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What kind of socks do you wear?
No seriously.
If you asked me how to get a static shock from touching any metal appliance I'd tell you to experiment with different materials of sock and different carpets.
I doubt it has to do anything with your biology or adhd (unless it causes you run around on the carpet more)
Bare feet actually and there is one carpet in the house far away from me.
There's still other fabric interactions that can happen. I consistently build a charge getting out of my office chair at work. I wear shoes. I've become accustomed to tapping my arm the door frame on the way out. 10/10 times in the winter (dry air), I get a shock. Maybe 7/10 times in summer (more humid, but with AC). Nearly everything I wear is cotton. Sometimes nylon shirts and I assume my socks have spandex or whatever the elastic stuff is. Still, not the clothing known most for static.
Do some testing. See if any other metal things can cause a static shock. A metal home door, a car door, the fridge, toaster, whatever.
I suspect you will find some repeatable sequence. Even if a second shock is weaker, it's still a sign you're finding the cause. It's not ADHD. Electrical energy is very different from the "electricity" in your nervous system and brains. Vastly different in terms of voltage because your nerves are driven by chemical reactions, not massive magneto coils.
As for the heat of the monitor, if you can trust someone, try a blind test. Make sure your eyes can't see anything. Have them switch the monitor on and off in some way you can't hear the switch. There is so little heat from modern monitors, blankets block so much heat, and you are likely quite far for radiation heat to be detectable. Honestly, I'd chalk this up more to the ADHD or something else psychological. It's not that you feel the heat, its that you're convinced you can feel it and you body is reacting in weird, repeatable ways. Like you just can't stop thinking about and now body is reacting in a defensive way. Maybe fulk fight or flight with adrenaline, that flushes you with heat. Does your heart race?
Your ADHD is not causing you to be statically charged
How much polyester do you wear? Those have a tendency to build a charge.
I sometimes get zapped from unearthed metal objects like chairs when I wear poly
You're getting static shocked, not electrocuted (hopefully).
Probably just some static electricity from walking around and unrelated to the microwave.
But like all the time? no one else in the house is getting electrocuted by microwaves.
Maybe your the only one dragging your feet or wearing a certain type of socks/shoes.
Shocked, not electrocuted. Electrocuted is being fatally shocked.
Your microwave probably uses a grounded plug. If this is the US, it'll look like this:
That third, rounded pin is the ground pin.
When devices have grounded plugs, the case is normally connected to the ground pin.
If you've built up a charge, touching something grounded will discharge it.
You might get it in a dry environment, where it's easier to build up a charge, like if it's an air-conditioned house or cold and dry.
As to avoiding it...
If it bugs you, it sounds like there are shoes that people wear for jobs where having static electricity buildup is problematic, that have soles made out of more-conductive material than the typical insulating stuff we use, that keeps charge from accruing by letting it slowly discharge into the surface that they're standing on. Might try them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrostatic_discharge_materials
ESD shoes with carbonized rubber (weakly conductive) bottom
https://www.amazon.com/esd-shoes/s?k=esd+shoes
Or just going barefoot around the house.
Just so you know, if you had been electrocuted, you'd be dead.
~~I should probably mention that in my native language there is no word for shock Electrocution is used for both, or rather all three.~~ That the reason for my little sisters comment, its actually a pun as they do say high electricity instead of high energy.
Nevermind, I think I am wrong on that one
Native English speakers do something similar where they say someone can be "electric". I've had my share of idioms being misunderstood as realistically accurate and I see others all the time.
If it was a joke the whole time, we missed it. It's hard to convey a humorous tone by text.
