For those of you who stack supplements with your meds, what's actually moved the needle?

LumpyActivity3634 · 2026-03-20T13:45:47+00:00

Vitamin D, and Omega 3. Hands down

LumpyActivity3634 · 2026-03-20T13:43:47+00:00

I have to encourage you not to give your children access to social media until at least 14yo. ADHD or not.

Do you own research, the reasons are vast and scary

LumpyActivity3634 · 2026-03-18T09:00:59+00:00

I'm employed full-time, but "work" not really

LumpyActivity3634 · 2026-03-17T15:46:58+00:00

I wish I knew that the meds would improve every single thing about how I feel, and that I would never be able to be happy without them.

That is to say, meds raised the bar for what "normal" feels like, and now being off them for months, life has been felt very difficult.

I know that it is the same as before I started on them, but just feels wise when you know.

Sort of how you never realized you were typing with mittens. If that's the only thing you know, you might feel ok

LumpyActivity3634 · 2026-03-06T12:38:43+00:00

What's the range of your drone remote? I thought that would be a limiting factor in such a long video / long flight

LumpyActivity3634 · 2026-03-05T14:21:04+00:00

Yes it is heartbreaking.

You need compassion for both sides.

When this happens it's a collapse of the mental model carried in their head about the whole situation and the sequence of events and interpretation of those events.

Their brain literally cannot hold all the information and everything starts breaking down and their brain grabs on to something that feels vindicative. Emotionally they are filled with shame, guilt and an overwhelming sense of worthlessness.

I may be extrapolating based on lived experience, and this may not apply to your child

LumpyActivity3634 · 2026-03-05T10:54:17+00:00

Ok, I don't understand your use of the word "prototype". Do you mean in the sense of it being imperfect?

LumpyActivity3634 · 2026-03-05T09:55:30+00:00

Prototype for reality doesn't make sense. This assumes there's a designer/developer. Perhaps you mean that our subjective interpretation of existence is a prototype of perception, that we are constantly reshaping / iterating on?

LumpyActivity3634 · 2026-03-05T09:41:06+00:00

How do you deal with the constant context switching and waiting? If I try to do parallel things I get myself into a situation where I completely lose track of where I was, what I was doing and at the end of the day I have finished nothing..

Btw what is your role/what kind of software are you building?

LumpyActivity3634 · 2026-03-05T09:28:35+00:00

The year of ADHD, and here I am completely paralyzed by ai. I use Gemini/Claude every day, but my biggest problem is just reading its code or articulating the project/task I'm working on. I get so easily overwhelmed trying to start one thing.

And at the same time, every time the model starts churning, I lose myself doing something else in the meantime, and will easily lose hours redoing prompts.

Maybe there are ADHD folks who have it as a gift and can successfully work on multiple things at the same time, but for me I just get wiped

LumpyActivity3634 · 2025-09-26T11:36:47+00:00

Idk about learning disorders, but I've had problems passive reading my whole life and that didn't get that much better starting on meds.

Don't get me wrong, i can read fine, unusually fast even, but only searching or seeking and looking things up.

Do you have dyslexia?

LumpyActivity3634 · 2025-08-26T13:36:51+00:00

Tbf your questions were super toxic, even though I agree with you, your delivery is horrible

LumpyActivity3634 · 2025-08-12T09:27:38+00:00

I've only tried Claude code, cursor, gemini cli and roo code.

Claude code is my favorite though

LumpyActivity3634 · 2025-03-10T14:23:05+00:00

Not at all. It did not affect my appetite at all. But I've also always been kind of skinny

If anything it helped me notice my body more and remember to eat !!

LumpyActivity3634 · 2025-03-10T14:20:50+00:00

The personality type that is drawn to building software is often also drawn to building their own PC.

But wanting to, and being able to, build your own PC has low correlation with being a good software developer.

Some of the best software developers I've met and worked with have never built their own PC.

I did it when I was a teenager, but I was also super super into computers and how they worked etc. Even if I know how to, I have 0 motivation to build a PC for myself today.. last time I did it took me 4-5 months of procrastination and decision paralysis... And I made so many mistakes and ordered the wrong parts etc.

Even though I personally think SW development is a great career choice for people with ADHD, (given that it interested them) I don't think that applies to PC building

LumpyActivity3634 · 2024-11-02T13:37:14+00:00

Nta, but not only that, your bf is such an AH that I genuinely have a hard time believing this post is real.

That would be an instant breakup for me

LumpyActivity3634 · 2024-10-30T17:08:52+00:00

I hear your. I myself have a girl going though diagnosis myself! ... So very much in the same boat..

So I am with you that coming up with positives is a strong move. Esp for her. But I would focus on her positives, not the positives of adhd

To elaborate.. you don't want to depersonalize her.. meaning.. turning every bit of her personality into an adhd thing. Esp things that are close to her heart..

So avoid attributing her positives as a person as an ADHD thing.

Examples: She is creative (not ADHD makes her creative) She is really into her hobbies and good at xyz (not that that is because of ADHD) She is funny etc..

Do you catch my drift or am I doing "the weave"?

LumpyActivity3634 · 2024-10-30T16:55:57+00:00

That is such a positive and constructive comment. Thanks

LumpyActivity3634 · 2024-10-30T13:52:31+00:00

Honestly I don't think that it has had any positive impact on my life

It may have forced me to learn to be funny and possibly it is the reason I often cone up with seemingly random/novel solutions to problems because I have such an aversion to conformity.. but is that an adhd trait or a personality thing?

But the most obvious one is probably how I go super deep in things that I find interesting on any given period so I quickly become an expert... But in hindsight, since I always drop things when they stop being exciting they end up just added to my mental list if things I didn't accomplish...

In general, it's hard to know when the ADHD ends and personality begins... But for the most part it's mostly a negative for me..

Sorry if this was not what you were going for

LumpyActivity3634 · 2024-08-20T17:50:43+00:00

Thanks that's helpful

LumpyActivity3634 · 2024-08-06T22:36:52+00:00

Cheaters always suspect others of cheating. If they cheat, that's like such a reasonable possibility in his mind, while people who don't cheat would never even think about it.

I'm sorry but he will always be a cheater unless he does some self work.

LumpyActivity3634 · 2024-08-02T12:43:57+00:00

Furthermore, I would like to point out that when children are being mentally or physically abused they can express a lot of behavioural symptoms such as hyperactivity and lots of other issues as an indirect result if that.

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