thanks for checking out this video, I know it's a bit long (and if you gotta watch on 1.5x speed+ go for it, that's what we call an accommodation and I do it as well!) getting diagnosed with ADHD this past year took up A LOT of my time and energy but it was worth it to have a better understanding of myself as a person as well as a cosplayer/crafter. I'm pretty much an open book on all this so if you have any questions, feel free to ask down below or on socials (IG: @vaultfox, twitter: @vaultfox_) I just wont be sharing the meds I'm on as I'm still working through what works best for me!
I was incorrectly diagnosed with ADD as a child, and medicated for it, but unfortunately the medication didn't help me (because autism can't be medicated) but I'm glad you're getting what you need! It's always tough to find out as an adult about these things we've been struggling with for so long. Keep doing your thing, though! You're awesome!
oof that really sucks to hear you had a misdiagnosis, but at least now you have a better idea of what's going on! I've learned a lot about autism as well since it intersects with ADHD so much, kinda wild how so much of what I knew about both disorders as a child is WILDLY different to what I know today!
@@vaultfox What's worse... as a child, when the medication didn't work, my parents just kind of gave up & decided I was lazy & wasn't trying hard enough. So after getting years of not the best attention & bad counseling & feeling like I there was always something wrong with me for some medical reason, I spend the entirety of my adolescence completely neglected & got to deal with abandonment issues later! So yeah. Fun times.
I’m in a bit of a different boat. About 10 years ago I bumped my head and since then I’ve had a constant headache every single second of every day. On top of that a couple years ago I was diagnosed with a type of high functioning autism, essentially. Combine those together and it makes daily life, including my hobbies like cosplay, nearly impossible. Thanks for sharing your story and your journey. It helps us more than you know 😊
oh wow, that's rough I'm sorry you're goin through that! but see, these are the things I think are the most important to talk about. too often with hobbies and stuff we just assume that everyone is on a level playing field, when in reality all of us are going through something while making these costumes.
I just came across your channel a few hours ago as I am a 3D printing enthusiast. I clicked on this particular video to get a better understanding of the type of person that you are. I'm not into cosplay, but I can totally understand the passion for it. To each their own :) I'm an INTJ perfectionist. Combined with a career in jet engine manufacturing, this can be mentally draining. I analyze everything (researching stuff online could be a part-time job for me). Everything is black and white and I don't deal well with shades of grey. I have a short attention span and have a hard time committing to a television series. This is me. Anyhow... You stated something that raised my eyebrow. At 0:43 you had said, "I'm a work in progress". Well... we are all WIP. You attitude is refreshing and I enjoy watching your content. Keep up the great work.
Thank you :) I certainly agree that we're all a work in progress, thanks for sharing what you do as well. My dad actually worked on engines in the air force before working at USAir for 20 years, spent a lot of time around planes and mechanics and am still amazed at anyone that understands the engineering behind them!
I got the combined type too, it suuuucks but at the same time it's good, I'm able to know immediately if I'm not interested in something and if I am. Basically if you don't like it you won't want to focus on it, but if you are then you are hyper focused which kinda helps
I'm 55. I describe the inside of my head like standing in front of the wall of televisions at Best Buy. All channels. All the time. Not sure if I could handle one channel.
I'm 30, and I'm FINALLY getting evaluated for ADHD. I've experienced the same "Eureka" moments, and "How to ADHD" also led me to realize that I do in fact have Type 3 ADHD. I'm still finding strategies and work around for motivation and productivity because that is VERY hard for me.
How to ADHD genuinely changed my life and I'm so glad to hear they helped you too! it really is one of those things that once you realize you have it (and have had it your entire life) so much makes sense. Glad you're on the road to getting checked out, hope it goes well!
Employers perhaps unintentionally sometimes use my ADHD against me. I can't explain to them the level of manipulation this makes me feel, because I can't explain ADHD to them. It would take far too long to get their mind around it.
I got my diagnosis about a year ago, and yeah, lots of this is awfully familiar. :) A dynamic I've found interesting is that a lot of the people I've been closest with have also been diagnosed as ADHD or autism spectrum (or both, like me, because I'm an overachiever! Yay!) but we've been friends since long before any of us knew we were neurodivergent. Just... felt a shared vibe, you know? We got each other in a way other people don't. And then other folks very specifically don't get along with fellow neurodivergent people. I'm curious if you've noticed either of those patterns? Oh, and because I don't think I've said it: I love your videos. Every time I watch one, I get inspired and enthusiastic, and I feel like I just got a pep talk, and just all around they make me happy. Figured you might appreciate hearing that! Or not? Hopefully it makes sense outside my head. :)
:)))) thank you so so much for sharing your story + for your comment!! I really do appreciate hearing that my videos are inspirational or like giving a pep talk because that's really what it feels like I'm doing. I wish I could say all of these things to myself when I was first starting out w/all this creative stuff so it's just ... it's a very very high compliment to hear it's motivational :D
Funny I see this video yesterday I had the TV on while I was working on something and The View was on and actress Gina Davis was the guest and she said she was diagnosed with ADHD when she was in her 30s or 40s I believe, So you're in good company and it doesn't change a fact that you're awesome!
Thank you for making this video and all your videos about ADHD. I to have ADHD with anxiety and depression. I have been trying to restart my UA-cam channel with my 3d printing and cosplay but it's been at least 6 months and I still haven't filmed a dang thing.
I feel ya ... I've been experimenting with putting out less videos to give myself a bit of a break mentally and still struggling with feeling like I'm not doing enough or the content I DO put out is somehow less than? Sending you good vibes that you can start filming again but know I def know where you're coming from with that!
This post spoke a lot to me. I am actually starting to wander if you are somehow related to me.. I was diagnosed at age 10 but I did not have my ADHD treated until I was roughly 35 or so. Getting treated was truly life changing for me. I had really convinced myself that I was just was not a smart person and couldn't achieve much. I have just about all of the symptoms you mentioned, and my ADHD is pretty extreme. 10 Years ago in NY, a doctor offered to get me on disability if I wanted to pursue it, and I am very glad I didn't. That was actually on the second meeting I had with him. With that also comes the anxiety and depression. Us folks with ADHD typically fail often on a social level and over the years those failures add up. Hopefully you will continue to see it get better as you work on it. One doctor told me that one tool is to realize that we are not in control of our brain going in several different directions at once. Our brains are not going to do that if you have ADHD. But if you work on it, then in time you can simply make sure that the different directions your brain goes in are all related to whatever it is your doing.
Thank you so much for sharing ... I def have felt a lot of similar things including that I was just not smart enough or tried hard enough, so having the diagnosis and especially the meds/therapy has helped me by leaps and bounds already. I'm interested to see how this goes knowing what I know now!
I feel you! This is basically my life, aside from the stress and anxiety. Once you figure it out tho I'm convinced ADHD is basically a super power as it's easy to ignore the shit that doesn't matter and hyperfocus on your interests. I could talk for hours about this but anyways I love your content! Keep up the awesome work!
Thank you! Yeah, right now I'm not at the point that I see it as a positive because I am SO burnt out from years of just being GO GO GO but as I learn about it things get better. Right now it's just great to know I'm not alone with how I feel and experience life!
HAHA I'm sorry, I hate agile as well ... only thing I like about it is it introduced me to those boards (for personal use, not at work ahahah these damn jira emails won't leave me alone)
@@vaultfox uuugh Jira!!! I want to go back to turning wrenches, this IT stuff is for the birds....pays much better but i did have way more fun on the flight line🤪 Thank you for sharing your story! I deal with very similar stuff in my day, I see it in my wife as well as my oldest child...patience for me is a rough skill to learn....and I need alot of it...
Paused the video 13:30 to look up a video on an ADHD test... Maybe that's a symptom... (I hit 8/10 or 7 or 9--I may have stopped processing and lost count at the end of the video.)
The inability to stop doing something to take care of myself is so real! Being thirsty or having to pee and literally not being able to get up and fix that!
the "having to pee and literally not being able to get up" symptom was and still is one of the worst things I deal with ... if you wanna talk about it offline I'm totally down!!
LOL 100% understand, I honestly struggle with the contradiction between having ADHD and being able to talk for HOURS about something and then yet, can't focus on long videos either
Just found your channel recently and this video had great timing too. I just recently had my therapist suggest I talk to my doctor about getting diagnosed and he put me on medication. I think I am still on too low of a dose as I haven't noticed any effect yet but he is slowly increasing it. Its only been a week or so. So many of the things he said about ADHD and my therapist said made so much sense in the context of my life after they said them. I have a real hard time just starting to do many things. Hopefully I can get to the right dose of medication to make a difference. A lot of the symptoms you talk about are so similar to my experience. There are so many things I want to do and tell myself I will do for weeks on end that I can't make myself do. So thanks for posting about this, really hits home with my current struggles.
You’re welcome, and thanks for sharing your experience. I used to think I was “good” at doing stuff until I took a good hard look and realized just how hard and how much I had to talk myself up to start stuff, and even then it didn’t happen most of the time! And yeah, the med side is a whoooole other thing. Hopefully you can find a dose/the right stuff that works for you!
@@vaultfox I know the feeling. I shared your video with my wife too even though she's not really into printing and cosplay because the headline of it was too fitting lol. I'm 34 as well and she's supporting me through working this out.
I've been diagnosed since like 8 or 9 years old, have to say my medication really takes away my creativity and just makes me feel worse, but what's a little suffering for improved concentration and keeping teachers happy😀
oof that sucks to hear ... so far I've been alright on mine but I've also had NO time to really craft/create stuff (outside of videos) with our basement reno so we'll see how things go long term. and I know lol, now I look back at school and realize WHY I was such a menace for these teachers but also like ... wow, if teachers were taught anything about neurodivergency??? even when I was in college it was NEVER discussed.
I hope it got better for you... they now know NOT to over persribe the doeses and the ones that been on it since they are kids are afraid to test out a day off without to see how they function. I know a lot more adult diagnosis patients like to mix up the days when they want to be more creative just skip that day because these are rapid drugs that only work while in there systom. Much like hormone therapy I'm on for Type-1 diabetes.
I've been diagnosed with adhd since I was 10, and know what you're going through. I can totally relate with the caffeine ☕ it just makes me sleepy most of the time. I love your cosplays. I think Ive watched your uv resin smoothing video 30 times already thanks to my adhd
thank you!!! yeah, the caffeine thing I've noticed since college when I started drinking the stuff, always made me so sleepy (made for some epic naps though!)
Diagnosed last year at 39 with ADHD and anxiety. My daughter has ADHD as well. Learning about it and how to manage it better has helped us so much. Understanding myself and giving allowances for ADHD symptoms has helped the last year as we learn and grow together.
Agreed! The best thing I did for myself (other than the actual dx process lol) was educating myself on how our brains are just different and to cut myself slack. Not completely give up on stuff but to stop badgering myself for starting so many things without finishing.
hmm....after listen to those sign and symptoms you have , i think i got ADHD maybe ?... but im not sure , hard to speak out or explain to people , want to get check up but i have no idea why i kinda feel scare to get check up... but anyway , thanks for sharing
I 100% feel ya on feeling scared over it all ... it's a lot to take in. My advice (which is of course not medical advice or what have you) would be to watch some of How to ADHD's videos and try out some of their coping strategies to see if they help out at all. I used a bunch of the for a while as I was figuring out if what I was experiencing was ADHD or not and they helped me understand how to work with my brain in a smarter way, plus the added benefit was that most of them were totally free to do.
Put it another way... if you had to Brute Force basically everything in you life to stay on task outside when your hyper focusing... welcome to the club! About 10 years ago a lot of people where self diagnosing with High Funtioning Anxiety, because that's the way it sure feels like most o the time. lol Also hyper focus RAGE is real... I get so livid with people that break my hard won concentration at times but do a decent job of internalizing that anger. Also Alway angry at myself for not getting a task done because we are ALWAYS under estimating how long a NEW task takes... Cosplayer life. lol I have dylextica (heavy in the your IQ score are soo low in this area... how are you funtioning/not killing yourself, level of concern for my mental health back then) so my life has ALWAYS been brute forcing my concentration through school, Because if I didn't absorb it in class I sure as hell wasn't going to absorb it trough reading text books on my own later. lol
You always have had it though. It doesn’t effect anything new other than it is on paper now. I was diagnosed in the military and it was like “Duh”. I challenged myself though. I got off the meds and completed college with honors in three years for a bachelors degree. It only effects you if you let it. You always had it, you didn’t catch it.
It has had a huge effect on me to get that diagnosis though, even if I've always had it. To finally learn why I cycle through things as much as I do and grow bored of stuff so quickly has been eye opening. I'm not at the point of looking at it as a positive yet but it has helped me look at things in the past in a different light.
@@vaultfox it is neither a positive or a negative, it is who you have always been. I never let my condition be an excuse for why things happen to me. You need to just keep moving forward. We still have our squirrel moments. I learned to recognize it when it happens and how to correct course. You have always known there was an issue and now it has just had a name applied. It changes nothing. You do great work and you will continue as long as you find joy in it.
@@vaultfox if you want to manage it properly here is some advice from experience. When you get bored with something it is just temporary. I do it all the time. To combat this I have several unrelated hobbies. I do droid builds, gardening, gold prospecting, programming, and a few other different things. When I start to grow bored with one I switch to the other. It is great because I can always maintain my focus on something I enjoy.
@Gana Anas there is no cure, this isn’t a virus or disease, it is a condition of how his brain works. He is managing it but it is not something you can cure.
thanks for checking out this video, I know it's a bit long (and if you gotta watch on 1.5x speed+ go for it, that's what we call an accommodation and I do it as well!) getting diagnosed with ADHD this past year took up A LOT of my time and energy but it was worth it to have a better understanding of myself as a person as well as a cosplayer/crafter.
I'm pretty much an open book on all this so if you have any questions, feel free to ask down below or on socials (IG: @vaultfox, twitter: @vaultfox_) I just wont be sharing the meds I'm on as I'm still working through what works best for me!
I was incorrectly diagnosed with ADD as a child, and medicated for it, but unfortunately the medication didn't help me (because autism can't be medicated) but I'm glad you're getting what you need! It's always tough to find out as an adult about these things we've been struggling with for so long. Keep doing your thing, though! You're awesome!
oof that really sucks to hear you had a misdiagnosis, but at least now you have a better idea of what's going on! I've learned a lot about autism as well since it intersects with ADHD so much, kinda wild how so much of what I knew about both disorders as a child is WILDLY different to what I know today!
@@vaultfox What's worse... as a child, when the medication didn't work, my parents just kind of gave up & decided I was lazy & wasn't trying hard enough. So after getting years of not the best attention & bad counseling & feeling like I there was always something wrong with me for some medical reason, I spend the entirety of my adolescence completely neglected & got to deal with abandonment issues later! So yeah. Fun times.
Here for you, I got diagnosed with anxiety and depression at the same age.
twins :P no seriously though, glad you're getting help and sending you good thoughts!!
I’m in a bit of a different boat. About 10 years ago I bumped my head and since then I’ve had a constant headache every single second of every day. On top of that a couple years ago I was diagnosed with a type of high functioning autism, essentially. Combine those together and it makes daily life, including my hobbies like cosplay, nearly impossible.
Thanks for sharing your story and your journey. It helps us more than you know 😊
oh wow, that's rough I'm sorry you're goin through that! but see, these are the things I think are the most important to talk about. too often with hobbies and stuff we just assume that everyone is on a level playing field, when in reality all of us are going through something while making these costumes.
Thanks for sharing. Great information about this. 👍🏻👍🏻
Same club
Was diagnosed this year at 38 years old
My daughter last year at 7
I just came across your channel a few hours ago as I am a 3D printing enthusiast. I clicked on this particular video to get a better understanding of the type of person that you are. I'm not into cosplay, but I can totally understand the passion for it. To each their own :)
I'm an INTJ perfectionist. Combined with a career in jet engine manufacturing, this can be mentally draining. I analyze everything (researching stuff online could be a part-time job for me). Everything is black and white and I don't deal well with shades of grey. I have a short attention span and have a hard time committing to a television series. This is me. Anyhow...
You stated something that raised my eyebrow. At 0:43 you had said, "I'm a work in progress". Well... we are all WIP.
You attitude is refreshing and I enjoy watching your content. Keep up the great work.
Thank you :) I certainly agree that we're all a work in progress, thanks for sharing what you do as well. My dad actually worked on engines in the air force before working at USAir for 20 years, spent a lot of time around planes and mechanics and am still amazed at anyone that understands the engineering behind them!
I got the combined type too, it suuuucks but at the same time it's good, I'm able to know immediately if I'm not interested in something and if I am.
Basically if you don't like it you won't want to focus on it, but if you are then you are hyper focused which kinda helps
I'm 55. I describe the inside of my head like standing in front of the wall of televisions at Best Buy. All channels. All the time.
Not sure if I could handle one channel.
that is a really good description of it!
@@vaultfoxMy wife used to ask me, "What are you thinking?" I'd reply, "Which channel?"
I'm 30, and I'm FINALLY getting evaluated for ADHD. I've experienced the same "Eureka" moments, and "How to ADHD" also led me to realize that I do in fact have Type 3 ADHD. I'm still finding strategies and work around for motivation and productivity because that is VERY hard for me.
How to ADHD genuinely changed my life and I'm so glad to hear they helped you too! it really is one of those things that once you realize you have it (and have had it your entire life) so much makes sense. Glad you're on the road to getting checked out, hope it goes well!
Employers perhaps unintentionally sometimes use my ADHD against me. I can't explain to them the level of manipulation this makes me feel, because I can't explain ADHD to them. It would take far too long to get their mind around it.
I wish I had more advice w/ADHD and employers but even as open as I am about my ADHD on UA-cam my work doesn't know I have it
I got my diagnosis about a year ago, and yeah, lots of this is awfully familiar. :) A dynamic I've found interesting is that a lot of the people I've been closest with have also been diagnosed as ADHD or autism spectrum (or both, like me, because I'm an overachiever! Yay!) but we've been friends since long before any of us knew we were neurodivergent. Just... felt a shared vibe, you know? We got each other in a way other people don't. And then other folks very specifically don't get along with fellow neurodivergent people. I'm curious if you've noticed either of those patterns?
Oh, and because I don't think I've said it: I love your videos. Every time I watch one, I get inspired and enthusiastic, and I feel like I just got a pep talk, and just all around they make me happy. Figured you might appreciate hearing that! Or not? Hopefully it makes sense outside my head. :)
:)))) thank you so so much for sharing your story + for your comment!! I really do appreciate hearing that my videos are inspirational or like giving a pep talk because that's really what it feels like I'm doing. I wish I could say all of these things to myself when I was first starting out w/all this creative stuff so it's just ... it's a very very high compliment to hear it's motivational :D
Funny I see this video yesterday I had the TV on while I was working on something and The View was on and actress Gina Davis was the guest and she said she was diagnosed with ADHD when she was in her 30s or 40s I believe, So you're in good company and it doesn't change a fact that you're awesome!
huh interesting! I've def read a lot/seen a lot of videos of lots of people in my age bracket getting a late diagnosis
Thank you for making this video and all your videos about ADHD. I to have ADHD with anxiety and depression. I have been trying to restart my UA-cam channel with my 3d printing and cosplay but it's been at least 6 months and I still haven't filmed a dang thing.
I feel ya ... I've been experimenting with putting out less videos to give myself a bit of a break mentally and still struggling with feeling like I'm not doing enough or the content I DO put out is somehow less than? Sending you good vibes that you can start filming again but know I def know where you're coming from with that!
Well done. Its so interesting that so many people have this same issue and dont know and have had to go through education with no diagnosis.
Right??? I remember telling a friend about all of my symptoms just thinking that everyone went through life this way
This post spoke a lot to me. I am actually starting to wander if you are somehow related to me.. I was diagnosed at age 10 but I did not have my ADHD treated until I was roughly 35 or so. Getting treated was truly life changing for me. I had really convinced myself that I was just was not a smart person and couldn't achieve much. I have just about all of the symptoms you mentioned, and my ADHD is pretty extreme. 10 Years ago in NY, a doctor offered to get me on disability if I wanted to pursue it, and I am very glad I didn't. That was actually on the second meeting I had with him.
With that also comes the anxiety and depression. Us folks with ADHD typically fail often on a social level and over the years those failures add up. Hopefully you will continue to see it get better as you work on it. One doctor told me that one tool is to realize that we are not in control of our brain going in several different directions at once. Our brains are not going to do that if you have ADHD. But if you work on it, then in time you can simply make sure that the different directions your brain goes in are all related to whatever it is your doing.
Thank you so much for sharing ... I def have felt a lot of similar things including that I was just not smart enough or tried hard enough, so having the diagnosis and especially the meds/therapy has helped me by leaps and bounds already. I'm interested to see how this goes knowing what I know now!
Thank you for this video, it helped.
glad to help :)
I feel you! This is basically my life, aside from the stress and anxiety. Once you figure it out tho I'm convinced ADHD is basically a super power as it's easy to ignore the shit that doesn't matter and hyperfocus on your interests. I could talk for hours about this but anyways I love your content! Keep up the awesome work!
Thank you! Yeah, right now I'm not at the point that I see it as a positive because I am SO burnt out from years of just being GO GO GO but as I learn about it things get better. Right now it's just great to know I'm not alone with how I feel and experience life!
im 38 and in the same boat
it is TOUGH but it does get better!
No plan survives first contact.....yuck! You said kanban!! I hate Scrum/Agile🤪
HAHA I'm sorry, I hate agile as well ... only thing I like about it is it introduced me to those boards (for personal use, not at work ahahah these damn jira emails won't leave me alone)
@@vaultfox uuugh Jira!!! I want to go back to turning wrenches, this IT stuff is for the birds....pays much better but i did have way more fun on the flight line🤪 Thank you for sharing your story! I deal with very similar stuff in my day, I see it in my wife as well as my oldest child...patience for me is a rough skill to learn....and I need alot of it...
Thank you for this video, I’m trying to understand myself, you’re amazing
thank you :) glad it helped, on the same journey myself
@@vaultfox thank you for responding, I’m new to your channel, but I’m a big fan, thank you for everything you do!
Paused the video 13:30 to look up a video on an ADHD test... Maybe that's a symptom... (I hit 8/10 or 7 or 9--I may have stopped processing and lost count at the end of the video.)
Also, I have no clue how to study, And apparently I'm just chaining comments.
All my grades at IUP were As or Fs, no in-betweens. Depended on how the class was graded.
The inability to stop doing something to take care of myself is so real! Being thirsty or having to pee and literally not being able to get up and fix that!
Yeah, that sounds like me
I'd get tested
the "having to pee and literally not being able to get up" symptom was and still is one of the worst things I deal with ... if you wanna talk about it offline I'm totally down!!
Fuck... this vid is longer than I can focus for rn... hopefully I'll remember to come back when I can.
This is my ADHD...
Nm... 30 min later, I'm 10 min in (lots of rewind 10 sec)...
This is also my ADHD...
LOL 100% understand, I honestly struggle with the contradiction between having ADHD and being able to talk for HOURS about something and then yet, can't focus on long videos either
Just found your channel recently and this video had great timing too. I just recently had my therapist suggest I talk to my doctor about getting diagnosed and he put me on medication. I think I am still on too low of a dose as I haven't noticed any effect yet but he is slowly increasing it. Its only been a week or so.
So many of the things he said about ADHD and my therapist said made so much sense in the context of my life after they said them. I have a real hard time just starting to do many things. Hopefully I can get to the right dose of medication to make a difference. A lot of the symptoms you talk about are so similar to my experience. There are so many things I want to do and tell myself I will do for weeks on end that I can't make myself do.
So thanks for posting about this, really hits home with my current struggles.
You’re welcome, and thanks for sharing your experience. I used to think I was “good” at doing stuff until I took a good hard look and realized just how hard and how much I had to talk myself up to start stuff, and even then it didn’t happen most of the time!
And yeah, the med side is a whoooole other thing. Hopefully you can find a dose/the right stuff that works for you!
@@vaultfox I know the feeling.
I shared your video with my wife too even though she's not really into printing and cosplay because the headline of it was too fitting lol. I'm 34 as well and she's supporting me through working this out.
I've been diagnosed since like 8 or 9 years old, have to say my medication really takes away my creativity and just makes me feel worse, but what's a little suffering for improved concentration and keeping teachers happy😀
oof that sucks to hear ... so far I've been alright on mine but I've also had NO time to really craft/create stuff (outside of videos) with our basement reno so we'll see how things go long term. and I know lol, now I look back at school and realize WHY I was such a menace for these teachers but also like ... wow, if teachers were taught anything about neurodivergency??? even when I was in college it was NEVER discussed.
I hope it got better for you... they now know NOT to over persribe the doeses and the ones that been on it since they are kids are afraid to test out a day off without to see how they function.
I know a lot more adult diagnosis patients like to mix up the days when they want to be more creative just skip that day because these are rapid drugs that only work while in there systom. Much like hormone therapy I'm on for Type-1 diabetes.
I've been diagnosed with adhd since I was 10, and know what you're going through. I can totally relate with the caffeine ☕ it just makes me sleepy most of the time. I love your cosplays. I think Ive watched your uv resin smoothing video 30 times already thanks to my adhd
thank you!!! yeah, the caffeine thing I've noticed since college when I started drinking the stuff, always made me so sleepy (made for some epic naps though!)
@@vaultfox it’ll give 8 hours naps at times
Diagnosed last year at 39 with ADHD and anxiety. My daughter has ADHD as well. Learning about it and how to manage it better has helped us so much. Understanding myself and giving allowances for ADHD symptoms has helped the last year as we learn and grow together.
Agreed! The best thing I did for myself (other than the actual dx process lol) was educating myself on how our brains are just different and to cut myself slack. Not completely give up on stuff but to stop badgering myself for starting so many things without finishing.
hmm....after listen to those sign and symptoms you have , i think i got ADHD maybe ?... but im not sure , hard to speak out or explain to people , want to get check up but i have no idea why i kinda feel scare to get check up... but anyway , thanks for sharing
I 100% feel ya on feeling scared over it all ... it's a lot to take in. My advice (which is of course not medical advice or what have you) would be to watch some of How to ADHD's videos and try out some of their coping strategies to see if they help out at all. I used a bunch of the for a while as I was figuring out if what I was experiencing was ADHD or not and they helped me understand how to work with my brain in a smarter way, plus the added benefit was that most of them were totally free to do.
@@vaultfox thanks for your advice , will check more video about adhd to get more understanding :)
Put it another way... if you had to Brute Force basically everything in you life to stay on task outside when your hyper focusing... welcome to the club!
About 10 years ago a lot of people where self diagnosing with High Funtioning Anxiety, because that's the way it sure feels like most o the time. lol
Also hyper focus RAGE is real... I get so livid with people that break my hard won concentration at times but do a decent job of internalizing that anger. Also Alway angry at myself for not getting a task done because we are ALWAYS under estimating how long a NEW task takes... Cosplayer life. lol
I have dylextica (heavy in the your IQ score are soo low in this area... how are you funtioning/not killing yourself, level of concern for my mental health back then) so my life has ALWAYS been brute forcing my concentration through school, Because if I didn't absorb it in class I sure as hell wasn't going to absorb it trough reading text books on my own later. lol
You always have had it though. It doesn’t effect anything new other than it is on paper now. I was diagnosed in the military and it was like “Duh”. I challenged myself though. I got off the meds and completed college with honors in three years for a bachelors degree. It only effects you if you let it. You always had it, you didn’t catch it.
It has had a huge effect on me to get that diagnosis though, even if I've always had it. To finally learn why I cycle through things as much as I do and grow bored of stuff so quickly has been eye opening. I'm not at the point of looking at it as a positive yet but it has helped me look at things in the past in a different light.
@@vaultfox it is neither a positive or a negative, it is who you have always been. I never let my condition be an excuse for why things happen to me. You need to just keep moving forward. We still have our squirrel moments. I learned to recognize it when it happens and how to correct course. You have always known there was an issue and now it has just had a name applied. It changes nothing. You do great work and you will continue as long as you find joy in it.
@@vaultfox if you want to manage it properly here is some advice from experience. When you get bored with something it is just temporary. I do it all the time. To combat this I have several unrelated hobbies. I do droid builds, gardening, gold prospecting, programming, and a few other different things. When I start to grow bored with one I switch to the other. It is great because I can always maintain my focus on something I enjoy.
@@vaultfox the funny part is when I was diagnosed, I immediately called my mother and the response I got was “duh”
@Gana Anas there is no cure, this isn’t a virus or disease, it is a condition of how his brain works. He is managing it but it is not something you can cure.
Yup I have it as well. 🫡