ADHD Authors

[gordo12]

LOL, just saw an article defining the need to write multiple stories and the need to get on to the next story as:

High Functioning ADHD

Guilty!

You?

 

[SeraphNocturne]

I’m on two writing websites with perhaps fifteen writing projects between them. It’s a miracle I ever get anything finished.

 

[EmilyMiller]

I’m not entirely neurotypical (big surprise, right?) but I don’t have ADHD. Though some behaviors are common to different things.

Em

 

[gordo12]

I’m not entirely neurotypical (big surprise, right?) but I don’t have ADHD. Though some behaviors are common to different things.

Em

It was more defining the activity than a diagnosis of normal behaviour. I mean, when you open up a three-year-old story with 2500 edits...and can't call it finished!

 

[EmilyMiller]

It was more defining the activity than a diagnosis of normal behaviour. I mean, when you open up a three-year-old story with 2500 edits...and can't call it finished!

See, I don’t always get when people are joking or being serious.

Em

 

[Euphony]

Feels like not enough for a diagnosis.

Just as a spectrum of friends (and their stories) is more enriching, so too is character diversity.

I often steal life strategies other characters personality has let them figure out for other characters who have their own talents and shortfalls.

I don't do multiverse but as I am god of all their dimensions, they are friends by almost default and benefit from those threads.

 

[Euphony]

It was more defining the activity than a diagnosis of normal behaviour. I mean, when you open up a three-year-old story with 2500 edits...and can't call it finished!

I get the feeling but I try my damnedest not to place unnecessary expectations on the work. It'll be what it'll be.

When I've gotten away from that headspace in the past, it's been to some disastrous results.

 

[gordo12]

See, I don’t always get when people are joking or being serious.

Em

You're not alone.

 

[spankableBelle]

LOL, just saw an article defining the need to write multiple stories and the need to get on to the next story as:

High Functioning ADHD

Guilty!

You?

Well, if that's the case... It explains a lot.

 

[Ssbbw4u1974]

I have zero idea if I have ADHD.. or even ADD. But I have written 10 stories here, and it's a miracle if they're longer than 1100 words.
I have a short .. beginning, middle, end.
I don't read much myself because I lose track of what I've read..

 

[Rob_Royale]

I have ADHD - Inattentive, formerly known as ADD. No hyperactivity, thank the gods. It does bother me when writing and when that happens I go into editing mode and I will reread what I've done and flesh it out some more, building up the characters, adding more detail, etc. Most of the time this is enough of a departure from the scene I was writing but it leads me back to it. A simple workaround. Other times, it's time to go watch an episode of something on Netflix and then come back.

Compared to some, it's a mild affliction that I have learned to deal with without meds. My oldest son has it worse, sadly and it requires meds.

 

[SimonDoom]

I probably have a mild version of this. My story-generating imagination runs far ahead of my ability to get stories done. I've got about 40 stories I've begun or partly written but not completed, and the list keeps growing longer. It's been like this for about 4 years.

 

[djrip]

Before I can start writing it is critical I check Facebook, and read these answers on Quora, and, um, check Facebook...

 

[gordo12]

I just checked the properties on the story I'm currently "finishing?" 586 minutes of edits on a story I wrote back during covid.

I start reading the story to get my head back into the right space but almost never finish because I start editing along the way. The original version that I copied this version to work from had 780 minutes of editing.

Mind-boggling, considering the first story I ever wrote for Lit took 3 days and editing two days before posting.

 

[NoTalentHack]

LOL, just saw an article defining the need to write multiple stories and the need to get on to the next story as:

High Functioning ADHD

Guilty!

You?

Same.

 

[NoTalentHack]

spectrum of friends

I see what you did there. Even if you didn’t.

 

[Euphony]

I see what you did there. Even if you didn’t.

I did but only subconsciously.

We've had a real breakthrough today. I pay your secretary as per our weekly usual?

 

[NoTalentHack]

I did but only subconsciously.

We've had a real breakthrough today. I pay your secretary as per our weekly usual?

Yes. She handles the money; if I'm a good boy, Mommy... I mean Ms. Havisham lets me spend some on her.

 

[jsmiam]

Here is one test, of good repute. Even an option for a pdf self scorable version for those who avoid doing this sort of thing online. https://add.org/adhd-test/

There’s a fun AH oriented second test of character that’s indirectly tied to this. I won’t say what, for 3 days.

 

[XerXesXu]

Here is one test, of good repute. Even an option for a pdf self scorable version for those who avoid doing this sort of thing online. https://add.org/adhd-test/

And if you 'want a diagnosis', they've helpfully indicated the answers you should give.

If you look carefully, towards the beginning, you'll see the scammers used this actual form to recruit victims.

Private ADHT Clinics Exposed.

 

[jsmiam]

And if you 'want a diagnosis', they've helpfully indicated the answers you should give.

If you look carefully, towards the beginning, you'll see the scammers used this actual form to recruit victims.

Private ADHT Clinics Exposed.

It’s always unfortunate when scammers pop up. Among other things, I guess they plagiarized the document too.

There are other popular self tests, psych central and psychology today have versions of tests too. Nonetheless, tests like these without further guidance isn’t enough. A person with licenses and advanced degrees is the proper approach to proceeed beyond.

Not a test, but here’s the Mayo Clinic on adhd. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/adult-adhd/symptoms-causes/syc-20350878

Btw xxx, not in response to you specifically, even if (perhaps? I don’t know) you are dropping hints as to which side of the campfire you are on, it’s worth pointing out that there are people (I am not one of them) who will vehemently insist there’s no such thing and everybody’s faking it. The topic degenerates quickly into two camps. S’mores time.

 

[XerXesXu]

Among other things, I guess they plagiarized the document too.

They use that very document online. What do you imagine happens if you complete the document and submit it?

 

[jsmiam]

In days gone by, a popular scam was using a photographer’s light meter to scam the unsuspecting into buying vinyl siding for their houses. That didn’t make the light meter manufacturer an accessory to the scam.

Same here. The questionnaire is publicly and freely available to anyone on the internet, which sadly includes the scammers. (Disclosure: I didn’t watch your video. I’m going with “it’s plausible” that a scammer can use a legit site for bad reasons.)

Here’s some Debbie downer info for ADHD skeptics though. The initial organized foes of (then called) ADD were scientologists. So ADHD skeptics have company (scientologists) on their side of the campfire. Val-der-ee! https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3856510/. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/medicating/backlash/lawsuits.html. (Disclaimer 2: anti Scientologists sometimes sound a little like a cult themselves. I’m not exactly partaking in the bashing, just acknowledging (a) scientologists are part of several controversies, and (b) Scientologists have long been very open about being anti psychiatry. )

 

[Bramblethorn]

LOL, just saw an article defining the need to write multiple stories and the need to get on to the next story as:

High Functioning ADHD

Guilty!

You?

I have clinically diagnosed ADHD, I-type. It's hard to separate out how the ADHD affects my writing (or indeed how it affects anything else) because I've never been a person who doesn't have ADHD. I'm aware that some of y'all do certain things differently, but gauging how much of that is about ADHD and how much is just ordinary individual differences is hard.

(but: yes it is a real thing, no psychiatry isn't perfect, no it's not all a grand conspiracy by Big Pharma to get us hooked on druuuuugs, questionnaires can be a good place to start but they have their limitations.)

Writing-wise, I do tend to have a lot of things going on at any one time, but I try to channel that into one complex story rather than working on several at a time. (Not always successfully.) Last couple of years the challenge has been finding focus to work on even one story.

I suspect the ADHD also has something to do with the way I write long stories, posting chapters as I go rather than writing the whole thing and posting it only when it's complete. I need that faster rhythm to keep me interested; if I started writing a 100k-word story as a single piece, with no feedback until the very end, it'd never get finished.

ps: "Functioning" labels in ADHD and autism contexts are bullshit; they focus on how much of a burden the person is on those around them, not how they experience the condition themselves. Somebody can be "low-functioning" and having a great happy life, somebody can be "high-functioning" and be suicidally unhappy.

 

[SimonDoom]

ps: "Functioning" labels in ADHD and autism contexts are bullshit; they focus on how much of a burden the person is on those around them, not how they experience the condition themselves. Somebody can be "low-functioning" and having a great happy life, somebody can be "high-functioning" and be suicidally unhappy.

Functioning and achieving happiness are two totally different things. That's not just true with respect to ADHD and autism, but with respect to everything. There are "high-functioning" people who are depressed or miserable. I've known plenty of them. I'm not sure that means that the concept of functioning is meaningless, but it has to be kept in perspective as a limited measure of people's "success."