This is my brain on ADHD
Feb. 15th, 2022 09:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sdkA while back I was making a playlist on Spotify for my favorite musical numbers to belt out when I'm alone and no one can hear me*. I searched for Fascinating Rhythm and was listening to the myriad of versions available to decide which one(s) I'd add (the Fred Astaire and Ella Fitzgerald made the cut) and singing along and then realized the lyrics could so easily be a metaphor for ADHD. Or at least, how I experience it.
*Except for my pets, of course. The cats just ignore me but sometimes Molly howls along lol
Fascinating Rhythm
You've got me on the go!
Fascinating Rhythm
I'm all a-quiver
What a mess you're making!
The neighbors want to know
Why I'm always shaking
Just like a flivver
Each morning I get up with the sun
Start a-hopping
Never stopping
To find at night no work has been done
I know that
Once it didn't matter
But now you're doing wrong
When you start to patter
I'm so unhappy
Won't you take a day off?
Decide to run along
Somewhere far away off
And make it snappy!
Oh, how I long to be the man I used to be!
Fascinating Rhythm
Oh, won't you stop picking on me?
And then I found a cover by Jacob Collier (or more accurately, by 14 Jacob Colliers) and I have never heard a more accurate representation of what it's like inside my brain when I go full ADHD. Including the random musical genre change in the middle?? It's chaotic and so random but also beautiful and fun but also uncomfortable and very overwhelming. So if you've ever been curious about what it can be like in my brain? Here's a song for you.
And in full ADHD fashion, I abandoned my musical playlist and went down a rabbit hole of Jacob Collier songs. My favorites thus far (links to Youtube):
Sleeping On My Dreams (I <3 the dancing in this video especially)
All I Need (Performed in his bathroom, which as Jimmy Kimmel says in the intro, is not as gross as it sounds. I'm amazed at this guy's creativity.)
Time To Rest Your Weary Head (Simple and beautiful; the time-lapse video is a perfect match for the song)
*Except for my pets, of course. The cats just ignore me but sometimes Molly howls along lol
Fascinating Rhythm
You've got me on the go!
Fascinating Rhythm
I'm all a-quiver
What a mess you're making!
The neighbors want to know
Why I'm always shaking
Just like a flivver
Each morning I get up with the sun
Start a-hopping
Never stopping
To find at night no work has been done
I know that
Once it didn't matter
But now you're doing wrong
When you start to patter
I'm so unhappy
Won't you take a day off?
Decide to run along
Somewhere far away off
And make it snappy!
Oh, how I long to be the man I used to be!
Fascinating Rhythm
Oh, won't you stop picking on me?
And then I found a cover by Jacob Collier (or more accurately, by 14 Jacob Colliers) and I have never heard a more accurate representation of what it's like inside my brain when I go full ADHD. Including the random musical genre change in the middle?? It's chaotic and so random but also beautiful and fun but also uncomfortable and very overwhelming. So if you've ever been curious about what it can be like in my brain? Here's a song for you.
And in full ADHD fashion, I abandoned my musical playlist and went down a rabbit hole of Jacob Collier songs. My favorites thus far (links to Youtube):
Sleeping On My Dreams (I <3 the dancing in this video especially)
All I Need (Performed in his bathroom, which as Jimmy Kimmel says in the intro, is not as gross as it sounds. I'm amazed at this guy's creativity.)
Time To Rest Your Weary Head (Simple and beautiful; the time-lapse video is a perfect match for the song)
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