Like autistic people get to be autistic. That’s a word, and it has meaning. Someone can be autistic because it’s a type of person (spectrumy type). In my opinion, ADHD sucks as an identifying term. It’s 3 letters, one repeated. It means nothing as it is spelled and can’t be owned as an identity because they’re letters, not a word. “I’m adhudd.” The initials include “disorder” in it. That sucks. Autistic people don’t go around saying, “Hi, I’m austically disordered,” cause that’s not accepting. Is there a term that is smooth and not judgmental for ADHD? Maybe we can take Aspergers since it got dropped, but add the ‘d’ to get “Adspergers”. Nah, that’s stupid af. What about multibrained? I feel multibrained because I act like I’ve got multiple brains running in my head doing their own thing all at the same time, and I bounce around them based on who knows what.
What? Oh, yes…I’ll have the spaghetti bolog-knees. Do you guys have red pepper…crushed red pepper? Yeah, thanks. Cool. I like your name tag. Is that really your name? Samsquatch?..oh! It’s Samuel, but you changed it to Samsquatch! I love Trailer Park Boys. Fuck off, Leahy! Yeah. Sorry. I got excited.
Okay. So…um, is there a descriptive word for ADHD that isn’t ADHD?
Maybe spaz.
Nah, that’s kinda derogatory in the UK (apparently).
Spaz is short for spastic. There are a variety of disabilities that have spastic symptoms, such as Spastic Diplegia, a form of Cerebral Palsy.
It gained popularity as an insult in the 60s.
Spez on the other hand…
gained popularity as an insult in the 2010s
I always used to describe myslef as a bit spastic. Wasn’t until maybe the mid 2010s I found out people used it as an insult. I think that’s retarded so I still call myself that.
Edit:for the autistic and easily offended, this was a joke. In poor taste maybe, but a joke. And I’m still a spastic nerfbag.
At-def
It’s not exactly what you’re looking for but I have described having ADHD as like having a TO-DO list except any time something new is added to the list you have to roll a dice and decide which thing on the list you’re going to do right now. On the rare occasion nothing else comes up before you finish one task you’ll be golden. But if anything should pop into your mind it throws the entire things back into the random TO-DO list which you will then reroll.
This is the perfect visual example of what living with ADHD is like: https://youtu.be/AbSehcT19u0?si=EwsCg-xZVZOpbbLN
Hello, I’m unfiltered.
I’m like 95-100% filtered at first to avoid upsetting anyone. Very rarely, I’ll make it to 0% unfiltered with only the most accepting and trustworthy people.
I’ve used “spicy brained” and people seem to get it.
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There is the term neurodiverse, which is an easy catch all for neurologically abnormal, but not broken.
Neurospicy is a play on this, spicy vs bland. People have strong opinions on spicy, very few have strong opinions on bland food.
I generally refer to myself as ASD (also has disorder in it) to describe my autistic traits and ADD for my ADHD. Sometimes I use Neuro divergent or ND if I’m feeling lazy.
Derptistic
It is broader encompassing, but you can just say Neuro divergent
That doesn’t fit well, because a person with adhd doesn’t want to be assumed has autism. It would be an unnecessary hurdle for the interpreter to get past lol
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Degenerate
Retarded (I call myself that sometimes)
I’m so quirky!
“Addy-haddy”
I usually describe myself as “a bit much.”
I’m fine in small doses…
Just don’t get me started.
This is the disclaimer
I started there, but I eventually got to the heart of it now and just say I’m an asshole.
To that I say “if you think I’m too much, go find less.”
Dopaminded
I like to call it the “ta da!” because the Spanish acronym is TDAH. Who doesn’t like being able to say “ta da!”?
I gona have to implement that, it is kinda hard for me to say TDAH in a fluent way.
remember back in the early days of windows… like 3.1 era… when windows started, it did that. like “see? i actually booted up!! TA-DA!!”
