this is your brain and this is your brain on ADHD wait so it turns out your boy has ADHD who would have guessed I got officially diagnosed about a year ago now the process for getting diagnosed was odd I didn't really know what to expect from getting diagnosed but I didn't expect it to include wires that's for sure by the way two things one I'm not a doctor so always get a professional diagnosis if you suspect anything and two add is no longer a thing it is all under ADHD now with two flavors there is
the inattentive type and the hyperactive type and apparently I am the inattentive type so all of this started with Goodall classic denial I had a lot of ADHD symptoms for a long time and we'll go over specifics later but have you ever noticed in TVs and movies where ADHD is just like oh a squirrel oh a ladybug oh a piece of candy ah well that's only on the surface level of ADHD and unsurprisingly it is a much more complicated thing than popular media makes it out to be big surprise I thought I don't do that
and therefore I don't have any ADHD but one day I was watching goofy internet videos and saw something that was like this video is very goofy and relatable allow me to just look down at what the Creator wrote about the video and possible tags associated with this morsel of entertainment I don't suspect anything Orbeez this probably doesn't mean anything this started to happen more and more until I started to ask some serious questions about myself and I'll tell you how I figured out that I have ADHD But first you don't like watching sponsorships but what
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to drink water for an entire day bite b a sign of something and not just be a goofy little thing that I do sometimes so I started to read books and watch lectures and learn as much as I could about ADHD and the more that I did the more that puzzle pieces started to click these are things that I did that I thought were normal but were actually signs of ADHD having hundreds of tabs open at a time constantly to a point where 30 gigabytes of RAM is a necessity is something people with ADHD do
doing a task like locking a door but seconds later you aren't totally sure if you locked the door so you re-lock it another time or two there's this thing I like to do when I'm alone where I walk in circles for a couple of hours and I talk to myself don't judge me I like it but also apparently it's an ADHD thing reading paragraphs of books over and over even though I'm very intentionally trying to read it I have to do it multiple times it took me ages to finish Hatchet agents it wasn't even that
good going to do a task and forgetting what the task was on my way to do it because I'm thinking of something in the meantime chronically like this happens every day all day like this one time Kelly wanted some chocolate and I was like I can get you chocolate and I went to the kitchen to go get chocolate but from point A to point B I just got distracted and I kind of found myself holding chocolate and I was like oh yeah I'm hungry for chocolate and I eat it and I get back to the
room where Kelly was sitting and she was sad because I was eating her chocolate I don't know how to explain it other than like I didn't mean to do that it just happened and it happens a lot caffeine does not work on me and just makes my heart rate go up contacting me is a nightmare and usually takes a couple of messages until I get around to it not doing things right up until the deadline line that one's a common one and the list goes on so after all of this reflection and learning I have
very strong suspicions that I have ADHD so I had to get a professional to assess me and look at my brain oh God the assessment included a bunch of questions but the first part of it included this new test which I think was called an EKG they strap a bunch of wires to your head and measure your brain waves the instructions were to stay still and do not move for 30 minutes ADHD test stay still 30 minutes you already know the results I had ADHD and I felt weirdly relieved there has been a lot of
frustration in my life because despite trying really hard to focus I could only achieve half as much as other people so despite still having issues with it it feels good to know why I never expected that that was going to be a meaningful thing to me but here we are anyway after my diagnosis there always talk about medication and that did not go well but I'm going to make a second video about that I have an idea of what I'm gonna say but since we're entering medication territory I want to try to be a little
bit more thoughtful about how I go about the video so need a little bit more time thank you for your patience about it I wish you the best and thank you for watching oh piece of candy
