Location

So it occurred to me a lot of people on the app seem to be overseas, I’m British just curious as to where most people are in the world 🌎 Obviously I like to know everything, don’t know if that’s an adhd thing but I can’t bare not knowing things 😂

theadhdmom

I've always NEEDED to know stuff about all kinds of stuff and I easily hiperfocus on anything that calls my attention. Now I don't mind and like it, even, because I learned how to deal with it in therapy. But many times I life this need has gotten me in a bad place with anxiety.

theadhdmom

Brazil here 🇧🇷

jfresh84

Having ocd and adhd is basically like going to war with myself most of the time and that teensy 0.00001%, works together and makes things click. I impulse buy all of the things. Take cleaning, for example. I buy all of the cleaning stuff “I KNOW I MUST HAVE” (🙄), but then I have to buy all of the organization stuff for the cleaning stuff, obviously 🤣 (ADHD part) I, then, have a VERY SPECIFIC, down to the very last speck of dirt way I need everything cleaned (OCD part) Problem… I’m the only one that can organize and clean the way that I need everything organized and cleaned 😭😭😭 I really try to let my kid help me clean and not spaz out watching as he does so. But I just go over what he does when he’s done. Then, I get stuck in one room cleaning and swear up and down it’s not clean yet, then I’m crying and having a massive panic attack. We click… put all stuff in a room together, shut the door and binge watch everything until it has been forgotten 😂 Other stuff I have had to do is make up a song about leaving the house so that it doesn’t take me 15 minutes or longer to actually leave the house. I’m really weird about odd numbers (volume on the tv/speaker/radio, specific food items on a plate, etc.) every thing must be even. If it’s not I can immediately tell and must change the problem before i have a meltdown. Good times 🤣🤣🤣

jfresh84

Let’s not manifest that 🤣🤣🤣

martin777

I love odd numbers and dislike even ones 😅🙈 let’s hope nobody ever wants to torture the both of us and puts us in a room full of numbered dials together 🤣

adhdani98

You get it 😂 it’s not the fact the information is valuable it’s that not knowing is impossible 😂 I’ve not come across anyone with ocd before (as far as I’m aware) is it as obvious as some think such as do you have to have things a certain way around or have to do things in a certain order?

jfresh84

USA… It may be an adhd thing because I HAVE to know all of the things 😂😂

adhdani98

jfresh84

But why couldn’t he just tell you??? 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I think I’m more of a 🐿️ , but I think I can relate to having a woodpecker in my 🧠 too. I mean, I have OCD also, but that couldn’t possibly be why I need to know all the things 🧐🧐🧐🤣🤣🤣

adhdani98

Exactly!!! Like once my partner wouldn’t tell me what was on his fortune cookie and it make me sooooo mad we end up wrestling on the sofa for it and then I got it, put it in my mouth, locked myself in the bathroom, spat it out, unfolded it and read it, it was an absolutely pointless thing to read but the fact I didn’t know what it said was too much😂 I was like a woodpecker in my brain 🧠