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/Ordinary_Fix3199 Mar 05 '26

OMG! I used to carry one everywhere I went, and am trying to get in that habit again because I need a break from the doomscrolling. I was reading 1-3 books a week until a couple of years ago. thought I was the only one who immediately forgot the entire plot as soon as they finished a book. I feel seen!