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My exhaustion with messages is that I really can only respond to them when I carve out time to Sit Down and Think, lest I open the notification and loose it (and the person) forever, so that's exhausting and means they build up, but also it takes me days to respond and then my chad friends just effortlessly respond immediately so I then get so so so so overwhelmed with everyone responding at once

Solution I just found: stay up really late after everyone's bedtime, turn on do not disturb so I don't notice their responses right away, and then go through and respond to everyone

.... I'm totally not autistic


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in reply to @numberonebug's post:

This feels specifically like autism clashing w/ ADHD because like, my (primarily autistic) experience of text messaging has been "I need to delay things 'til I can sit down, but knowing a message is Waiting For An Answer is its own source of stress/reminding." Like, I absolutely have times where if I clear a notification I forget to ever go back & reply, but it's not my norm.

Yeah no that's exactly it! I don't know if I've really ever forgotten outside of like life getting busy, but I always worry about forgetting lol. But yeah I have no idea how people like quickly send messages while going about their day like it takes so much energy to weigh options and make a decision and then figure out how to write it all out, ugh

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