ADHD is being intelligent and hard working but completely unable to decide a career path, so drifting through life into your 40s when you finally realise you have ADHD and have wasted the past 25 years.
edit: I studied physics, quit, became a bass player, then a street musician playing percussion, then software developer, then translator, then studied classical music composition, then quit, then became conference interpreter, then learned neural networks and gave a seminar on using neural networks in contemporary music at Ircam Paris in 2018, then went back to studying composition at the university. This year I will finally graduate at 41. Hope to do my masters and become a college professor.
But in my ADHD experience: I'd think of 1000 fun things to do, but do some minor hyperfixation thing(s) and then it's 3am and I did nothing I should have done or actually wanted to do 😵💫
It can go both ways. If it goes your way, I consider that a successful day. Its usually easier to just watch YouTube videos to no end instead of doing all the cool things you thought about.
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Reverendender@sh.itjust.works · 35 pts · 1y
Relevant?
Taleya@aussie.zone · 24 pts · 1y
If you're my husband the key is apparently to marry an autist and let her manage all your projects.
Shit gets done.
undefinedValue@programming.dev · 9 pts · 1y
Is this blessed autist PM hiring any new ADHD devs???
crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y
My autistic wife is the reason our home hasn't inexplicably burned to the ground!
meliaesc@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Its me, I'm the autistic wife to a completely dysfunctional ADHD husband. I am tired. Tell her thank you.
Taleya@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 1y
fistbump
Apocalypteroid@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 1y
ADHD is being intelligent and hard working but completely unable to decide a career path, so drifting through life into your 40s when you finally realise you have ADHD and have wasted the past 25 years.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 1y
Hey! We're not all hard working!
kureta@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 1y
dude...
edit: I studied physics, quit, became a bass player, then a street musician playing percussion, then software developer, then translator, then studied classical music composition, then quit, then became conference interpreter, then learned neural networks and gave a seminar on using neural networks in contemporary music at Ircam Paris in 2018, then went back to studying composition at the university. This year I will finally graduate at 41. Hope to do my masters and become a college professor.
FuckFascism@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 1y
Hey nuh uh, I did all that having been diagnosed at 5, thank you.
Oneser@lemm.ee · 22 pts · 1y
Is this really an ADHD thing?
kubica@fedia.io · 44 pts · 1y
Executive dysfunction can be a symptom of other things but also ADHD.
watson387@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 1y
It is for me.
TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social · 16 pts · 1y
My nemesis, choice paralysis, how you are the bane of my existence.
CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y
That sounds more like depression to me?
But in my ADHD experience: I'd think of 1000 fun things to do, but do some minor hyperfixation thing(s) and then it's 3am and I did nothing I should have done or actually wanted to do 😵💫
Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf · 6 pts · 1y
It can go both ways. If it goes your way, I consider that a successful day. Its usually easier to just watch YouTube videos to no end instead of doing all the cool things you thought about.
SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
FUCK.
Happened to me today!
ended up listening to loud music on the new home amplifier at least
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y
Ooh, which one did you get?!
asbestos@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
Please don’t answer or I’ll have to waste 3 days researching amplifiers
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 1y
I’m looking forward to three days researching amplifiers!
Charlxmagne@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Or imagining how sick it would be doing one of those activities without having the willpower to start.
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y
This is me every weekend.
Pnut@lemm.ee · 0 pts · 1y
I'm getting pretty sick of "ADHD is specifically this"
That is not how it works.
janus2@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1y
devil's advocate: "[thing] is" has become internet shorthand for "a common attribute of [thing]" likely due to microblog character limits
that being said I do get a "it's ALWAYS like this for ALL OF US" vibe from a lot of these types of posts that is uhhhh not great