I find TV annoying for a while. Though not adhd specific but background music (any music, not the ‘chill beats’ lol) can help focus sometimes for some, including me.
There’s got to be two kinds of ADHD. One where you need background noise, one where you hate it. I fit into the second category.
All of my adhd friends need noise, I need silence. I’m the only one with a separately diagnosed sensory disorder, so that might explain it for me.
I oscillate between these.
Thankfully the whir of the engines on the Enterprise give a happy medium.
I’ve not been in silence for decades. Can’t even sleep without something on.
Me too. Thanks to tinnitus, I haven’t experienced silence for decades. Best I can do is drown it out with some pink or brown noise.
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i can’t stand silence, it gives me anxiety. it doesn’t have to be tv, but something has to make some sound
something has to make some sound
Have you tried tinnitus? 0/10, would not recommend.
please make it stop
tinnitus sucks. I have been enjoying my JVC sz2000 headphones for idk, like 5k hours for the past 10 years. they have outlived many amps and soon my ears too.
huh, sounds a lot like my mom. I wonder if she’s undiagnosed
possible, though I’m not diagnosed either because it’s a kinda difficult and long process and I don’t feel like starting it today, but definitely tomorrow maybe.
If I don’t have background noise how can I focus on what I’m going to be distracted from?
I cant have TV or music in the background but I always have fans and a white noise machine going in my room. Anything with voices, though, distract me to much.
Honestly extremely true as a diagnosed ADHDer. I would go nuts without background noise, I didn’t even realize my sheer need for stuff in the background until I got medicated and suddenly could sit in silence for hours and hours doing work, and even found it preferable, even having background music is distracting.
If i don’t have something in the background that i find a minimum interesting i space out from what i need to do too often and time disapears.
