ADHD

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A casual community for people with ADHD

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How do I trick my brain into completing a project? I'm making an app that shows which voice actor plays a character in the movie and what other movies they act in. It's useful for me personally but I feel like I'm making something that's been done numerous times over and I lost the momentum because I'm on vacation with my family now. I ran into some problems with the project too and getting help takes a ton of time so it's disrupting the rythm too. I really have to put at least 2-3 projects like this for a portfolio;_;

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeahh I heard about it. But I have to tell people about it when I'm asking for help. I'm trying to do as much on my own as possible but there are moments where it's more than I can deal with.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don’t tell them the whole project. Breaking a problem down to smaller components will help you conceptualize possible solutions, narrow down the problem space, and avoid the dopamine hit effect by discussing a single discrete problem, e.g. “how do I pull [x] from the database.”

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I only described it here for context, usually I focus on the functionality itself, unless the bigger picture is needed even though it's a little difficult for me to tell which details are important and what can be omitted. Sometimes despite my best efforts there's some confusion and making it right is consuming a lot of energy.