Bass players rise up (I’ve been playing upright about 6 years) and electric recently and it’s amazing but I feel it with my whole soul because it’s escalated from “to keep my hands busy” to “sheet music everywhere”

@@shadrackakinkunmi Glad it’s not just me! I just got my first upright a few days ago, I’ve been playing electric bass for about a year and half, and guitar for about 4. Any advice on learning sheet music because that is still something I have yet to do

So accurate. I play stand up bass and whenever I’m near it I’m constantly doing something like plucking the strings bc my hands need to stay busy lol

Me learning to embroider "to keep my hands busy"

Why did I literally imagine you playing air bass when I saw ADHD 😂 I’m figety so I related, but I’m inattentive so I had to read it again to realize it’s a real bass

The yelling about the tortillas was it for me 😅

YESSSSSSS! 😩👍🏾🤣

I physically felt the blow when she said It Was On Sale!!! I've never been so seen and simultaneously attacked at the same time.

It is the one thing that plagues my mind at all time when it comes to anything.

@@AtlantisBrookesame 💀

Okay but WHY do we think this

I get like that when I’m trying to get yarn or fabric pieces at the dollar store.

I grew up on a farm. One of the more onerous tasks we had to perform every year was clearing the fields of fist sized and bigger rocks. This was to prevent damage to our machinery. Anything smaller than approximate fist size would just harmlessly pass through. The reason I'm saying this, is because I remember multiple times as a young teenager picking up a cluster of stones and throwing them in the carrier to be hauled away. Then I'd look down and notice a smaller rock that had just "lost its friends." Cue me throwing that rock in too when my dad wasn't looking. I'm not sure what to call it. Intrusive empathy, maybe?

Right? I love it, although it's a little scary. As a kid, I'd get so absorbed into a book that I couldn't hear people talking to me, unless they said my name. And even then, I'd look up, but more than half my brain was being sucked back into the story. It was a little scary, especially when I considered the possibility of a never ending book. I was released at the end of each book, but what if I were trapped... FOREVER!? And then I read the "never-ending story" and was pleasantly horrified that I wasn't the only one to have this thought!

​@@er6730dont start reading One Piece 😂

Right?! Then I go through these times of no hyperfixation, and I just beg my brain " please may I have some more🙏🙏😭"

ive been getting recommended a lot of ADHD yt shorts and I relate to 90% of them (this included) but I don't know if I have it since our financial situation cannot afford to have me diagnosed and medicated.

Gosh, I wish I knew this before having a child. There is no such thing as hyperfixating anymore aka (getting things I actually want to do, done) I'm always interrupted now. And once I move from that spot, there's no going back

Fellow ADHD person here.. I definitely was heading to Joanne’s for yarn 😅 I’m back in the crochet fixation

You might not belive this, but I saw your comment as I was sewing together the first 3 rows of a daisy granny square blanket 😅

Myeah, my daisy blanket was started 8 years ago. I learned I needed to choose smaller and faster-to-completion projects 😆

Man is that just one thing people with ADHD like it's just like the granny square Daisy blanket cuz I was going to have my grandma make me one 😅

I’ve got countless half finished quilting projects. And enough fabric to make a hundred quilts. Haven’t used my machine in over a year. I’m now obsessed with skincare (and makeup that I don’t wear) and I love it. 🤸‍♀️🤸‍♀️🤸‍♀️

This is a great way to think about fixations- thank you for writing. I will start thinking about mine in the same way. 😊

Just enjoy the ride, friends! Since none of us have much in the way of social skills, you always have allll the knowledge gained by hyperfixations past to say at someone 😂

Literally, as long you aren't spending more than you can afford who cares? The internet is wild with those videos like "ohhh I'm a gifted kid burnout I quit things all the time if I'm not good at them" oe "I do hobbies for only a little bit then move onto something new" like my brothers in christ, that is normal behaviour for everyone. You maybe get into something a bit more than a neurotypical but we all like new stuff and trying new things😅 the. I swear the people who pick one hobby and stick with it and never do anything else are usually neurodivergent people who just happen to have a more productive hyperfixation tendency. Like are you really gonna live maybe 80 or 90 years and not try everything you can??

omg, that's SO my mom's way of thinking, and then it becomes her obsession forevermore. 😳

Ive got mine on a yearly rotation! I always do knitting in fall, and sewing/leatherwork in winter

My husband says that’s why I shouldnt buy EVERYTHING 😂

@@psybird2641I love leather working…it’s so, so relaxing! I also enjoy glass working!

Ugh, what I wouldn’t give for a family member to understand ADHD. 😂 I’ve always gotten shit from my family (especially my dad) for not “sticking with something.” Then they didn’t want to invest in my passions because “I’ll just drop it anyways.” So then, I stopped trying things as a teen. Now, I’m 34 and am trying to reignite my cyclical passions again. It’s fun to have a hobby of hobby shopping. 😊 I don’t have to stick with anything if I don’t want to.) My dad is a one-trick pony, and only likes _one_ thing, and that’s airplanes… he’s an aerospace engineer and that’s fine, but it’s annoying that he gives everyone (in the family) shit for liking literally anything else. (Every other interest is confusing and weird, or “crazy,” to him except that. Yes, he does have a metric shit ton of unresolved childhood trauma, why do you ask? 😂😂😂😂)

@@thedarknessofnana Wow! This could damn near be my story, down to a Dad who was an aerospace engineer. When I was 9, I started taking ballet lessons. My Mother brought me to the first lesson, discovered our neighbor also took lessons, and set up that I rode to lessons with the neighbor. Approximately 4, maybe 5 lessons later, the neighbor girl was sick, and thusly didn’t go. Well, that was all the more my Mother needed. I ended up having to quit because, “well, you missed and that tells me you’re not serious, and I’m NOT shelling out money for you to waste it, goofing off and not going to class!”….never mind the fact I had no ride, and she had refused to take me. Apparently, that was somehow my fault. Uhhhhh. Now, as a Mother myself, my children have to give anything new, 1 full month…if, after that, they decide it’s not their thing…we’re on to something else.

"Collecting" hobbies is really great! 💜

YES

Me too please! 😂

I love it, my bank account hates it 😂

Collecting hobbies is my hobby 😂😂😂

Dawg are you me? I do all these things besides crochet. I draw instead though lmao

@@BlurryNova I draw too!

Me all day long😂

That was too dang cute!

I want one! Please make them Elise

The Bible is truth. To understand this read genesis, Mathew, and one book of the Bible you chose yourself. As you do this practice forgiveness. It's about what's in your heart, love Is the key. If there's love in your heart you forgive. The act proves the truth. To be forgiven we must forgive. Start with your parents, they've loved you, they're easiest. Look inside for the grievances we all build up there and Genuinely forgive from within. It teaches you something you can learn no other ways. You have to learn first hand by what this process does inside your soul. Please trust me. Break down before Jesus Christ and ask for forgiveness today. It's not too late. God loves you. Please trust me. Jesus Christ is the way truth and life.

​@@jamesmayle3787Leopoldo???

Came looking for this comment 💕

I felt this on a 9 year recovery level felt this😂 but I'm thinking now you didn't mean a full ass blown drug addiction. I was undiagnosed adhd/autism and now my life makes sense. Along with my easy to get addicted to almost anything that produced dopamine

@@marybeth3660 Did you recover from drug addiction? If so that’s incredible! Also no I’m not talking about that kind of addiction

@@odin-aries Wellbutrin. Good for ADHD and nicotine. As a nurse I approve your assessment of some patients.

I accidentally became a hard-core diablerie practitioner on a whim. I'm now an ordained exorcist out of necessity.🤮👹🙏😇🧑‍💼

That's me with drugs

Same here... I'm starting to seriously consider if I'm not have some kind of disorder.

I didn’t realize that normal people *didn’t* do this… just now coming to terms that I was raised by neurodivergent parents and had pretty much all neurodivergent friends. 😅

Hyperfixations can come with AD(H)D as well as ASD

Same

I go to Home Goods to adopt the unwanted crystals.

​@@PrairieDawnCme too! Poor sad plants need a home.

It's bad when it is living things, like all the animals that might be unwanted in range of you, or all the plants left over from Christmas Sale or something. Everything ends up dying because I can't keep up that level of energy.

I started a "baby blanket" for my daughter when I was pregnant. She's about to be 7 and asks me often when I'll ever finish it for her... 🙄

Sounds like youll have to find a new project for it lol. Maybe a tiny version of your current one

You could make another one. 😁 Or make pillowcases, etc.

Oh man! YES, I've got a hand sewn quilt top that was supposed to be done on my daughter's 1st birthday. She's 31 & still waiting for her quilt. smh!

That's easy: start a new quilt. Or follow me into the the needle lace rabbit hole.

*rolls cart away*🛒🏃🏻‍♀️😂

Omg yes! I usually have 3 or 4 hobbies I rotate thru at any one time. I thought I was crazy, but I'm starting to think I'm just a 34 yo who has gone undiagnosed my whole life.

@@funsizedi88same

As a 39 year old who got diagnosed at 33 and finally broke far enough to accept meds at 34… yep. You’re not crazy… your brain just gets to call the shots and you’re either a willing or unwilling participant. So we RUN to things that help it feel like we’re a willing participant…and not a kidnapped captive on runaway train with no end destination on a continuous transcontinental trip. (which is what’s really going on 😆)

It's hit and miss for me tbh. They are good when I'm not supposed to be doing something else, but more often than not I need to be doing something else. And not even just chores or taking care of myself, but reaching my own goals. It's not fun when I can't finish anything or I need to get something done but just can't focus on it. Hyperfixations would be cool if I could control them.

Il feel understand for the time of my life ! ❤🥲

My bf “the empanada maker was cheaper than the empanadas” and his hyper fixation was making millions of empanadas whenever he could.

Estate sales can lead to a lot of bought kitchen equipment that hides in your cabinets for years. I'm not judging her at all. LOL

"WHEN I'M MAKING MAD ETSY CASH PRESSING TORTILLAS YOU'LL LOOK REAL DUMB, JAN""

This was probably so satisfying for you! Good for you for creating your own! I'm proud of you. 😊

Oh my GOD, that's why I'm like this, I'm only recently diagnosed and still figuring it out, didn't occur to me hyper fixation could be for characters, I think I thought it was just hobbies, mind blown thank you

This may be why I only write SPN fanfiction. I cannot move away from those characters even though they barely in character.

@ myself 😂

NO THAT WAS ME LAST NIGHT 😭😭I swear if the world ran at night i would get so much work done

lists of what?

@@millie_sh you got this!!

I love lists

I've about probably 15 notebooks in the last 2 years and FILLED them with just lists, itemized and in great detail. Then I feel the need to extend the list and make it better, so then I buy a new notebook. I think my record is 22 hours...and. I still wasn't tired, my hand just hurt.

This rings true so hard and now my brains on a process spiral

Psst….it’s ok to indulge in dumb hobbies! Even if you get bored with them later. Life is short, and you’re harming no one by learning how to knit or grow an herb garden or do calisthenics.

@@meganelise277 Thank you ❤️ I am trying to learn this. It's really hard to break the ideas that were taught to me as a child.

@@nicholasfield6127 I feel that! I have many things I’m unlearning myself 😊

Unleash your artist soul!

I know, I love it! I follow instructions, and I create art. I feel like an artist without the actual creativity.

@@salamanda11 i haven't really learned to read patterns, I plan to, I just freestyle and so far I'm really happy with the results I would love to make a sweater or something so I plan to learn to read patterns soon

@@jessie4127 If you’d like to ease into garments without fully needing a pattern first, I highly recommend trying the hexagon cardigan! It’s easily customizable, and there’s an easy video tutorial by PassioKnits.

@@salamanda11 i will check it out thank you so much

I do enjoy crocheting but I can't count stitches to save my life!

Ah. My husband did this for a few months. Hes a great artist... he wanted to do somthinf to make side cash... bought rverything looked up all thr licences training schools watched every youtube video. I use the training gun as a pencil holder now...

@@kikiohearts 😆 same here, I've put so much money and time into it, and even have a few people willing to lend me their skin for practice, but the manic urg I once had to tattoo has fizzled out, and I'm stuck $400 in the hole, but at least now I'm ready to go whenever my tattooing flame is reignited 🤣

As a Mum of 3 grown up kids now, I wd buy summer study books for them all, I wd go to great efforts to find really good ones...they then sat on the shelves all summer never to be opened..😢😢😢

I have a craft closet full of different gauges of rings and tools for making chain maille. I made 1 bracelet.

Job hopping is a hobby of mine lmao

I’m that way with plants. I have around 70. Annnd waiting for more to come in the mail Now.

Why is this so true 😅

I am so neurospicy it manifests as Multiple Sclerosis, and 4am bedtime.

I relate, it's like the worst burnout ever at the end of a fixation

There's many many conditions that can include both, some neurotypical people can also have both too so yeah it's normal.

Literally stumbling over this while making crepe paper flowers in the middle of the night 😅

So with you on this one. Can we be sister?😂😂

Dude, me too! I’ve got about a hundred so far! Never bored when you have library of hobbies to choose from, based on weather, season, or just your mood!

taylor swift right?

I don't allow myself to buy expensive stuff for my hobbies until I see that they cycle back around. And then I choose my favourites and I move through them. When I'm into sewing, I pull out the sewing machine and the serger and go nuts! When it's not fun anymore, I put their covers on and put the cloth in some totes, and forget about it. Maybe now I'm into gardening. That's good, but I try to stand on the brakes pretty hard, and DON'T dig up more of the lawn, but instead tend what's there. And then suddenly that's not very interesting and I'm into personality types. Now it's child rearing. And we're knitting some mittens. But suddenly it's summer and I want a sun dress and I find the sewing machine again. 😅 I am lucky to have a basement, so I just keep totes of stuff down there and pull it out as needed. However, when I'm feeling in that restless mood where I'm about to get into something, I purposely steer myself into something that I already have, by looking at Pinterest. I still collect new hobbies from time to time, but mostly I rotate around my favourites.

@@er6730 Seems like you've found a system that works for you! I've just become super strict and don't allow any hobbies at all anymore. Plus is no stressful new (or old) stuff. Minus is not developing any new out-of-work skills and feeling like I'm a person with no interests. Can't win them all I guess.

But the tortillas those presses make are just a smidge too small (is the only reason I haven’t bought one. But I think about it every time I eat store-bought tortillas. Then I bought a skinny rolling pin. I may yet still make my own. I just prefer watching videos of other people making them by hand…) 🌮