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I have been diagnosed with ADHD and I don't relate to this. Weird. When consuming posts in this sub there are some things that I do relate to and others I don't.
Everybody's ADHD appears to be different. Can anyone confirm this?
It's a wide spectrum in general, not everything applies uniformly to everyone IMO, regardless of diagnosis status. Varying cultures, upbringings and other factors also come into play
Yes, its actually a real shame they medically dont have sub categories. Some dont have hyperfocus, some dont have memory issues, some have overlapping mild OCD, lots dont have hyperactivity (tapping feet, clicking pens), etc. Its not just a spectrum but a multi-spectrum across many different categories.
The common ground is the inability to control focus/attention at will, it just turns out that it usually comes with a lot of other things too.
I've recently started to take medication. While this does help with my ability to focus, I have the feeling it just doesn't improve my memory. In my job I have to manage a lot of things and keep the details in mind. So I'm struggling and ask myself if I'm in the right business after all...
It's a cruel world for us...
"Never give up on the things you can change, and learn to live at peace with the thing you can't"
Memory in terms of information retrevial (ex: memorizing digits of pi) can be learned.
However, trigger-based memory ("when I get home I should do X", "before I leave I should do Y", etc), is usually not something that can be learned or improved and I think its really counter productive to "just try harder". Unless you're in a pretty tight situation though (like gov work where you can't record or write down the info, or fast-paced work like waiter/waitress work where theres no time to record/revie), there's usually a way to work around a deficiency in trigger based memory.
Sometimes we can be in the wrong bussiness, but usually its a matter of support systems.
More often its wrong bussiness because they dont let us setup "unusual" and "shouldnt-be-necessary" support systems