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Forgetting to understand. (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 11 months ago by Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/adhd@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[-] junezephier@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 11 months ago

I have a really hard time absorbing people speaking when i'm not interacting with them, and being understimulated and not knowing what to do with my hands when i am able to focus on audiobooks. I want to love them and podcasts, but they just aren't it for me D:

I'm glad they work so well for you and others, though!!

[-] Jtskywalker@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Audiobooks are fantastic for me while riding a bike or walking on a treadmill - something to physically do and something to mentally do.

I can't just sit and listen to them though.

EDIT: Oh and repetitive tasks - I got back into audiobooks when I started making chainmail again. Which reminds me... I haven't finished that thing I started a year ago...

[-] tdawg@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah it works if I'm physically preoccupied but otherwise it's just boring noise

[-] renard_roux@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago

That one thing you started a year ago? 🤔

Let me introduce you to my database full of projects, fantastic product- or business ideas, things I want to sew, or construct in the garden, or things I offered to do for someone else because it's something I'm really good at (but definitely don't have the time for); all of it meticulously researched, sometimes for days at a time (while I was definitely supposed to be doing something else). Most of it already started, and then promptly back-burner'd because another new, shiny, completely brilliant idea reared its gorgeous head (rinse, repeat, ad infinitum).