The lighter side of ADHD
cross-posted from: https://lemmit.online/post/5364920
just for good measures
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The original was posted on /r/memes by /u/brylex1 on 2025-03-10 03:01:06+00:00.
Stop attacking me!
Then you forget or misremember the name of the site or idea, and it’s just lost in a sea of broken dreams.
In the immediate future, the screenshot archive becomes unmanageable.
In the long term future, it becomes the modern equivalent of what your parents and grandparents got out of keeping a scrapbook or photo album.
I've been chronically online since 1997. Going through a scrap folder which I held onto when decommissioning an old PC or phone brings back all kinds of memories. I even find that noting the changes in my meme taste can be really useful for identifying points where I've grown as a person. That, in turn, leads to reprocessing old memories and identifying ways in which I brought something to the table which facilitated some of my own bad experiences. That helps me heal.
I have data on my NAS stretching back to 2002. It's been migrated a few times, but the metadata doesn't lie.
Not just screenshots. I have literally hundred thousand photos of which about 50% are neatly in the correct folders and the rest are a complete mess that I don't even want to look at. If I spent like 5 minutes each day organizing them I'd sort it out in no time but I just can't get myself doing it.
You know what moment brings me true joy?
Whenever I accidentally close my main browser window but have a second window open so that the browser forgets all my open tabs.
That's when I'm able to live in bliss for a few days.
LPT: click on Recently Closed
Lalala I can't hear you lalala - shoves fingers into ears
Backup your bookmarks and then delete all of them. The backup is for peace of mind "just in case I ever need one of them" (you won't)
Tabs. I need more open tabs. Currently at 67.
Try that count on each of 5 separate browser window. Amaeteur. I exaggerate, of course. Only a couple have that many tabs. I actually closed a window today - it only had 8 tabs - and opened a new one with more tabs from the references of the pages I closed. Eventually I will read the internet.
It's not a competition, but that was just mobile browser. Add a personal laptop and a work laptop for the full measure.
I've got ∞ tabs on firefox mobile.
Saving this
I did without thinking hmm
Did it unconsciously.
Fortunately the web ui doesn’t tell me how many bookmarks I have.
Is this everyone or do I have adhd?
Just like basically every mental attribute, ADHD is a spectrum. I've been diagnosed ADHD but don't have it half as bad as many of the people here seem to, and yet I've also had a variety of bad reactions to every medication I've tried. Other people may have a few symptoms but not enough to bother getting a diagnosis, as it may not affect their daily lives at all.
But also I'm another person who has too many favorites to ever properly read through, so this is a definitely real, medically valid internet comment diagnosis that you undoubtedly have ADHD
This is something everyone does in varying degree and does not necessarily mean you have ADHD.
Looking at this behaviour in isolation says nothing WRT whether or not you have ADHD...so the answer is maybe, maybe not.
Jokes on you, I just keep tab groups on my phone. Only 3 groups of 500 tabs are hanging out and it's it's own overwhelming problem...
I self host a bookmark tool literally called hoarder. Save stuff to it all the time, never ever go look at it.
And you can tie in AI ✨! So you can make an LLM categorize the stuff that you'll never look at again.
Honestly, I think this was probably the initial product idea for this Microsoft Recall shit. If I could have something like that running locally, open-source and with a non-insane security architecture, I'd never again use a folder in my life.
Dump it all to ~/mytrashpile and let the AI figure out what I want I'm looking for 😄
I just woke up and I'm being called out like this?
See also: my 473 open browser tabs
These ideas are getting refined by fermenting in my tab stack!
At work I use tab groups to keep them organized by project, so I can tell just how far behind/how overwhelmed I am with a given project by the count of tabs in a given tab group.
It’s a highly effective way to quantify my work-related anxiety.
I’m certain my wife is ADHD, undiagnosed.
One thing she does is constantly buy storage containers of all shapes and sizes to organise her insanely disorganised world.
All this has achieved is an insane amount of forgotten storage containers in the house and we have no idea what’s in any of them.
And yes, she once attempted to buy a giant storage unit to store her storage containers.
I know that in the future AI will scour my screenshot folder and group everything neatly, add tags even.
Hope is a wonderful drug
Also maybe we will be able to prompt our pc with a local open source model “pick all science related screenshots and group by the topic” - sure 1344 results, do you want to see them?, no list all the topics, - astronomy(34), quantum(23), ethnology(10)
i have an amazing solution for this, instead of screenshotting, i save it in txt (type it out) so that later when i have a self hosted LLM assistant, i can send all the shit ive compiled till now, and ask for movies/ songs/ or any article i saved and i can just do a semantic search through it. planning to make an open source tool for this but not too good at ML
Oh, no need to wait for LLMs. Apache Solr should be really good at it. We used it at a company I was working at to build the most kickass search into our platform, that would actually find the stuff you were looking for...and that was back in 2018 :D
I have a Project Ideas folder that would choke an ox, as my dad used to say. The only time I ever look through it is when I'm adding something. But tbh I do find items in there that I've actually done.
Ouch, this hit hard.
Downloading this to my meme archive I'm never gonna use 🫣
Whenever I see a ADHD meme I wonder if I have it because every single time it’s about something I do.
I'm in this picture and I don't like it
This might be one of the most hurtful things here I've seen 😭
Stop getting personal
This is great. I'm saving this.
