Hyperfocus. This is one of the first things I learned about ADHD. It describes our ability as ADHDers to lose ourselves to hobbies or research, forsaking everything around us, sometimes for hours at a time. It’s how I lose entire days to games, creating music and sometimes even to work. But it can come at a price.
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Time is a wonderful human construct. It allows us to organise all manner of aspects of our life to the very second. A daily stand up, a project kick off, a dentist appointment, lunch with my mum. It allows us to carve off distinct parts of the future so that we can use them in productive ways. So what happens when you have poor executive function and there is zero distinction between 5 minutes from now and 5 hours from now?
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