<story><title>ADHD, a Lifelong Struggle (2018)</title><url>https://gekk.info/articles/adhd.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vonseel</author><text>I’m 31 and have ADHD (diagnosed in my teens) and I’m pretty sure NOBODY with ADHD is going to have the wherewithal to read this entire article! Unless it happens to magically coincide with their hyper-focus topic of the moment!&lt;p&gt;In all seriousness, I skimmed parts of the article and kept scrolling and it just kept going and going and going... like the Energizer bunny. I guess the author found a doctor to prescribe stimulants; they do make it easy to write long rants.&lt;p&gt;I can identify with &lt;i&gt;some&lt;/i&gt; of his analogies, not all. The forgetfulness, standing at desk with power supply &amp;#x2F; getting “stuck”, lots of that sounds familiar. Some of the stuff he talks about is behavioral though and if it can be called lazy, it probably is at least partially lazy. I could never file TPS reports everyday, but I can do it occasionally. My brain’s capable of it. I just don’t like doing boring things. And yeah, I probably wouldn’t last if I had to do boring things everyday for a job. But the article makes it sound like he’s actually not capable of doing a boring thing.&lt;p&gt;The more interesting parts of ADHD are the stuff that is lesser-known and often overlooked, like mood swings and anger&amp;#x2F;irritability issues. Ironically stimulants pretty much cured lifelong mood issues for me. I used to blow up on people all the time; now I’m easygoing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matheusmoreira</author><text>&amp;gt; Unless it happens to magically coincide with their hyper-focus topic of the moment!&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s funny. People with ADHD suffer from attention deficit but at the same time they display hyperattention when they encounter a subject they like. I&amp;#x27;ve experienced it as well: once I start programming I have no problem doing it for 12 hours straight. I&amp;#x27;ve found this trait in many ADHD patients. There&amp;#x27;s usually something that really turns them on and I always try to find it.&lt;p&gt;I think of it as an signal&amp;#x2F;noise ratio problem. Very high signal is needed to grab their attention and there is very low tolerance for noise.</text></comment>
<story><title>ADHD, a Lifelong Struggle (2018)</title><url>https://gekk.info/articles/adhd.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>vonseel</author><text>I’m 31 and have ADHD (diagnosed in my teens) and I’m pretty sure NOBODY with ADHD is going to have the wherewithal to read this entire article! Unless it happens to magically coincide with their hyper-focus topic of the moment!&lt;p&gt;In all seriousness, I skimmed parts of the article and kept scrolling and it just kept going and going and going... like the Energizer bunny. I guess the author found a doctor to prescribe stimulants; they do make it easy to write long rants.&lt;p&gt;I can identify with &lt;i&gt;some&lt;/i&gt; of his analogies, not all. The forgetfulness, standing at desk with power supply &amp;#x2F; getting “stuck”, lots of that sounds familiar. Some of the stuff he talks about is behavioral though and if it can be called lazy, it probably is at least partially lazy. I could never file TPS reports everyday, but I can do it occasionally. My brain’s capable of it. I just don’t like doing boring things. And yeah, I probably wouldn’t last if I had to do boring things everyday for a job. But the article makes it sound like he’s actually not capable of doing a boring thing.&lt;p&gt;The more interesting parts of ADHD are the stuff that is lesser-known and often overlooked, like mood swings and anger&amp;#x2F;irritability issues. Ironically stimulants pretty much cured lifelong mood issues for me. I used to blow up on people all the time; now I’m easygoing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>khalilravanna</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s interesting to hear about ADHD causing mood swings&amp;#x2F;anger&amp;#x2F;irritability and the stimulants doing away with them. Is that a common trait of the illness? I only noticed that &lt;i&gt;after&lt;/i&gt; I started taking stimulants my temper became a lot more short. It&amp;#x27;s to the point that I have to be really cognizant of it lest I inadvertently snap at someone due to some biological response (really not good as a leader in an organization).</text></comment>