In 2022, I got my ADHD diagnostic at 27 years old and in one year on being medicated I was able to :
have better performance at work and offered a promotion;
be able to do groceries the day I wanna do it;
stay focus on a lots more task;
stay focus when talking to people;
Starting new hobbies that aren't a hyperfocus;
Rebuild the stairs of my deck without getting distracted every 3 seconds by the moving shadows of trees;
Grow confidence to get a cat;
I was 14 years old when the first iPhone was announced. I have lived without the internet for a good part of my childhood. I know how to take care of myself without them and yet my ability to focus without my meds is extremely bad.
During school, the teacher's notes in my exams and grade papers were always : "Have the capacity to do better" / "Could put more effort". I knew deep down that I was better than just the passing grade but still I wasn't able to care more.
Do you know how it feels to be so bored that it physically hurts every day?
Do you know how it feels to fight your brain to not analyze and create a list of step for everything that you do?
Do you know how it feels to lose your wallet/keys for the 10th time in the last hour while you had to get going 20 minutes ago?
Do you know how it feels when you start a conversation with someone and then get immediately bored of the subject and have to force yourself to stay in the subject, awake and not yawn?
Do you know how bad it feels to make someone repeat something to then understand mid sentence what they were asking and then cut them to tell them their answer?
Do you know what it's like when you're in the middle of something and then you get the impossible to ignore urge to get up and do the thousand steps around your house because it's 100 times more stimulating that what ever you were doing (even if you were playing video games)?
Like yeah, I've learnt over the years some trick to manage some of the symptoms without the meds, because I am a human and we adapts to our environment.
Since I got into medication, I realized that it's true that neurotypicals can just tell themselves the gonna do a thing and get up and do it without having and internal world war with their brain about the different steps it takes to do it.
So yes Mr. I'm too afraid to get out of the closet Walsh, I have ADHD, medication helps, you're right, drugs doesn't fix my disorder, but it makes life so gosh darn easier and it made me grow as a man and a human, unlike you, who is still stuck in 1986/1993/2014 :).
Anyway, gotta go finish painting my deck. Lot more productive than to be chronically online on twitter all day :) .
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