Your biggest challenges

I have a question on something I've had knocking around in my head that I was hoping some of you could help give me some feedback on. It's pretty safe to say that the ADHD experience can be very different from person to person. With that being said, there are things we know from experts that are common indicators of the presence of ADHD. I'm not that interested in that info. I'm curious what your biggest challenges are. Many of us work really hard to elevate our strengths, and to put systems in place to support our areas of challenge. So let me pose it this way. If you could wave a magic wand & have a specific outcome related to your life with ADHD what would it be?

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I'm easily distracted

If I could wave a magic wand and make something "disappear", it would be my ability to easily start and follow through with things that aren't particularly exciting to me. This goes for work tasks and mundane chores at home like mowing the yard, fixing up the house and cleaning up after dinner. Having to always push myself to just being to do these kinds of things gets old and very depressing because it never seems to get any easier.

This is such an amazing question; a specific outcome I magically could have, would be to have the same motivation I have on my medication, without the medication.

Really good question....as the outsider....my SO used to say that being fully engaged in a deep relationship without distraction and anger screwing things up.

Magic wand would provide focus of course....on whatever tasks I need to accomplish, not just on endeavors that please me ( for me that's art, reading, socializing, pets etc)

The biggest challenge was trying to get the people closest to me to educate themselves and understand what ADD is and what it's like for people like me , a middle age male who grew up in a time when little was known about the disorder, to get through the day . The challenge was desperately trying to get them to understand that I had little control over most of my behavior. The challenge was getting them to see the unique abilities that I have and that being different from them is not the problem they've made it out to be. But I use the word "was" because I gave up trying. It's challenging enough trying to keep my symptoms in check so I can survive the day it wasn't worth the effort anymore trying to get family to accept me and realize that many of the traits I possess aren't as negative as they think. Cutting them out of my life was hard, but trying to get them to understand me was harder. Now they can't understand why I have kept contact to a minimum.

It's what has already been mentioned. I would love to be able to focus and not be distracted from chores and tasks that I loathe to do because I really have to force myself to do them and at this point am disabled by my inability to focus. If I were able to have a routine and do the basics every day and build to being able to volunteer perhaps, be able to read again and even do a hobby and/or hobbies I would have hope for studying again and working someday.

I have had some events PTSD and depression exacerbate my ADHD symptoms to the point that I'm really struggling to do the basics.

More than anything I want to be able to do some kind of work that would be really fulfilling to me.

My biggest challenge is the "lost in my head" issue. See, I'm pretty hyperactive but have found ways to manage that in a way that's a bit less annoying for everyone around me. I do have issues missing out in deep, shallow and intriguing conversations just the same as the other. I get lost in ideas and thoughts of my own and have a very difficult time paying attention to what the other person is saying. It frustrates me because I'm a novelist and when I miss out on human interaction then the thoughts are all I have, and sometimes they're not good thoughts that keep popping up in my head.

I don't know. My mind just moves to fast to keep up, if that makes sense.

Impulsive spending

The inability to plan things through. It's very hard to think long-term, because my train of thought gets split towards dozens of possibilities, and these possibilities get split to dozens themselves. I can't figure which is better or worse, too, as I have a hard time estimating such values.

Sometimes I do manage to plan ahead, but even then my plan has to be super simple to even have a chance to work. And even if I take my ADD into account, it's not that useful, since I still get out of limits...

It's destroying my future...

My biggest challenge is college. After dropping out of one class last spring and all three classes last fall, I've decided to put college on an indefinite hiatus. I hate my brain

For me it would be to stay on topic and not flit from one thing to another. I also want to be able to do what the majority of people on here said, start and follow through on even mundane tasks.

That is very normal when having Adhd because our brain are wired to have a bunch of different things in our daily lives. There are many different other websites that can help you with dealing with adhd better and having webinars are also a way of handling Adhd. That will definitely help you in the long run

Intense emotions. Lack of control over them, anger is especially problematic.