> It just turned out that the month-long and semester-long projects sharply limited the scope of the careless mistakes I'd make that would, on real-life-sized p

> It just turned out that the month-long and semester-long projects sharply limited the scope of the careless mistakes I'd make that would, on real-life-sized projects, cascade into crippling architectural issues. Beyond any difficulties with controlling attention, I think this has a lot to do with lack of practice with large (and “real”) projects, ramping up in scope and scale slowly over the course of years. This is a big problem with the school curriculum/pedagogy, IMO. Many people I know working in creative jobs (computer programming and otherwise) have various problems with large-scale project management, long-term problem solving strategies, etc., plenty of which have nothing to do with ADHD.