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I'll remember, because I'm hungry. Because I only realised it was time to make food because I got hungry.
Yeah, noticing and remembering that you're hungry isn't the given that most people consider it to be when you have ADHD..
So true, even if I realise I'm hungry and have enough impulse control to put something in the oven instead of ordering in or resorting to a protein shake for dinner, there is an 80% chance that I will both forget that I'm hungry and completely forget I haven't eaten, in the time it takes the food to cook.
40 minutes later I'm sitting at my desk thinking "why have I got such a bad headache? why do I feel so groggy and cranky? Wait, do I need a nap!? I probably need a nap... Hang on, Why can I smell smoke?"
Why do I always assume I need a nap, even if I haven't eaten all day!? I have to basically run through a flow chart to figure out why my head hurts. Food, water, full bladder, sleep, eye strain? Why do I feel bad? Who knows?
It's a mystery only neurotypical people can solve!
I've somehow managed to train myself out of this, but it was basically my entire 20s.
ok maybe I don't have ADHD because my hunger is definitely stronger
or hunger is my first assumption just like a nap is yours
I'm awaiting assessment, but there's a strong chance I have both autism and ADHD (my brother and father are both autistic, I was never assessed because it wasn't as obvious growing up as a girl that I struggled with similar things, but it's hard to know without an assessment because my ADHD was undiagnosed for so long so there's a lot of overlapping symptoms from all the maladaptive coping mechanisms I've developed)
I know poor hunger signals are a big part of autism too, so maybe I've got a double whammy ๐คทโโ๏ธ
But it also sounds like your sensitive to hunger signals the same way I'm sensitive to fatigue/drowsiness signals, so it sounds like the same underlying interception issue, just two different outcomes of that attempt to listen to our bodies.