hello, I'd like to rewind the day a couple of hours please, I missed it. #hyperfocus

Well.. 6 and a half episodes of #gundamunicorn in and no real issues so far... looks less rubbish than the sales pic so far... only one peg I had to remove and and some flash here & there... but I've also #adhd'd my way through and realised I need food... go me... #gunpla #hyperfocus #soooohungry

Last night I went down some rabbit hole that started with the zero dimensionality of an electron and wave functions, through what makes up protons and neutrons, quark gluon plasma, the Higgs field, neutron stars, and black holes, to higher spacial dimensions, curved space, dark matter and energy, branes, and bulks, and finally decided I need to stop else I won't get to sleep when it led me to string theory.

Classic #ADHD #HyperFocus adventures, I guess 🤷‍♂️

Today's song playing on repeat in my headphones for the past 5+ hours while I sit and work: Fading by Swimming Paul

Also, it's time to get up from this chair before I pee myself 😅

https://open.spotify.com/album/04HcvlMjZ3dGBkjvVrbSwf

#Music #OnRepeat #Hyperfocus #ADHD

you know how there's this PERCEPTION that #adhd get into #hyperfocus on the wrong thing? I'm here to prove that wrong with a story about pie

At Xmas, our kid's girlfriend's parents dropped off a purchased pie.

It was the best pie I've ever had.

I meant to take a photo so I'd know where it came from, but apparently I forgot because I can't find it. (a sentence with numerous green flags regarding an ABSENCE of adhd)

So I went to the #map and traced some likely routes from the parents' house leaving their town, on the theory that they picked it up on the way to our house.

"bakery" was a bad term because I got a lot of cafes and cupcakes. "pie" turned out better because it found an orchard farm stand that looked likely.

however, there's obviously no recipe available

(I am inexplicably compelled to #bake the pie for my upcoming birthday rather than buy it, even though I know mine will be worse, probably much worse. more green flags about inventing rules, having fixed ideas, etc that are GOOD NEWS on the adhd front)

Flipping through user photos online, I found a shot of a similar pie that listed the ingredients for the crumble topping.

So then

Step 1: Determine the difference between crumble, crisp, cobbler and (as it turns out) streusel. The farm called it a crumble, it's actually a streusel

Step 2: Use the ingredient list as search terms to find a recipe that looks very similar in ingredients, relative amounts and final product appearance

Step 3: Oh yeah, maybe the pie should have some innards as well. (ignoring this is another green flag that this isn't in any way #neurodivergent behavior)

https://soundcloud.com/emel_dosisdb/sets/emel-mentalism-acid-night-lp01

#hyperfocus #mental #pupillesdilatées #acidcore

@actuallyadhd @autistics

My getting up has slipped into the afternoons & I'm not happy about it.
Especially as in a few days I'll have to be up before 07:00 to be able to spend the day on an outing with friends. 🫣

Stricter morning routine?
- Alarm goes, switch on radio or preselected podcast instead of noticing the Mastodon notifications so I don't vanish down a 40+ notification hole?
🤔 … 🤔 In theory very easy to do, in practice very difficult to stick to, as my AuDHD screams for comfort from not being ready to face the day.

- Swap chores around with things I enjoy, want to get stuck into?
My big worry is that once I start the thing I want to do I will ignore all cues for stopping & doing the 'must do' tasks.

One possible fix for ignoring cues, is have lunch be the cut off point as I, like a lot of critters can be greatly motivated by food.
Current problem, lunch is around 18:00 give or take an hour & as I'm painfully aware of it being evening my brain & body default to evening mode, time to read or ideally, relax so those 'must do' tasks have pretty much a zero chance of happening.

I guess, I might be spending some time working this one out this afternoon / evening. I don't mind spending my evenings messing with dilemmas like this, as long as I can shove a movie I enjoy on whilst I'm doing it 🙂.
… That's if I remember 😅.

#AuDHD #Autistic #ADHD #ActuallyADHD #ActuallyAutistic
#Hyperfocus #TimeBlindness #ExecutiveDysfunction
#MindFog #Burnout #Spoons #NoSpoons #LackOfFocus #SelfCare

Losing interest

https://cynnisblog.wordpress.com/2026/01/28/losing-interest/

One thing I've learned this year is that I'm happier and more productive when I lean into my ADHD.

Most days I can find a #hyperfocus state. One way to think about it is that my brain works better when it's 100% engaged, so if a task only needs 60%, I need to fill that other 40% somehow. That's where I take obsessive notes, or do research for next tasks in the background.

#adhdbrain

Oh, wow, it's late! Off to bed...

#HyperFocus

Hey autistics and adhders, I have a question for you:

How do you stop yourself from hyperfocus?
I occasionally get into a hyperfocus that's more hurtful than helpful, so I need a way to break out of it.

What are your strategies?

#adhd #autism #hyperfocus

@calisti That too.

Also after a lot of input I can’t concentrate on anything any more. Including social interactions and every person is too much for me while a lot of people in one room are simply unbearable, because I hear them all at once!

#hyperfocus is just ONE #adhd symptom.

The reason I don’t do puzzles is that it’s 1:30 AM and I just looked up from doing a puzzle.
#jigsawpuzzle #hyperfocus

My boss is really sweet. He tries to help me not to #burnout on #hyperfocus. I think it something he read about somewhere, that #adhd and #asd peeps can get burnt out when they are in hyperfocus all day. What he doesn't get is, not being in hyperfocus is equally exhausting for me, because I instead burn a lot of energy on getting and keeping myself motivated. There's two settings for my #brain "full tilt" and "fuck this". If I spend too much time in the later, I need to spend the same amount as usual in tht former with added "ah, shit this should have been done by noon yesterday". But at least he cares 💖

I have a hard time "stealing five minutes" to write, short of jotting down an idea that was already in my head. To actually generate words or edit I need the time & space to be able to hyperfocus, and that's not something I can pop in and out of. #audhd #adhd #actuallyautistic #hyperfocus #writing

Had some proper #ADHD #hyperfocus days recently. Playing with a fanless server I borrowed from $dayjob, installing pfSense in a VM on Debian stable, switching the home WiFi to a Zyxel access point with separate VLANs and SSIDs for my home network and for a VPN connection to my job's development environment.
I completely forgot to eat yesterday 😅

Remember when I said "Before I let my AuDHD take over?”

I may have held off on looking up cream, but the AuDHD was determined to steamroll me while getting work done. I just looked at the clock after thinking “I haven't had this headache in a while…” And then I realized I microwaved a little turkey pie for lunch and it was still sitting in the microwave. Looks like we're doing a dinner AND supper tonight!

#AuDHD #Hyperfocus

@actuallyadhd @autistics

Cannot believe how a quick session of messing with the computer, remembering & refamiliarising myself with Obsidian & SyncThing up ended my day.
A pre breakfast half an hour turned out to have plowed through both breakfast & lunch & into early mid-afternoon territory 😂.

Plans in ruins, important tasks shunted as my brain was pickled or something.
Something, something hyperfocus, time blindness & executive dysfunction lead to something & dehydration. Why can't this trifecta happen when I need it?
I'd plough through all my tasks & then spend the last hours of the day restocking my body's calorie & liquid stores whilst unwinding with some movies or episodes 😎.

#AuDHD #Autistic #ADHD #ActuallyADHD #ActuallyAutistic
#Hyperfocus #TimeBlindness #ExecutiveDysfunction

🎧 Master your Attentional Space ⚡️

Focus is your engine. Focus is progress. Focus gets you in the zone.
Being in the zone drives your progress forward. The right environment takes you to the next level!

#Focus #Productivity #DeepWork #MentalSpace #Concentration #HyperFocus