I wish I could experience my kid's ADHD for a day just to get a real sense of it... I'm always butting up against how differently our brains work in subtle ways, and I know he feels that rift as well, even if he can't articulate it yet.
Music. Often completely randomly selected – for instance, right now it's some old dance track called Sweet Like Chocolate by... gotta look this up... Shanks & Bigfoot, apparently. It'll probably be something else in an hour.
The only time my head does go silent is when I'm really tired. It's one of the most clear indicators of tiredness for me.
Tell me what you want,
What you really, really want
I'll tell you what I want,
What I really, really want,
I wanna HUH
I wanna HUH
I wanna HUH
I wanna zigga-say-ahhhhh
because my wife has had this song on repeat for like the last two weeks now, and this part is stuck in my head