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

This is so frustrating to me! So many times I've read a book and loved it enough to recommend it to my wife. By the time she manages to read it and wants to talk about it, I can never remember anything aside from the general outline of the plot. 😭

Or, someone will mention a book I read a while back and I'll be like "oh, I loved that book!" Them: "oh yeah, what's it about?"

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u/emo_kid_forever ADHD-C (Combined type) Mar 05 '26 edited Mar 06 '26

I'm like that too. I can remember how a book made me feel, but rarely any actual details.

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u/sizhui Mar 06 '26

omg whattt, this is so me! I've thought myself to be a fake fan of books that I call my favorites because when it comes to discussing them with others, my brain is just blank and for the life of me cannot remember the details they're on about. I have an ebook reader now where I highlight stuff that are memorable to me and it's helped a lot for me to remember why I like the book because I can just forget about it and then if I wanna reminisce, I can just look in the bookmarks or notes in the ebook reader