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Reddit mentions of IMAK ErgoBeads Hand Exerciser and Stress Ball - Heather Grey
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Cushions and massages the wristsCool and comfortableSqueezable for stress reliefFreezable for extra cooling relief
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As someone with ADHD and studying CS at the moment:
Yes, I'm deadly serious about. If you can't access medication, try self medication. ADHD drugs are basically stimulants, and stimulants in general tend to alleviate ADHD symptoms. So you can self medicate, obviously consuming gratuitous amounts of coffee is not as good as real meds, a lot of people say that it does help.
I'm using this but there are about a billion of these things out there. Doing something helps you focus, if I need to think about something I usually throw this thing in the air or against the wall.
If you want to learn anything you have to reserve time to do it. Especially with ADHD doing things "later" doesn't really work. You can obviously work whenever you want, but always reserve a slice of time to actually work/study and then actually do it.
It doesn't even need to be at your house, library, coffee shop, university, outside, anything. Just make sure that when you go there, you work. And you do nothing else, just work, you don't suddenly interrupt your work to browse Reddit unless you're taking a break. Speaking of those....
Pomodoro a time management technique, at the very basic level the idea is this; you work for X minutes and then take an Y minute break. This is generally 25 minutes and a 3-5 minute break. Every 4 pomodoro, you take a longer 10-15 minute break.
They key here is to estimate how long doing a certain task will take you. This is important because each pomodoro in itself is indivisible. What this means is that you can't finish until the pomodoro is over. So if you set task to read a chapter of a book and estimate that it will take you 30 minutes, that's two pomodoros. You can't do 1ยฝ pomodoros, each pomodoro is a fixed length.
Keeping the times of the pomodoros fairly short helps to keep your attention on the task, every now and then your brain gets to go all "Fuck this shit" and do something else for a while, which also helps in assimilating the information. And it does actually help you since you don't need to force yourself to pay attention that much.
Not only do you need to process information differently when you make notes, you can also use them to review. As an added benefit, it keeps your hands busy and you're almost constantly doing something. What you need to remember though is that you should always use your own words when making notes.
Texbooks tend to be stuffy with the way they explain things, cause you know...academia. But Internet? On the Internet no one cares if you're a dog. I've managed to figure out a bunch of ideas and concepts that were hard to grasp through books, by reading stuff at stackexchange or even on Reddit. The way information is presented to you makes a huge difference.
The ADHD brain is dumb in that it tends to ignore dull stuff, the best way to combat this is to try and make stuff interesting. Because when you find something interesting it gets harder to get away from it. So a great way to learn something, is to find a practical application of that concept that interests you, and work backwards from that. So instead of going from: Dull academic looking thing -> dull practice -> Implement something boring -> forget the whole thing.
You're instead going: Interesting application -> How the fuck does that even work? -> This makes no sense but it's interesting -> This shit is starting to make sense! -> Hey there's that boring concept from the book!
In fact trying to understand things through practical applications is almost always better and easier than trying to jsut figure out academia.
Try things out out, even stupid things, little things, just to see how stuff works. This is similar to the previous part in that you're actually trying things out in practice. And in that vein, do tiny little projects like project euler
Rubber duck debugging is a fairly well known idea, explain the shit you're doing to someone and your brain will interpret it differently and promptly inform you that nothing you said makes any sense. Basically reading stuff in your mind is different than reading stuff out loud. If you want to learn something it's often better to read it out loud, especially if its a complex part.
And by that I mean, engage with other people. Talk about stuff you want to learn, explain, teach, ask, debate, argue, because this all promotes you to seek out data which helps you to better understand the concepts. And it's not done under the excuse of "learning" it's done because you want to.
Stackexchange is full of questions, answered and non-answered, as is /r/learnprogramming and tons of other places. If you frequent any of those, look through some of the questions and try to think of the answers. If the problem engages you, try to solve it, heck if you're lucky you might just help someone else as well.
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The main thing to take away from this is that as someone with ADHD, you want to engage yourself in a different fashion than someone without ADHD. The whole thing relies on you trying to make things more interesting to you and training your brain to associate certain things with studying.
Also, use the Internet when you can, there are tons and tons of incredibly smart people out there. People who are passionate about what they do and they are willing to share that information. And the best thing is that the information can be very narrow. There can be incredibly detailed explanations about complex issues that help you understand the entire framework of pretty much everything related to the issue, or there can be short and simple explanations that manage to summarize a ton of information into a small space and still make sense.
Heck there's probably enough information there, that you could write numerous language specific books by pruning through the answers in stackexchange.
And reading all that stuff can be much more interesting and entertaining than reading a book or watching a video. At least in my experience.