Wait what did I come into this thread for again? Oh yeah, ADHD!

[Jynx]

Hehe glad you enjoyed @Glisten @Shaz51 😍

Hello @Bipolar-II welcome! Enjoy some memes up above, and also I'm always happy to yammer on about ADHD so feel free to throw me some questions, or if you wanna just talk about your experiences this is the place! 😊

[ArraDreaming]

good finds @Jynx.

[Jynx]

Thanks @ArraDreaming glad you enjoyed! 😎

[Bipolar-II]

Thanks @Shaz51 ❤️

Hello @Jynx thank you for the welcome. Ohhh I am partial to a good ADHD meme haha!

I look forward to hearing others experiences and am sure I will have questions in time.

[Jane75]

Oh, how I can relate! 

I always knew I had ADHD. My son was diagnosed and we are two peas from the same pod.  I never got formally diagnosed though until I was 42 ( I'm 48) at which point I started stimulants!   OH BOY!!! Wonder drug!   It wasn't intil I took that little pill that I realised just how much he ADHD  affected me!  Like, whoa, I went from 3.6km  to do a load of washjng, walking around  wondering what I was doing to collecting a load in a few minutes! Haha.  I  also am bipolar so I have a double whammy! 

Thanks for providing a place to chat. 

[Jynx]

Howdy @Jane75 welcome!! To both the thread, and to the 'late diagnosis' club too! It's a wild ride haha. Thanks for joining and sharing with us! 😁

[greenspace]

@Jane75 oh my goodness, I so relate to the time & effort it can take do a routine domestic task if you have undiagnosed ADHD! 

And I was diagnosed at 56 (now 59), so I've done a lot of wandering around the house picking things up and putting them down somewhere else before managing to do the laundry, or get myself a meal, or get out the door to work... 

I was usually efficient at work, because I had deadlines, wrote myself check-lists, and (if I was lucky) had the right amount of tasks and interaction with other people to keep me interested without being overwhelmed. 

[Jane75]

I can relate to that too.  Work has always been a whole different ball game with me too.   I think you are right in that it's a 'have' to so we bring our best game.   I'll still make silly mistakes though but get things done quicker at work.   Probably be ause I prefer work over domestic chores!! 

Thanks gor yoyr input 🙂 😀 

[Jynx]

Hey @Jane75 @greenspace @ArraDreaming @Glisten and anyone else who might wanna join discussion! @Shaz51 asked me on another thread, 'Do you have fixations? How do you cope with them?' I would love to hear others' experiences with this! 

I think first off some distinctions can be made - there's hyperfocus and then there's hyperfixations. 

Hyperfocus is where we get drawn into a task or activity to such an intense degree that we might forget to eat, take breaks, or even go pee. Hyperfixations (a.k.a. special interests) are areas of passion or interest that we become very fixated upon, potentially to the point of obsession, and can include both topics and hobbies, e.g. being obsessed with Ancient Egypt, or spending oodles of money on D&D and dice (guilty, hahaha). 

@Shaz51 were you referring to hyperfocus or to hyperfixations in your original question? I think both could be worth exploring together but thought I'd let you lead us in the discussion!

[Glisten]

Hi @Jane75  totally agree I loved my job and I was very good at it.

Basically no one values domestic duties.

G