It came back to me when i stopped taking meds for anxiety, so there might be some merit to what your doc said even if its just singular anecdotal example.
I hated when teachers would yell at you for "not keeping your feet flat on the floor" because then I'd just spend the entire class focusing so hard on making sure I wasn't moving that I retained absolutely nothing from the class itself 😭
You who watch and know and understand none.
You who listen and hear and will not comprehend.
You who wait and wait and drink in all that is not yours by right.
The problem for me is the whole damn face. Last semester I had a theatre class at my community college, which was in the spanish room for some reason. But there was an entire wall with an alphabet and things that started with that letter in spanish, and every one had a picture. And all of them, all *26* letters, had this exact. damn. face. The same on each and every one.
I can hear the clock ticking, see the fluorescent lights. The air conditioning is broken again and math class is on the second floor, so the heat is suffocating. My desk is covered in bits of rubber because I pick at the eraser when I'm bored. In half an hour, it'll only be an hour until there's one hour left of school.
>In half an hour, it'll only be an hour until there's one hour left of school.
Goddammit dude, you can't just call me out like that, what would my university professors think?
you cannot do these SIMPLE things to be a GOOD student, so you deserve everyone being mad at you all the time.
yeah this was floating around on autism subs for a while, it's 90's kid bad memories. utterly ubiquitous artstyle, strongly associated with impeccable discipline. this artstyle was never used for anything good, it wasn't used for drawings of ice cream parties just all the mundane boring and miserable shit of being a young student. and if you failed at being a motionless doll the teacher would point right at this poster and rhetorically demand you explain why you didn't do it, "how could I possibly articulate that I'm 6" not being an acceptable answer.
That’s Asian culture for you, they very much prioritize success and intelligence, and that means working nonstop. Sure the whole “why aren’t you a doctor yet” is a funny stereotype but it does have some basis in reality. My sister goes into school at 7am and leaves at 7pm, then does homework, then goes to sleep and does it all over again the next day.
This is so funny to me because it's so unnecessary, anyone with an ounce of understanding for how learning works could tell them that's a waste of time and energy for everyone involved
It's also a pretty good way to guarantee you end up short-sighted, because frequent sunlight exposure is kinda necessary for human eyes to develop properly
Yeah if I look like that I’m not focusing on you, I’m paying very hard attention to looking like I’m paying attention, but not actually taking anything in
i remember looking at these kinds of posters snobbishly in the fourth grade and going "i can draw better than that". not to brag or anything but i was right B)
I haven't been able to get a diagnosis but resonate with most symptoms very very severely. dropped out of school due to extreme anxiety and mental breakdows and now I just kinda exist lmao.
like, teachers who know me and my girlfriend are girlfriends, have called us friends
it took em like the better part of two bloody years to let me use the girls toilet
they make me get changed in a fucking bathroom
you can't go to the bloody toilet
there's 1 (one) disabled toilet in the entire school, halfway across from anywhere else, and they made me use it because I'm trans. also just happens to be just outside the area for "naughty kids"
Tbh from my perspective feminine avenues of gender expression were way more encouraged in K-12 schooling. All of the boys behaving in “boyish” ways would get in trouble and be reprimanded all the time, and it was always the girls who were the favorites. This also seems to be reflected in recent data that shows women out-graduating men in universities. It’s crazy to think, but this might be one system where boys are actively disadvantaged.
I was diagnosed with ADHD last week (I’m in my early 20s) and holy shit has it opened my eyes to a lot of things that have been working against me all these years
I mean this poster isn't necessarily ableist, this is literally scientifically the easiest way to identify someone listening. Like decades of research has gone into this stuff.
Also seems fucked up that you're choosing to blame teachers rather than a school system that makes mass learning a necessity if they don't want to get fired.
I'd say it is ableist, because this is only the easiest way to identify if a *neurotypical* person is listening. Forcing everyone to sit like this because it "looks" like they're listening, regardless if it actually helps them or not, is like textbook definition of ableism.
Yeah if you make me sit like this, especially if I’m overwhelmed or bored, buddy I am not intaking a word you’re saying. It’s in one ear, out the other and I can’t make notes
Yeah so that's what I don't get, why be so negative to people who knowingly go into a field that is not only underpaid, but has awful working conditions to boot.
Like obviously some teachers are awful people, there's a percentage of everyone thats awful. I just don't understand why you'd feign vitriol.
The easiest way for a perfectly neurotypical person, which not everyone in a school is going to be. If a child with ADHD (or who just... doesn't listen well like that) is made to follow these guidelines like they often are in schools, not only will they not do as well as they could but school will be utterly miserable for them.
people making barely above minimum wage, whose job is to teach and educate children, shouldn't have to deal with disciplining 28-34 kids all day (and a lot of those students are very very agressive both towards students and teachers).
The school system is definitely ableist, I mean I've experienced it first hand, but it's usually not the teachers fault. They are not the ones who decide what the curriculum will be, it's not their fault that politicians decided that it's normal for kids and teens to sit in silence 8-9 hours a day learning things they will forget in a week
Yeah, my comment was kinda shitty and put together in like 10 seconds. In my experience most teachers are fairly good people who have to act within the school system’s constraints, though some of them have just been assholes.
oh yeah I agree with that, there are definitely some assholes who were really horrible to kids, and were basically humiliating them for fun. But as someone who has a teacher relative, I know that it's a really really difficult job that gets very little respect. And money. Also if they paid teachers, there wouldn't be a shortage and schools could afford to fire the few shitty ones every kid and parent has been complaining about for a decade
I fucking hate the amount of people that autodiag on the internet, it's so widespread in subs like this as well and I cannot fathom why it's so normalized. That shit is legit dangerous for one's mental health
how? it's usually the first step before getting actual help from a doctor. and if you don't have it the coping mechanisms (alarms, planners and other time management and memory aids) are still good.
I don't like how people frame autodiagnosis would probably be more correct. There's a way people talk about it, it feels very "xD I'm such an autodiagnosed cripplingly depressed type of guy uwu". Like, I see a shocking amount of people that self-diagnose and then DON'T go to a professional for help. They either self-medicate or use coping mechanisms. Which is already bad, but then what if their self-diagnosis is incomplete or wrong. It's not impossible for normal people to diagnose symptoms, but trying to cure those isn't gonna help the root cause and may even worsen it. Or if they are healthy (or just not as severe as their self-diagnosis implies) they could end up reinforcing harmful thoughts and mentalities.
It's hard as all hell to properly diagnose others (psychiatrists have to undergo therapy themselves before even starting their profession to be sure they know themselves enough), but self-diagnosis is inevitably going to be tainted by biases and self-perception. And even with a professional, there can be professional biases or psychiatric trends. Hell, the US is a prime example of that. You can clearly see how there were waves of diagnoses taking over with depression in the 90's, ADHD in the early 2000's and autism now.
So, I really dislike the way people talk about mental health like it's something you figure out on your own by reading some symptoms
Reminds me of this poster in high school that said something like “Things that don’t require any talent:” and listed things like energy, focus, positive attitude etc. Made me so angry
just because sitting still is pretty difficult and stressfull for you and you start to feel inner uneasiness pretty quickly you don't necessarily have ADHD
... right?
okay but this perfectly illustrates whats wrong with the educational system— not just because of its exclusivity of people w adhd, but because this system isn’t based around active participation and learning, its about indoctrinating children with centralized education, establishing a hierarchy in the classroom, punishing outspokenness, rebellion, nonconformity, and enforcing obedient listening to/guidance from an authority figure. you are taught to give the answer that the teacher wants to hear, to not communicate nor work cooperatively with peers, to compete and determine your self-worth based on the approval of the authority figure, and to learn, not for the innate beauty of learning, but for the extrinsic motivation of the social (and to an extent actually economic) currency that is Grades
I mean, truly. These do not mean you're actually paying attention. And the inverse -- NOT doing these things does NOT mean you are NOT paying attention.
tfw you since you've masked your ADHD symptoms from such an early age that you feel bad for existing as everything you do is something you have been made feel bad for doing :(
after a million years of evolution in the wild and massive technological advances, the best way we have found to teach children is to of course, make them sit quietly at a desk for 7 hours while you read facts off to them.
The fact that Elon Musk hasn't removed that utter piece of propaganda and misinformation shows that he's following ulterior motives. Could the new lore let us figure them out?
I’ve always thought this ridiculous ever since I’ve been in school. Like I get that being loud is distracting, and it’s important to listen, but what do they care if I’m fidgeting my hands or tapping my feet? Just reads like indoctrination techniques
I get where they're coming from, kids kicking and sticking their feet or banging their hands tends to distract other kids, disrupting their learning. Like all things there needs to be tolerance and understanding, but there also has to be limits. So much disruption is ok, too much and maybe it's a net harm to others.
When I’m actually listening intently, I’m probably looking out the window, humming a song, tapping the beat with a pencil and bouncing my leg all at the same time, doing whatever this is means I’m just really tired and bored
Teachers do not like the 'eyes are watching' many of my teachers were often visibly uncomfortable, since I'd watch them like an owl whenever I was paying attention to what they were saying.
Like, I'm gonna get distracted if I look at something else, so you it is.
Brain, thin on options (but not out, no, not by a mile), is 100% focused, like a fine mental laser, on the smells being passed to it from the nose. Using this data, it begins to extrapolate a working theory of what everyone in the vicinity had for lunch, but gets hung up on wondering which smells persist and which ones linger, and whether prolonged contact with saliva would modify the chemicals, and how the airflow through the room might be mixing smells or moving them from where they ought to be, and then the bell rings and class is dismissed.
This is literally what it looks like when I'm not listening to a fucking word you're saying
Legit I only look like this when I'm zoned out to the other side of the planet
Disasociation and daydreaming as a way for filling stimulation needs time.
Bruh i do this all the fucking time, do i have adhd ? 💀
No you have cancer and will die a gruesome horrible death.
Damn 💀
Its just like Breaking Bad fr fr
WebMD?? Can I have an autograph?
that’s how I feel but when I like talked to the doctor about it they said “oh it’s just anxiety” or some bs
It came back to me when i stopped taking meds for anxiety, so there might be some merit to what your doc said even if its just singular anecdotal example.
Are you neurodivergent in any other way?
No clue, never went to therapy or did a checkup on anything like that
You should, tho if you dont have the money or access there isnt much you can do besides internet research wich is a known cause of munchausen sindrome
I hated when teachers would yell at you for "not keeping your feet flat on the floor" because then I'd just spend the entire class focusing so hard on making sure I wasn't moving that I retained absolutely nothing from the class itself 😭
Yeah fr if I’m looking at you like this I’m fucking interplanetary
Lmao the ugly laugh I just let out
if my body is not moving i can guarantee you I am only legally conscious
Those people don't understand that we actually use ears for listening, not eyes.
this image invokes a primordial sense of dread and I dont know why
EYES are watching EARS are listening
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU
FEET ARE QUIET
NOT for LONG
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BABA AND KEKE MAKE LOVE
I didn't account for the possibility of there being r34 of baba
There is 46 hits for baba is you on r34 -Fae
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
WAR IS PEACE
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
DOWN WITH GOLDSTEIN
KNEES weak ARMS are heavy
VOMIT on his sweater already MOM'S spaghetti
HE'S nervous BUT on the surface he looks calm n ready
TO drop BOMBS but HE keeps on FORGETTING
Spaghetti 🍝
I can't BREATHE GIVE ME THE DRUG, KEEP ME ALIVE!
You who watch and know and understand none. You who listen and hear and will not comprehend. You who wait and wait and drink in all that is not yours by right.
NO SIN EVADES HIS GAZE
CEASELESS WATCHER, TURN YOUR GAZE UPON THIS WRETCHED THING
I had a pretty bad childhood and I get the same sense of dread so yeah there's something about these posters that makes me incredibly uncomfortable
It’s the art style, it radiates scholarly dread. Look at his goofy ass mouth, tell me that ‘=)’ of his doesn’t spark violence within you
I’ve always hated this art style
That monolithic art style present in every single school. All I know is whoever owns that shit has to be insanely rich.
The problem for me is the whole damn face. Last semester I had a theatre class at my community college, which was in the spanish room for some reason. But there was an entire wall with an alphabet and things that started with that letter in spanish, and every one had a picture. And all of them, all *26* letters, had this exact. damn. face. The same on each and every one.
I can hear the clock ticking, see the fluorescent lights. The air conditioning is broken again and math class is on the second floor, so the heat is suffocating. My desk is covered in bits of rubber because I pick at the eraser when I'm bored. In half an hour, it'll only be an hour until there's one hour left of school.
>In half an hour, it'll only be an hour until there's one hour left of school. Goddammit dude, you can't just call me out like that, what would my university professors think?
you cannot do these SIMPLE things to be a GOOD student, so you deserve everyone being mad at you all the time. yeah this was floating around on autism subs for a while, it's 90's kid bad memories. utterly ubiquitous artstyle, strongly associated with impeccable discipline. this artstyle was never used for anything good, it wasn't used for drawings of ice cream parties just all the mundane boring and miserable shit of being a young student. and if you failed at being a motionless doll the teacher would point right at this poster and rhetorically demand you explain why you didn't do it, "how could I possibly articulate that I'm 6" not being an acceptable answer.
90's kid? My elementary school education ended in 2014 and I still remember these posters
I think it's the anime pfp
The image honestly makes me unlawfully angry
yeah, not everyone gets Ms Honey as they're teacher. Some teachers are just evil.
Hello kids welcome to school fucking sit still for 4 hours in a row dont fucking move
Or 6 hours whatever
8 where I am from.
my condolences
12 where my sister lives (Taiwan).
💀
I'd swim into the Pacific and never return rather than deal with 12 fucking hours of school
Judging by those videos of that earthquake a few days ago, quite a few people might not have to…
the fuck are they learning for half a day straight it better be how to make a damn time machine
That’s Asian culture for you, they very much prioritize success and intelligence, and that means working nonstop. Sure the whole “why aren’t you a doctor yet” is a funny stereotype but it does have some basis in reality. My sister goes into school at 7am and leaves at 7pm, then does homework, then goes to sleep and does it all over again the next day.
I'd go insanse
This is so funny to me because it's so unnecessary, anyone with an ounce of understanding for how learning works could tell them that's a waste of time and energy for everyone involved
How does sitting still for that long not cause like muscular atrophy or some shit
it does 😀
It's also a pretty good way to guarantee you end up short-sighted, because frequent sunlight exposure is kinda necessary for human eyes to develop properly
Where do you live that school is only 4 hours?
Russian first grade was like 4 hours i think maybe 5
Ah, gotcha. In America they typically just throw kids into the deep end with 8 hour days in kindergarten.
Sorry i block you i dont listen to American sorry :(((
Based
O...kay?
For every inch you move we are killing one of your family members
we had 8 every day except one in grade 9
EYES ARE WATCHING- FEET ARE QUIET- HELL IS FULL
love a good ultrakill reference (I’ve never played it)
All you need to know is all the fan base is trans or queer and murderous lampshade
murderous lampshade? like in furi?
Yes
fuckin love furi
If I look like that I am not paying attention to a single thing
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Yeah if I look like that I’m not focusing on you, I’m paying very hard attention to looking like I’m paying attention, but not actually taking anything in
I HATE SCHOOL ART STYLES!!! I HATE SCHOOL ART STYLES!!!
how is the guy on my addition paper’s nose that big and how are his eyes being held up???
i remember looking at these kinds of posters snobbishly in the fourth grade and going "i can draw better than that". not to brag or anything but i was right B)
School art style vs corporate art style which is worse go
At least corporate art is only bland or oversimple in most cases. School art is just straight ugly.
Yeah
We’ve got you surrounded! Form a straight line!
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I HATE SCHOOL ART STYLES!!!
No one can stop my legs from bouncing
My own mother will have to amputate my legs Civil War style to get them to stop moving
Even then I be wiggling the stubs that remain probably.
No, it legitimately is. School is hell for people with ADHD.
I should know.
I haven't been able to get a diagnosis but resonate with most symptoms very very severely. dropped out of school due to extreme anxiety and mental breakdows and now I just kinda exist lmao.
School is hell for everyone. ADHD people are in Extra-Hell.
Playing on hard mode 😎
Yeah I used to fucking dread going to school as a kid
I become the hank schrader meme going to school medicated vs unmedicated
schools try to be inclusive of anyone who isn't a neurotypical fully abled cishet boy challenge (impossible)
like, teachers who know me and my girlfriend are girlfriends, have called us friends it took em like the better part of two bloody years to let me use the girls toilet they make me get changed in a fucking bathroom you can't go to the bloody toilet there's 1 (one) disabled toilet in the entire school, halfway across from anywhere else, and they made me use it because I'm trans. also just happens to be just outside the area for "naughty kids"
England?
yup
Same, and I wish you all the best, I wish I was brave enough to come out too. Still though, my condolences, that all sounds awful.
Bruh if I tried to officially come out in my school I'd get fucking hatecrimed or conversiontherapy'd
ah, good ol' red states
This person is Polish. Your country isn't the center of the world
poland is my favorite red state
Actually, the ruling party in Poland uses the color blue. Doesn't make them any less right wing populist conservative ultracaths
That fucking sucks sorry to hear that, I hope things get better for you.
Tbh from my perspective feminine avenues of gender expression were way more encouraged in K-12 schooling. All of the boys behaving in “boyish” ways would get in trouble and be reprimanded all the time, and it was always the girls who were the favorites. This also seems to be reflected in recent data that shows women out-graduating men in universities. It’s crazy to think, but this might be one system where boys are actively disadvantaged.
Idk they fine with cis girls
You will NOT stop me from spinning my pencil in my hand
0p00
Teachers try not to be incredibly ableist challenge (impossible)
I was diagnosed with ADHD last week (I’m in my early 20s) and holy shit has it opened my eyes to a lot of things that have been working against me all these years
I mean this poster isn't necessarily ableist, this is literally scientifically the easiest way to identify someone listening. Like decades of research has gone into this stuff. Also seems fucked up that you're choosing to blame teachers rather than a school system that makes mass learning a necessity if they don't want to get fired.
I'd say it is ableist, because this is only the easiest way to identify if a *neurotypical* person is listening. Forcing everyone to sit like this because it "looks" like they're listening, regardless if it actually helps them or not, is like textbook definition of ableism.
Yeah if you make me sit like this, especially if I’m overwhelmed or bored, buddy I am not intaking a word you’re saying. It’s in one ear, out the other and I can’t make notes
True, school system is more to blame than teachers, and most of my teachers were actually very good.
Yeah so that's what I don't get, why be so negative to people who knowingly go into a field that is not only underpaid, but has awful working conditions to boot. Like obviously some teachers are awful people, there's a percentage of everyone thats awful. I just don't understand why you'd feign vitriol.
Because teachers put a face to the shitty system
Source?
The easiest way for a perfectly neurotypical person, which not everyone in a school is going to be. If a child with ADHD (or who just... doesn't listen well like that) is made to follow these guidelines like they often are in schools, not only will they not do as well as they could but school will be utterly miserable for them.
people making barely above minimum wage, whose job is to teach and educate children, shouldn't have to deal with disciplining 28-34 kids all day (and a lot of those students are very very agressive both towards students and teachers). The school system is definitely ableist, I mean I've experienced it first hand, but it's usually not the teachers fault. They are not the ones who decide what the curriculum will be, it's not their fault that politicians decided that it's normal for kids and teens to sit in silence 8-9 hours a day learning things they will forget in a week
Yeah, my comment was kinda shitty and put together in like 10 seconds. In my experience most teachers are fairly good people who have to act within the school system’s constraints, though some of them have just been assholes.
oh yeah I agree with that, there are definitely some assholes who were really horrible to kids, and were basically humiliating them for fun. But as someone who has a teacher relative, I know that it's a really really difficult job that gets very little respect. And money. Also if they paid teachers, there wouldn't be a shortage and schools could afford to fire the few shitty ones every kid and parent has been complaining about for a decade
Whenever I am like this I am functionally unconscious.
I'd be on another planet entirely. Not even leg-bouncing to keep them grounded.
honestly i think this sub made me realize i may have adhd
Congrats, welcome to the club
autodiag is probably not the best!
I fucking hate the amount of people that autodiag on the internet, it's so widespread in subs like this as well and I cannot fathom why it's so normalized. That shit is legit dangerous for one's mental health
how? it's usually the first step before getting actual help from a doctor. and if you don't have it the coping mechanisms (alarms, planners and other time management and memory aids) are still good.
I don't like how people frame autodiagnosis would probably be more correct. There's a way people talk about it, it feels very "xD I'm such an autodiagnosed cripplingly depressed type of guy uwu". Like, I see a shocking amount of people that self-diagnose and then DON'T go to a professional for help. They either self-medicate or use coping mechanisms. Which is already bad, but then what if their self-diagnosis is incomplete or wrong. It's not impossible for normal people to diagnose symptoms, but trying to cure those isn't gonna help the root cause and may even worsen it. Or if they are healthy (or just not as severe as their self-diagnosis implies) they could end up reinforcing harmful thoughts and mentalities. It's hard as all hell to properly diagnose others (psychiatrists have to undergo therapy themselves before even starting their profession to be sure they know themselves enough), but self-diagnosis is inevitably going to be tainted by biases and self-perception. And even with a professional, there can be professional biases or psychiatric trends. Hell, the US is a prime example of that. You can clearly see how there were waves of diagnoses taking over with depression in the 90's, ADHD in the early 2000's and autism now. So, I really dislike the way people talk about mental health like it's something you figure out on your own by reading some symptoms
I find this art style strangely nostalgic - of course, that doesn't mean I do not recognize the trauma associated with it.
Reminds me of this poster in high school that said something like “Things that don’t require any talent:” and listed things like energy, focus, positive attitude etc. Made me so angry
"focus doesn't require any talent" neither does punching you in the face but in all seriousness fuck whoever made that shit
Fully agree
unironically the first 3 out of context sound like some shit from a dystopia or smth
just because sitting still is pretty difficult and stressfull for you and you start to feel inner uneasiness pretty quickly you don't necessarily have ADHD ... right?
could easily be something like anxiety or OCD, it depends
okay but this perfectly illustrates whats wrong with the educational system— not just because of its exclusivity of people w adhd, but because this system isn’t based around active participation and learning, its about indoctrinating children with centralized education, establishing a hierarchy in the classroom, punishing outspokenness, rebellion, nonconformity, and enforcing obedient listening to/guidance from an authority figure. you are taught to give the answer that the teacher wants to hear, to not communicate nor work cooperatively with peers, to compete and determine your self-worth based on the approval of the authority figure, and to learn, not for the innate beauty of learning, but for the extrinsic motivation of the social (and to an extent actually economic) currency that is Grades
I could never be in that position for more than 3 seconds
I could, but only because at that point I’ve completely mentally checked out of this fucking realm and am now daydreaming. -Fae
Why the fuck does the picture look so german and it's in english like what the fuck
As a man who suffers from adhd, can confirm
I mean, truly. These do not mean you're actually paying attention. And the inverse -- NOT doing these things does NOT mean you are NOT paying attention.
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Sorry pal, my brain is fucked up. Not my fault I can't stay still.
tfw you since you've masked your ADHD symptoms from such an early age that you feel bad for existing as everything you do is something you have been made feel bad for doing :(
mom im not lazy you gave me a disability
Bro if I look like this, I'm most likely zooted and can't even understand a word you're saying 💀💀
this is why I'm honestly thankful that I went to a Montessori for like half of my k-12 education
after a million years of evolution in the wild and massive technological advances, the best way we have found to teach children is to of course, make them sit quietly at a desk for 7 hours while you read facts off to them.
This is extremely unhealthy to expect of children
Does anyone have the picture of Walt and Jesse in that style?
If you see me act like this, my brain is creating a dramatic sword fight or something.
you cannot expect any child, adhd or not, to sit still at all times during a class, it’s not possible
The fact that Elon Musk hasn't removed that utter piece of propaganda and misinformation shows that he's following ulterior motives. Could the new lore let us figure them out?
Just looking at someone sitting like that makes me uncomfortable
I can’t go more than 5 minutes without crossing my legs, sitting like that would kill me
Ah yes me putting in conscious effort to keep myself from moving will definitely help me pay better attention to you
The fact that other people also grew to hate these posters comforts me
I’ve always thought this ridiculous ever since I’ve been in school. Like I get that being loud is distracting, and it’s important to listen, but what do they care if I’m fidgeting my hands or tapping my feet? Just reads like indoctrination techniques
If i sit like this for 5 seconds i will go on a autistic driven mental spiral to the moat absurd conspiracies i can conjecture
I will bounce my leg and you can't do anything about it
I feel targeted by this anti-ADHD propaganda.
As a person with autism and ADHD, burn it with fire.
I get where they're coming from, kids kicking and sticking their feet or banging their hands tends to distract other kids, disrupting their learning. Like all things there needs to be tolerance and understanding, but there also has to be limits. So much disruption is ok, too much and maybe it's a net harm to others.
When I’m actually listening intently, I’m probably looking out the window, humming a song, tapping the beat with a pencil and bouncing my leg all at the same time, doing whatever this is means I’m just really tired and bored
God as someone with adhd i used to look at this poster in 4th grade and think "why cant i be normal?"
i WILL tap my feet and there are ZERO things you can do to stop me
Teachers do not like the 'eyes are watching' many of my teachers were often visibly uncomfortable, since I'd watch them like an owl whenever I was paying attention to what they were saying. Like, I'm gonna get distracted if I look at something else, so you it is.
I can either listen, or I can sit and look pretty and make eye contact. I can’t do both. Your choice
Holy fuck I remember that poster
this but unironically
That was in my 1st grade classroom
btw that isn't a joke. delosa makes actual ableist bullshit.
This is an example of how to make life hell for someone with adhd
You get maybe 3 of these on a good day.
It sounds like people with ADHD actually do have trouble listening, though?
I don’t think I’ve stopped moving for a single waking moment in my goddamn life.
To be fair they're not wrong I am indeed not listening
What if my nose is gone and I can't breathe anywhere but through my mouth?
Brain, thin on options (but not out, no, not by a mile), is 100% focused, like a fine mental laser, on the smells being passed to it from the nose. Using this data, it begins to extrapolate a working theory of what everyone in the vicinity had for lunch, but gets hung up on wondering which smells persist and which ones linger, and whether prolonged contact with saliva would modify the chemicals, and how the airflow through the room might be mixing smells or moving them from where they ought to be, and then the bell rings and class is dismissed.
My feet keep fucking screaming send help oh god ple
Wait a minute
As someone who has adhd this makes me irrationally angry, No Deborah I cannot stop tapping my foot or i will explode.
“Jeremey please tell your feet to shut up, they’re talking too loud”
His apple is not in his lunch bag and that is not okay.
If I'm looking at you like this, I'm not looking at you. I'm thinking about anything but what you're talking about.
Imagine a class full of kids *actually* sitting like this. It would look so creepy and fake.