Hyperfix-action - Tumblr Posts - Page 2

How would y’all feel if I started a comic about my personal experiences with adhd? It’s not a sure thing, but I’ve lowkey wanted to do a webcomic for a while now. Just trying to gauge interests.

Everyone needs their own signature look. Even if it’s ripped off from your favourite character from a film you like, maybe it’s just wearing the same coat you love till you wear it out completely, a favourite repetitive colour or a style from another era, perhaps a person you’ve read about, fiction or non-fiction, real or not has inspired you. The point is, we all need to find that special way of dressing ourselves that makes us feel like the main character of our own private novel.

Yes! Listening to music to track time is a GREAT way to combat both executive dysfunction, AND just my general terrible sense of time. TIME DOESN’T EXIST so I fill it with music to make the fake measurements easier to bear or understand.

I’ll often try to decide between two things, and get stuck. And it’s never a serious choice! The most serious question I asked was which prom dress I wanted for senior year. So! I ask a friend or group of people “hey, should I do X or Y?”

‘You should do X’

And I’ll do the opposite. “Got it! Thanks! I’ll do Y!”

It may seem a little confusing, but it’s honestly helped me deal with both making decisions, and feeding the little spite gremlin living in my brain.

executive dysfunction is telling yourself for two and a half hours that you need to shower bc you smell like your workplace and you absolutely Cannot do Anything Else until you shower, doing Any Other Thing before showering is illegal!!! but you still haven’t for some reason??? you’ve just been sitting on your bed in a towel scrolling tumblr for 2+ hours thinking “I need to shower right now immediately” and growing increasingly frustrated that you are still not clean and you haven’t eaten or done your laundry either

O h.... Oh this makes so much sense....

Dyscalculia is a learning disability, a lot like dyslexia, but with math and numbers. Everyone knows what dyslexia is, but for some reason, dyscalculia isn’t as well known. I want people to know about this so no more kids are gonna believe uneducated adults who tells them that they’re just lazy and no more kids are going to think they’re just hopeless idiots when they try and try but just can’t understand. It happened to me, and I won’t let it happen to anyone else.

Gotta love RSD :)

what the fuck is Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria, I thought EVERYONE fell into a self-hate spiral when they thought someone hated/was angry with/was annoyed at them???? like what???????????

I!!!!! Had SUCH an issue with this!!!!! I think I got metaphorically kicked down far top many times in grade school, since I stopped talking so openly about my hyperfixations by the time junior high came. At least to everyone except my mom, and my closest friends, because I KNEW for CERTAIN that they would never make fun of me.

I still remember a few things that were said that will forever haunt me and make me doubt myself. The one that hurts the most would probably be when I was... Ohh, 12? Maybe 13? I had just experienced my first abrupt fixation shift, from Invader ZIM to I THINK it was Alien??? Or maybe Assassin's Creed... But I remember talking about my new fixation with my mom and step-dad one day, when my step-dad pipes up and tells me; "You know what I find weird? You know how you keep talking and talking and TALKING about [X Interest] nonstop? Yeah. You used to do that with something else, too- you were absolutely Bat Shit Insane over it. You remember Invader ZIM? Yeah, you were Bat Shit over it, and now you just FORGOT it? It's fuckin weird, kid."

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Thanks. Now I will forever be self conscious over how hard I fixate, and how much I gush about them. :)

DON’T MAKE FUN OF THE HYPERFIXATIONS OF PEOPLE WITH ADHD

I have ADHD.

Elementary school - judged for being hyperfixated with cats

6th Grade - bullied relentlessly for hyperfixating on Harry Potter

8th Grade - bullied for hyperfixating on Hamilton

9th-10th Grade - teased by my friends for being hyperfixated on Supernatual; people telling me I talk about Supernatural too much

Result - I’m too scared to talk to people about my hyperfixations because I don’t want to be annoying so I just bottle up all my thoughts about it and it’s really sucky

Just don’t make fun of people’s hyperfixations!! It’s literally such a dick movie!!

Okay okay okay I KNOW this isn't like... A Relateable Post or educational, but THIS IS MY CURRENT HYPERFIXATION AND IT STILL RELATES TO THE THEME!!!

also it's MY blog and I can do what I want!

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Okay! Now that that's taken care of.... YEEEESSSS YES YES YES YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT OP!!! Yesssss gimme more. I LIVE for relateable BJTM content!!!

I am SO SO glad other people have picked up on the ADHD Maitlands!!! The whole "Picking Up Hobbies and Projects and Then Dropping Them" deal just SCREAMS hyperfixations to me!!!! Yes!!

Beej also stims by flapping his hands, and has an oral fixation. You can't take that from me even if you tried to pry it from my cold, crusty bone hands.

beetlejuice is adhd & autistic and experiences extreme rsd. please applaud my huge galaxy brain moment

Okay but real quick can we talk about the fact that the events of The Nightmare Before Christmas only happened because Jack Skellington didn't know how to properly handle the rush of euphoria and hyperfocus on Christmas because Halloweentown has never even heard of the concept of ADHD, let alone gave its inhabitants the tools and coping mechanisms to deal in a safe way?

Because you KNOW the whole Christmas thing was 100% a Hyperfixation.

Also cultural appropriation but that's not the can of worms I want to open right now.

My mother with (probably) ADHD: Help I get focused super hard on one project or business for a few months, spend lots of money starting up said interest, then drop it before 6 months is up. Also I put all my effort into studying for a career I'm good at but has turned out to be super unfulfilling to me personally.

My sister with (probably) ADHD: Help I have difficulty experiencing empathy and get angry far too quickly. I especially can't handle scolding or reprimandation, no matter how light the issue is. Also Noises Are Bad.

Me, diagnosed as a child with ADHD: Help I experience extreme hyperfixations on fictional worlds and characters to the point of learning everything I can about the making of said media, studying the intricate lore within the world, or picking apart a character's psychology and finding headcanons where there probably aren't supposed to be any, and can channel my euphoria from said hyperfixations to help with school worl only sometimes. Also Noise Sensitivity and Sentimental Clutter Hoarding.

it's so stupid, adhd is a dozen vaguely related neuroses in a trench coat, including such popular hits as

Can't Fucking Sleep Disorder

Can't Fucking Wake Up Disorder

What Is A Focus

Oops I Did It* Again (*Spent Thirteen Hours On Youtube And Forgot To Eat Or Drink)

The World Is Too Noise Today

All My Friends Hate Me (I Deduced This From A Three Word Text)

I Forgot About [thing] Literally As Soon As I Turned Around

...and they decided to call it Trouble Sitting Still Disorder?????