We experience life more intensely than neurotypical people. The ADHD nervous system wants to be engaged in something interesting and challenging. Attention is never 'deficit.' It's always excessive, constantly occupied with internal engagements.
By the time most people with ADHD are adolescents, their physical hyperactivity is hidden. But it's there and it still impairs the ability to engage in the moment, listen to other people, and relax enough to fall asleep. Even when a person with ADHD takesFor the ADHD mind, sometimes everything seems a blur.The ADHD mind is a vast and unorganized library. It contains masses of info, in snippets, but not whole books.
Each person with ADHD has his or her own way of storing that huge amount of material. Important items have no fixed place, and might as well be invisible or missing entirely.For a person with ADHD, information and memories that are out of sight are out of mind. Her mind is a computer in RAM, with no reliable access to info on the hard drive. The ADHD mind is full of the minutiae of life , so there's little room left for new thoughts and memories.
Individuals with ADHD have little self-awareness. While they can often read other people well, it's hard for the average person with ADHD to know, from moment to moment, how they themselves are doing. Neurotypicals misinterpret this as being callous, narcissistic, uncaring, or socially inept. The vulnerability to the negative feedback of others, and the lack of ability to observe oneself in the moment, make a witch's brew.
Eighty-five percent of my ADHD patients don't wear or own a watch. For people with ADHD, time is a meaningless abstraction. It seems important to other people, but individuals with ADHD have never gotten the hang of it.
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