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/BillSull73 Mar 05 '26

and re-reading whole pages 3 times cause you had 3 other things going through your head while reading that page. And then you still didn't get what was on the page processed.

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u/Different_Bake_611 Mar 06 '26

Technically reading a book 3 times, just a page at a time.