It’s Borture! What ADHD Boredom Really Feels Like
A brain itch you can’t scratch. Achiness. Complete shutdown. The sense of being swallowed up by nothingness. This is how boredom is experienced by many individuals with ADHD, who describe an intensely aversive, almost dysphoric, experience.
It’s definitely not the mild, generally innocuous state of being that jumps to mind when most people say, “I’m bored.”In the ADDitude webinar, “ADHD is Awesome: The Holderness Family Guide to Thriving with ADHD,” Penn Holderness shared that boredom causes him physical pain and he’ll do almost anything to avoid or cease boredom: “If I’m going down a road and there's a red light, I wonder, ‘Is there a way that I can take a right on red, work my way around, and get to the other side of this, instead of having to sit at this light?’ That's the way that my brain responds.”“Boredom is torture,” Holderness explained. “It’s borture.”In an attempt to shed light on a complex and often dismissed part of the ADHD experience, we asked ADDitude readers to tell us: What does boredom feel like to you?
Here’s what they said.“Boredom is almost painful, like wearing an itchy coat but you can't scratch.” — Julia“I experience boredom as a profound inner restlessness.
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