Good luck and it’s amazing you are getting diagnosed in university! I think my biggest struggle with adult ADHD is that I don’t know how to exist in the adult world in a healthy way, so learning and accepting my limitations (My whole body tenses when I write that) is extremely hard. I hope this helps your transition into the adult world as smooth as possible 💖

I hope to arrive in time to save my first semester of uni but it has at least give me more hope and will to continue trying. (Not just the medication but the whole diagnose and the posibility of things getting better).

I’m also worried about adult life, I don’t feel anything near the definition of an adult… Idk, I just want to be a silly little goose a bit more, you know? I guess it’s something I have to learn eventually.

But thank you for the post, I’m learning a ton and I can’t say thanks enough. Let’s all learn to live a healthy live. <3

I would encourage you to try and take notes if at all possible. There are templates out there to make it a guided exercise. You could also ask those close to you if they notice a difference.

I just started a journal with timestamps to record and keep track of things that might be interesting to tell to my psychiatrist. I also asked all my close family and half my friends to keep and eye on me. (The other half haven’t been notified because they are my control group).

That’s a downside I have not considered until now… Makes sense. I will try to be more observant with myself.

Though starting with 30 mg of lisdexamfetamine is kinda intense. Unless you’re a properly massive individual, I’m amazed the doctor just went there straight away. You could’ve had really unpleasant cardiac side effects. Glad it doesn’t seem like you did.

I weight about 78kg (should stop eating when I’m bored fr) and thankfully I’ve yet to encounter any side effects.

I’m lowkey surprised because this drug only comes in 30, 50 and 17mg here.

it’s not like cocaine. The effect is supposed to be relatively subtle if it’s right for you.

Never experienced that but still useful information. I’ll be watchful. Thanks for your reply. :)

Thanks for sharing! I’ll guess it’s something I’ll try at some point. At the moment I currently sleep blindfolded and with earplugs. I like both absolute darkness and having my bedroom properly ventilated.

Good to know flaming is going down.

Fair take, I agree.

Thanks for your reply!

Yeah… I should give it more time before jumping to conclusions or doing stupid stuff. I decided to keep a journal with timestamps to bring to my next meeting with my psychiatrist and for the time being I’m going to just be patient and observant.

And you’re right. Uni is important but it’s not the end of the world if I need to retake a bunch subjects. If anything I’m hopeful because now I might be eventually able to take on uni and get stuff done.

How can the game be so bad yet the things surrounding it so good?

Yeah, I think the despair got the best of me this morning after seeing that nothing changed, but you’re right, expecting things to just work out at first try is a bit delusional. Things might be not finished yet, but it’s a step in the right direction. I’ll see how things develop in the following weeks and then meet again with my psychiatrist.

Thanks for your response!

I think this post erased all my previous English knowledge.

With headphones? Mine’s are not comfortable enoguh to even lie on one side without feeling pain on my ears. :/

Wow, that souns incredibly alien for me. You are able to restrain yourself instead of arriving late? Sounds like superpowers to me.

I’m happy to know it works for you. It also serves as a reminder that things can indeed get better with help.

Thanks for the reply. :)

Thanks for the response!

Yeah, my action plan is to give it time until I meet with my psychiatrist again. It is a bit anti-climatic, but I guess better to go from light to hard in terms of drugs… You’re right, there are a ton of different options, and maybe I was a bit delusional expecting things to work at first try. While this might not be the end, at least is a step further and that makes me happy.

Btw: I’m studying CS from home too, and sometimes it’s a titanic effort to get anything done; nonetheless, I also appreciate having the ability to control my environment as much as I like.

This. ^^^^^

I don’t know how to tag posts from my Android client but the only meme here is my Factorio playtime in comparison with my grades. 💀

Same here…

I’m straight and I like it tho.

Fragile masculinity makes you miss a lot of things ig.

Damn, too much empathy.

The verb “be” (in Spanish we have two of them btw, apparently it’s confusing as hell for foreigners details at the bottom) it’s usually very irregular in a ton of languages. I suppose because it’s one of the prime verbs and thus usage brings change.

(“To be in a a place” -> «estar», “To be something” -> «ser»).

Also, French (while having picky pronunciation rules I don’t think it’s that bad. Sure it sounds as if you were nasally congested but I like it. (Learned a bit in high school). As alsmot any other language I consider it to be better than the phonetical mess that it’s English.

Bro, why can’t you have some fucking sense??

I should have picked philosophy and linguistics instead of CS.

((This coment is a mess and I don’t have the energy to improve it, sorry))

I like linux a lot but I think NixOS has been a terrible mistake for my ADHD.