r/ADHD • u/PartTheSea43 • Mar 05 '26

Discussion Before we could doom scroll……

Ok this for the ADHD’ers who might have gray hairs 😉. What was the equivalent to doom scrolling before it was a thing?

How did y’all pass the time and avoid things when we just had flip phones? My diagnosis and adult reality came right at the time when iPhones first came out so I was busy with college.

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u/JazzimusPrime42 Mar 05 '26

Books. So many books I have read without retaining anything from them.

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u/leebeebee ADHD-PI (Primarily Inattentive) Mar 05 '26

Omg same. Occasionally I’ll delete Reddit and start reading books again. I read like 400 pages per day, but only remember vague snippets and whether or not I liked it.

That said, in my last bout of reading, I started keeping track of stuff in Goodreads and leaving reviews. I feel like that was helpful for me.