ADHD Memes: 50 Funny Posts For The Neurodivergents Whose Minds Move Differently

There's an old New Yorker cartoon where a group of people are mumbling "Uh-oh" around an injured person lying on the sidewalk. That's me. My ADHD is focused, like obsessively focused, on a project. Detail work is my specialty. Research? Bring it on! But a crisis? Count me out.

Anxiety. It's one hell of a drüg.

Yuk Hair touching me

Guilty

Aaaand this is why we never stick with a planner.

I once spent an entire night learning everything I could find on the Kakapo. It's a big green bird and none of the infos I found have ever been useful.

That got me in a lot of troubles at school with teachers.

Aww, this is wonderful! I never thought of it this way 🥰

Oh, yeah??? Well, I had to make 3 different doctor appointments, plus book rides to and from all three appointments, this morning. I'm thoroughly exhausted, like actually needed a nap exhausted.

Wow, I'm not the only one. I'm learning to just listen, not talk.

Oh cripes... do that every day when exercising. Constantly miss my 'slot' so start at the next half hour.

OMG this. I've never seen it put into words. Thank you.

Yep, amusing for the first 5 minutes, then you just want to cry out of frustration. Until you find that yo-yo someone threw in the junk drawer, and oh my gosh, is that my pink shoelaces?! I thought I threw those out!! Whatever happened to the shoes they were in? What the hell was I doing again? Whatever I'm gonna go play with my yo-yo.

Forgetful, careless, insubordinate, stubborn and overly ambitious, are mine. I believe I'm the opposite of all these, and yet it comes up in all my performance reviews.

One of my oldest friends and I are like that. Someone recently asked her 'do you think you have ADHD' and she'd never considered it before.

We're everywhere, but good luck scheduling a meeting

I struggle with remembering the names of my neighbours but I remember every face and name of actors in the most obscure movies for some reasons.

This is a trick question. If you blow off your pain or give a low number you're stuck at the back of the line. By going a bit higher, chances are you'll be taken more seriously.

Yes! The negative reaction to sharing personal experiences that mirror someone else's as a way to connect has always enraged me. I'm not a selfish asshóle trying to one-up you, I'm an empathetic individual trying to connect through shared experience.

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... this doesn't happen to everyone?

How is that adhd???

Me literally screenshotting everything I relate to here before I saw this

Yes

Yes.

THIS OMG. It's so insidious. I just think I'm choosing things for me, but then half a year later I find out I'm STILL trying to reach some goal that will finally make me acceptable to peers and family.

Any other people find that this same picture has been posted twice on this list?

And people are also mad that you're struggling and when you ask for shoes they tell you that you don't need them because you've climbed without them so why would you need them now ?

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This is why I'm cleaning/organizing my house XD 43 years of crud, stuff, junk, tchotchkes I knew that I *COULD NOT* live without when I saw them online, little figurines, plushies, and other pieces of cr@pola that I honestly stopped caring about as soon as I opened the box and put the figurine on a shelf. Then the figurine gets swept into a box, where it sits forgotten for years XD There are only a few items I own that I *truly* love and care about (besides my living things like my pets and my beloved plants/trees.) One is the stuffed German Shepherd I've had since I was 5 (his name is Chace.) Another one is my dad's ashes. A third is my long-gone old gray cat's collar. I think I could probably toss out all of my other possessions and not care, in the long run. But somehow, it's still difficult to do :(

The only meal prep I'm prepared to do is the dish I've made many, many times before. I'm currently on the Wendy's chili copycat recipe. Its predictable and ingredients are easy and its easy to transport and it tastes good late at night or for breakfast

Those pre-employment personality questionnaires really get me. Like I don't know if I am good working alone or Am I good working in a team? Well someday I can do one and not the other, but it depends. Is the place noisy? Are there strong smells like perfume that others in the team wear? Answers take a while, sometimes I just guess

To my fellow ADHDers, how many notepads you have with just the first page filled and the rest fully empty ?

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"Gee, nobody in the last 20 years of my life has ever suggested that!"

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I started out reading this list for fun but looking back I may have some form of mild ADHD. It honestly explains a lot of my life

Yup. I’m not that smart I just know a bunch of random facts that I found interesting.

No censors! YESSSSSSSS IT MAKES THE MEME EVEN *BETTER*

Yes. These last few months... Yes. Starting a less demanding job in september.

I have yet to meet someone who could be considered completely neurotypical

I spent forty years masked. Do not recommend.

Is *that* what that is?? That explains a lot for me.

Both of my super smart (I know, I'm biased!) kids have ADD, boy and girl, and really struggled in school. Son went on to become a professional pilot (SO many unmedicated ADD/ADHD pilots!) Daughter refused to medicate for school for years and finally started as an adult and it helped so much! She's still got anxiety but she's finally pulling her life together. It's a tough disease to have. :(

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HELP! The B word! HELP!!!!!!! Save me!!!!!!!!

I currently have 7 stacked up, all dated for this year, with less than a month filled out. But you never know when I'll need One...

I'm "My spaces are chronically a huge mess, so I pay $$$ on a regular basis to have someone come in and make them livable again, until the next time I need them to come."

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OMG this. My ADHD daughter is incapable of sitting at the dinner table in the typical way. I expect someday she will balance on her head while eating dinner.

Yes

"How d'you solve a problem like Maria?" "OH MY GOD YOU GUYS SHUT THE F**K UP."

This!

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I constantly forget to eat. My mom cannot fathom how I don't "notice" that I'm hungry. She's asked me before, "Doesn't it hurt?" Uh... no? Does it usually hurt when you don't eat for an entire day? I mean, I feel hunger, and my stomach growls, but it doesn't hurt, and generally my ADHD brain jumps to something/the next thing so fast that I barely notice when I AM feeling hunger.. XD

How to relax my brain: keep it partially occupied by doing something fysical, then i can think, daydream clearly without overthinking or getting overwhelmed by too much, confusing emotions. To my surprise breathing exercises are fysical enough to work for me. Or keep it completely occupied by reading, puzzels, ballet dancing, writing.

god....cleaning my wardrobe in my teenage years always took at least three days..and It wasn't a very big one....

“Distance-nesia.” I always have to go back to the room where the thought of origin happened. 🤦‍♀️

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Depends on whether these are facts or skills you will need in your chosen field when you don't have immediate access to a book and need to do something quickly.

Its' not like how you are goes away just because you don't get diagnosed..! 😳🙀

YES !! How many people still think that "we all have a little bit of ADHD", or that "ADHD is an American issue only" (yep I actually heard that one this morning), or that "ADHD is just being lazy", or again that "ADHD is not a handicap"... I'm TIRED !

But I will maybe need them !

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I'm constantly covered in bruises, scratches, and cuts. My family is constantly asking where/how I got them. I rarely remember. XD I've also got all the rest of these things, if you swap out "lucid dreams" for "sleep paralysis". Never gotten fortunate enough to lucid dream :p

Not enough books or rubble.

Autopay, mah dude. Life saver.

Ugh struggling to recall commonly used words is a nightmare. I can always tell when I'm having a meltdown when I can't think of the name of anything

The "short lived interest" is what's currently preventing me from finding a potential job that I'll like. I don't have any passions, so if I start to like something and want to make it a job, how do I know that it's not something I'll lose interest in in 3 weeks ?

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For some with ADHD. For others reading becomes a stimulant and relaxes one.