I would just like to express my gratitude to everyone for sending me down a rabbit hole of research after reading many comments and relating to almost every single meme that was posted.

After my diagnosis, I have a plan moving forward to help better my decisions and what I should do next. Do it if you are questioning and can afford it, is what I would say!

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[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When I realised I had ADHD, being able to recontextualise my struggles and set aside all the negative self talk allowed me to see that actually, there are parts of my ADHD-ness that I think are really cool. For example, I found it useful to have multiple tasks on my "menu" for a given day, so that I can cycle between them and not get burnt out on any one task. As well as being a strategy to cope with some of my ADHD deficits, it turns out that putting a tricky problem on a back-burner while I focus on something completely different is a great way to generate new ideas and connections about the original task.

Have you found anything like that so far? It took me a while to get to that point, but I think it's part of the liberation of neurodiversity as a framework — it's a way of acknowledging the quirks of our brains in a way that isn't constrained to thinking of ADHD as a disorder.

[–] PM_ME_WRISTS_GIRL@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 6 days ago

I have, and it is basically exactly that same thing. Being able to switch contexts quickly can sometimes be a superpower.

Similarly, being suddenly interested in learning a new skill very often but always only for a brief amount of time, has allowed me to get a little bit of knowledge of many things. I'm not an expert on anything but I have had so many hobbies and interests that I can easily pick up new things because there's always some base knowledge to link it to.