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Ben Kuchera @benkuchera.bsky.social

Here's a test for ADHD: what are you doing while you're cooking or eating?

aug 31, 2025, 12:20 am • 30 3

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jibbi/ジッビ @jibbi.bsky.social

listening to a podcast usually while cooking, talking or watching videos while eating >.>

aug 31, 2025, 12:30 am • 2 0 • view
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Don Dechert @dondechert.bsky.social

Turn on some sort of Youtube video, either comedy, a playthrough, or comedic review of football. Sometimes a podcast.

aug 31, 2025, 1:12 am • 0 0 • view
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cyber PUP-typeΘΔ @mintyfresh.bsky.social

getting distracted by this question

aug 31, 2025, 2:38 pm • 1 0 • view
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Kate Tbd @katexas.bsky.social

I borrowed DVDs from the library and watched all of The Wire in my kitchen either cooking or sitting on the floor eating with my bowl/plate in my lap. These days I don’t have a kitchen TV so it’s usually podcasts.

aug 31, 2025, 4:11 am • 1 0 • view
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Combo Breaker @combobreakermlp.bsky.social

Physically I’m watching YouTube. Mentally I’m imagining my life if I had wings.

aug 31, 2025, 3:59 pm • 1 0 • view
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Ben Kuchera @benkuchera.bsky.social

I love this so much.

sep 1, 2025, 7:47 pm • 1 0 • view
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Xaroc @xaroc.bsky.social

Listening to music if cooking watching YouTube if eating.

aug 31, 2025, 12:24 am • 0 0 • view
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Harris Foster @harris.zone

I put on a podcast but I can only listen to it in 3 minute increments because I constantly have to pause while I measure, cut, think or breathe

aug 31, 2025, 12:24 am • 3 0 • view
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West Coast Cheese 🏴‍☠️ @cheeseofthewest.bsky.social

Getting distracted, tornadoing around my kitchen frantically, "listening" to a podcast, thinking about physics/history/sociology/other food/a random day from 13 years ago, and still somehow making good food.

aug 31, 2025, 6:25 pm • 0 0 • view
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Thomas Neville @goobermunch.bsky.social

I’ve been known to write threads about Cooking with ADHD. With pictures. In which I express how unfair it is to tell me to “stir occasionally.”

aug 31, 2025, 1:09 am • 5 0 • view
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kateallday.bsky.social @kateallday.bsky.social

Yes fucking exactly. 😮‍💨

aug 31, 2025, 4:11 am • 2 0 • view
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Ben Kuchera @benkuchera.bsky.social

That instruction in a personal attack

aug 31, 2025, 1:44 am • 5 0 • view
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Thomas Neville @goobermunch.bsky.social

“Why are they picking on meeeeeee!?!!??”

aug 31, 2025, 2:03 am • 3 0 • view
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MariBean @maribean.bsky.social

While cooking I also wash the dishes and utensils I just used, talk to the dogs at my feet, taste everything every few minutes. While eating I watch tv and talk with my demented dad, fuss at the dogs, look out the window at weather, fiddle with things on the table.

aug 31, 2025, 7:48 pm • 0 0 • view
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Adam Rosenberg @geminibros.bsky.social

Concert videos, TV reruns, or music. My phone is usually close at hand for internet (and recipe checks I guess)

aug 31, 2025, 1:56 am • 1 0 • view
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enistoja eni @enistoja.bsky.social

listening to podcasts mostly!

aug 31, 2025, 2:35 am • 0 0 • view
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Corvid Dallas Multipass (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @genuscorvidae.bsky.social

Reading at least one book, talking to several people, scrolling BlueSky. At the least.

aug 31, 2025, 12:22 am • 0 0 • view
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Ben Kuchera @benkuchera.bsky.social

I'm listening to a podcast and maybe I have a book open.

aug 31, 2025, 12:23 am • 1 0 • view
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Corvid Dallas Multipass (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @genuscorvidae.bsky.social

Nice!

aug 31, 2025, 12:25 am • 1 0 • view
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Edith Crawley Pelham (she/her) @bungalowwriter.bsky.social

I sit down in my recliner while my meat cooks on the grill. But I have to set an alarm with Alexa so I don't forget about the food.

aug 31, 2025, 3:08 am • 1 0 • view
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Erik Robson @erikrobson.net

Usually I need my laptop to be doing something productive on its own, and I'm also listening to a podcast.

aug 31, 2025, 12:41 am • 1 0 • view
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Ben Kuchera @benkuchera.bsky.social

I can't believe we existed before podcasts on demand. I have no idea how I made it through that.

aug 31, 2025, 12:43 am • 2 0 • view
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Erik Robson @erikrobson.net

The TV was on in the background, that's how. Or in a clutch, the radio.

aug 31, 2025, 12:44 am • 2 0 • view
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Kate Tbd @katexas.bsky.social

My grandma was always wearing some kind of portable radio with a single wired earbud. For decades. This was like 15+ years ago.

aug 31, 2025, 4:06 am • 2 0 • view
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Erik Robson @erikrobson.net

Excellent.

aug 31, 2025, 4:12 am • 0 0 • view
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Ben Kuchera @benkuchera.bsky.social

I'm suddenly very interested in more historical ADHD coping methods.

aug 31, 2025, 2:15 pm • 2 0 • view
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Wheel Appreciator @miatadork.bsky.social

Pacing around the kitchen holding my bowl of oatmeal and a spoon.

aug 31, 2025, 1:11 am • 0 0 • view
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D. Chloe @dchloe.bsky.social

Cooking, I'm cooking, thats it unless the phone rings I answer for certain people. Eating is a social event when Im with someone, different when alone, reading, or taking phone calls, or watching TV.

aug 31, 2025, 1:28 pm • 0 0 • view
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Hegiman @hegiman.bsky.social

music to cook youtube to eat

aug 31, 2025, 2:43 am • 0 0 • view
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Ashley Esqueda @ashleyesqueda.com

Audiobooks!

aug 31, 2025, 12:47 am • 2 0 • view
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Skeletor @skeletorsbff.bsky.social

Simultaneously cleaning the dishes so I don’t have to do them all later.

aug 31, 2025, 7:01 pm • 0 0 • view
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Skeletor @skeletorsbff.bsky.social

Side note: I don’t have ADHD. I have OCD.

aug 31, 2025, 7:01 pm • 1 0 • view
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Spencer Koelle @spencerkoelle.bsky.social

For cooking I'm listening to audiobook or podcast. For eating I'm either watching TV or surfing the internet.

aug 31, 2025, 3:07 pm • 0 0 • view
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Gillian de Nooijer @gilliandn.bsky.social

I either turn on a podcast, or themed music (Italian, Mexican, etc) or dance music to dance while cooking. Also I read instructions about 20x. Pretty sure I passed the test. 😄

aug 31, 2025, 1:09 am • 4 0 • view
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Panther Modern @panthermodern.bsky.social

Reading

aug 31, 2025, 12:31 am • 1 0 • view
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nightbat13131.bsky.social @nightbat13131.bsky.social

Cooking: staying in the kitchen until it's complete at all costs so I don't start a 4th fire.

aug 31, 2025, 5:47 am • 0 0 • view