me when i see a cat: CAT! cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat
Fun fact: when I see cute animals, I forget English and automatically revert to my native Hungarian. I don’t know what bystanders make of me, reciting guttural gibberish to rabbits.
But the real question is, what are you SAYING to the rabbits? Is it ‘RABBIT! rabbit rabbit rabbit rabbit rabbit rabbit bunny bunny bunny awww cute bunnyyyyy’?
Well, I usually say the Hungarian equivalent of ‘bun bun bun lil bun look at your tiny spoon-shaped ears awww bun brave little lawnmower bun’, but sometimes I say ‘hey rabbits, my sister’s gonna go to med school’ because I think everyone should know.
I live in Japan, and I always revert to English to talk to small animals, and I was cooing at this tiny little fluff machine of a puppy in baby english like “hello you’re so cute such a cute hello hello yess you’re good” and the 70 year old Japanese lady that was walking him started to *translate the baby talk english into Japanese* for her pup. She wanted to be sure he understood it too.
I was at a pet store with Eileen. A woman walked up to us and asked if she could pet her. Eileen’s collar has ‘Deaf Dog’ embroidered on it. The lady asked about it, I confirmed, yes, she’s deaf. The lady immediately switched to American Sign Language and asked her how was her day, was she being a good girl, she’s so pretty. Eileen is wagging her tail excitedly, knowing that someone is talking to her.
Uh yeah it’s also why a lot of people who aren’t diagnosed with ADHD drink so much caffeine, energy drinks, or smoke.
Also you may be ADHD if everyone around you is like “hey cocaine is crazy” and you do it and you just feel calm and normal while everyone else is vibrating through the floors
One of the prevailing theories explaining ADHD is that it’s caused by a lack of certain neurotransmitters, specifically norepinephrine and serotonin. Everybody has a background level of these neurotransmitters, and when they see or do something novel or interesting, those neurotransmitters increase, and then decrease back down to normal levels. Because people with ADHD have less of these than they should, they are constantly looking for something new and interesting to give them that jolt back to normal levels. That’s why they’re so easily distracted and why they hyperfocus on things that interest them.
Stimulant drugs, like caffeine, cause your brain to make more of those neurotransmitters. So while neurotypical people might get a buzz off caffeine, people with ADHD just get bumped up closer to normal levels, and so, if anything, feel calmer. That’s why they prescribe what are basically amphetamines as treatment for ADHD and why ADHD meds are so bad for people who don’t have ADHD.
I can drink 3 cups of coffee and go straight to sleep, this is just one example of what is fundamentaly wrong with me as a person
I know several people with moderate to severe ADHD who have done cocaine and have told me about their experiences - which is to say, they found it to be boring, not worth it, etc, because all it did was make them sleepy/tired/calmed them down.
So it makes sense that a disorder for which the medical treatment to function (mostly) normally is literally strictly controlled stimulant substances that cocaine would not effect an ADHD brain the same way it would effect a non-ADHD brain.
It’s also why people who take Ritalin/Adderall/etc for ADHD actually sleep BETTER on the stimulant than without it.
ADHD brains just can’t produce enough of the go-go juice in our brains to function, and when we get enough of it externally (that is to say, from some other source than the brain) to function, it ends up calming us down/making us tired, because we are finally able to slow down and do things at a pace similar to non-ADHD brains.
It’s a very interesting disorder, and it affects literally every aspect of a person. I’m glad that we are learning more about it.
you know what’s good? when you have a meat and a sauce and you eat it with a rice. thank you for listening