Best skills from video games:

Puzzle solving / abstract thinking

Hand / eye coordination

Not flying into a blind rage when playing Rocket League, Apex, Deadlock, etc.

Still working on that last one.

Kudos on spelling boyfriend wrong twice but then the third time you nailed it!

Ok Vladimir.

If somebody starts mouthing off I just his ESC and mute every other player. Makes for a much more enjoyable game.

You’re the guy that quits right after you lose your lane, huh?

I don’t have any advice to give you, only empathy. Been through a lot of the same feelings and thoughts. Don’t give up on yourself. I sometimes think about all the things I would have missed if I had gone through with some of my darker plans.

But then again I never would have had to sit through the last 3 Star Wars movies. Pros and cons.

(Hope a little laugh helps you feel better)

I think a lot of us went through that in school. “You’re so smart, why can’t you just apply yourself?”

Because my brain is wired different and your class is boring as fuck, Ms Billman! Also stop getting mad when I point out the errors in your lesson. You insecure piece of shit.

But I’m not bitter. 😁

That would be a great name for those trampoline parks people take their kids to!

That’s an incredible way to put it. I am definitely not the man I used to be, but that’s not a bad thing for me as it’s been an almost universal improvement. I do sometimes think back about ‘past me’ and feel a sense of loss about what could have been, especially when it comes to some of my relationships, but for me it doesn’t rise to the level of grief. Just…. wondering how things might have turned out instead.

Great post but I just wanted to say it’s also ok not to feel grief. I was diagnosed very late in life (late 40s) and I’ve felt nothing but relief since getting on meds and finally having a reason for so many things I struggled with in my life other than “something is fucking wrong with me”.

Point being, let yourself feel what you feel!

If you get forklift certified the dress code won’t matter because the ladies will be ripping your clothes off.

They have as much power over that as I do over my government selling bombs to Israel so they can blow up thousands of Palestinian children. Zero.

Cool, so, still not the Russian government.

The Russian government had nothing to do with this game.

Technically correct because you can’t make an account without the server.

I would be lying if I said I hadn’t done the same thing. “New bag new bag new bag new ba… hey why did I leave that camp chair over there. Man I miss camping. Well trash is done, back to the computer!”

Imagine being a Financial Auditor / Accountant with ADHD.

I’m willing to bet they don’t exist.

I develop software for a huge company that everyone has heard of, and work by myself on my own projects with no collaboration required and incredibly small amount of oversight. I get to do it my way. Living the dream.

Many of my friends work in the scenario you described and do not like the whole collaboration thing!

This swerves way into “ADHD is a superpower” territory which is bullshit.

edit: For example, while I have a lot of these traits, I also can’t remember to put a new trash bag in the trash bin when I take the full bag out to the garage, which is a 1 minute task. Despite reminding myself AS I’m removing the full bag. Twice a week. For years now. Because I will see something in the garage or think of something while doing the mundane task that completely derails my train of thought.

Listen buddy, let’s be realistic, I’m no professional chef.