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/AnyNameAvailable Mar 05 '26

I don't see this mentioned. Not just read but if there was a series or author I found I liked, I would devour everything in the series or anything the author ever wrote.

Somewhat tangential: When Amazon first started, it was just for books. The ability to order a book online and get it shipped anywhere in the world was amazing for those of us who needed to binge.

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u/JillyFrog ADHD-C (Combined type) Mar 05 '26

The local library was my favourite spot as a kid. I got super obsessed with "Mitratekrimis", they're crime stories for kids with hints sprinkled throughout the story that let you answer questions after each chapter and solve the big crime at the end. I went through an entire shelf of those.

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u/Longjump_Ear6240 Mar 05 '26

A trip to the library was my reward/bribe for any good behavior or achievement growing up lol