Article Link: Your Friends Don't Know What It's Like to Have Adult ADHD

I recently came across an article which very accurately describes for me, at least, a lot of what it is like to live with adult ADHD. I say "for me", since each case of adult ADHD is different...and, in fact, one person's experience can vary from day to day, or even from hour to hour.

Someone with adult ADHD may be solving all the problems of the universe one moment...or even one hour, and, as I like to put it, "...see a squirrel". In the article, the author used a doorknob to explain what happens, but, for me, the way my dog used to act when she saw a squirrel was a perfect example. Everything gets dumped "overboard", and the squirrel becomes the whole focus of the universe...until another "squirrel" runs by going the other way.

Anyway, it's a great article, especially the whiteboard and big red letters analogy. Everything is "NOW", with no filter.

I drive my wife crazy because she will ask me to do something, intending for me to do it later, and, I will stop whatever I am doing and start to work on whatever it was she asked me to do.

It's a double whammy.

Ask someone with adult ADHD to do something and they have to do it NOW. Also, since people with ADHD are well aware of all the times they screw up by NOT doing what they are supposed to do WHEN they are supposed to do it, they know that if they don't do it now, it won't get done.

Anyway, read the article If Your Friends Ever Say They Have ADHD, Just Show Them This.