Neurodivergent on Yik Yak | Anyone else stuck in a state of unproductivity because your ADHD brain can’t work without people around, but your anxiety brain can’t work with people around? What is this hell?

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Neurodivergent 5w

Anyone else stuck in a state of unproductivity because your ADHD brain can’t work without people around, but your anxiety brain can’t work with people around? What is this hell?

Anonymous 5w

kinda- i hate when my roommates are like oh let’s all do our hw in the living room. i don’t want to have my computer and ipad and whatever else on my lap. i don’t want to feel perceived and have my brain distracted by the possibility of being watched instead of the hw i need to do. but then i feel like the person everyone is like “she hates us” and then i end up sitting there doing nothing. also i like my music and headphones so when they try to chat im like hey if we’re going to work then let’s

Anonymous

#1 5w

work and if we are going to chat then let’s chat. it overwhelms me and i just want to go in my room.

Anonymous

#1 5w

un-hw related and more related to what you asked: i always want someone to go with me to do something but when im with them i lose all skills and need them to do it for me so really i need to go alone bc it would be more effective but… endless cycle sometimes

Anonymous

#1 5w

I relate to this a lot. I remember I was working on an econ assignment with someone and I just kept struggling with it. I felt awful slowing him down, but the worst part was you got to see if you were right immediately, so he was often the one taking hits to his grade and not me. I suggested we do the questions first and take turns submitting at the end, but that only slowed us down further. Eventually we just stopped working together, but I don’t blame him. The whole situation just sucked

Anonymous

#1 5w

The perception thing is so real too. I’m part of a project team and we’re graded on our performance each week, and a big part of it is related to socializing. Usually my brain felt like it was on fire trying to socialize but it was so hard to communicate that, mainly because my brain was on fire lmao. But seriously between that and my attention problems sometimes I’d get overwhelmed and just want to listen to some music for a bit. And then I’d feel guilty for doing so, or get a poor grade

Anonymous

OP 5w

ooh in person time pressures like that suck the most! i could be super capable and smart and be able to do the problem easily and then you put me in a situation like that and i lose the ability to read. my thoughts become panic and no longer academic (“ok figure this out! omg i don’t know what it is. they probably think im stupid. figure it out! hurry!”)

Anonymous

OP 5w

felt- i can do the work but don’t make me talk a bunch bc my brain has already gone through 14 things I could have said and i didn’t (and it cycles..)

Anonymous

#1 5w

This is why I can’t answer questions in class. I took a business strategy course which I LOVED and although I could usually get to the answer faster than other people in my head, explaining it out loud was impossible. My heart would start racing even at the thought of raising my hand and eventually I just gave up

Anonymous

OP 5w

same- i stopped being able to answer questions in class for college (used to be the first one with the hand raised in elementary, middle, and high school). also even if im 100% right, im paranoid im wrong and then that would be super embarrassing (i most likely have social anxiety if you couldn’t tell)

Anonymous

#1 5w

Man I hardly raised my hand even before college. Looking back I think I was (maybe still am) selectively mute

Anonymous

#1 5w

Sometimes though my brain allows me to answer a question with so much confidence and it is often the stupidest and most obviously wrong answer ever. Thanks brain!!