[kayodelycaon]

> Were you officially diagnosed with ADHD. I never went to a doctor, but in the last years I had growing assumptions I might have ADHD or Asperger (or both).

Diagnosed bipolar 1 recently. But I was diagnosed as ADD as a child thirty years ago. ADHD is a popular addition to the standard Bipolar feature set.

> Do you follow certain strategies which made communicating your thoughts and ideas easier and/or better?

Not in a way I can easily teach. I learned my social skills late and had to study people to understand them. I take all of the inputs and outputs of a known person and mentally visualize what their internal state is. Then I play out how different phrasing will be received.

Whatever part of the brain normally handles social interaction is broken in mine, so I use logical thinking to run other people's brains in a virtual machine.

[sai_c]

Thank you very much for answering, although it is a very personal thing to ask about.

I guess I should get an official opinion. Nevertheless, diagnosed or not, virtualizing people seems like it could work for me, although it seems to take a significant amount of time for each person to work.

[kayodelycaon]

It took a lot of time to optimize the process. Once you get used to understanding people individually, pattern emerge and you can generalize a few things. I have a number of mental guardrails like: If (person) is (things), then don't express (idea).

IF my dad IS talking about (politics|religion) THEN do not enter discussion.