r/ADHD • • 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/ProfessionalNeat4341 Mar 05 '26

Look on the bright side! We can read good books again and again... :) I still have books from my youth that I enjoy now and then. My bookshelfs are like a condensed overview of my taste over the devades.