Don't forget: you already know what they are saying based off context and they are struggling to remember a word and you blurt it out for them because the conversation gap is painful
this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2025
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i just accept that i can’t say what I want to say and forget about it
This is the way. Embrace your NPCness
How do people know whose turn it is, no matter how large the group is everyone else talks one at a time like they just know
That chart is missing the 35% I understood what you were saying after the first nine words and now I'm getting awfully bored.
(of course sometimes I understood them wrong and make an ass out of myself 🫣)
What the fuck? Do...do I have ADHD? This entire meme is...me??? My wife gets annoyed when I interrupt her, even though she will talk straight for 15mins and leave no gaps in...and she has been told she has ADHD.
Or is this like "hahahaha, I got a cold, so I googled symptoms and it says I have stage 4 brain cancer"...meme?
If you're actually concerned, get checked out. While I appreciate the rising visibility of neurodivergent traits, it's also very clear that ADHD (and to a lesser extent, autism) are very much "in style" because people will make a meme around just about any human feeling and claim it to be related to ADHD or autism. This one seems a bit more relevant, but again, if you're truly concerned, get checked out. Don't rely on memes from the internet to diagnose you.
Normal human feelings are related to ADHD and autism, because many symptoms of both are just normal experiences happening more often. Everyone knows what being overwhelmed or impulsive is like, that doesn’t mean neurodivergent people don’t experience it to greater extents and with a greater frequency.
Right, I agree. But when you see posts like, "the adhd way I hold my pencil" and it's literally just how you're taught to hold a pencil, it starts to be problematic. If you make everything that's "normal" into something that's neurodivergent, it's gonna make actual traits and symptoms seem much more abnormal. And it also encourages people to claim they have it when they don't. Like when someone says they have OCD because they like their desk to be organized. I know that organization can be a symptom of OCD, but the severity of the stress and discomfort of disorganization when you have OCD is gonna be much higher. So it creates a sort of distorted image of what these things look like and it makes it harder for society as a whole to recognize actual neurodivergence. "My cousin has OCD and he's not like that, you're just being weird" is a sentiment I've heard way too often.
%100, at least this will get me to get checked out. I went as a kid, but this was 35+ years ago now. I don't remember what the diagnosis was, but that's back when they'd just say kids are eating to much sugar which makes them hyperactive, which is bullshit. This at least makes me feel like I do need to get checked out though, cause this silly meme is shit I do on a daily basis without thinking about it.
mentally mashes the "speed up text" button
Yes, sometimes I hate when the message is fully conveyed but the person keeps holding the conversation without adding anything of relevance.
Obviously when I am speaking the entire context needs to be explained though
Of course! 😆
Without my entire head canon they will think I'm jumping to conclusions again. 😔
Unrelated to the meme itself but I fucking hate the term "neurospicy". It reeks of TikTokers trying to posit themselves as "quirky" in their bio and has the same problematic downplaying of actual issues that "it's not a disability, it's a superpower" does.
My take: It’s only a disability within our society, with its made up mores and expectations.
Point is, play the game but don’t feel bad about yourself.
20% "I just finishing processing the last thing you said and will now respond to that"
This makes it sound like 95% of the time, the interruption is deliberate.
yeah that was my first thought, for me it's at least 35% "isn't it my turn"
and another big chunk is, "before you continue, there's some important information i must share that may alter the course of your remaining speech, so i will cut you off as a favor"
"I thought it was my turn" is more like 45%
The rest shrink proportionally to their current ratio to each other
Also missing: "You've been talking so long without getting to the point that I've forgotten most of it and am vibrating with anxiety and will now ask to be reminded what we're talking about."
I'm also autistic next to suspected AD(H)D and I sometimes have the annoying tendency to just talk over people when they take way too long to say something when I already know what they're going to say. It's not a great thing to do but sometimes people just talk so slowly. I wish people would just speak a bit faster so my mind doesn't constantly ping-pong everywhere in the second half of their sentences
Shut up and let me talk! Im sorry I talked over you, but now I have something to say, and you're going to hear it!
What artist made this?
It's probably AI generated
You can tell by the bleeding at the bottom of the pie chart.