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Having ADHD In College

How ADHD ADDs to my college experience

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Having ADHD In College

If you're reading this and you're anything like me, you know the fun of living life with ADHD, also known as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity disorder. And know that it can suck sometimes. But you'd never give it up because it makes you who you are and who your friends know you as.

But especially in college, it can become much more prevalent in your life. Here are some ways it ADDs to your college life:

1. You have to spend twice as long reading your textbook. And even then, you read every sentence at least twice.

2. You always have something to say during movie night.

3. Taking your meds is a daily struggle with classes at different times.

4. You are late to class because you see a friend, a squirrel, or (for me) a place to get ice cream.

5. Your moods change all the time and your friends just go along with it. Oh, you want to cuddle in the middle of the afternoon? Ok....

6. You send thousands of texts at once, but then forget to reply later.

7. You overthink everything.

8. When you crush, you crush HARD. That person is the only one you can think about because when your mind gets stuck on something, it's stuck there like gum on the bottom of your shoe.

9. Your desk is covered in sticky notes and to-do lists. To-do lists are how you get everything done, and if you don't check it off, it wasn't finished.

10. You can't take notes and listen to a lecture all at the same time.

11. And lectures are just hard to sit in no matter what...(that's why I'm writing this during a lecture, shhhh)

12. You clean when you're stressed...but find yourself cleaning so many things at once, you never actually finished cleaning the first thing.

13. You're roommate is always reminding you to bring your key.

14. Coffee is actually your enemy. It makes you tired and undoes everything your meds are trying to do.

15. And you are the definition of a power procrasinator. When 10am hits and your paper is due at 12pm, your attention is all on that paper!

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