ADHD Jesse

Author, Advocate.
Not reaching my potential since 1980.

📙 Extra Focus: The Quick Start Guide to Adult ADHD
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Last Notes

2026-06-22 15:00:31 UTC

One of the hardest things to explain to people without ADHD:
• when it’s interesting, I can start on it
• when it’s uninteresting, I can’t
Note that the second one is not “I don’t want to.” I literally CAN’T.
I have to convince my brain it is interesting to even get started.

2026-06-08 15:00:25 UTC

The ADHD urge to buy a thing, watch all the videos about the thing, religiously track shipping until the thing arrives, excitedly open the shipping box to get to the thing, and then place the thing somewhere random and forget about it for 3-60 months.

2026-06-04 15:00:27 UTC

[doing things I’m bad at]
“ugh, I suck at everything”
[doing things I’m good at]
“this doesn’t count because it’s easy for me”

2026-02-05 16:00:44 UTC

ADHD packing list:
• 7 books you won’t read
• ipad full of movies/shows you won’t watch
• random crap that sounded important 5 minutes before you left
• extra toothbrush?
Stuff forgotten:
• toothpaste
• an entire category of clothing
• one REALLY important cable

2026-02-03 16:01:04 UTC

2025-11-22 22:02:20 UTC

[immediately after convo]: “I think that went well!”
[1 day later]: “wait, why did I say THAT?!”
[3 days later]: “do they hate me?”
…
[14 years later]: 🤦‍♂️

2025-11-14 17:20:33 UTC

“Will this take 3 hours, 3 days, or 3 weeks?”
me: “yes”

2025-09-23 16:01:19 UTC

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2025-09-23 15:00:07 UTC

I hate deadlines
(but I need deadlines)
&
I hate structure
(but I need structure)

2025-09-17 15:00:44 UTC

2025-07-30 15:00:05 UTC

[spends months building up a new daily routine]
[forgets one day]
[never does it ever again]

2025-07-12 16:00:49 UTC

"Just break it down into smaller steps!"
Cool. Now I have 42 tiny tasks I'm avoiding instead of one big task.
Thanks?

2025-07-04 15:00:35 UTC

ADHD is thinking about all the things you have to do, getting stressed about all the things, worrying about the consequences of not doing the things, but still feeling stuck and unable to do any of the things.

2025-03-06 23:26:44 UTC

2025-02-25 16:25:16 UTC

ADHD packing list:
• 7 books you won’t read
• a tablet full of movies/shows you won’t watch
• random crap that sounded important 5 minutes before you left
• extra toothbrush?
Stuff forgotten:
• toothpaste
• an entire category of clothing
• that one REALLY important cable

2025-02-14 16:27:43 UTC

"Why don't you just do the thing?"
— people without ADHD that don't understand there is literally nothing I want more than to do the thing, I am desperate to do the thing, but my brain simply won't fire the neurons required to move me into action.

2025-01-27 16:00:21 UTC

ADHD is forgetting unfinished projects exist until the next time you see them, and forgetting bills and paperwork exist until the next time you see them, and forgetting friends exist until the next time you see them.

2025-01-08 16:00:16 UTC

🧠: hey, remember [important thing]?
me: crap, yeah… but I can’t do anything about it now, I’m focusing on something else
🧠: but if you don’t do it now, I’m never going to remind you about this again
me: …fine, I’ll do it now
🧠: hey, I just remembered another thing…

2024-12-12 18:20:00 UTC

“You can’t tell me what to do!”
— me, to my own todo list, that I wrote

2024-11-21 17:00:09 UTC

ADHD is constantly remembering the things you can’t currently do anything about (and then forgetting them again).