[hashmal]

* ADHD doesn't mean you can hop from X to Y to Z superfast/efficiently while remembering anything meaningful.

* Hyperfocus isn't a spell you can cast at whatever task at hand. It happens only when you're really into a given topic... And ADHD tends to push you to procrastinate on things you like a lot: you end-up in hyper-procrastination mode.

Above points can be used to your advantage with great benefit, but it's not automatic. Some people with ADHD compensate intuitively and do impressive stuff, others need medication just to get out of bed. Both of these extremes can be the same person at different times.

[theultdev]

You can learn how to hack your stubborn brain and take advantage of the waves of motivation.

Stimulates are a instant gratification solution, but man take those all the time and you will be pretty damn irritable and mentally tired after awhile.

It's natural for "ADHD" people to work in waves. Long sprints and rest in between. I know it's popular to advocate drugging yourself, but people reach for that too quickly.

Society is the problem, not them.

[JohnBooty]

     but man take those all the time and you will be pretty 
     damn irritable and mentally tired after awhile.

No argument there.

     It's natural for "ADHD" people to work in waves. Long 
     sprints and rest in between. I know it's popular to 
     advocate drugging yourself, but people reach for that too quickly.

This is easy to say, but there are a variety of reasons why not everybody (and in fact, most people) can't precisely tailor their lives to meet the whims of the ADHD brain. Even entrepreneurship has lots of "boring" stuff that you have to simply plow through to get to the interesting stuff.

[dailykoder]

>It's natural for "ADHD" people to work in waves. Long sprints and rest in between. I know it's popular to advocate drugging yourself, but people reach for that too quickly.

>Society is the problem, not them.

I wish it was that easy. It's not. ADHD is an extremely broad spectrum. There are some habits which CAN bring me into hyperfocus, but they don't work all the time.

What do you mean by people reach to fast for stimulants? Coffee and energy drinks basically have the same effect as methylphenidate on me, they just don't last as long.

Before my diagnosis I was always flabbergasted that people were so astonished as I told them that coffee and energy drinks bring me down. Now I know the reason why. But in the end reducing my coffee and energy consumption, but taking meds in a controled way works a lot better for me. But I also know people where meds don't work at all (in a beneficial way). There is really no way to sum up "ADHD people". It's just way to nuanced.

Edit: I am literally sitting in the office right now, hyperfocusing on the weird typing frequency of my neighbour and just can't put on my headphones and start coding. I would even try to hear that with my noise cancelling headphones on. Gotta get up now, take a short walk and hopefully when i come back i can start.

[theultdev]

Like I said to someone else, I never said it was simple.

It can be beneficial. Depends on how you handle your brain.

And yes I was mainly talking about harder stimulants, they do have side effects, like irritability.

[Arcanum-XIII]

Nope, you can't with ADHD. My interest will be there on random subject, not the one I would select.

And stimulant kind of help. They're not magic... you have to use therapy, exercise, meditation, organisation to cope. Fun. That's maybe why people can be irritable under medication (and which kind... people react differently to very similar molecules so...)

[hashmal]

I did not intent to advocate for any solution (drug-based of otherwise), just tried to say that ADHD covers a wide spectrum of situations.

Some won't be able to "hack" their brain for motivation (which, btw, comes from doing something in the first place), some will. Some will react well do medication (compounds, amounts…), some others won't. There is also CBT.

[viraptor]

> You can learn how to hack your stubborn brain

You may be able to. This is not universally true.

[theultdev]

I'm sorry, where did I say everyone would be capable of learning how?

It's something you can learn how to do, but just like many things you can learn, not everyone will.

[viraptor]

When you wrote "you can" which implies that everyone can, but not everyone will. I'm saying that not everyone is able to do that step.