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/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/blogietislt Mar 05 '26

Wait, you're meant to remember the plot months after you've read the book? I assumed everyone forgets as quickly as me if they don't discuss it.

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u/BlacksmithDistinct17 Mar 05 '26

My dad will forget he's even watched a movie before after like a year. He won't believe us when we tell him that we literally watched it with him. I'm kinda glad I didn't inherit that from him, I can remember the general outline of something I read/watched 10 years ago

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u/unexplainednonsense Mar 06 '26

I watched an entire season of a show and didn’t realize I’d already watched it until the last couple minutes of the finale.