Yep...

The ceiling fans in my garage call to me on occasion. Usually that occasion is "sitting in a warm room with no air flow."

It's been about 6 years now.

My rowing machine

In its box

In the basement

For the last year and a half

Hi me!
If you are not physically active in other ways I encourage you to fetch it from the basement and set it up this weekend
- Thank you. My partner and myself have not at all been active for a while due to medical issues. There is no raisin we couldn’t use a rowing machine now, though. We need to.. be people.

The ADHD cope to research a thing for tens of hours across weeks or even months, agonizing over the purchase of the thing (especially if multiple options are available) before ultimately deciding that it isn't worth the relatively minuscule cost.

I have a problem where everything that I want to buy has been discontinued years ago, so my days of research end up being all for naught by the time I'm ready to pull the trigger. I really need to start reading the publish dates on web pages...
I’m so glad I’m not the only one. The stereotype of impulse buying is overshadowed by the compulsive need to absolutely make sure the dopamine high off the product is worth the money spent.
Multiple options will one day be my demise.
Why do we do this, and then sometimes buy crap on impulse and then regret such low quality products without any research? I hate that trait of mine. There's no in-between.

Oh man, this one is a direct hit.

I have two raspberry pi’s just sitting in their boxes. It’s been two years 🤦‍♂️
- I'm pretty sure this is the intended use case for them, though.
- Are you me??
- I feel ya. Two still in their boxes JetKVMs and a new Pi 500 is just the start for me. Soooo much stuff, so much money, and hundreds of hours of research into all of them.

He missed a step before and some after:

Do everything humanly possible with the thing, learn exactly how it works, become subject matter expert, then put it somewhere.

Have someone randomly ask about the thing, knowledge dump, excited to show the person the thing, forget where you put it.

Be at home a few weeks later, find the thing, be sad you couldn't find it earlier, put it in a new pile, for sure you'll remember where it is this time!

My entire foray into home automation.

There's a box full of AliExpress zigbee sensors of all sorts in my office.

Someday...

Literally me. I should get to setting this stuff up, probably.

I see this guy also bought a Flipper Zero

I used mine to get into my office building until someone got suspicious.
- How’d you do it
Me too thanks. I can read my cat's microchip now, which is cool, I guess.
Well he certainly got into Meshtastic!

Thank you for the reminder. Pretty sure I have two random gadgets sitting around on month 3 or 4 somewhere, so now I have a great activity for the weekend, or not, we will see.

My Retroid Pocket Flip 2 arrives on Monday. Soon I'll have more consoles than ever before I can emulate but probably won't.

I mean, you can take it out of the shipping box but it stacks pretty good with the others if you don't.

Currently going through this watching videos of Walstad method aquariums lol

You really should put an explicit comment like that behind a content warning.
Well thats a terrible idea, I did that once and now I'm setting up a second one to "do it even better".

Before you know it you will have a fish room and no money.

I have everything I need to build an enclosure for my cheap-ass laser. I have things I want to do with the laser when I can use it without smoking up the house. I have not started on it yet.

I have everything I need to make the rc planes I have been designing. Its all sitting on a shelf waiting for me to do my thing.

One of the things has been waiting for me to do my thing since before I moved.

I'll get to it.

Eventually.

Maybe.

If that’s ADHD, then capitalism is ADHD for the masses

Capitalism does prioritize engagement and spending by exploiting short-term dopamine rushes, so in a way kinda-sorta yes?

ADHD as a clinical diagnosis though is the chronic inability for the brain to absorb/retain dopamine; a neurological or chemical issue that isn’t “caused” by behavior. Severe enough and you get to the point where you desperately want to play a video game or watch a show but can’t even press the start button 🥲
- I want to do soooooo many things and almost always end up doing nothing at all 😭 (being medicated helps with that, luckily)
On the one hand, capitalism loves us (or our money) and wants to make everyone else behave like they have ADHD too. On the other hand it hates us and treats us like pieces of shit, even more than the general population.

Let's take revenge and try to have a good life without being shamed for 'slacking'. Living well is the best revenge!

I am pretty sure this is anyone, not really ADHD specific. More like a "makes me feel good to buy something" specific. Which is many many people.

It's the other steps that make it ADHD.

I have no idea how I got past this phase in my ADHD. I think at some point my brain went “okay only buy thing you’re going to use like every day”

for me it was when i bought a 6" grunt mech gunpla for 40 dollars.

Hey, I'm in this picture!

My Japanese saw and shinto rasp just sighed in annoyance.