Well, you could pause until you know that you are ready to pay attention.
Which means forgetting that you had it paused and maybe noticing 3 hours later.
It stuns me that I was so unaware I had ADHD for so long when shit like that is so relatable.
Get ready to unpause, but it has disconnected you due to inactivity. You shrug and go back to phone
until you know that you are ready to pay attention.
But that requires me to pay attention to my level of attention.
I often put YouTube videos on 2x. Takes all the attention without getting boring and it also saves time.
The other day while practicing piano I played white noise on my headphones so that I could barely hear the piano. It took all my attention to hear myself and I didn't forget what I was playing halfway through the piece.
It doesn't help that in some of these youtube videos, especially the tutorial/teaching kind, people seem to like to speak as slowly as humanly possible.
This
subcommunity again! Looks like I need to get diagnosedI have been feeling like that for 6 months now, any day now
I've been giving Netflix bad data for years
Doesn’t even have to be on the phone. Just watching something, and then just a slightest thought pups up, and I’m gone. 5min later fuck! I missed it again. Sometimes it takes me 2 hours to watch a 30 min show.
I strongly relate to this
There's that expression about people having their head on the clouds, but I just get lost in my own head. I can spend an entire 5 hour flight with nothing but my own thoughts.
I can't watch TV shows when my brain is on to something.
Put your phone away from your reach when watching a show.
This is why I have to put my phone far away from me during shows and movies lol
If I'm not doing something with my hands then I won't be able to tell you what happened in the movie. Even if I was staring unmoving and quiet at the screen the whole time.
Fidget toys. Legitimately, toys for fidgeting children. There are all kinds of designs available. That's how I manage mine. My significant other (who also has ADHD) does the phone thing but none of the problem mitigation and it drives me nuts!
@BottleOfAlkahest @Daxtron2 @adhd
I'm the exact same way! And NOT A SINGLE neurotypical person understands🤦♂️😩
Yeah I get that, I just know if I do it with my phone that I'll end up missing stuff lol. I like to do Rubik's cubes
It gets worse when there was a long lead-up to it and you pretty much have to restart the video from the beginning.
Relatable af
1 screen it, or try to be ok missing things.
I rewind to far back. Skip to far forward and spoil the scene.
You can ask your family what happened only to find out they weren't watching either.
Totally me!
Stop tweeting stuff from my life!
Im literally reading this while watching trailer park boys. Time to rewind lol. That’s the way she goes.
Turn off your phone.
I will be watching a show, flick through the channels during the commercial break and forget what I was watching.
At least with streaming I can just put on my comfort shows (basically anything that comes on adult swim) and just rewatch them over and over. That way there's still background noise and because I've seen the same episodes a hundred times it doesn't matter if I lose track because I've already seen it a hundred times.
Put your phone down. There is literally nothing on it that's interesting or important. You just think you need it. Before 2007, what did you do with your hands?
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I agree that OP (and possibly Stamets) are being distracted from boring content.
That said, I probably spent more time on the internet in 2007. It was slower, and there were way more interesting websites, blogs, forums, and journals to browse through.
The whole Internet doesnt have anything interesting or important? My dude, you might be doing it wrong.
I blame the skip duration. Yt default is 5s, when playing at 2.5x speed (set via an extension) that becomes effectively 2s. It's perfect. If I need more I just press it again.
I have jellyfin set up and (at least on the webbrowser) the default is 30s. Seriously? Why would anyone need 30s skipping? I had the same issue as you before - but only on jellyfin, with YouTube I almost always hit the exact moment I need.
On YouTube desktop site you can use JKL for -10 pause/play +10 or left space right for -5 pause/play +5 respectively. As well as frame by frame with < > keys while paused.
Passive media consumption is dead. It doesn't matter to me if it's the most interesting movie or series - I'd rather be doomscrolling or upvoting shitposts.
I thought this about myself and then I watch some old shit like Seven Samurai and I am sitting up straight eyes wide taking it all in.
But yeah, there's no law against just not liking any of it.
iPad parenting is coming home to roost.
I wasn't raised by an iPad I grew up playing outside, I still have this issue. It's the adhd in our case, hence why it's posted in the adhd community.
ADHD is not caused by screen time. And it doesn't need to be a second screen, I've done this with crochet projects.
