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Slightly different perspective: I was diagnosed as a child, but had assumed I had "mastered it" and went off meds and let it go for several years. What I've com
by jedimastert 5y ago
Slightly different perspective: I was diagnosed as a child, but had assumed I had "mastered it" and went off meds and let it go for several years. What I've come to realize is that I've still had it, just that I've structured the parts of my life that I could around it and let other parts suffer for no real reason. That kind of fell apart (the rest of the way) when my wife had her second child and a few days before I was suppose to come back from paternity leave the my office shut down along with the rest of the world.
I had to come to terms with the fact that I had not grown out of it, I just subconsciously geared everything (my environment, the kind of work I took on and was good at, my compartmentalization) around it, and honestly not in a very healthy way.
(P.S. I just recently wrote a piece about my experience with ADHD and how it presents to me <https://aarontag.dev/2021/05/13/adhd.html https://aarontag.dev/2021/05/13/adhd.html>)
- intpx 5y agoADHD is a disease/difference of executive function-- how your internal world interfaces with your external world. It totally makes sense that you had a tough go of it when you experienced major life changes.
- jedimastert 5y agoYeah, my world would have been flip-turned upside down as it is. The real kicker was realizing that I had not considered remote work at all when we picked our apartment. We've just bought our first house and it's much better now, but trying to work at ALL for the first 3 or 4 months was truly awful.