bad adhd but no one will treat you for the adhd because of the cannabis.

I mean honestly some days I wish I could fucking die because if I was being treated I would be able to focus on a lot more than I am now and I'd probably be where I want to be financially or at least feel stable in life.

Oh well, I better put on that reward system and bake some cookies and whenever I do a fuckin' good job I should just eat a fuckin' cookie kind like how I used to smoke cigarettes and whenever I did a good job I'd smoke a cigarette.

Come on we try it. It ends up in addiction or fooling ourselves. 🤦🏻‍♂️

the hat man owes me money.

ain't seen that pissbaby in years

shit. i've been sitting here needing to shower and wanting to play my video game after my shower for... hours now.

Or you could be like me who’s being treated for autism with medical cannabis and you’re 33 and you don’t have a psychiatrist and you have really bad adhd but no one will treat you for the adhd because of the cannabis.

i'm not trying to one-up you, but chronic pain is really fun when your cannabis doesn't cut it too. i've given myself finger quotes adhd as a coping method for that.

When I was a kid I had a hard time slanting my cursive writing. My teacher told me to just slant the paper, so I kept turning it more and more until it was fully sideways, still writing upright because I adjusted to the angle. After days of this my teacher cried “Just write angled letters!” and I went “Oh!” and was able to do it perfectly from then on.

Anyway I guess my point is different stuff works for different people.

Tmj, sciatica, shoulder pain. Muscle relaxers for the tmj sciatica is part of odd fusing and tmj is stress induced. Shoulders are just naturally fucked from being lanky.

Ibuprofen is a friend 😑

Instructions unclear, am fat now.

"Wow, I'm really hungry, I should make some food."

Thinks about food

"Nevermind I'm not THAT hungry."

Top shelf book recommendation, actually sounds like an interesting cleaning self-help book

I have a jar of dope and a jar of anime girl thighs. Would one of you science wizards help me turn this into dopamine?

An old rancher once told me "Always eat your dessert first", and I've lived by that ever since.

I have the fatal butt disease so I only get to take that when I have a sunburn. Speaking of which, this is legally not medical advice but a dermatologist told me once that when you geta sunburn, the damage is from inflamed skin. So if you take like 600mg ibuprofen (a low prescription dose) and slather on another round of sunscreen as soon as you notice yourself burning, you don't burn. Still gotta watch for the fatal skin disease tho.

That's the only occasion I allow myself to take nsaids (outside of naproxen for migraines, other story). My doctors are amazed I'm still alive.

I thought he was the sleep paralysis demon

Huh. I just like deliciousness and use it as a motivator. Sometimes it's my sweet tooth, sometimes coffee (black), but I'm really getting into mint tea in the afternoon.

Yeah it does not help that I have had to make bug out (of the city, which I've used thanks to natural disaster, and of the country, which oh deer gods please no city was bad enough) plans that have contingencies that involve a few months to years of homelessness.

Planning for those contingencies will make them easier if they happen, but damn it will not make them more pleasant. At least we're close to having electricity on our contingencies now, we can almost afford a balcony solar panel+inverter thingy what can be transported on my trike.

Ymmv but for those of you who put your clocks ahead (but automatically adjust the tine in your head), try putting them behind. Knowing it's slow may cause a bit more urgency.

Wow, that sounds like a shitty place to live.

My cortisol gland just started revving up when I read that

https://xkcd.com/1553/

Same here. It took me years to start undoing the maladaptations it caused.

The best method I've found is to externalise the hate, not internalise. E.g. I don't get annoyed at myself for not doing the washing up. I let myself get annoyed at the washing up itself. It still motivates, but doesn't do the corrosive mental damage internalising it does.

I think this is good advice and creating fake urgency is nothing but destructive for many. But then again we're all different and the clock setting techniques may be the perfect fit for many others. The most important thing is that you try things and if you try something that doesn't work, most of the time you can't just try again harder to make it work. That will eventually break you.