That used to drive me absolutely insane when I was young. And it was almost always swishy pants. Who'd have thought all that time that it was just someone else's ADHD rubbing mine the wrong way.
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Same, I'm way more understanding about it now. I might still need to uxcuse myself or wear headphones but I now completely understand it's not really optional for them.
Same with echolalia. It now understand the person is likely doing this to process information. Even though it fucks with my ability to process what they are saying, I just take a bit more time and we're okay.
I can feel the sound of those pants in my fingernails.
I'd be watching TV after dinner with my Dad and he thought it was funny because he could tell when I'd doze off. My foot would stop bouncing. He'd wait until it started up again to talk to me :) I miss him.
That's really sweet and thoughtful. Thank you for sharing, it made me smile c:
I wonder if ADHD folks get restless leg syndrome. If I don't move my legs feel like they're on fire and my brain is screaming the whole time. It's like there's a feedback loop that my brain reroutes to motor control so the buzz doesn't use cognitive processing power.
AFAIK restless leg syndrome is absolutely a co-morbidity for ADHD. Especially adult ADHD. I have both.
Me too. Pramipexole helps while falling asleep but ever since i started vyvanse i find myself needing pramipexole less and less.
Its funny how ive had the best nights of sleep in my life while on amphetamines lol, i sleep like a baby now
I really want to try vyvanse 😔
And yeah my only ADHD superpower is napping on amphetamines 👌
I don't know if it's restless leg syndrome, but my leg just bounces on its own like it has a screensaver default. Sucks most when there are people demanding I stop because they don't realize I have to actively concentrate to not do it.
Sadly, we do. I once told someone that when I couldn't sleep, I got up and exercised my legs. They immediately went, "But exercise is the opposite of what you should do when you want to sleep!" Yeah, well, all the "traditional" advice for insomnia has done jack squat for me so far, and if it works, it works.
My restless legs just wouldn't let me sleep until I gave up and went, "You want to move? Fine, I'll make you move til you regret it." A relentless half hour on an exercise bike later, and I was finally able to fall asleep. Take that, "sleep hygiene."
My partner is Audhd and has a cup of coffee before they go to bed.
Coffee makes me sleepy and I'm a leg shaker. This vexes me.
Exercise promotes better more restful sleep. You have the right of it by getting out of bed and burning off that energy.
Shaking leg is directly linked to adhd.
Be still as if you are not a living thing. Do not do little exercises. Do not stretch. Do not exercise. That's what the gym is for. Do not get any use out of your time. Everything must be only one thing. This is very healthy and not at all the core drive of fascism.
It either bounces on the outside or it bounces on the inside, and I got stuff goin' on inside
I had my adhd evaluation last week and had to have it over the phone as the doctor had a family emergency and needed to be home.
One of the questions was "more often or less often, how often to you bounce your leg, fidget with something, or other forms of outward stimulation."
I simply replied with "my leg hasn't stopped bouncing during this entire phone call"
Are you my brain talking to me?
Yes. Feed me chicken nuggets.
MORE???
MOAR
Anything I did to stem was quickly squashed by my mother. She couldn't stand that I would tell my kids it was okay to go ahead and shake their leg if they needed to.
Strange your kids even know your mother at this point.
She is dead. I didn't go to the funeral. My kids hadn't seen her in years. Toxic to the her last day.
Stop calling them 'neurotypicals' start calling them 'oblivion cultists' or 'friends of entropy'.
Attention Surplus Hypoactivity Stasis
If you take out "hypoactivity," the acronym becomes ASS.
If the screaming isn't rhythmic/repetitive and I can't feel it coming through my seat, I might actually prefer it. A constant noise is easier to drown out for me 😭
My younger brother used to cross his leg over his lap while sitting at the kitchen table, and bounce his foot repeatedly. I sat next to him, and I used to tell him to stop "wagging his foot at me."
Stims are great, I'm a stimmer myself and I get it. But bro, I'm trying to eat my dinner here. Point your shaking bare foot elsewhere.
Just to be clear, it will be targeted rage screams, not boredom screams.
I stopped bouncing my leg and started swinging, i stopped swinging and started doodling, i stopped doodling and started fidgeting with a pen. I stopped because I found those things annoying myself lol
Most resonant post of the morning.
When my math teacher in third grade called a meeting with me and my parents to scold me for drawing in my math book instead of filling in the answers to the math problems and I continued to draw my little animals, anyways.