Adult ADHD Experiences

I was recently diagnosed with ADHD. I am 34. Part of what took so long to get this diagnosed is that it is poorly named. I do not have a deficit of attention; in fact, I have extreme sustained attention [0].If the symptoms described by the parent poster are causing you to suffer, please consider that it might be ADHD, and that ADHD does not necessarily manifest in the way it's name suggests it should.Please also consider that lightweight treatment can drastically improve you

I suspect I have ADHD as well. Well, at least something similar / along the spectrum. I talk about it more in another Ask HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30952648Would love your input! :)

I suspect my ADHD makes it hard to do this.

Get tested for ADHD, even if you believe you might not have it.I'm in my mid-30s and been somewhat successful at work but my pattern has always been that I could hyperfocus on some projects for days on end and suddenly I would be bored out of my mind and not able to focus for more than 20 minutes at a time.I've blamed and shamed myself for years, thinking I was being lazy, that my work ethic sometimes was poor/lacking, that I could just force myself into not being in that st

A usual advice here on HN is to check on ADHD with a good doctor. You can decide then if you want to jump on medications, but I can share that it improves the lives of many people.

Apparently hyper focus can be a symptom of ADHD, and many people on HN seem to have realized they have ADHD as an adult through such symptoms. Perhaps you too could look into this.

Fellow ADHD haver. You sound like you have ADHD and burnout. You need to tease those apart and deal with them one at a time. ADHD is going to be easier to get started on.If you indeed get diagnosed with ADHD.Do NOT try to do a bunch of weird stuff to "boost" your brain and fix your ADHD. Pills are good and I take them and if your doctor agrees you should then its a good idea to take pills.But I see people with ADHD thinking that they need to make their brain more reliable. But

It’s clearly not the case for everyone, but I struggled for an extended period of time with a few things in my personal and professional life:1. Remarkable focus in topics which interest me and remarkable lack of focus in topics which do not.2. Leaving “must do” tasks in areas of little interest until the very last moment, resulting in a predictable lack of excellence in execution.3. Periodic deep dives into topics which go beyond the aforementioned “areas of interest”.4. Driven by a

Yes, ADHD is definitely an option to consider (I'm ADHD)Possible starter point : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33633512

Sounds like adult ADHD symptoms. Do some research into hyper-focus.