ADHD Attention

I'm not sure if this is the ADHD or just my personality, but I'm very self-aware. I know my strengths and weaknesses intimately, and with my propensity to overthink everything I am very critical of myself. I had one or two things I wanted to pick today for a topic and as I was exploring them, I noticed a contradiction I made in earlier posts and I started overthinking it to its logical conclusion. So what did I say?

 Anyone who read that with a tune, you now have an idea how old I am. Kudos for getting the reference. But today I really will be talking about buckets. Buckets and cups. So we have our physical energy keeping us moving, but mental energy is also a gigantic factor in our ability to do anything.

I will go into executive function more specifically in a later post, but today I want to address one of the aspects of attention and effort that the 'normal' people of the world seem to have the most trouble getting in my experience. You see when most people do something, anything really, they just DO IT.

So here we are, I never really thought that I would be writing for this blog. Although I do have ADHD I have such a workload for the other blogs I write for it just didn’t seem realistic. But yet here I am. I really don’t know what else to write as I have run out of ADHD meds and thought hey! Let's write for that ADHD blog we got going. So I’m Spec, I guess you could say I am the owner/operator/director/whatever of OnTheSpectrum Media. Funnily enough, I have ADHD, who would have thought? Like many people with ADHD, I find myself being one of those that also have autism. You can read more about my life with autism here https://blog.anautisticauthor.co.uk/ I am also one of those people with ADHD that chooses to take medication to manage my condition. I take a medication called Concerta XL. Which is a slow-release methylphenidate medication. In other words, it’s a stimulant similar to amphetamines but with less of an addiction or abuse pathway when compared to regular amphetamines.  M...

 Back when my mom was pregnant with me, someone tried using a quantum computer to determine my gender, but in a freak accident, my fetus merged with the quantum particles in the womb and thus I was born with the extraordinary talent to do extremely complex things well while completely sucking at any normal human tasks.