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Like autistic people get to be autistic. That's a word, and it has meaning. Someone can be autistic because it's a type of person (spectrumy type). In my opinion, ADHD sucks as an identifying term. It's 3 letters, one repeated. It means nothing as it is spelled and can't be owned as an identity because they're letters, not a word. "I'm adhudd." The initials include "disorder" in it. That sucks. Autistic people don't go around saying, "Hi, I'm austically disordered," cause that's not accepting. Is there a term that is smooth and not judgmental for ADHD? Maybe we can take Aspergers since it got dropped, but add the 'd' to get "Adspergers". Nah, that's stupid af. What about multibrained? I feel multibrained because I act like I've got multiple brains running in my head doing their own thing all at the same time, and I bounce around them based on who knows what.

What? Oh, yes...I'll have the spaghetti bolog-knees. Do you guys have red pepper...crushed red pepper? Yeah, thanks. Cool. I like your name tag. Is that really your name? Samsquatch?...oh! It's Samuel, but you changed it to Samsquatch! I love Trailer Park Boys. Fuck off, Leahy! Yeah. Sorry. I got excited.

Okay. So...um, is there a descriptive word for ADHD that isn't ADHD?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I gave a joke answer, but I also have heard the term "kaleidoscope" to describe the shifting mental state, and I liked it. Maybe "kalaidoment"?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I like to call it the "ta da!" because the Spanish acronym is TDAH. Who doesn't like being able to say "ta da!"?

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 week ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (5 children)

absolutely hate this phrase.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

This makes me think of Tabasco. Not that it's good or bad. It's neutral. I'm just sharing.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We all tried to come up with a nice concise term for ADHD but ended up writing multi page papers instead.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

It's not exactly what you're looking for but I have described having ADHD as like having a TO-DO list except any time something new is added to the list you have to roll a dice and decide which thing on the list you're going to do right now. On the rare occasion nothing else comes up before you finish one task you'll be golden. But if anything should pop into your mind it throws the entire things back into the random TO-DO list which you will then reroll.

This is the perfect visual example of what living with ADHD is like: https://youtu.be/AbSehcT19u0

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I usually describe myself as "a bit much."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm fine in small doses...

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I've used "spicy brained" and people seem to get it.

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