Anon can't be the only person watching Sherlock and thinking he's got to be ADD, can anon?
Being significantly effected and impaired by anon's own ADD, anon would love fic about this. Most anything, as long as it's respectfully handled, since it's not something anon has seen mentioned anywhere at all - and anon has looked. A lot.
Accurate information, reliable links, anon's own anecdata, et c. regarding ADD in adults available upon request.
Filled: Perception [1/2]ifonlynotneverDecember 21 2011, 10:17:06 UTC
[ a lot of this is just my experience with add, so i'm not sure if it's what you're looking for ajdlkf. but i loved this prompt too much not to try it out. ]
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He doesn't tell anyone when he figures it out, because he knows the way people think. Because he would rather be thought of as eccentric, as manic, as some kind of scatterbrained genius, than have to deal with the stigma and the misunderstanding and the misconceptions and the idiocy and the disbelief attached to this particular self-diagnosis.
And no one really gives a damn how he thinks, anyway, just that he does. Just that he solves unsolvable problems.
(And he thinks it's perhaps ironic, because it's the deficit that makes him see, that allows him to make those illogically logical leaps from A to B to Z.)
So he keeps the knowledge close to his heart, pressed inside his chest, against the inside of his skull, for eight years. And he tells no one.
No one until John, and even then he tells himself he won't, right up until the moment he does.
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anonymous
January 6 2012, 09:07:19 UTC
Love this so far. I can relate to a lot of what Sherlock is feeling in this, and I'm very happy you decided to go ahead and fill this prompt. I'm looking forward to more :)
Filled: Perception [2/2]ifonlynotneverDecember 21 2011, 10:18:27 UTC
They don't speak much for the rest of the day. He catches John looking at him from the corner of his eye, but the doctor does not push, so Sherlock pretends not to notice.
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It is three in the morning when the words come, but he knows that if he waits until a reasonable hour, he'll forget them or delete them or think better of them, so he takes the stairs to John's upstairs bedroom two at a time. He nearly hesitates when he gets to the door, but he's gotten this far, so he puts his hand on the doorknob and twists it open.
John is awake before he's halfway across the room, his army-cultivated habits in full force as he snaps upright, his hand scrabbling for a gun that is not beneath his pillow.
"Wh-Sherlock? What are you-What time is it
( ... )
Re: Filled: Perception [2/2]truthwritasliesDecember 21 2011, 10:36:58 UTC
Oh, this is gorgeous.
I really identify with Sherlock not wanting people to know because then they'll think he's lesser somehow.
(I don't have ADD but I do have OCD, PTSD and BiPolar disorder and when people find out they tend to treat me like I can't be trusted to look out for myself. It's frustrating as hell since I'm perfectly capable aside from brief moments of insanity.)
Re: Filled: Perception [2/2]ifonlynotneverDecember 21 2011, 18:30:58 UTC
jaksdjfl Thank you! Wasn't sure how it would stand up in the light of day, but I'm happy. :)
I think it's like that for many psychological disorders. For me, it was actually kind of a relief when I was diagnosed with depression and ADD, up until I had to deal with the shitstorm that was my mother's reaction. Since then, it's just been easier to... not mention it.
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anonymous
January 26 2012, 23:45:13 UTC
I really liked this too - I buy this interpretation of Sherlock. And John's reaction is pitched just right.
Also, unreasonable parents... I feel your pain. I got 'You're imagining it' AND 'You brought it on yourself by reading depressing books' at the same time over what has turned out to be bloody bipolar. Like positive thinking would make that go away.
Re: Requesting anonifonlynotneverDecember 22 2011, 16:16:43 UTC
jakldf I'm so glad it was what you were looking for! And seriously, thank you so much for prompting it. It made me think, and that was exactly what I needed. ♥
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anonymous
December 22 2011, 07:08:54 UTC
There are things I can concentrate on, and things I can't, depending on what matters, and mostly nothing that matters to other people matters to me. I can't concentrate on what I don't care about.
This, exactly this. If I don't care about it, I can't concentrate on it... or it takes five times as long and insane willpower for me to complete it.
This was a lovely fill. I wouldn't be surprised if Sherlock really did have ADD.
I prompted this because of a conversation between myself and one of my best friends wherein she commented on how much Sherlock reminds her of me (officially ADD as of this past summer, finally) and how many of the quote-unquote ADD-symptom-boxes one could tick off with what's said/shown about him.
I was just glad someone else besides me was seeing it, then I wondered of there were other people (ADD or not) out there seeing the same thing, and if they knew they weren't the only ones.
Re: Filled: Perception [2/2]pandasealJanuary 7 2012, 07:01:43 UTC
That's not it, I know what you're thinking, I can see it and it's not that, that's not me, that's not what it's like, I can't control it but that doesn't mean I'm not in control.
Being significantly effected and impaired by anon's own ADD, anon would love fic about this. Most anything, as long as it's respectfully handled, since it's not something anon has seen mentioned anywhere at all - and anon has looked. A lot.
Accurate information, reliable links, anon's own anecdata, et c. regarding ADD in adults available upon request.
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He doesn't tell anyone when he figures it out, because he knows the way people think. Because he would rather be thought of as eccentric, as manic, as some kind of scatterbrained genius, than have to deal with the stigma and the misunderstanding and the misconceptions and the idiocy and the disbelief attached to this particular self-diagnosis.
And no one really gives a damn how he thinks, anyway, just that he does. Just that he solves unsolvable problems.
(And he thinks it's perhaps ironic, because it's the deficit that makes him see, that allows him to make those illogically logical leaps from A to B to Z.)
So he keeps the knowledge close to his heart, pressed inside his chest, against the inside of his skull, for eight years. And he tells no one.
No one until John, and even then he tells himself he won't, right up until the moment he does.
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It is three in the morning when the words come, but he knows that if he waits until a reasonable hour, he'll forget them or delete them or think better of them, so he takes the stairs to John's upstairs bedroom two at a time. He nearly hesitates when he gets to the door, but he's gotten this far, so he puts his hand on the doorknob and twists it open.
John is awake before he's halfway across the room, his army-cultivated habits in full force as he snaps upright, his hand scrabbling for a gun that is not beneath his pillow.
"Wh-Sherlock? What are you-What time is it ( ... )
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I really identify with Sherlock not wanting people to know because then they'll think he's lesser somehow.
(I don't have ADD but I do have OCD, PTSD and BiPolar disorder and when people find out they tend to treat me like I can't be trusted to look out for myself. It's frustrating as hell since I'm perfectly capable aside from brief moments of insanity.)
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I think it's like that for many psychological disorders. For me, it was actually kind of a relief when I was diagnosed with depression and ADD, up until I had to deal with the shitstorm that was my mother's reaction. Since then, it's just been easier to... not mention it.
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Also, unreasonable parents... I feel your pain. I got 'You're imagining it' AND 'You brought it on yourself by reading depressing books' at the same time over what has turned out to be bloody bipolar. Like positive thinking would make that go away.
Fanfiction about this sort of stuff helps.
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You've got it spot on IMO - feeling like other people have more time, non-linear thinking, all of it. Perfect. Lovely. Thank you so much, IDEK.
Anon cried a little, trufax.
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This, exactly this. If I don't care about it, I can't concentrate on it... or it takes five times as long and insane willpower for me to complete it.
This was a lovely fill. I wouldn't be surprised if Sherlock really did have ADD.
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I was just glad someone else besides me was seeing it, then I wondered of there were other people (ADD or not) out there seeing the same thing, and if they knew they weren't the only ones.
Thus, prompted.
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Damn, well done.
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