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Episode 57 - 20 Weird Things About ADHD - Listener Episode
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Paul and Martin (co-Mayors of ADHDville) chat about common experiences of ADHD, particularly weird and often overlooked aspects, like sensory sensitivities and intrusive thoughts. Share your own experiences in the comments and we will discuss them in the next '20 Weird Things' episode. Join us! This podcast episode aims to create a sense of community for people with ADHD and to normalize the often quirky nature of neurodivergence.
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Please remember: This is an entertainment podcast about ADHD and does not substitute for individualized advice from qualified health professionals.
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Transcript
Introduction to ADHD Theme
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And we're back in the room. We are Martin. We're back in the room. All right. And this is the episode where if you find the weird things about ADHD fascinating like me, this is the episode for you. And with that, welcome to
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So, um hello and welcome to ADHDville everyone.
Hosts' Introductions and Purpose
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I'm Paul Thompson. I was talking to us with the kind combined ADH and the deed almost exactly, not exactly a year ago.
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Yeah, and I'm Martin West and I was diagnosed with the combined poopy platter in 2013. Yes, so we're just here as two mates who by coincidence are naughty brackets. After 39 years of friendship discovered they were co-engaged ears. Who'd have thought?
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Now, it's really important to say at this moment that this is needed to tackle a podcast, yes, not scientific at all, about adult ADHD, and does not substitute for individualized advice from qualified health professionals, Martin. So don't take any advice from us. We're just now here as kind of all inclusive, all inclusive, right? All inclusive, okay, underlying put in bold ADHD park bench with room for everyone including your doppelgangers, your alter egos, your buddy doubles, your chaperones and even your best buddy, still here. Congratulations, excellent staying power. Then grab your jetpacks, penelos, space hoppers and any other transportation methods and letters, take you to ADHDville.
Exploring ADHDville
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at Magic Creek Town that we've created in our minds. In our minds. In our minds, where we like to explore the different parts of the A. The D-H and the D. And we start off, as always, at the Town Hall in the Mayor's Office, where we, the joint Mayor of ADHD, will take care of business.
Weird ADHD Traits from Listeners
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And ah we will be talking about, um because in ah in a very recent podcast, um we did 20 weird things ah about ADHD. Not 11, not 12, 10.
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It was 10 each. So brown in and we round it up ended up being 20. And we put the call out there to um to listeners of the pod um to tell us what your weird things that you found about your neurodimergence.
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um yes And this is the episode where we've collected all of those. Yeah. And holy moly, a whole load of weird stuff. A whole load of fun, non-judgmental, awesomely weird stuff. Yeah. And let's face it, I think the ADH community, they just generally love weird stuff. So it's a win-win situation. So where are we heading? We're going back to the basement.
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oh yeah because that's Weird stuff happens. All right. Let's head over to the elevator and or the lift. There we go. All right. I like to think that the elevator is a bit weird too. There's like stuff in there that shouldn't be there. Well, there's this weird music. It's a B day in the elevator. Who plugged that in?
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And why and how do why how how did you get panning permission for that exactly? You know what? That just reminds me, right? You could have a toilet that went up and down in between floors. So if you were like really short and if you were really short on time and you were on the third floor and you had a meeting on the 10th floor, you could just go into the toilet elevator and just went to the toilet on your way up. Right. If you were good at timing it, some people would knock so good. My old man always went into the toilet with the newspaper.
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Oh, right. And he was in there for ages. Oh, yeah. At least until the sports pages.
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that All right. Well, let's let's crack on then. Let's crack on with our 20 weird things about ADHD slash neurodivergent slash the episode. Yes.
Sensory Difficulties: ADHD-Related?
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All right. And we've got we've got weve got we should start from we go from the top and work down. This makes sense, doesn't it?
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Yeah. we We got one from Soothing Ava from our TikTok ah page. yeah eva Ava Ava Ava In Italy we should be called Ava. Ava Maria. Ava Maria Soothing Ava Maria on TikTok.
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She says, question, are these ADHD things, sensory difficulties, they seem to be related to autism and aren't in the diagnostic criteria for ADHD? Do you want to answer that, Martin?
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Well, I have to say that that is correct. um it is in the It isn't in the... so all of these So a bunch of these weird things are kind of like can-be co-morbidities or one step away from from the official ADHD diagnostic criteria.
ADHD Traits and Co-morbidities
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So if you have any of these things, it it doesn't mean you have ADHD. It's just no ah part of that wonderful neurodivergent soup. It's just co-morbid.
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Yeah, which is quite it's quite on theme because considering it was it tomorrow or day after tomorrow is Halloween. Well, it'll be when this goes out be it'll be behind us but more or less, you know, you get the picture. Yeah, so it's just co morbid. Yeah. And I found a bit of science Martin about this. There's actually been no studies There's only been a general study like four years ago from the Boston University, but just they just did a study that grouped everyone, ADHDers, automizers, and even Tourette sufferers, grouped them all in. And they so they generally found that yes, absolutely,
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people in that spectrum are much more likely to have sensitivities related to food, whether it's about the type of food or the texture of the food or the smell of the food. Absolutely. Right. And generally those people ate view fewer vegetables compared to newer beige peeps, Martin. Oh, wow. All right. Yeah. So there's a reason. OK. There's a reason. All right. So if you go on and there's a third point.
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There is a third point, Martin, and what they recognize is individualized therapy is recommended. So everyone is different. right All right, so if if you know of of any research that that that is ah out out there, we would love to know. All right, yeah so yeah the first little batch comes from my friend Shelley on TikTok and I think we'll just run down these, like I'll do one in oh and then I'll do one and then you do point two, right?
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ah But so it's good. right So the first one ah she mentioned is is is ah food yeah that I lost, then hoarded, then gave up. So I think actually on the last one I i talked about, you know, like there was food that I liked and then I couldn't get it. So I hoarded it and then I didn't like it. right And she's basically ah she's basically agreeing. um She says that cheese that the cheese puffs specifically cheese puffs now I can't touch them so so so greasy yeah so you know yeah that I can't relate to I cheese puffs have been a ah constant um bed mate of mine bedford bed for bed uh yeah uh bed fellows we're bed fellows me and cheese puffs differently but I've never had a I've always liked savory snacks always
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I've always can never fallen out later in life. I've grown to like them. I was very much about sugar. that that was I did when I was a kid at school. Stephen Fry said something interesting about sugar.
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Often it's a replacement for a pure kid growing up. and You've got a craving for sugar, as he did. He had a craving for sugar. He said it was a replacement for his lack of lack of love in his in his in his
Emotional Connection to Food
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life. It was a love replacement, martyred sugar. oh oh Well, that tracks with with with me. So yeah, I didn't much. So me and my mum didn't have much of a relationship. So therefore I turned to a Freddo the frog huge chocolate bar for or for some parental love.
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but Me too. I used to go. I used to spend my my dinner money. I used to go straight to the sweet shop. Yeah, absolutely. I get like a bag full of sherbet.
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Yeah. Lovely. Nice. Parental care. That's just point one. That's only point one. This is going to be three hours this one. Okay, so crack on. So crack on. Skid, Martin. Skid with an exclamation mark is number two on the list. I have a thing. This is Shelley again. I have a thing in particular I need to have looked at because every time I find it I either pick at it or yell at myself not to pick at it.
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Right. Yeah, I think this is really common. Cones of shame for all. Tons of shame for all. And yet that satisfaction when you pick at something and this, I don't know what we're looking for. What are we looking for? I don't know. It's a, it's a satisfaction. Right. I mean, like, so I've just had surgery. So I've got five brand new scars on my tummy, right? Which I've, which I've, which I've, I was told to not pick at. So I've been very good at not
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picking the wounds. But it's been tough. It's been tough. I've been tempted. But I don't want any bad times. So I'm right here. Let me just... Yeah, no, that's not good. When push comes to shove, and I had a situation like yours, I wouldn't. I wouldn't. I would be the same. I would be quite disciplined.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Number number number three. Number three in Shelley's store. This is a stalker. I like this one. It's 50-50. If I'll even make a list anymore, I'll go and grab what looks good. This works unreliably as most things don't look good most of the time and I'll wind up leaving without food. Right. And then I worry I'm being watched for shoplifting.
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Right. There's a lot to unpack here. There's a lot to unpack. A big unpacking, packing, bang on theme as well. Yeah, I find spoo shopping intensely boring. In a supermarket, only in a supermarket. I find it, I just want to get out of those places as soon as possible.
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And also, yeah, I always whatever shop I'm in, I'm always convinced that I am always sensitive to like, don't make strange movements with my hands anywhere in near pockets, or any other parts of my clothing that give someone the idea that I'm shoplifting.
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I know ah the the other day I was I didn't have a basket I was I was I think this was yesterday or the day before and I had one item it was small and then I I was wandering around and then I needed to use both hands for some reason so I put the item in my pocket right use my hands tension Panic! Right, right. I had to abort, abort, reverse, get the thing out of my pocket, show it around a bit like, oh, yeah, okay, yeah. I'm just hold that one bit just at any point. cha Yeah, like, okay, yeah, yeah. No, no, he's still here. Jesus Christ. Put up a sign saying, hello, mum or dad. Yeah. Mm hmm. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Lovely. I can totally relate to that. Okay. and then she said fire the night Yeah.
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Oh yeah, yeah. So I just want to add that um last week I said we can, or at least me, sorry, um I can only really hold two instructions in my head at the same time. So it could be like, get the butter out the fridge and toast some bread. But but but if you add a third, like can you wash out some mugs?
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And that throws a whole thing into disarray. And she was saying that her partner just raised a finger when I discussed holding multiple instructions. So so so he can he can vouch for that. So there's another one of those yeah people that has a... Just as much as that, I once was were sent to the supermarket for three things by my girlfriend.
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Right. Even if, even if in reality, I was sent to supermarket for one thing, okay, it was probably like Prosecco or something like that. Sure, Paul, go to the supermarket, do some leftover, go to the supermarket and get this thing. So when you're there, you might as well get some crisps and I don't know, cherry yogurt or whatever, right? I went came back with the cherry yogurt and the crisps.
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Forgot the main thing. Yeah. The whole point you're going. Oh, often. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Number four, Paul from.
ADHD Experiences from Greece
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so Yes, I think this is still Shelly. She wrote lots of of ah amazing stuff. ah I think my top weird top weird ADHD thing is that I can't stop riffing off of whatever stimulus is in front of me.
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exhibit a this thread. Okay, so this tick tock thread. I'm so fond of you both. Oh, thanks. My fingers are tapped out. I've tapped out. Have a great day with three wise and an exclamation mark. Okay. Okay. And then Shelley says, I lied. I love how you how your top answers are so specific yet relatable and how they and how they're both to do with with competing stimuli. Breathing and swathering swallowing, watching and listening. Pick one.
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Right. So I think the the so so so the top weird thing here is, well, faint thank you for those kinds of words. That's amazing. um I can't stop riffing off of whatever stimulus is in front of me. So that's like, you know, like when you're watching heat TV and you're just commenting over the top almost almost the the the whole time, or if if you're with someone and there's stuff going on, you're just like,
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think that's almost like being a bit hyper hyper verbal in a way if it's out loud you know where you're just you just Jiggling. Okay. Okay. All right. Okay. All right. So thank you, Shelley, for those. Thanks, Shelley. Let's move on to number five. Now we've got a bunch here from Alexandra, down in Greece, um who said, loved it. ah the The weird episode as she was giggling the whole time. Nice. That's our job done. That's our job done. Right. End of episode. Let's go to the pub.
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Yeah, right. chopped down so no Let's read these out. Number five, emotional, and emotional ah beverages. Now, now I have a strong bond with my vape. So um so as as anyone who watches this will know that I have my emotional support drink here, the beverage.
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um yeah And ah when I was working in corporate offices, I would always have a drink and I would take it to every meeting. So i I wouldn't travel outside of my little office space without my emotional support drink.
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yeah Yes. Yes. Okay. And then we've got six heavy, cozy, fluffy, oversized clothes. Oh my god, OMG. I'm so into it. I think that's why I love winter and blind blankets. Yeah, oh yeah i thought this is quite a common thing, weighty stuff. Like if I'm, I really look forward to the winter when you can like load up the duvet with blankets. yeah Well, ah but that must be like a lock with the weight. Yeah.
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Oh, yeah, no, i i I mean, I've got a nice heavy hoodie on at the moment, and I love it. But Alexander, she lives in Greece, right? Yes. You know, it's got a long summer, so that's quite tricky one for her.
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ah Yeah, I have no idea what tell us what Greece is like in the winter and how long is it? And does it get really cold? Does it snow? I think it's quite similar to Italy where I live climate. Okay. Yeah, I think it's a similar climates and it's a long and long it's a long summer. It's only like getting they've like here they've like saying, Oh, maybe next week we get down to zero for the first time this year.
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Yeah, it has been a very warm autumn. Yes, so far. Number seven, ah any body part being wet without the rest of my body being wet, my motivation for showering is a new is a new body wash or shampoo.
Motivation for Showering: New Products
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That's why I end up with five different ah five different right but but ah five different body washes in the bathroom.
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Okay. Yeah. So one part of your body being wet and the rest of it dry. Right. I can see that. I can see that. I don't know. I'm picturing it now. Like routine. I get out the shower and okay. Where's my go to first? I'm like pretty much top half drying. I don't want a picture. I mean, like you say no. Yeah, fair enough.
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Why are you putting that picture in my head? Yeah, I know. I in my head ah think the most irritated thing is probably if I've got like wet wet behind the knees, Martin. Moist. Moist behind the knees. Don't like that. The knee pits. Yeah, knee pits.
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Me pits. That's horrendous. ah red all right ah number eight oh That's me. Number eight is counting time, not the sips because I've mentioned that when I drink um certain drinks, especially milk or more often fruit juice, I will count the gulps down as they go.
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Right. And don't do it with water. With water, I don't do it just with certain things. And Alexandra was saying she counts time and not the sips, which is drinking water.
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and so okay um That's a weird one. That's definitely right up there in the weird list. Counting time, I'm um thinking that she, I mean, I take that to mean that she's counting like one, two, three, she's counting seconds down. Yeah, yeah.
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yeah OK, fine. That's cool. And number... ah ah nine. Nine, yeah. Lost on her ah eating sounds can drive me mad also when the beverage is cold and the glass gets sweaty without a coaster on the table can drive me crazy. Right, I can understand that.
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Yeah, this' is there's this thing, I just have to like pull it up on my on my phone. um ah there's ah There's a thing called... cool do called... which is a a hatred of... of some routine sounds like chewing, slurping, i yeah breathing... or loud eatings eating sounds.
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ye loud eaters nothing worse or someone who eats with their mouth open um yeah chewing gum chewing gum with them loud chewy gummy kind of things i mentioned on the pod before uh when i worked in beijing for about a year um uh they slurp their noodles yeah the sound drove me nuts
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It's a sign. It's actually a sign for them. and I think it's the same in Japan as well. It actually demonstrates good good manners because it shows that demonstrates the cook that you're enjoying it. It's a good thing for them.
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yeah Trust me, insane. Yeah. So I'm so I'm wondering people. Yeah. There must be people who have the same issue in Asia. Oh, God. Yeah. Yeah. OK.
00:23:16
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so then then Hang on a second, hang on so because because because because the the the other interesting thing is ah about this one is when the beverage is cold and the glass gets sweaty without a coaster and the ah table, so that the little drips start running down the glass and they start getting onto the table. right yeah and then So I can imagine it like I'd just be sitting there like watching the wetness get up to the table thinking that's going to leave a mark.
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I'd be looking around and see where this napkin is. I would have to pick it up. I couldn't just leave it there. Yeah, I've got the odd table that does have a ring mark on it, which annoys me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. All right. So thanks for Alexander. Okay, so we've got number 10 from Gen X, ADHD Dad.
Misophonia and ADHD Sensitivity
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I like it x adhd that hi loud nose breathing. Even worse if it whistles now. Trump Donald Trump. He's at the very got a either he's just got a really highly sensitive microphone. But all I can hear when Trump talks is like is his nose breathing. Yeah, it's really loud. It is.
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It is going to plug in my Mac. I didn't I didn't realize that i hadn't plug plugged in. Yeah. So there we go. um That, ah yeah, that nose breathing, I guess, is the mesophonia. Yeah. and Oh, yeah. Whistling nose thing. Oh, God, that's just driving me insane just thinking about it. right ah Oh, yes.
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Yes. Well, that's another thing, is it? But I actually quite like that. It's like, what's the actor? ah I really like him, actually, um who did True Detectives, Matthew McConaughey. Oh, yeah. He whistles. He's got a really nice text and he whistles very slightly, subtly whistles when he talks. <unk>s i I think it's really that that version is really nice. um It's really cool. Yeah, one time Matthew McConaughey,
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yeah um he speaks for of us too i'm sure he does yeah i i get a okay christmas card from him every every year so i know i'm in these thoughts yes all right next one from kade uh chronic and complex um this is uh her on tick tock um number 11 yes um overhead lights make me angry and tense, and tense is my skin slash muscles. Yeah, over overhead, you know you know those yeah fluorescent lights, yeah those long ones. I think because they're noisy, I think even ah most people in here, even if you're neuro beige, you can hear, you can hear, there's a buzz.
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Yeah, definitely. Yeah. And a flicker as well. They flicker. They're not like normal lights. That's worse. That's like the ultimate. If you have to work in a room and there's like a little bulb that is just doing a flickery thing. Oh, oh so um I want to punch the ceiling. Yeah.
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and Actually, we've got a guest on next week, um Alice ali che in Italian. ali She was saying, I asked her i'd like reached out to her this morning, told her that we're doing this podcast on this thing. She said that she can hear electrical devices from the other room. It doesn't have to even to have to be the same room. She can hear electrical devices amazing wow all right okay so that uh leads us on to your yes sir lord you're doing number 12 number 12 and yeah kade can hear fluorescent lights and hvac systems what's that hvac air conditioning yeah okay okay
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Yeah, I can't bear higher. I never use, if I can help it, never use. Even if I'd rather sweat and be uncomfortable than use air con. Gives me headaches. Bad headaches. We have central air, which is great. Anyway, so number 13. Yes. This is an interesting one. One ear bud in makes me talk quieter and hear better. That's weird.
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I love this. This is a good one. This is good. Yeah. On the weird, like, measure, right? On the weird kind of dial. Right? This is like, this is really cool. This this is like weird, like all in capital letters. One here, but I'm gonna have to read this again. I'm not reading, I'm not reading it out for the ah listeners, reading out for myself to make sense of it. One here, but in one of her ears makes her talk quieter and hear better. Okay. Wow. I just have to try it now obviously. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I'm wondering whether there's any
00:29:03
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music going into that one earbud, or whether it's just like a, it's just a, I wonder if it's a bit like, you know, um those loop earrings. ah ah earrings right Yeah, things which you yeah, right yeah, I wonder if it works a bit in that way, where it kind of dens the overall. Maybe it makes the other it makes the other ear more efficient, because it's not trying too hard in the the other ear.
00:29:31
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happy Well, because I got in my left ear, I i burst an eardrum once because I took a flight to Hamburg for New Year's Eve. course it And had I had flew. I thought I'd be all right. And as as I was as it was coming to land in Hamburg, my eardrum burst.
00:29:54
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yeah and That was one of the most painful things I've ever had in my life. yeah I had had like blood coming out of my ear from the bursting, from the bursting action. Since then, the hearing on my left hand side is not so good. So I'm gonna have to try this out. So maybe, yeah, if I just sort of say, okay, if I had to have a conversation with my left ear and say, don't worry, take a break, you know, put your feet up. Yeah. Put your feet up. I'll just read a book. Read a book.
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the
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podcast. no, don't. Don't dont list of podcasts. Just don't do and any hearing at all. Actually, I'm going to help you. I'm going to block you by putting an earbud in and let you let your buddy on the other side, yeah the other ear, let him do all the work. Right. they yeah cheap yeah The other ear is like now you, you have got to pull your finger out. It's it's a on your shoulder. all the by now Pull the Yeah, don't flake on me now. All right. So next one's you, right? Yes, it's from Amber Dot Atlantic. No, no, back, back, back to head nooks from head nooks. So head nooks. So this is number 14. As much as I find microfiber the best for cleaning my glasses. I hate the touch of them exclamation mark almost makes me shoddy, shudder each time I pick one up.
00:31:32
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I can relate to that in terms of uh um microfiber being used as a um what you call them when you get out of the shower or the bath and you have ah a rope all right right made of microfibers no don't do that it's like it's like just not pleasurable at all it just like feels it's a wrong and it's a wrong and I've just realised that I was going to clean my glasses before coming on the pod and then I didn't, so. Yeah. I don't mind them for cleaning my glasses. All right. yeah anywhere else um much Yeah. On my body. I can get, I can, I get that.
00:32:20
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But what scares me about this, Mr. Hednuk, sir? Scares? Yeah, what scares me about this is the next time I go and pick up that microfiber cloth to clean my glasses, I'm going to be thinking of that. And then is my brain going to go... and have a little mini freak out? Maybe we've already read out 14 of these things. Maybe we've already triggered like 20,000 of our listeners.
00:32:49
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I think we've triggered everyone at least once. Yeah. At least once. It's like you said, Martin, whenever you because we had this thing, we talked about your tooth brushing regime.
00:33:03
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And I said that every time now, every time I clean my teeth, I think about you cleaning your teeth. And then you said every time that you cleaned your teeth, I think about you think about me cleaning. Yeah. And it it is still right to to to this day. Right.
00:33:21
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that OK, I did. that I did actually look up online. I was going, is my dentist right? It's just ah a grain of sand of toothpaste, not grain of sand, a grain of rice amount of toothpaste. And the Internet says the size of a pea.
00:33:44
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okay so um it's still a lot smaller than than i used to put on can i suggest that do you floss by the way do you floss i have i've bought myself an automatic flosser machine did you use it which i have used intermittently um So this is my provocation, Martin. Are you ready for this? yeah Hang onto your breeches. next to my life you' get Next time you think of it, you're going to think it's me. Oh, fuck off.
00:34:21
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Get out of my head. Get out of your teeth. Get out of my head. Go away. It's bad enough that I bust my teeth. I think about you every day. All right, OK. Are you just going to infiltrate my life one one wonderful little thing at a time? OK. Anyway, we should probably move on now. Otherwise, we'll be triggering left, front and centre.
00:34:49
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to at um This is from Amber dot.Atlantic. ah This is ah again from TikTok. So this is number 15. Having no sense of time, ah for of date and time.
Time Management and Alarms
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If I didn't have a phone on me at all times, I'd have no idea what the day or the time is or what the time is. yeah And having to set a million alarms. Yeah, I mean,
00:35:16
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I think um I mentioned that when it comes to food, I can I can just easily just forget to eat. I have to forget what time of day is and my yeah concept of time goes out the window. I have found I used to have a really freaky accurate um perception of time.
00:35:40
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like really, really accurate and still do actually. But I was thinking today, since I got diagnosed with ADHD and ah more and more unmasking, my ADHD traits are coming out more.
00:35:52
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you Yes. Did you have that? You had that? Yeah. Yeah. When you start to accept your ADHD or whatever neurodivergent thing that you have. It kind of works. Yeah. You start unpacking everything slowly. Yeah. And it's like, oh, Jesus Christ. Yeah. Oh, that's a thing? Oh, okay. I've become more forgetful, definitely. Yeah.
00:36:23
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because I guess I'm just letting it go. Well, it's I think it's because it's this kind of skills regression thing, right? Where you if you're putting in a lot of effort into masking, there is part of that effort is in you remember remembering things, right? Yeah. You kind of go, oh, I'm bad at things. So well I'll put a lot of effort. So all that masking is a person who remembers things. And then if you stop masking,
00:36:53
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you You actually weirdly stop putting effort into some of these coping skills and and strategies and they come up to the surface. Yeah, it's like you're redistributing your your brain your own brain energy usage.
00:37:07
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Yeah, you're not used to it somewhere else because you don't have to use it over there anymore. It's like right on the other side of the brain somewhere. Right. And then you seem to be worth your. Yes. You seem to get. Okay. All right. Next up. Number what? Oh, yeah. Seventeen. The strange thing. Sixteen. Sixteen. Sixteen. Sixteen. Oh, yeah. She can hear Amber.
00:37:37
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dot atlantic she can hear power lines right let's make it overhead who mean they i mean that makes that's totally logical i think i can hear them as well i think i can but i think some people more than others That is an indeed interesting one. Can you hear? I'm just googling it in the power line. And I'm sure it's going to say, yes, you can hear power lines. It is often a low pitched hum or a crackling or a hisstling hissing. Right. Thank God. You know, if it was a farting noise, it could be, you know.
00:38:22
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Yeah. Or a laughing sound. So as you walk past it, it's going... Right. Yeah, yeah. What? Who's laughing at me? Fuck off power line. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. See, sometimes they just don't have a sense of humour.
00:38:37
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Now, all right, um number 17 from Kaylee N.D. Mama ah says, the strange thoughts like, um and buckle up for buckle up for this one, for the next one, ah strange thoughts like, I wonder what poo tastes like?
Intrusive Thoughts and ADHD
00:38:56
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Is that ADHD or am I just odd lol?
00:39:00
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Lol. When you're talking about poo, the taste of poo, do you really okay, Lee? We don't know each other. I'm sure you're lovely, but do you have to put lol on the end of wondering what poo tastes like? He can put loll. I'm laughing. I'm laughing. I'm laughing out loud.
00:39:21
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i yeah Paul's always poo and yeah, it's always good for a laugh. OK, so wonder what poo tastes like. So I unpack that. Yes, I can slightly in that I think of it as an intrusive thought. Right. We which isn't necessarily I mean, we if you have ADHD, that that is a part of of it, but it's not exclusive to ADHD. But having these intrusive thoughts
00:39:52
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that that come in, they aren't a reflection of you or who you are or or or of any secret desire that you might have. They are just literally these like dumbass thoughts that kind of come into my my my brain. yeah And I want to point out that I will side with Kaylee on this slightly because when I walk my dog, right?
00:40:25
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and And he does his poo, right? And I have to pick it up in a bag and all of that. oh And I don't think about it in that way. But what I do think about is I think that that people do sort of a gag, right? They have a sort of a gagging. And I wonder whether this is this is a thought I've always had, which is I wonder if they are thinking, what does it taste like? Right. And that's why they're having a a physical gag reflex is because they're thinking of course. Yes. i yeah Yeah. And I don't gag because I've
00:41:08
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because I actually am not thinking about the poo too. I'm actually thinking about something completely different. It's almost like an and an automatic pick down, put in the bag, carry on. I'm not even okay thinking about it in in the slightest. Let's get down to specifics. When I to pick up my dog's poo, my dog's poo, I will much more like to gag if it's a bit in Italian say molly. If it's a bit, if it's a soft one, I will gag.
00:41:34
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yeah if if If it's like in the middle of the summer, you he's a bit dehydrated, poor boy.
Dog Diet and Clean-Up Discussion
00:41:40
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you know, or I'm feeding like feeding him just on the dry stuff on the biscuits. Yeah, then he's that is easy to pick up. Right. All right. And a lot less likely to gag. Right. All right. Yeah. Yeah. Right. You can you can use it. You can just think about it can approach it from a complete different angle. An ex girlfriend ah she's just I used to talk up we talk about this and she used to call this stuff, she used to call them hand warmers. She didn't think about the smell, she just thought how useful it was that in the summer you could pick up your dog's poo and warm up your hands. In the winter. the winter yeah they week to hand warmers. Good lord. Alright, let's crack on. Cracking on. Alright, number 18.
00:42:29
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Yes, from Matt. Hello Matt. I hate Rolex or zip top tops. I have one hoodie I can zip up, but it's loose. ah And it feels like anything tight around my neck makes me struggle to breathe. but That's not good.
00:42:47
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no uh roll next i think of like um ah who um uh yeah yeah yeah no i can relate to it i don't like it that's that's what i'm thinking beat next yeah i remember like beatniks back in the day were into Chaz and heavy yes heavy back glasses and wore black. Roll neck sweaters. Steve Jobs.
00:43:23
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yeah so used to wear them um I can relate to that. I'm okay with a roll neck. I'm not okay if it's a zip up. um hoodie that hips up that zips up and onto ah out your chin. I found that a bit like that. Yeah, I don't like that.
00:43:44
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A rolex fine, but if it zips up to there, sometimes ah I have the sensation of feeling a bit kind of like uncomfortable. Yeah. i got bra Weird. OK. All right. And his second one. So number 19 is I also like to be alone for my morning routine. If someone is awake and talking to me, it screws my head up. I want to scream.
00:44:07
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sir Don't talk to me in the form of less coffee, etc. This relates to last week's podcast episode. Shame. I feel shame when I want to be alone. And it's like, you know, if it's a friend or my girlfriend or whoever it is, and I just want to be alone with my cappuccino and my croissant.
00:44:33
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and the make question And, um and, you know, they've done nothing wrong. But you just, I feel sorry, often feel ashamed, like, Oh, why do I have to feel like this? But it's just, just how it is. I do like to be alone sometimes. Yeah, my Yeah, yeah. He's saying, like, you like to be on your own, the times.
00:44:57
Speaker
Um, yes, although I do find that I it's me on my own. I is definitely a very, not a very different person, but I have, I am, like I, I behave differently. So it's one thing, right? I will always find is now my, my wife um doesn't, I mean, we spend most of our time to together. we're but We're not very often apart, but if she goes out in the evening,
00:45:27
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And we, and I'm sitting there and I'll watch, say I want to watch TV. I find it very difficult to decide what to watch. Okay. On my own, like my own decision making about what I want to watch on TV is like, it's like, it's like, it's like thrown asunder. And I'm like, and I'm on there like flicking through like, oh, should I watch this? Or that? Or this? And I'll spend like an hour just flicking through the things that I could watch.
00:45:58
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Yeah. I'm like that with food. if i If I have to make my own dinner, I get confused. I'm fine with the TV, because I just go to my my go to documentaries on YouTube, you know, right something like that. No, that's not a problem for me. But eating Yeah, definitely.
00:46:17
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I probably what I'll do is I'll get a takeaway because that ah that way I don't have to think about it too much. Yeah. I am. I am. so im As you notice, i've if you've been watching on YouTube, I'm slowly moving my chair around as the sun is burning, burning my retinas off. You could tell the time, though, how Marty's positioned during the power podcast. I have done a full 45 degree like move around the table. Right. um Anyhow, it's 46 almost 47 minutes.
00:46:53
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So it's like move to degree or every minute. Every every minute. I've just slowly been walking right around. OK, so ah last one, but yeah lovely number No, it's not mine. Oh, yes, it's mine. It's mine to read out. Sleeves, Martin. It's all in capitals with two exclamation marks already setting me off. I'm serious. You go beyond one exclamation mark. I'm already like, I'm clenching my buttocks.
00:47:23
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Oh no, you've yeah taken Paul and his multiple exclamation mark. He's right. It feels like my buttocks are going to go to it implode, right? Sleeves or even worse, wet cuffs from from washing the hands. Yeah. I get that. How annoying is that? that's That's not good. How annoying is that? You ask the moying wash your hands and then you you you get a moist cuff.
00:47:53
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That's not good. I know this is not related, but it just sort of came up in my mind. They've probably bought the extremities. I think it's bodily extremities is the theme that I somehow went as a tunnel. I went down sand between my toes when you're on the beach. I can't wait to get home, have a shower and get that sand out from between my toes. I hate that.
00:48:23
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Right. um Okay. All right. Well, that wraps up our 20. So thank you for everyone who contributed. And I kind of feel like m if you listen to this and you've got some more, add them into the comments because we're really enjoying this. So if you keep feeding us with ah weird things about your neurodivergence, we're just going to keep doing this.
00:48:51
Speaker
At Christmas time we're doing the best of, maybe. be Maybe. Best of the word stuff. Because you know, that's time of the day when everyone's doing the best of. Although I feel like if we do a weird thing about it, it should be weird things about a Christmas surely. Okay. Yeah. cool light yeah like lowum photo Some people don't like their Christmas meals. You know how you might not like your food to touch each other. You you like your food compartmentalised and Christmas dinner can be quite mushy and they might put gravy on everything.
00:49:26
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I'm no worse than that. The overloaded plate, Martin, drives me insane. Yeah. Even if it's not mine. If someone gives me an overloaded plate with food, I can't touch it. Right. Well, let's save that for Christmas weird. We'll save that podcast gold.
00:49:49
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So get in, so get your comments in about any neurodivergent weirdness and we will put it into the next episode. All right, well let's jump in the, well actually no, we have to go back up the elevator yes and and then let's talk about, um let's not bother going to the post office.
00:50:11
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but we will read out some of our you've got some feedback martin yeah yeah well hang on let's just get back into the uh elevator again yeah slightly it's an awkward hanging around bit
00:50:29
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Yeah. like Whistle. your whistle like get i want I always want to whistle in ah in an elevator. You just want to break that awkward silence. Yeah. I think we're almost there. Step over the bidet. Step over with the bidet. Don't trip over it. We need to find out who planned that in.
00:50:59
Speaker
um Yeah, we've got we got some feedback, Martin. too We've got one from Dad VB. It was really, really nice. Hello, Dad VB. them That's what I love about this podcast. He says you never know what information you're going to pick up next. Like the one we talked about, um tumbleweed are actually, you know, tumbleweed we think is a famous cowboy Western kind of icon, you know, visual icon, and actually they're ah native to Russia, which I found ironic. Yeah.
00:51:31
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Yeah, but yeah, I love that kind of nonsense. And we have one from ah at shell plus sourdough, which is yeah agree on Paul's take on.
Listener Feedback and ADHD Trauma Discussion
00:51:45
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You know, is that there's a gap and gap or my taste? OK, thank you. Take on on ADHD. The the the trauma is part and parcel.
00:51:56
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Yeah. So there you are. Someone they go agreed with you about something. There's always a first 57 years been waiting for someone to agree with me. 57 years.
00:52:07
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