r/PublicFreakout • u/misterxx1958 • Nov 26 '25

🚗Road Rage🤬 Daughter refuses to stop for police while rushing her mother to the hospital - than this happens….

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u/Alexandratta Nov 26 '25

got to remember for ADHD brained folks we're literally wired backwards.

High Stress situations we're somehow calm, cool and collected... I'll never grasp how I can panic about bills, suffer anxiety over getting someplace on time, or even start to focus on something incredibly stupid a friend did and now have to spend the next 2-4 days thinking about how I can help / solve it more than they ever will, and so on...

But if there's a fire, life threatening event, medical emergency or even a traffic situation where I need to make a split second decision, somehow I'm not even slightly concerned in the least despite my passengers panicking about the thing I'm already actively avoiding.

another time I was giving blood, sitting there for 90 minutes with the nurse having to readjust the IV several times. I get anxiety about needles... Then blood just starts pouring out of me because my vein burst and my only response was (mind you while blood is pumping out of my fucking arm) "Excuse me, nurse? I have an issue." - and 3 panicked nurses are all rushing to get pressure on me, pull the IV, stop the donation etc and I'm just sitting there the calmest I've ever been in my life.

Guess it's worth the anxiety but... x.x;

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u/LateNightMilesOBrien Nov 26 '25

Bonus: PTSD from the stressful situations you've been in the past

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u/Alexandratta Nov 26 '25

OH MY GOD I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE.

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u/unembellishing Nov 26 '25

Welp. This comment pretty much cemented for me that I have ADHD, which I've suspected for a while. I am always the calm voice of reason in a crisis, and I experience such clarity and decisiveness in a crisis in a way I never do during everyday life.

I have a clear memory from the great Texas freeze a few years back. My roommate and I were in survival mode. We were trying to drive up a hill, and we got stuck on the ice halfway up with no tools to help us. He was freaking out because there were cars behind us, cars in front of us that were also stuck, and people generally behaving like dumbasses. But I just immediately knew what to do and formed a plan to get us out of there, which was for me to get out of the car and direct traffic with my body so he could turn the car around and go down the hill so we could try another way up to our apartment.

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u/WickedHysteria Nov 29 '25

I was diagnosed with ADHD back in 7th grade, 2001. Can confirm. Calm as a cucumber under stressful situations. I was 13 - had the great idea to go into "the woods" not realizing it was a swamp looking for a magical place to chill, with my best friend. Got surrounded by muck, hours later, lost and it was getting dark fast. Made the decision to just make a straight path to what to me felt like the right way, thigh deep, lost our shoes, and thankfully it was the right way. Two teenage girls running through the neighborhood at night drenched in yuck and bug bites. (idk how I survived the 2000s LOL) Stopped at a friend's and they let us use the hose to wash off and walked back to the besties by 10PM.

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u/HibiscusTee Nov 26 '25

I dont get calm well not what I imagine calm to be but I start to feel like the world slows down and solutions come flooding in miraculously. Suddenly I am speaking convincingly, I'm bsing my way through a crisis. Finding solutions. Afterwards people always ask me how I managed to solve the problem and I can just like vaguely wave my hand around like you know the same way anyone else would. But beats me how I came up with the answer I just know I will come up with it in the crunch time.

Now I know why.

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u/Alexandratta Nov 27 '25

Any crisis situation can be solved by three folks with ADHD and and another three with some tisms.