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I reorganized my grandfather's entire tool shed in 5 hours but the chlotes in my room are still on the ground.. this sucks
Yep! And I can't direct it either, which is also super frustrating. If I'm productive, it's always in a direction my brain wants to go, not where I actually need to be productive.
It's doing something for someone else vs doing it for you. For some people, it can serve as a "hack" to engage the hyperfocus.
Aside from stimulants and therapy, learning to live with ADHD is about developing seemingly abnormal coping skills to overcome the barriers it presents. Looks weird from the outside, but it makes total sense to that person because they know it engages something within them that won't engage under normal circumstances.
It sucks to use and I hate it, but if someone starts doing the thing I've been struggling to do, that can engage my ability to do it because I'm doing it so they don't have to...such as cleaning up one of my messes. Maybe you can use this too?