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Is that really a feature of ADHD?

I mean it explains a lot I'm just surprised.

I thought I just hated the idea of people thinking they have authority for "reasons."

No, officer bob, pointing the pistol at my head does not give you the authority to take my money. Just because you are threatening me with lethal force and will likely face no legal consequences, does not actually mean you have the right to demand the money I worked hard at obtaining in my hands. That's basically school yard bullying. And before you get all bent out of shape, yes, I earned this because it's not easy to walk out of a bank with everyone's cash. You just stuck a gun in my face. Hope you feel good with the power trip you theiving bastard.

I think the “hating being told what to do” leans a little toward the ASD side of ADHD. The difficulty dealing with transitions that trigger anxiety and frustration when being shifted out of a routine.

You’re doing what you’re doing and focused on it, in the groove, then someone inserts something between you and the goal you were aimed at and completely destroys your flow.

It can really be pretty angering.
- I bristle whenever anyone tries to say an ADHD feature that overlaps with another thing is "more" that thing. Oppositional Defiance Disorder is like, suuuuper comorbid with ADHD.
  
  We can share some stuff, thankyouverymuch.
- That doesn't quite match up with my experience.
  
  I have no routines. Or maybe I have a routine that's super haphazard. To normal people it doesn't look like a routine.
  
  When I get interrupted, on say something that needs my focus and my meds help me focus on, I can switch.
  
  This is not that. It's not change, it's not interruption. I find the concept of authority to be meaningless unless everyone plays by the same rules, which clearly is not the case.
  
  So when authority presents itself, I find the most pleasurable response to something obnoxious is being obnoxious. And that's probably the ADHD part.
- ASD being autism spectrum disorder and that flow breaking is an issue for people on the spectrum?
If I was to guess blindly (I don't have anything to back this up) I'd put my vote on impulsivity thus the ease of irritation when something throws you off.
- Impulsive? Me? The guy who just cut off his own hair because he got bored of it? Never.

The worst part is when people you work with wanna hangout after work because you seem like a pretty interesting person and you have to find a million reasons to avoid doing so lest they find out that when you leave work you become the most boring sedentary person alive outside of agoraphobes.

I put a calendar widget, an alarm widget, and google keeps widget on my phone's homescreen. It helps a lot when it's the first thing I see. I also use Nova Launcher to make everything more aesthetically pleasing, which helps incentives me to use them. I also love true black backgrounds for OLED screens (one less distraction and saves battery).

Is one butt spanking for the entire month really enough?
- I'll double book next month.
- Sometimes that is all you have the energy for.
- You don't realize how severe the spanking is though...
I have my calendar on my home screen and I just ignore it because now it's just part of the scenery. The only thing that actually helps me remember things is having a smart watch with alarms because I don't ignore the haptics on my wrist.

Remembering to keep it charged though? That's a whole other thing.
- I do that, too. I bought a USB power bar that sits on my nightstand, so I'm more likely to charge my devices. Do you ever get "ghost notifications"? Like, your pocket or wrist feels like it's vibrating, and you perk up?
I forget how phones look after using kiss launcher for a few years now and everything is text based seeing icons makes me so confused
- I love KISS Launcher! I remember when it first came out, I immediately made myself a pipboy using an online tutorial.
  
  I only stopped using it once android started enabling widget customization. Dropping it mildly increased performance on my phone, but I'm cheap, so my hardware isn't the best.

I was watching that ADHDVision channel on YouTube, and the whole time being like, "Wow this person is making so much sense, this is kind of mindblowing."

Then I got to a video where he started talking about his program to organize group video chat sessions between ADHDers to work together as accountability partners, and was like, "Wow that would be so effective... but fuck that."

HEY dont out me like that!!

It makes the modern workplace a very easy and pleasant part of society to exist in /s

Depends on the workplace.

I deal well with my job because I walk in and get told "Get this done today" and then I get left the hell alone to get it done. The boss knows better than to micromanage me or I deliberately drag chain.

Leave the highly caffeinated lunatic to his job and shit gets done. Derail my process and chaos will happen.

I recognize this is the Linux drivers

Yep, this one hits.

For extra fun, imagine being in a kink dynamic. 😓

But normies basically do everything they're told. I mean that's their whole reality. They don't even have individual mind. They are embedded in the hivemind like pebbles embedded in a glacier. All of their morals, thoughts, desires .. are just a product of the hivemind.

You don't want to be like that. That's fucked. That's a zombie holocaust.

What we want is ADHD with good self-discipline. Is that oxymoronic?