me: I just need the motivation to work on this one really important thing! 🧠: Sorry, fresh out. Oh but here are some interesting distractions I just thought of—you can have some motivation to do these instead. me: But… 🧠: This is the way. me: [sigh] This is the way.

“…Because of course my ADHD cannot possibly eat something I have securely placed inside a todo list.”

I think when a person says they will do X, it should mean that it is their will to do X, not a guarantee that X gets done.

Which has a greater influence on how much food you eat?

Anyone else read their card numbers in their head like a haiku?

Hey, you -- yeah, with the ADHD and the cool projects! You know how all of those projects are, like, 80% done? And how you can't figure out how to get them over the line? And how frustrating that is? The following thread contains an infohazard, proceed at your peril! ;)

I think if #ADHD was the norm, instead of working for a salary people would trade DIY kits to put together everything they want.

I made a deer coloring page

Anyone else make up distinctions that are not useful when talking to other people? For example in my head, grey refers to lighter shades, and gray refers to darker shades.

The job of the interface designer is to convince the user that there is no interface.

Please avoid startup burn out at all costs. Relax and recharge on weekends if needed.

It's funny how different activities have their own energy reserve. You do a thing and get totally exhausted but turn right back around and do some other thing full force. Or is that just me.

ADHD-ers usually have an interest-based nervous system. Meaning that a task needs either novelty, urgency, competition or interest for them to be motivated or focused. Learning this and adapting boring, everyday tasks to fit into one of these categories can be life-changing.

The hidden burden of undiagnosed ADHD is constantly needing to invent excuses in an attempt to explain or justify behavior that you don’t even understand yourself.

Marathon + Red Light Green Light = #ADHD

"If you forgot it, it must not have been important" 100% totally and definitely does not apply to people with ADHD. I assure you, ADHD working memory is so inconsistent that just about anything, of any importance, can just poof from our memory

If time passes more slowly for a fast moving object and more quickly for an object experiencing a strong gravitational force, and there is no difference between acceleration and force of gravity, can the time dilation effects cancel for fast, accelerating objects? Neil deGrasse Tyson