How to Turn ADHD Into a Genius-Level Advantage
Ruri Ohama · 4,708 words · 24 min read · EN-ORIG

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If you have ADHD and you're spending all of your energy, time, resources, and money just trying to be normal, you're actually taking the biggest risk of your life. Not because being normal is bad. It's actually because you will never get there. And the longer you try, the more you will lose. Think about how much
you're burning just to keep up. How many resources, how much willpower just to be average at things neurotypical people do on autopilot. You are trying so hard just to be mediocre or even maybe blow mediocre. You are trying to win a race that was not designed for you. When you look at neurotypical people, you see
them doing things effortlessly, paying bills on time, keeping their houses clean, following through on boring tasks without having a big crisis like you do. And you think this is what normal looks like. This is what I'm supposed to be. But why am I not able to do such normal things? Just trying to live a normal
life is using all of your energy and willpower. And maybe on your absolute best day, after spending all the enormous amount of energy and willpower you have, you just become a mediocre neurotypical adult. So you develop this inner voice saying, "Why can I not do what everyone else does? Why am I failing at living a normal adult life?
This should not be hard. There's something fundamentally lacking with me. Does this mean am I not going to be able to achieve something bigger than other people because I'm struggling with just living a regular life?" Okay, so I'm not going to give you a full neuroscience lecture, but you need to understand one
thing about your brain because it changes how you approach everything. ADHD is actually not a deficit of attention, even though the name suggests that. The real issue is that you cannot control where your focus goes. Your attention is either zero or a max. It's not that your attention doesn't exist. And normal people control their
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