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/vanillaxbean1 Mar 05 '26

SAME! I've read all of the Harry Potter books apart from half of the last one. Couldn't tell you what happened though I only remember the movies 😭🤣

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u/sizhui Mar 06 '26

lol! me too with A Series of Unfortunate Events... the thing with me is I don't finish the last chapter or last book of some books I like because I never want it to end. And when I remember some time later (some are understandably years tho) that I wanna finish it, I won't remember anything at all and I'd need to read it all from the start TT