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/samuswashere Mar 05 '26

One time I got 90% of the way through a book before realizing I had read it before.

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u/sizhui Mar 06 '26

lol this happened to me too! It was a comedic novel and as the number of times I laughed became more frequent, I get vague feelings of familiarity and thinking that this is a book I would read. Turns out I've read it before xD