Is this the same for largely mental problem solving tasks like computer programming? Nothing upsets me and destroys my productivity like my boss making me switch tasks when I already had my day planned! I typically have a sense of the sequence of coding tasks in my head, it sounds very similar!
It’s interesting and shows the power of names, because when I was growing up I only ever heard them called woodlice, and didn’t hear the name pillbug. So I kind of just always assumed they ate wooden structures and it was the rest of their diet that surprised me. Like I find them in fallen apples now that we have an apple tree and I didn’t expect that!
Closing as selecting the correct tool for the job is opinion-based
Whenever I see this, I know the answers will contain useful curated facts about each tool…
That’s very O_DIRECT of you
Another way in which I can relate to ADHD although my neurodivergence is PTSD. So many apparently overlapping symptoms I thought I had ADHD for a while.
The thing that makes me understand it’s trauma is that the dire need to please people, the hypersensitivity, and the way I freeze when I should be getting stuff done or going to bed, are all because my my brain was wired over several years of childhood to say I am in danger.
My brother does have ADHD and we’re eachothers best allies because we each have this thing that’s sort of shared but also completely different.
This, completely. Like does Stanley Tucci have toned muscles? Idk I was too busy listening to him talking passionately about Italian food
Easily-Startled Lettuce
(this tells you far too much about me)