“A requirement for being a KZfaqr” welp imma be a KZfaqr guys!

No way You're telling me Nux Taku, one of the most sporadic people on the internet Has ADHD Absolutely dumbfounded by the information Literally shaking and crying in my boots right now

A stands for Au-ti-sm, 'cause I got it D is for Dis-ab-led...ish H stands for "How do people finish things I can't?!?!" D stands for.....I forgot what I was singing about.

"The voices are quiet" bro, the moment that happens for the first time is like getting glasses and noticing that you can see the leaves on trees

We need a non-ADHD person to ask questions if things are normal or not. Please the normal person volunteer

My wife used to be on my case about every mental misstep and mistake. I felt like trash. Was talking to a friend that had just finished his therapist degree and he recommended I get tested for the ADHD. I’m like “doesn’t everyone every now and then throw their car keys away and keep the receipt when they get gas then wonder why they can’t get in the car and need to rummage through the garbage can?” He was like “no” … so had a psychologist administer the tests and I was off the charts. … went on Adderall and became Superman. Had so much mental focus and clarity I could accomplish anything. … wife no longer had anything to complain about. Housework chores etc immaculate and done before she even got home. Wife was still pissed at me but couldn’t articulate why. Marriage counseling and basically she just didn’t like me anymore and oh yeah there was somebody else I didn’t know about on the side. Now I’m divorced and she got all of my crap. But at least the ADHD diagnosis allowed me to find out the truth. After 3 years of Adderall my blood pressure got up really high though so I had to stop. I wish I could go on it again without side-effects.

"YOU CAN BE BOTH?" Yeah, actually my Therapist said that most cases of ADHD are the combined type So, to sum it up, you two were VERY lucky at genetic draw

My Dr. Told me the reason why I got good grades is because I adapted to the system. Basically, American schools make you memorize the test, you spit it all back out on the test, then you never need it again. I learned how to do that so my adhd wasn't as noticeable until I got to college where that no longer works. Sounds like Nux essentially did the same. Memorize what you need and then promptly move on.

She also has autism, much like all of us, -but we don't talk about that- Welcome to the club, Jaiden.

Nux's entire content model is ADHD personified with just enough limits to not get in trouble. This would be impossible without the hyperfocus the a-neurotypical rabbit hole takes you down. Much respect.

I never studied, never did homework. But aced all tests, drove my friend nuts. I was out sick an entire week where they started a new course in algebra. We had a test on my first day back. I had the highest score. The real funny thing was the teacher expressing his disappointment in the entire class he just taught all week. 😂😂😂😂😂

I have both types of ADHD and it’s so funny to see someone go through the discovery of learning they have ADHD. Medication and lifestyle changes turned me from a barely functioning person to a highly functioning one. And not blaming yourself for something you can’t fix is the biggest game changer. One of the funniest things is playing with a fidget toy while having a conversation and being able to focus and remember everything but once someone asks me to put the fidget toy away that conversation has just lost 90% of my focus

Ahh yes she did indeed find out we have adhd

And let me tell you something, peeps: the energy drain of mental preparation is even worse with depression. I was diagnosed with it at fourteen and been on numerous antidepressants over the years. When they say it’s hard to even get out of bed some days, that’s no exaggeration.

"I'm normal I promise." -Nux

lol, one of the reasons why I have never went in to get the diagnosis’s that I probs need… isn’t the fear of not knowing what’s wrong with me… but finding out that I have a laundry list of undiagnosed mental illnesses that I probably have lol

"If you can't make your own neurotransmitters from scratch, store-bought is just fine, too." Best advice I ever came across regarding medication and these sorts of disorders. Trying to say you don't want to take medication that will "change the way your brain works" because "you won't feel normal" is fundamentally flawed reasoning: if you have a neurotransmitter dysfunction, then you've *never* felt normal. You've literally never even _experienced_ what normal is *supposed* to feel like. It'd be like a person blind from birth being offered a way to see for the first time and saying, "Nope, I don't want it to be brighter than normal." It doesn't change you onto someone _different;_ it changes you *back* into the person you were supposed to have been from the start, but were never able to be.

The last time I made anything in Blender was... **checks on computer** ..over a month ago!? (The voices need to be silenced...)

"Huh, I've been recommended a lot of content about ADHD recently. I know I have ADHD, but sometimes I doubt myself... anyway, I should go make food." *Enters kitchen to find that the food I put in the toaster oven 10 minutes ago and forgot about is almost done* "Oh hey, that's convenient. Maybe having ADHD isn't so bad after all...?"

I used to be an introvert for the last 30 years, but this year, after some life changes I'm really stepping out and just being myself. Turns out when you aren't afraid to be yourself and you meet people who like that it's actually pretty great hanging out with people. But now I like socialising so much my ADHD is making it hard to do other things

Jaiden's animations have always been so playful and cute. Even more so with that undertale part. My mom recently passed away and when I think of the younger years when I would lean on her to keep my life in order dealing with both adhd and mild torettues. It hits me in the heart every time.

one of us One Of Us ONE OF US

I love how nux got gradually more concerned about how reliable the video was, until he started to not want to believe it

Everytime Jaden uploads, I say, "Wow, that was incredibly relatable.... wait"

The only reason why I'm taking medications is it affecting my job. Curse that ADHD

Honestly I was more surprised that she didn’t ALREADY KNOW than I was surprised that she had ADHD. I thought we were all on the same page about tbh.

"but I have a little thing called selective memory AND I'M NOT EVEN GONNA REMEMBER YOU SAID THAT" So true bestie, so true

Nux, I've spent hours watching your Warhammer Lore videos, while not doing the work the government pays me to do.

I'm starting up my own small business. I'm also a college dropout. I have ADHD, and I'm on the autism spectrum. I'm opening a dog treat bakery this month. I am nervous as fuck. Also, it is common for people with ADHD to find it easier to do things that they don't need to do over things that they do. It's literally one of the most common symptoms in ADHD, from what I know.

Legit like a month ago, I came to an adhd self diagnosis. Once the pieces start falling into place, it's actually so cathardic! Trying to get a copy of the insurance card from my mom so I can get around to seeing doctors. Here's to self-discovery! The autism rant sounds like a fun time, too. This is actually such a wild ride

I have something I have to do before the end of this month. I haven’t started doing it because the work surface needs to be cleared off. It hasn’t been cleared off because one thing has to be moved somewhere else and the new location _also_ has to be cleared and organized. I can’t clear the secondary location off because everything needs to be gone through to decide if I’m going to keep or throw it away. Then my brain is like, if you’re organizing the stuff in this area, you might as well do it for the whole room. I end up not doing anything, hoping tomorrow is better and just feeling more stressed.

for me when I was a kid, that was when my ADHD was the worst, buut thanks to that (and living off of ritalin as a kid) it got better, and lerned how it worked for me. So now i study 12 hours straight ( i wanna unalive) but it is way more managable the more time passed

I was diagnosed with ADHD as a child. I WAS medicated for it but it got taken from me bc "i didnt need it". Big shocker when i started having issues with school and personal relationships.

So i found the undertale reference the title of the animation is called Undertale episode 1 (Undertale animation) it was made by Luna szara. The scene is played at the min 8:07 but scenes are swapped so you see frisk first and then toriel

Thats very cooler, so surprising. Send her to the island to get the icepick!

This hits. I wasn't diagnosed with ADHD until i was in my thirties. I did very, very well in school (honors and AP classes) until i made it to college. The first two years of college were a struggle. I didn't learn how to regulate my time and focus until i was nearly failing classes. I only got diagnosed after it started to negatively affect me at work and suddenly my whole life made sense. I wish i was diagnosed way earlier but as I understand it, women often aren't diagnosed in childhood. I wouldn't wish ADHD on anyone. Sometimes it just makes life suck.

39:40 dawg she plays Among Us every Wednesday with the BOIS a.k.a Wildcard

It's so facts on the mental state prep stuff Nux. Every time I have a task that's relatively simple to complete, I have random have another task that takes precedence. for example, I have an essay due the next day, what do I do? start cleaning my room, organize my stuff, etc. Then when I have nothing else to procrastinate with I'm forced to lock in to finish the essay.

Jayden: *name 1 true fact about ADHD Nux: *Screetch in ADHD

Nux I am BEGGING YOU to watch Miniminuteman Awful Archaeology

This guy: I don't have that bad of ADHD. Also this guy: proceeds to demonstrate how much he's impacted by ADHD.

Now take how neurotic Nux is about thinking about things, and then multiply it by about 500, and then apply it to everything.

when people realize, “tiktok brain” and “ADHD” are synonymous

Pretty insightful and nice to see her talk about the effects in such an effective way. It makes sense though completing a lesser task helps to focus on a greater one. Finishing another task puts it out of your mind and puts you in a positive 'that wasn't so bad, this next one might feel even more rewarding!'. Humans as a whole like to have things 'finished' though that definition is quite broad. And being true to yourself is great. Just as we are reminded of that every nux vid. : )

Diagnosed adhd as a young kid, self diagnosed autistic a couple years ago.... But it's only really been recently that i really looked into what that meant....i knew, but was still in this self depricating denial of how much it genuinely effects me on a day to day basis. Still a constant battle, but at least i feel like I'm finally figuring myself out..... Only took 30 fugking years....

Me too. I didn't get diagnosed until I was in my 40s. It made so much sense of my wasted youth too.

2:02 Bro. you described me perfectly. I should go get checked for ADHD.

I’m putting groceries away while listening to this video and discovered a mcD sundae in my freezer I forgot from 2 days ago. 😂😂

This just reminds me of me watching every nux warhammer lore video while reading manga at the same time instead of revising for my exams, it makes no sense

I felt so called out when she brought up the 8 hour fnaf lore video (I listened to the whole thing at work more than once)

What a great video to turn on and listen to while I stare at birds instead of doing work

This is the third time I’ve watched the Jaden Animation video this week

That was a great video, i really need to get diagnosed for like 6 years now but im still putting it off, I also have a hard time thinking about meds for mental health but this video made me look at it a bit differently

The way nux describes his bad habits and the whole "the everything has consequences" thing felt so close to home, lmao.

If anything. I learned about the word gooning on this video. Thanks Nux~

What Nux said about the script is literally me with my bachelors thesis omg

Welcome to the party Nux and Jaiden!

Damn Nux and Jaiden are even more relatable now !!

The thing about adhd, is it USUALLY presents differently between the genders, usually guys exhibit more hyperactive tendencies for adhd, while gals usually exhibit the attention deficit part, I say usually be there are a smaller segment of both that exhibit the opposite, me included. I've got adhd (inattentive type) and almost everything Jaden has expressed as of 11:35 have been my experience as well.

Not me watching a recation video to a video I've already seen while in the middle of writing my uni essay that's due tomorrow.

Nux- All great youtubers are college dropouts. -Mark Rober & Electroboom chilling in the corner with their engineering degree👌

I can relate so much with Nux about leaving the notifications on so you don‘t forget them. But in the end they just keep piling on, you feel worse and worse and it is just a spiral 😂

The jaiden lore getting wild with this one

8:10 nooo why did you have to call me out like that т-т

I do have arguments with myself over what to do next, and while it doesn't take four hours, I generally decide that, 'eh, these things can wait, I'm just gonna read' and don't do the things until 4 days later.

ya know... this really makes me wanna get diagnosed (i've been holding it off for months. i always forgot about it, and whenever i remember it, i just hold it off again cause i don't feel like it... aaannnd because i'm scared) but it's literally in the middle of the night right now and i'd probably forget about it in the morning

i ruined some chili by walking away for a second and watched a youtube video on trying to generate a specific minecraft seed to grow the tallest possible cactus. that chili got burnt.

I found one of the ways to increase the chances of being able to do the dishes, i need to clear the dishrack long before I plan to do it, so I can't use the dishrack being full as an excuse. There are other things, but this helps a little bit.

For me a good example of adhd is how when I want to come up with a backstory for a dnd character i cant do it when i have time, however ideas just explode in my head like a cluster bomb when I'm at work. Like working is the best muse i have for having ideas.

i never have internal monologue, but i have so much time of having internal dialogue between me in my head and me with my mouth, i really do that a lot to the point where i talking to myself more than i sleeping

Bro, once I figured out that school work was more like a chore instead of something I had to somehow wrap my head around. That change in perspective made it easy. I would complete my work and then sleep, sometimes waking me up thinking I still had work to do as I tell them I'm done with what could've been my homework. I would watch KZfaq videos of Sonic Mania and Sonic Jam on the Saturn and or just sleep. I had everything under my control, exempted MOST OF MY TESTS for my final year, and even got sugar cubes from my teacher. How's that for someone who used to take special ed in elementary. Oh wait, I must've had early ADHD and grew out of it.

I love how Jaiden tells these stories, she's so real in them 😮🍿

Alot of nux lore today :3 👌

The way that i was fidgeting with my fidget toy whilst scrolling on twitter whilst watching this

I'm studying to become a psychologist/psychiatrist and honestly from what I learned is what keeps people from getting diagnoses or help is "stigma". Stigma has been a huge problem in mental health for well...ever...as it literally means "a mark of disgrace associated with a particular circumstance, quality, or person". It took a long time for mental health to get to the point it is now where Cognitive Behavior Therapy is taking root and where Stigma is being removed from modern takes on therapy. A lot of books teach us about stigma in a means to avoid it as much as possible with patients. Unfortunately stigma is hard to remove from a culture and there is still a lot of stigma against those of mental health despite it being incredibly common, but professionals are doing their best to remove it in hopes the populace will follow someday.

6:50 yeahh, there were a few times I spent months not washing dishes. I'd look at them and know they needed to be cleaned and I'd be disgusted with them there. but then I'd get anxiety the moment I try to hype myself to do them, and then just not do them

This is so relatable

I have a few adhd tendancies but what i have is something called outline tracing disorder for some reason every time i look at a word or shape i just have a habit of just tracing it in my head it started out fine but i just kept doing it more and more and now i cant stop i was tracing some of the letters in the comment while i was writing it

I thought you guys already knew 😂, jokes aside though i find it really funny that alot of gaming/anime adjacent content creators have adhd i wonder what the actual explanation is for the correlation of neurodivergence of varying levels and that type of medium or if it's just you notice it more because the people who are will say something about it.

Jaiden's video came out two weeks after my sons ADHD diagnosis. And we're both big fans of Jaidenanimations. It's a godsend.

I feel the whole fear on diagnosis results tbh, weirdly tho i use to find it so easy to be upfront about my adhd, yet it was so hard to tell people i was autistic 😅

I take the quick release one- when i think I need to. But also me: i can do this by sheer willpower

38:16 I have scheduled by self into a box so ironclad and airtight that I can never ever do special projects or just have fun outside the 1 day I scheduled having fun. And because I scheduled that day for enjoying myself and having fun I feel like I need to enjoy myself and have fun, which makes it a chore, which means I need to work to do it, which means I'm stressed and don't actually enjoy anything even though I do enjoyable stuff I normally WANT TO DO!

This renewed my motivation to get diagnosed and medicated. So far I'm only getting treated for depression

By the way, the "I need to do it so I want to do anything else and/or refuse" thing is PDA (not the fun kind) Pervasive Drive for Autonomy Or if you like everything to sound bad a la psychology: Pathological Demand Avoidance

So like I did great in school without studying but the INSTANT it hit the review portion towards the end of the year for the standardized tests, my grades would PLUMMET. Reviewing stuff I already knew was TORTURE because it was boring and uninteresting and not a challenge. Trying to focus and do the schoolwork was AWFUL during review time. Like my grades dropped so intensely one year that my folks thought I was dealing with substance use until they realized I was so unable to focus on my schoolwork that I just...didn't. On top of that I was so disorganized no matter what I did or how hard I tried to BECOME organized. BUT I was a quiet kid and often fell into hyperfocusing on things so from the outside it looked like I was a quiet kid who had no trouble occupying myself sitting still, partially because anxiety meant an utter TERROR of drawing attention to myself. Was finally diagnosed with ADHD in my late twenties. My psych dr told me that the facts that coffee chills me out along with self describing my brain as an old frozen windows computer with multiple tabs open and WHERE IS ALL THE DIFFERENT MUSIC COMING FROM and I can't calm anything down and it's all on FIRE should probably have been my first clues that yeah, I might have ADHD. I'm medicated now and it makes things SO much easier because I can actually THINK and accomplish things without having to internally scream at myself to just DO THE TASK.

It took me a few years to get myself diagnosed after suspecting it

As someone with combined type ADHD, yes it definitely exists. I got diagnosed in 2nd grade.... it was very easy to tell.... I also have GAD which i self diagnosed when i was in college studying Abnormal Psychology and recognizing the symptoms in myself about a year later. The third diagnosis I have is OCD which i only got diagnosed last year. Neither me or my psychologist were aware that OCD can exist completely in ones own head and have absolutely nothing to do with obsessing over cleanliness or getting sick. Apparently it's also possible to have something called cognitive OCD which causes me to have circular thinking and repeated thoughts about specific things that give me anxiety. In the process of trying to not think about those things I end up thinking about them more as a result which increases my anxiety just for me to try and not think about those things and thus keep thinking about it and getting more anxiety again.....

Ayyyy a fellow meditator!!

I use to be able to read and asnwer questions about a completely different subject without paying attention at all, than my teachers stopped me from reading

I’m 42 and was diagnosed with ADHD last month, replacing the bipolar (mis)diagnosis I had since my teens. Think I have autism too but keep hitting roadblocks. There was so many things that I think attributed to my late diagnosis, not just it being the 80s/90s and me being a girl.

That 30 second ADHD version of her version of her video makes sense to me now.

when i saw that video on my suggestions i was like.. “ooooh no shit sherlock” and scrolled on.

I've been really starting to believe I have ADHD in the past few years, the more and more I hear about it, the more I see myself in it. It explains so many patterns of behaviour I've had throughout my whole life. I've really been wanting to stream knowing that I'm going to be hyper fixated once I do, but I always pictured it as having chains pulling me back and holding me down all the time.

Damn, if only we saw this coming. Both Jaiden and Nux having ADHD, never came across my mind

Wait nux your Canadian, let's gooooo

3:30 I could write microscopically too back in school days. No one could read it without a magnifying glass.

as an avid admirer of all your animations, never pro claim post nux clarity.

Pfft well that was a totallyyyyy surprisinggggggg new fact about Jaiden

One of us One of us hell yeah Jaiden welcome to a huge club