I like that lemmy's adhd community is focused on memes, the reddit one was a bit depressing

Life is too short to be sad on reddit
- Amen.
- Yeah, be sad on lemmy, ya neurodivergent sad saps!
  /s
  I just turned 39 and was diagnosed with primarily inattentive ADHD last year. I say the above with nothing but love.

Focusing?
- More like fuck-us-ing amirite?
- Triggered? Lol
  
  :/

There was adhdmemes on Reddit. It’s basically what this place is.
- ADHD memes was how I realised I probably have ADHD and am probably bipolar.
  Just on waiting lists to get a proper psych analysis and hopefully some meds.
  My biggest fear is they go "nah, your fine", and I then have to deal with the fact that life is shit and that I am actually a lazy pos.
  
  If you're worried about being a lazy pos, then you probably aren't. If things are going wrong enough for you to seek out a professional analysis, I truly believe that any pysch specialist worth having will try to figure out why you're feeling the way you are. Even if they rule out ADHD, they could recognize something else is going on and get you treated that way. I hope that's of some consolation; good luck Internet stranger!
  
  That’s how I felt before diagnosis. I think most of us did, and some still feel that way after diagnosis.
  
  Don't immediately think that meds are the way to go (they could be, I don't know you or your quality of life) but when I got diagnosed when I was 18, I was told because I am now an adult I have built up coping mechanisms that would benefit me better than meds. Just the knowing that I had ADHD and what my problem areas were enough to help me.
  For example I have a less than half than the normal human span of short term memory. So back when it mattered more, like in College, I kept a little notepad with me to remember stuff I needed to know, like deadlines and homework etc. I'm now 29 and I would say I've probably built up more coping mechanisms because I don't do that anymore but I get by way better than before.
  I still have issues here and there with procrastination but thankfully I'm in a job I actually enjoy so I compensate it with being able to hyperfocus on a task every now and then.
  
  I've literally never heard or read that a psychologist didn't give out a diagnosis.

R/adhd was weird. Didn't they have a rule against saying the word neurodivergent or something? And a minimum character count required per post? I never had the attention span to read some of those text bricks haha.

!adhd@lemmy.world for the non-meme ADHD posts.
- !adhd@lemmy.world - because for some reason I couldn't click your link.
  
  Lemmy.world defedded several instances recently, ours both are included... you may not see updates from that lemmy.world community unfortunately

I wish it wasn’t all memes, but at least it’s active.
- Well tbf this is the meme community. !adhd@lemmy.world seems to be more about dealing with ADHD
  
  If lemmy had a good way to rename a community, I would do so
  
  Oh interesting.
  Maybe I’m using Lemmy wrong, but I generally avoid subbing to multiple communities with the same name because it usually results in a lot of duplicate content in my feed.
  Maybe this is an exception.

God the Reddit ADHD sub was so depressing