Exactly - it was such a massive game changer for me. But for others here, meds didn’t help, or they haven’t found the right ones from themselves yet.

But not trying? It’s like 15 minutes of your life, where is the harm …

• Get them officially diagnosed: start looking for an appointment now!
• Decide about treatment based on science. In most cases, I believe, medication has the better outcome over non-medication; occupational therapy possibly too at that age, psychotherapy later. But they can tell you what works for that specific case.
• Educate yourself and show compassion. Ask yourself “could this be purely neurological?” before getting angry or forcing something.

During the holidays, I observed my son medicated and unmedicated. I noticed how unmedicated, he gets into all sorts of annoyances to himself even when just playing a board game with me. It’s overall not as good of an experience for himself: He is distracted and makes worse decisions, gets my mood down by tripping over water or toppling stacks of cards etc. There are many little things that add up to worse experiences. Might have a hard time getting into whatever is trending in his class, be it sports teams or trading cards.

That is good advice. While ADHD can indirectly interfere with building a habit, it’s a different part of the brain, so habits can be built and maintained, and then they become effortless, as if the person had no ADHD. Good for everybody, but with ADHD, it’s harder to push through it with “discipline”.

Another counterpoint is that some ADHD people, including myself, are not great on vacuuming and dusting. And that’s on hard mode with open shelves. Need to pretty often clear them, dust the shelf, clean what was on it, put back.

Surprisingly, every-single-time I believe that I will for the rest of my life do the thing on time, incrementally and with no effort. Especially after a long cleaning effort. Sure, of course I will now always do a little bit every day, and the way the place looks now will be how I will always live …

With treatment, this is finally a reality. And just now I realise how ridiculous the idea was to do it like that before. My brain plans as if it were healthy, it’s really weird.

I actually just quit caffeine entirely so I could fill up more of the good stuff from the doc before reaching that “jitter” threshold.

Clearly written. When someone tries to explain something to me, it’s always useless. I can follow pretty complex instructions, but they have to start from the start, and they never do.

I feel like I’m good at that, rooting the conversation on a common understanding when I’m doing the explaining, but not sure anyone else needs this.

For me, it actually started working a couple of years ago. E. g. cleaning the apartment feels overwhelming, but when I ask myself “What CAN you do?” - “I can put ONE piece of garbage into the bin.” it works.

But I understand that different things work for different people. For my child, this method does not work as well, for others not at all.

I have this trick in meetings when they suddenly go: AddLemmus, what are your thoughts on that?

I just revert my last mental steps before they jumped the shark, and say: “Actually, I was still thinking about [topic 10 minutes ago], which requires more attention. Especially …”

And it works! They think I’m thorough and thoughtful, the one who catches the important details that would have been overlooked otherwise.

thanks, sounds like XLPE, then! Big glass pieces were shipped with it.

omg, would keep forever!

Can be squished a little bit with force.

See? The plain white ones are gigantic in size, wouldn’t find them easily, and the black one seems line one of a kind!

At least in Firefox, when it comes to ordering in terms of ctrl+tab cycle order, it’s just a setting now; used to need an add-on.

Absolutely; setting tab cycle by most recent is essential when you go > 100.

Back from the days when people switched browsers several times in 5 years, I still use a .txt file. Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla, Opera, Firefox … there was a time of rapid improvement by switching about 27 - 20 years ago.

A mix of the two would be useful: Close the oldest (by last visit) tab when there are more than 12, but only when it is at least 2 hours hold. That way, it doesn’t interrupt a research frenzy, such as when I make a major shopping decision. That’s the only time I ever regret my # tab limit.

For me, it works as long as there is a written list to check off from the night before. No list - no action.

As long as there is a list, I can use every trick: Really don’t feel like it? Set a timer to do just the first item. Allow to pick the easiest, and just do one for now.

Like I said earlier: It is with great grievance that I had to put an end to this and install a plugin that closes the oldest one when I get over 15 (Limit Tabs). (Actually, that is only great, unless I’m in a shopping decision frenzy and actually need this.)

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