• DillyDaily@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    So true, even if I realise I’m hungry and have enough impulse control to put something in the oven instead of ordering in or resorting to a protein shake for dinner, there is an 80% chance that I will both forget that I’m hungry and completely forget I haven’t eaten, in the time it takes the food to cook.

    40 minutes later I’m sitting at my desk thinking “why have I got such a bad headache? why do I feel so groggy and cranky? Wait, do I need a nap!? I probably need a nap… Hang on, Why can I smell smoke?”

    Why do I always assume I need a nap, even if I haven’t eaten all day!? I have to basically run through a flow chart to figure out why my head hurts. Food, water, full bladder, sleep, eye strain? Why do I feel bad? Who knows?

    It’s a mystery only neurotypical people can solve!

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      7 months ago

      ok maybe I don’t have ADHD because my hunger is definitely stronger

      or hunger is my first assumption just like a nap is yours

      • DillyDaily@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        I’m awaiting assessment, but there’s a strong chance I have both autism and ADHD (my brother and father are both autistic, I was never assessed because it wasn’t as obvious growing up as a girl that I struggled with similar things, but it’s hard to know without an assessment because my ADHD was undiagnosed for so long so there’s a lot of overlapping symptoms from all the maladaptive coping mechanisms I’ve developed)

        I know poor hunger signals are a big part of autism too, so maybe I’ve got a double whammy 🤷‍♀️

        But it also sounds like your sensitive to hunger signals the same way I’m sensitive to fatigue/drowsiness signals, so it sounds like the same underlying interception issue, just two different outcomes of that attempt to listen to our bodies.