Re: General discussion chat Now you have got me worried Except i feel super awkward any time anyone gets even somewhat close to me. I am totally fine with public environments if i am by myself but i often get stressed and edgey if friends are around. I could be wrong but i thought everyone had the mindset of being really productive when they get home, up until the point where they get home and suddenly its 23:50 at night (or often in my case i will sit doing (literally) nothing for hours because i really don't want to do the work but wont let myself do anything interesting because i wont do the work)
Re: General discussion chat A lot of the stuff he said can happen to anyone, but is worsened a little if ADHD. And the second half of your post is exactly what I do every night. Every single thing. It's exactly what I do.
Re: General discussion chat Yeah. I hate it so much. I'll sit there for hours doing literally nothing, and I won't do anything interest because I won't do my work. Then I'll finally start my work at 1am, and I'll be dead the next day.
Re: General discussion chat Especially when its A-Level coursework or one of your uni assignments - - - Updated - - - oh, except that part, I'll start my work at 23:45 when the deadline is 23:59
Re: General discussion chat Wake up in the morning annnnd repeat ... It doesn't exactly make you feel great either
Re: General discussion chat I did that exact same thing just the other day. Started my assignment at 11:30 and submitted it at 11:59, one minute before the deadline. I sleep through the majority of 3 out of my 4 periods. If I'm lucky just 2. Makes me miss out on stuff in class, it all just snowballs. Once I completely slept through the assigning of a project, and had no idea we even had a project until the day it was due. I need to fix my life.
Re: General discussion chat Yeah, computing coursework is not to fun on the night before it is due in. This Thursday night/ Friday morning i will be writing out every single algorithm for a room booking system that will try to optimally fit as many people into appropriate rooms as possible based on the resources in that room and the amount of times they have had access to facilities in the past. The GUI has 17 pages, all fully made in photoshop (which were all done in a single night too). Thursday is going to be a long night... - - - Updated - - - I wouldn't be able to get away with that. If you fall asleep in a lesson here it will go straight to the head of sixth form and your form tutor who will likely pass the message onto parents (it happened to some other dude). My deadlines are always due in by a specified lesson and are marked within the hour after the lesson usually. There are only 5 second year computing students in my school which is why marking doesn't take long, there are also only 2 music tech students. Maths is my only lesson with lots of people (~15). There is only one second year music student this year as well.
Re: General discussion chat I handed in about 150 pages for my computing coursework in the end, all written within a week of deadline. Really pushed my words per minute to the absolute limit. Or rather, as I was having to think of what to write and write it, I wrote absolute crap and spent about 2 hours on submission day correcting a million typos which I simply ignored. For the record, according to most of those web tests, 78 words per minute is what I can achieve when given a sample text to copy, almost typo free aswell, but when thinking + writing, not even nearly 78.
Re: General discussion chat My school imposes small deadlines throughout the year, usually every two weeks. This makes it more manageable, especially for me since i am totally incapable of time management. It makes last minute work considerably smaller than it would be otherwise.
Re: General discussion chat Oh I didn't have that. About sleep. Yeah. Totally did not place a ton of sticky notes on a mate while he slept through a lecture. Not slept in one myself yet.
Re: General discussion chat Teachers here don't seem to care. Just kinda like if I fall asleep, that's on me, and its up to me to find a way to figure what we did that day and the homework. I usually don't sleep through the class, I try as hard as I can to not go to sleep. I'll just be out for 5 minutes, then awake for 10 or so, then out for 5, and so on. Not fun at all. And all of my classes have >25 people in them, the only exception being Business Principals, my last class, with about 15 or so.
Re: General discussion chat I sleep in my classes all the time. I just have to be careful with certain teachers.
Re: General discussion chat In a class of 2 the teacher would probably notice fairly quickly. Music tech is usually pretty fun though. Last week we were sent with a metal tube and hand held recorder and told to hit metal things to try and get some samples. We got some odd looks, i was stood with a handheld recorder with my hood up and headphones in and the other person in my class was wielding a somewhat lethal looking bar, i was trying to record a lorry at one point, the driver looked like he shat himself
Re: General discussion chat These girls that sit behind me in one of my classes (huge bitches) think it's the funniest shit ever if I, rather ungracefully, wake up by my head sliding off of my hand and me jerking it back up. I've gotten a lot better at sleeping in class though, hardly ever happens anymore. And it seems wildly unpredictable whether I'll be tired the next day or not. One day last week I got to bed relatively early (11:30) and I had one of the worst days of the school year as far as staying awake in class goes, but a few days later I went to sleep at almost 2am and wasn't tired at all the next day. Quite irritating.
Re: General discussion chat I tend to find that if i try and get an early night i wake up more tired the next day. Im not quite sure why but there is probably a logical reason. But i often crash pretty hard as soon as i get home and cant really do anything but watch YouTube, then i am mostly recovered by around 18:30ish and don't get tired until late, around 23:00 ish, at which point i watch RockLeeSmile play i wanna celebrate 100 as a finishing the day thing or continue to put off work. If i dont have much work to do i will likely watch YouTube the whole night and do the work "tomorrow"
Re: General discussion chat That's just procrastination. With ADHD, and I am just gonna copy-pasta, because I can't really put it into words myself in the way this did:
Re: General discussion chat I have no idea what medicine I take (well, that I should probably take, have to talk to doctors about getting back on it) for my ADD but that post you copied pasted sounds exactly like what i end up doing (also im now stuck imagining that person talking about the doorknob, lol) Sent from the 3rd galaxy via the talks of tapping
Re: General discussion chat We werent saying it was ADHD If anything what we said proves that certain stuff in there can happen to anyone, and if it happens, it doesn't necessarily mean you have ADHD. I've also noticed (not directing it towards you) it's a popular trend now for people to claim to have add, adhd, or (probably the most popular self diagnosed) ocd. That really irritates me. If you haven't been diagnosed by a doctor, don't say you have it. :|
Re: General discussion chat Yeah, im certainly not much like that. Things will enter my head that stop me from being able to concentrate, similar to that whiteboard thing but its only like once every day or two as opposed to as opposed to everything, which is probably fairly normal. I have a routine on mornings and i do get distracted and forget things, but once again that seems normal. I try and stay away from reddit for that exact reason, its like crack to most people. I would never be able to leave it alone, these forums are practically that for me once im in a thread i am there to read every post and take it all in. As far as i can tell ADHD is fairly common issues but amplified by a quintillion times making life a lot more difficult. Which would explain why there is an issue of people self diagnosing it. I certainly don't claim to have it. As i am very sure i dont
