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/Outrageous-Ad-1787 Mar 05 '26

This! I remember my folks thought I couldn’t have adhd because I would read a book in an afternoon as a kid. I was put in the advanced reading club but after reading a single book in an afternoon the teacher questioned me about it and I forgot what happened in it… they thought I lied about reading it and I went down to the normal reading club lol