The ADHD urge to buy a thing, watch all the videos about the thing, religiously track shipping until the thing arrives, excitedly open the shipping box to get to the thing, and then place the thing somewhere random and forget about it for 3-60 months.
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The ADHD urge to buy a thing, watch all the videos about the thing, religiously track shipping until the thing arrives, excitedly open the shipping box to get to the thing, and then place the thing somewhere random and forget about it for 3-60 months.
@adhdjesse this post is about me
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The ADHD urge to buy a thing, watch all the videos about the thing, religiously track shipping until the thing arrives, excitedly open the shipping box to get to the thing, and then place the thing somewhere random and forget about it for 3-60 months.
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The ADHD urge to buy a thing, watch all the videos about the thing, religiously track shipping until the thing arrives, excitedly open the shipping box to get to the thing, and then place the thing somewhere random and forget about it for 3-60 months.
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The ADHD urge to buy a thing, watch all the videos about the thing, religiously track shipping until the thing arrives, excitedly open the shipping box to get to the thing, and then place the thing somewhere random and forget about it for 3-60 months.
@adhdjesse how do you know?
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The ADHD urge to buy a thing, watch all the videos about the thing, religiously track shipping until the thing arrives, excitedly open the shipping box to get to the thing, and then place the thing somewhere random and forget about it for 3-60 months.
@adhdjesse Thanks for reminding me of the gaming PC I built that’s now living in its box in the basement.
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The ADHD urge to buy a thing, watch all the videos about the thing, religiously track shipping until the thing arrives, excitedly open the shipping box to get to the thing, and then place the thing somewhere random and forget about it for 3-60 months.
@adhdjesse Ain't that living!
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The ADHD urge to buy a thing, watch all the videos about the thing, religiously track shipping until the thing arrives, excitedly open the shipping box to get to the thing, and then place the thing somewhere random and forget about it for 3-60 months.
@adhdjesse
And also tracking a new version of the thing that supersed the thing you never used and feel some guilt and FOMO about buying it in the first place and missing out new features -
@adhdjesse Thanks for reminding me of the gaming PC I built that’s now living in its box in the basement.
@mroach
And that fully kitted Jammix FPGA gaming rig
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The ADHD urge to buy a thing, watch all the videos about the thing, religiously track shipping until the thing arrives, excitedly open the shipping box to get to the thing, and then place the thing somewhere random and forget about it for 3-60 months.
@adhdjesse And then you move and rediscover all of those boxes and start the cycle anew (hopefully minus the purchasing part)
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The ADHD urge to buy a thing, watch all the videos about the thing, religiously track shipping until the thing arrives, excitedly open the shipping box to get to the thing, and then place the thing somewhere random and forget about it for 3-60 months.
@adhdjesse are we talking about the empty NAS enclosure that's sitting in the other room? 🥲
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The ADHD urge to buy a thing, watch all the videos about the thing, religiously track shipping until the thing arrives, excitedly open the shipping box to get to the thing, and then place the thing somewhere random and forget about it for 3-60 months.
@adhdjesse I do not enjoy being perceived so directly.
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The ADHD urge to buy a thing, watch all the videos about the thing, religiously track shipping until the thing arrives, excitedly open the shipping box to get to the thing, and then place the thing somewhere random and forget about it for 3-60 months.
@adhdjesse Curious. Last year I’ve been diagnosed with mild version of #ADHD and this description is as far from me as possible. I do overfocus on [new thing], buuuut then it takes immense amounts to jump on actually spending money and hoarding things. So usually I rather not start at all.
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@adhdjesse Curious. Last year I’ve been diagnosed with mild version of #ADHD and this description is as far from me as possible. I do overfocus on [new thing], buuuut then it takes immense amounts to jump on actually spending money and hoarding things. So usually I rather not start at all.
@MichalBryxi @adhdjesse This is my main struggle as well. I think that fits in the executive function challenge of “Task Inititation”. The gap from “thinking about doing thing" to "doing the thing" is a grand canyon to me.
Task Initiation (Executive Function Skills Explained)
Task initiation is not about laziness—it's a complex executive function that connects motivation, emotional regulation, and action.
The Executive Function Toolkit (executivefunctiontoolkit.com)
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