The thing is with ADHD, there are some positives. It isn’t all negative.
For instance, it practically impossible to creep up behind me.
For all I lack focus, or at least more so without medication, I miss nothing as far as movement around me.
It’s weird I can’t explain it, if I open a cupboard and something falls out, even if I’m looking the other way, I can always catch it.
I’m a very good driver. Better since advanced training as a rozzer. Can hear the boos
Never been tagged at work.
I wonder if any of you can relate to these things??
Also, if I’m interested in something, it becomes everything, my two things are books and music.
If I hear a song I like, I get the lyrics, straight off, usually in one listen, this was useful when I flirted with the idea of being in a rock band, it didn’t work out as I was painfully shy… well that and the fact that I’d joined the band last and within a fortnight, I’d rattled the lead guitarist’s girlfriend during one of my insane pleasure seeking dopamine hunts, this despite the fact that I really loved the guy. I was sorry as hell afterwards but damage done.
Now for the bad…
I’ve always had a self destruct button the size of a bus steering wheel.
Get really ***ed off at the slightest criticism, taking it as a personal slight.
I can feel wounded by people not doing what I think they should, also take the personally.
Feel things very deeply, quick to anger, quick to calm, them wonder why people are still ***ed off at me when I’m then okay.
Have great ideas, they sweep me up and whoosh, my interest has vanished, usually after enthusing others who them get really annoyed.
This thread has been great, it’s cathartic, I’ve had counselling, it didn’t work, always felt like you were describing the water you were drowning in!
Genuinely interested to hear of others having similar feelings, experiences especially the physical side of things.
Or, as I suspect as I had for years that I’m just plain odd, odd and that now someone has labelled it!
We are all individuals so will have different experiences and ways of interpreting things.
I’m just so glad i understand now why I can’t do things others do, why their sensible adult conversations sometimes seem a mystery and I often wonder wtf they are talking about.