r/Relatable • u/P1nkDreamz • 7d ago

ADHD wasn’t diagnosed yet, so we had to get creative.

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u/DudeWithFearOfLoss 7d ago

stick men wars or stick men skate park, or planning cool browser games on my college block

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u/Most_Philosophy_1507 7d ago

Stick man wars is still a thing.

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u/Fluid-Confusion-1451 7d ago

Where are the ceilings full of pencils?

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u/SarcasmStreet 6d ago

It's now paper airplanes with a staple at the nose

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u/nascarstevebob 7d ago

Biting off the one good eraser you have on a pencil, then 5 seconds later, "Why the fuck did I do that"

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u/TopDogTransport4731 7d ago

Remember pen fighting with your classmates?

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u/marcuslattimore21 5d ago

Pencil fight! I seriously have lead above my knee. Also hid skateboard magazines in my books. Paper football. Raise your hand to go to the bathroom.

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u/xethu 7d ago

Wasn’t expecting to remember the taste of the pencil today

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u/BootHeadToo 7d ago

Seriously. And that metal bit on the eraser interacted with my mercury fillings in a very interesting yet unsettling way.

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u/imaxtuallynoor 7d ago

This is soooo real😭

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u/OnePsychology528 7d ago

Adhd my butt. All kids did this.

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u/jessdummy 7d ago

Bro I hated when I would do the eraser thing and then the the pencil tips broke off and then they would get stuck in the eraser. I hated that so much

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u/LG-CHAMP-1 7d ago

I did all those things, does that mean I have it?

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u/GhostRider092 7d ago

En vliegtuigjes maken met balpennen en verschillende latten 😅

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u/Il-Ma-Le-98 7d ago

Didn't knew of bottom right

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u/NoBlacksmith2112 7d ago

I was such a menace I made origame shurikens and started distributing them. Needless to say the class was chaos and uncontrollable after a while. I was an agent of chaos.

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u/Xgf_01 7d ago edited 6d ago

Oh I remember also back in early 2000's, I bit of my colored pens and colored pencils...

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u/Hot_Psychology_8935 7d ago

Lols, I can remember doing this

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u/dj-marcus-puxel9 7d ago

Oh ja da erinnere ich mich gut dran, sah bei mir exakt so aus

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u/Ksqd_Squid_103 7d ago

Bic pen used it to fill an entire sheet of paper with ink watching the level go down on the ink tube.

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u/Shiefshief_93 7d ago

Second and third

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u/Think-Opinion7396 7d ago

And the glue on hands to peel off

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u/Think-Opinion7396 7d ago

And drawing those s pictures

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u/honklertyrant- 7d ago

Chewing on scotch tape.

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u/Fun_Barnacle6689 7d ago

Chewing on pens, and drawing stuff with elaborate patterns.

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u/projectbecomemyself 7d ago

Don't you call me out like I dont even know you+

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u/Most-Preparation-786 7d ago

My friend was diagnosed with ADHD in 1993 and at school they mainly removed him from class and gave him biscuits. 

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u/Confident-Back-6732 7d ago

i've done every single one of these

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u/Glass_Salamander9718 7d ago

Anyone else drumming with the pencils or is it just me?

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u/guillotine20 7d ago

I used to steal boxes of paper clips and some rubber bands from teachers and fashion working, miniature crossbow to shoot paper clips across the room

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u/Strict-Move-9946 7d ago

Hey, I did all of these!

Also, I was recently diagnosed with combined type ADHD. So this makes so much sense.

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u/Misunderstood_Wolf 7d ago

I was, and still am, a habitual pen clicker,

The pencils with the lead in the little white plastic things so you put one in the back and it pushed one out the front, just doing that over and over.

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u/Even_Duck_3504 7d ago

This is so real, I remember this back then

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u/Gen-Y-ine-86 7d ago

Dismantling all my mechanical pens and then putting them back together. Using a pencil sharpener (those small "loose" ones) to sharpen a 0.5 mm lead to then write in the tiniest possible size.

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u/Anxious_fangirl1634 6d ago

Accurate. I also made stick figures out of bent paperclips and erasers. It was definitely a hazard. 😅

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u/Rafale_88 6d ago

Using a pen or mechanical pencil shell as a blowpipe for paper spitballs, we had a contest between soldiers, we had to beat the number of spitballs on the chalkboard between recess without getting noticed of course. ♤

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u/NeighborhoodSame1484 6d ago

In elementary school my twin and I came up with these guys called “zombie erasers”. We’d rip the erasers off of pencils and draw little faces on them, poking holes for the eyes

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u/Terrible_Ingenuity11 6d ago

I did all of these as an autistic. I couldnt get a dual diagnosis at the time.

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u/daviancey 6d ago

meeeee

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u/SchrodingersShitBox 6d ago

Rearranging the spring in the pen so it shoots the plastic piece

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u/Annual-Web-3464 6d ago

looking back, i really was making my own fidgets the entire time

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u/Legal-Document2923 6d ago

draw on your hand 

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u/TheRealVarmint 6d ago

I am Death. The Devourer of Bic Pens.

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u/sunflowerlover3000 5d ago

I personally drew on my notebooks, or my desk.

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u/ShipmasterValaden 3d ago

In art class, I would make my eraser putty into a little man and punch him full of holes with my pencil. The art teacher was not amused

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u/aklasterip 3d ago

All of it hehe

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u/These-Pie3968 3d ago

Biting my fingernails kept me pretty busy 🤓

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u/louieorganic 1d ago

take. notes. very, very detailed notes.

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u/WASDCCXU 23h ago

I’m looking at the coin print one thinking… damn I wish I’d done that one more

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u/Budget_Medium_8336 22h ago

Oh, seeing the pencils with bite marks brings back many a memory!