ADHD
14 terms
ADHD Tax
The extra costs in money, time, and energy that people with ADHD pay because of executive function challenges in a world designed for neurotypical brains.
AuDHD
Being both autistic and having ADHD simultaneously. Not just having two separate conditions—a unique neurotype where autism and ADHD interact, creating experiences that can't be understood by looking at either condition alone. Like running two different operating systems that both want control of the same computer.
Body Doubling
Working or doing tasks in the presence of another person who provides passive companionship. Their simple presence—not helping, just existing nearby—makes starting and completing tasks dramatically easier for ADHD and autistic brains.
Dyschronometria
Difficulty accurately perceiving and estimating the passage of time - a common neurodivergent experience where minutes can feel like hours or hours like minutes, affecting daily planning, task completion, and social interactions.
Executive Dysfunction
Difficulties with the brain's management system for planning, organizing, initiating, and completing tasks. Like having all the pieces but struggling to assemble them in the right order at the right time.
Hyperactivity
Excessive movement, restlessness, and high energy levels that are developmentally inappropriate and often interfere with daily functioning, commonly associated with ADHD.
Hyperfixation
Intense, consuming focus on specific interests, activities, topics, or even people, characterized by an overwhelming need to engage with the fixation to the exclusion of other activities.
Hyperfocus
Intense, laser-like concentration on one activity to the exclusion of everything else. A state where time disappears, the world fades away, and only the task exists—often lasting hours without awareness of basic needs.
Infodumping
Enthusiastically sharing extensive knowledge about a passionate interest, often rapidly and in great detail. A natural neurodivergent communication style that expresses joy, builds connection, and shares expertise.
Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria
Extreme emotional pain triggered by perceived or actual rejection, criticism, or failure. A neurological response common in ADHD where minor criticism feels like physical injury and imagined rejection becomes unbearable agony.
Sensory Processing Disorder
A condition where the nervous system has trouble receiving and responding to sensory information. People may be over-sensitive, under-sensitive, or both to different sensory inputs.
Task Paralysis
The complete inability to start a task despite desperately wanting or needing to. Your brain knows what to do, your body won't move. Like being frozen at the starting line while everyone else is already running—not lazy, literally paralyzed.
Time Blindness
The difficulty sensing how much time has passed or accurately estimating how long tasks will take. Living in an eternal "now" where time flows unpredictably—five minutes can feel like an hour, or three hours pass in what seems like moments.
Waiting Mode
The complete inability to start tasks when you have an appointment later, as if your entire brain is on hold until the thing happens. Even with hours available, you're stuck in mental limbo—not procrastinating, literally paralyzed.