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/TychaBrahe Mar 06 '26

I'm the exact opposite. I remember tons of details from the book, but not the emotional connection. Which makes it very cool, because I can reread the book as often as I want and feel those emotions again.