2 wk. ago • 94%

Did anyone "unlock" any cool powers (for lack of a better term. Obviously I want to be super hero) when they finally got treatment?

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I've accepted that I'm a high performer generally but occasionally just get stuck in a lull where I can't do anything. My super power is realizing it's better to just take a nap or go for a stroll when I'm not going to be productive anyways.

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- I'm still working on this one
  
  I've gotten a lot better at it but damn do I have room for improvement (I need to dodge "nap mode" more often IMO)
  
  I'd say I'm about 60% successful at it currently
  
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  As someone with ADHD who has been a developer, a manager, an architect, and a tech lead... I give you permission. It'll actually make you more productive and make work suck less.
  
  I totally agree that it takes effort to train yourself out of the "Don't be lazy" shame from growing up though.
  
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I was actually really disappointed when I got my prescription, because I went home and tried it, and I felt nothing. From how other people describe it, I thought the clouds were gonna clear, the angels were gonna sing, and I would be reborn a new person. I genuinely thought the medicine wasn't doing anything.

Anyways I then proceeded to play a colony sim for 12 hours straight without getting up or getting distracted even once so I think the medicine did something lmao

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- I then proceeded to play a colony sim for 12 hours straight without getting up or getting distracted even once
  
  That sounds like ADHD hyperfocus to me
  
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The ability to start and finish a task is pretty cool

The ability walk out of a room to grab something and remember what I was planning to grab is also pretty cool

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Yes. Understanding what an asshole I’d been to a lottttta people, & the power to observe myself about to do it & then stop myself before I had Reactions To Things

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- Right there with you on this one. It has not been easy.
  
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  So WORTH it tho right? Never felt better about my life than now
  
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I can have conversations without people assuming I've finished speaking and moving on when I'm pausing to try and collect my thoughts. That's pretty nice lmao

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- This one is amazing. Also super-gratifying because, once again, I had thought this was just me.
  
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A legitimate prescription for meth.... That's a super power, right?

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- Never having had meth, not even once, I’m not sure. I do hear it’s a helluva drug. That said, if anyone comes near my Addy
  
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  Addy as in Adderall?
  
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adderall
  
  Adderall and Mydayis[10] are trade names [note 2] for a combination drug containing four salts of amphetamine.
  
  Yeah, that's meth.
  
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