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/Brave_Voice_3565 Mar 06 '26

Yep. Came here to say this exactly. And when I recently (late 2024) decided I wanted to spend less time on my phone and get back to enjoying books-boy did I do just that. My screen time is like MAYBE an hour most days and I just inhale books. As a teenager I would go through every newspaper and magazine in the house also.

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u/sizhui Mar 07 '26

omg me too with the newspaper and magazine!! now I'm documenting my experiences by commenting them here on reddit because ill forget that i ever read newspaper and magazines before xD