What People Think ADHD is: fourth grader on a sugar high
What ADHD Actually Is: you decide to make cookies, so you put a stick of butter on the counter to soften. While waiting for the butter, you notice something in the living room that you need to put back in your room. You walk into your room with the item, and notice that your floor is messy, so you decide to clean your room. The house is quiet though, so you open your phone to pull up spotify for some music. When you look at your phone, you see that you have three facebook notifications. You hate unopened notifications, so you open facebook to clear them. As you go to do that, you see a buzzfeed quiz that somebody shared. You click on the link, take that quiz, and then proceed to spend the next hour and a half taking buzzfeed quizzes. You take a quiz titled “what parks and recreation character are you?” and it reminds you that you haven’t watched parks and rec in a while. So you pull up netflix, and proceed to watch 6 episodes of parks and rec in a row. As you’re about to start the 7th, you realize that you’re a little hungry, so you head out into the kitchen, only to find the now melted, ruined stick of butter all over the counter. So you clean up your butter mess from earlier, and decide that you still want to make cookies, so you put a new stick on the counter to soften. As you look for your other ingredients, though, you see some expired food on your shelf, and decide that you need to clean out the fridge…