The Chair™

I am also obsessively punctual, and I use a planner well. Other than that.... yeah.
- Fuck being punctual. Have to be there at least ten minutes early. But respond to a call or text in a reasonable period of time? Nah.
- I'm obsessively punctual, but my file system is like the chair... and I'm a software engineer ...
Don't let other people tell you how to optimize queries for your database. https://lemmy.spacestation14.com/comment/912391
I’m you minus the chair… mostly because I don’t own a chair like that

That's... That's adhd? Like, I'm all of that. I don't think I have adhd.

As others said, these are mostly all signs of some kind of executive dysfunction. Mine is from depression, not ADHD, but there's a lot of overlap. I obsessively keep my inbox empty which is a whole 'nother vibe
- I also obsessively keep notifications to 0, probably bc of my GAD or OCD
It could be adhd, could be nothing, could be autism (poor executive function can be part of that). But it’s clear that you have the opportunity to get tested and improve your QoL. Your decision.
- *When they actually suffer from that.
don't diagnose based on memes. see a professional
There are more symptoms to ADHD and even then all of these appear in people without neurodevelopmental or psychological disorders as well. Especially when you live a stressful life.

Excessive number of open tabs, anyone?

Excessive tabs spanning across multiple browsers. Chrome, Edge, and Firefox. All at least 50 tabs opened
- Multiple windows open in multiple browsers, each window has minimum of 50 tabs open.... Thank the gods for the 'switch to this tab's feature so I can find what I wanted (even with organization tabs like Tree Style Tabs, shit gets lost)
I am at a smiley face number of tabs on my phone:
- Haha same. It's like a little achievement
I learned that my phone's browser will only allow 99 tabs. Unless they've updated that.
- Beyond 99 it just shows a frowning emoji.
- I just get '99+' and a shit ton of tabs marked inactive...
Excessive? No. Just the right amount: all of them
well I didn't use it for about a month now, but I could (i won't) need it any day now so why close it, it's a PITA to open it
Only 1000 here. Have been at 1500; started over less than six months ago and I’m back up to 1000…
try 25 virtual desktops running 2 browsers, one of which with multiple profiles for various broad topics ... my "main" session alone has 75-80 windows at present 😃
edit: installed an extension to find out: in main session, 378 tabs across 84 windows. seems like a low number of tabs per window perhaps, but I organize topics into a window, then related topic-windows into a dedicated browser profile session if they're long-lived, and windows/sessions are grouped into virtual desktop by top-level topic more or less ... so my fediverse/threadiverse session has 35 tabs in 7 windows in only 1 virtual desktop.
edit 2: I theme each browser profile differently to (mostly) tell them apart by eye

All true, except those unread email/notifications are rookie numbers.

🙈
- Pfff....
- That was me until I spent a week cleaning it out and organizing it.
  Well... my main email at least.
Do I have reverse ADHD in this regard? I check my messages obsessively.
- Addicted to novelty. My adhd is unread email of zero but hundreds of “read” emails that I need to respond to.
😰

No flat surface is safe.

All these are accurate for me except I've graduated the chair to an over-sized under-bed drawer, all my bills are automated, and I have a car that has a proximity key so it always stays in my pocket (and I wear the same pants for a couple weeks on end).

But yeah, those are just learned coping mechanisms.

My chair is just 2 corners in my bedroom
Automated bills is a weird one for me. I absolutely know they'd be useful to keep me from forgetting important things, but I manage to talk myself out of it as I'd "lose awareness" of where my money goes.
... I need to stop making excuses, huh?
- I went from routinely missing to never. You absolutely should set that up.
  I can relate on the losing awareness aspect. So, I also put them all on my calendar in red (recurring, of course) then switch to green with the title appended w/ "DONE" when I've paid it, or verified auto pay is scheduled.
- Your bank should allow you to setup autopay alerts, I get them pretty regularly for mine (email stating 'your auto pay to COMPANY is pending for $xxxx on yy/zz') but I also don't read them. And I have a budget setup so I know where that money is going to go this week anyway. And I check my accounts weekly to pay off my credit card so I see it there as well. Mainly because I have a reminder to do so.

I’m in this picture and I don’t like it.

I'm in this picture and I have mostly come to terms with it.
- Mooooooood

instead of The Chair I have The Floor

Idk your age, but I personally upgraded from The Floor™ to The Chair™ in my mid 30s.
- Good to know, I can put it off for a few more years then.
- I moved from The Chair™ to The Bed™. 35 here.
The Floor is the largest shelf in your house!
- If not for putting things then whys it made of flat?

You guys don't get a compulsion to get rid of any notification or mark emails as read the moment they come through?

Also you guys get messages on social media?

I can relate to that last part... except on lemmy, I get plenty of messages here :)
No. Mostly I turn off the notification stuff if I can, especially the little dot with the unread number. A lot of that stuff isn't worth reading.

Also, I have thousands of unread emails not because I have adhd but because I sign up for random newsletters that seem cool but then I quickly... lose... interest. Oh, I might have adhd.
Here's a notification for youu 😁
Same, I have to be at time at appointment.

Jokes on you, I have The Heap™

It's like a chair but without the chair as chairs take up extra space

...my single spotify playlist for ALL my music is named Heap
- My music taste is so scatter shot and shifting I could never do that
  Mine are usually titled the date I save them with no further description
  And before you ask, no it doesn't make finding the correct playlist easier

This hits hard. :(

"The Chair" put me six feet under.
- Too soon
- NARM!

I didn't know I had ADHD until I saw this. Dang.

This is not a diagnosis test. You do not have ADHD just because this described you. However if you have ADHD there is a high likelihood that this describes you.
- Correct: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contraposition
  If P, Then Q. — If not Q, Then not P.
Half of the things listed as "adhd memes" are very generic things that everyone does. Like "the chair." I don't know any family that doesn't have a version of that.

Multiple alarms in the morning is more about not getting enough sleep than it is about ADHD. The rest are pretty accurate, though some things are missing.

Nothing about that is exclusive to ADHD though. That literally could just be anybody
- about what? accumulating responsibilities unaddressed? of course they could happen with anyone, they just happen more with ADHD
  what I'm saying is that hypersomnia is not symptomatic of ADHD. the rest of it is.
Unless you woke up early to get stuff done and that's to remind you to leave for work lol
- This would be me. 5 mins left before a meeting, let me just check this one thing. 20 mins later "sorry I'm late lost track of time".
I get plenty of sleep and still need at least 3 or 4 alarms that are spaced 5-10 min apart each.

If I have multiple files or folders named like that it's usually because I'm working on something and frustrated. They eventually devolve into profanity lol

When i already have a test folder in my home directory and try to make a test file i get really annoyed.

I don't wanna talk about it :(

Yeah, but you ever set an alarm for 4am, pop meds and then go back to sleep and have godlike vivid dreams?

I upgraded "the chair™" to "the basket™" which makes it seem like i have "my shit together™"

I got a standalone wardrobe thing to organize my clothes and now my cats just kinda live there
I did the same. It can mask the mixes in non-cloth objects much better than the chair and still looks like there's some kind of system there.

This. Is. My. Life.

The keys and the mail pilling up I relate to hard, the rest not so much

Shit, I may have ADHD 🤣🤣🤣.

I literally just got up after snoozing from 8 to 8:45 lol

Your fuckin' username, man...

Many of these are simply Depression^TM , the less special sounding but more realistic for you to actually have "feature" nowadays.

🤣 YOU DON'T KNOW MEEE! Lol

I downloaded an alarm app that only lets you turn it off after solving a math problem, and after that it waits 10min and starts again unless you confirm you are awake.

What ended up happening was that i just kept just solving them while half asleep, forgetting the 10min thing, and waking up again 10 min later, repeat 50x until it's so late that the alarm was pointless, and now not only am i late, i'm also tired.

Oh shit, I was seriously looking at those alarms! I'm afraid I would suffer the same fate, damn.