I’ve never formally been diagnosed – but I’m pretty sure I’m an ADHD spider monkey.
From your perspective, it may or may not seem so, but I’m naturally bad at all sorts of things. One of these things is focusing on a task for any extended length of time.
You know this is bad inherently, because everybody needs to get things done in their daily lives. My perspective on it, though, is infinitely worse. To do anything of consequence that I really want to get done (write a book, make software, do a good job at the office) I really need to focus.
I even have the talent to double down on this exceptional trait (my ADHD spider monkey-ism) when it comes to personal projects. Literally every day (I’m not kidding) I find something I want to do, make, or learn. I have a long list of books I would like to read, courses I would like to take, and projects I want to make with my hands. Any given moment can seem like the perfect opportunity to start something new!
The big problem is, the new thing will prevent me from completing the current (now old) thing.
So I have a double issue, micro focus (just getting the task at hand done when I want to check Twitter instead) and macro focus (completing whole projects).
See? ADHD spider monkey. I bet you have horrific visions of an obnoxious monkey jumping around trees and screeching at people with my face on it now. I’m sorry, don’t think of me like that, please!
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