About me: ADHD and Learning Disorders (Crossposted)

Originally posted this 12/3/16


I was told that my ADHD is actually a symptom of my autism. I haven’t gotten much clarification on that one yet though.

There is a symptom of ADHD that people do not understand. It is called Hyperfocus, I have both hyperfocus and distractibility. Hyperfocus happens when you really like something or are really good at something you tend to focus on it fully and if no one or nothing interrupts you then you just don’t stop. You get lost in your project. For me it is puzzles, making charts, making lists, writing stories, reading, and playing phone games or occasionally computer games.

Distractibility comes with almost anything else I do. I can miss important details, become distracted easily, get bored very quickly, have trouble keeping myself organized if I don’t make a million lists, I lose everything, get confused very easily, daydream a lot, and have trouble processing information at the same rate as other people do.

My diagnosed learning disorders involve math and articulating writing. It takes so much focus, control, willpower, and proofreading for me to write something that other people will understand.

I find that a way to make my life a lot better is for me to make very clear schedules for myself (like, every fifteen minutes, including brush your teeth, eat, get dressed) I also always write on my calendar that my appointments are earlier then what they are. So if my appointment is at 10 I write 9:30 on my calendar. I don’t usually process the memory that I do this, so its rare for me to think to myself “hey I wrote that half hour early I have plenty of time”

Another thing I do is I make lists. For everything. The number of items I need, the number of things I have to get done, what order I need to do things in, a list of each item, a list of each person ect.

Even though my phone has groups I group my contacts in my phone with characters such as ~ -  ! *

Like family is - 

So it would be in my phone as

-Mom

-Dad

-Rocky

Friends are !

So it would be in my phone as

!Ann

!Crys

!AL

Specific special group of friends is * so it would be

*Kyle

*Bonny

*Jace

Buisness are ~

So it would be

~Pharmecy

~Walmart

~ pizza hut