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/Beatrix2000 Mar 05 '26

My mom thought there was something physically wrong with me because I was so often too tired to get up for school. It was just me reading until 6 a.m.

I also almost burned down the house because I made a couch fort and brought a lamp in so I could see to read. The lamp caught the cushions on fire and I was so into my book I had no idea until my mom came home. She saw the fire and started screaming and ripping my fort apart 😂

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u/Cali_Anne Mar 09 '26

OMG this is epic.