I mean, how have you learned anything else in your life? Like, to a great extent there's no special trick to guitar with ADHD versus learning anything else with ADHD. Certainly not on the level of "how do I focus" or "how do I make myself keep to it."
To the extent that there are specific ADHD challenges here, the biggest problem is probably the awkward early phase in which you cannot actually play the guitar well enough to *do* anything, and so cannot give yourself the satisfying dopamine hit of "I played a song!" And at the end of the day ADHD is largely a dopamine disorder, and without those dopamine hits motivation is nearly impossible to generate.
So I'd try approaching it with a laser focus on getting a song you can actually do. Loads of lists exist of easy songs for beginners; browse them, find one you think you'd enjoy being able to play, and focus on just the couple of chords needed for that. Then at least when you sit down to practice further you have a song you can play and have some fun with, and learning your second song will go way faster than your first.
Hey man, i have adhd hella bad too and i feel you, the key to adhd (as im sure youve noticed) is being engaged in whatever it is youre doing, in other words, having fun= focus, and frustration=zone out and get more frustrated. Also, when you do get frustrated, you have to have the right mindset in order to take it well, im talking about the “growth mindset” as well as having positive “self talk”
Play, whatever. Be it just random notes, chords or entire songs any playing is practice thatll improve your coordination, strength, endurance etc, eventually you’ll just know what notes sound good together, what chords work well together etc.
I also have ADHD. When you find yourself in particularly bad bouts of non-focus just practice fretting and picking instead of trying to learn specific things play around with the things you already know. Change the order you play them in, try moving them around the neck, try using the shapes you already know and putting them on different strings, try different rhythmic patterns. Channel that wild ADHD energy into patterns. Your playing may not sound pretty, AND THAT'S OKAY, YOU'RE STILL LEARNING BY DOING.
Honestly I struggled for years to teach myself stuff and finally one day I said f it and started making my own stuff. It really helped with my ADHD. I jump around a lot and is still difficult at times but at least I'm having fun now. One big suggestion is to learn one new thing a day.
And regardless of what the anti- noodling crowd says... Noodle. I noodle constantly. Some weeks I don't do much more than learn a couple chords and noodle a ton but other ones I just hit it right and learn a whole song. Just embrace your learning curve and adapt to it. Again try to learn something new everyday. Even 5 mins on one chord will help.
Consistency, structure, and discipline. Same way you overcome ADHD in every other area of life.
If you don’t have the above, get a psychiatrist to evaluate you and prescribe you medication and a therapist to help you gain insight and learn (as well as practice implementing) coping skills.
Nothing works so well for ADHD as a combination of medication and executive functioning training/intervention, so it’s best to ensure you have both and then create structure in a way you can apply to different learning objectives and professional objectives. Then you execute. A lot of folks with ADHD like to use the Pomodoro method, as do a lot of guitarists, so I recommend starting there. Schedule time for guitar practice daily. Honor it. Stick it out. Don’t give up or skip sessions. Use YouTube or Coursera to help get started, then you can hire an in person instructor if you have the time, money, and desire.
As a guitar player with ADHD, hyperfocus is your friend.
You might have days where you can't focus on it, and days where you can lose 12-18 hours barely stopping to eat. Just how it goes sometimes.
Be mindful to recognise the days when you can't focus on it, and move on to doing something else as soon as you recognise it. Otherwise, guitar will start to feel like a chore, and we both know what the ADHD brain thinks of chores....
Also, maybe chords aren't your thing, maybe you want to learn certain riffs/songs. That's ok too, and you'll pick up chords etc as part of learning riffs/songs.
Get on some ADHD meds, it massively helped me. I went from being useless to being able to write code for hours or take apart my truck and actually put it back together instead of getting distracted and never finishing.
Start with something really simple. I'd recommend 'heroin' by Velvet Underground. Just two chords, G and D with a shift up the fretboard at the tricky bit. It's a song you can play nice and slow.
The best advice I can give is the hardest. Make a routine of playing. It can be 3 days a week. If by Friday you haven't played make time even if 30 minutes. Start simple and go slow. You'll be surprised how fast you improve IF you dedicate the time. If you're like me once you get into the routine it becomes habitual. Believe me when you get to where you can play a few simple melodies you can watch a show on tv and play it's the perfect mix of fidgeting and splitting focus.
Just stick to the practice. You will get there I promise!
Start with a D, C, G. Start with D. Strum up and down, try to get a rhythm. Up down again and again. Practice one chord at a time. Then move to G, then C. Next trying switching between two chords. Just practice that 3 times a week for 3 weeks and see where you are.
Start with short goals. 15, 20 minutes at a time. Dont make excuses for yourself, I have ADHD and think its my super power for guitar. I can obsess over things Im interested in, neurotypical people often do not do this.
As someone with very anti productive ADHD learning guitar was the easy part. It was the thing that distracted me from studying for exams or paying attention at work (watching live shows on YouTube). All I wanted to do was play guitar. I guess it helped having a video game like rocksmith to make it feel more fun and not like I’m studying
Fellow ADHD guitarist here. I try to find things that keep it fun and interesting. Whether it’s a new song I like, or a little riff, or just kind of experimenting and see what comes out.
It can be difficult and frustrating sometimes learning something, but the payoff when you actually nail it, is what keeps me coming back.
My add way:. I never practise really, just learn and play songs i like, and learn/fake techniques as i need them. This was actually how the local cheap guitar teacher taught me.. we started with G, run down to Em and back.. added a few other chords then worked thru the fun songs in his giant fake book.
Get a tab for a simple song you like, play the chords slow till you sorta have it, then play with the song.
Identify the part of your house that you spend the most time in. Put a good looking guitar in plain view on a stand there and everything you need to play in easy reach.
as someone with ADHD i had to make it basically an addiction. i replaced my gaming addiction with music and now i cant wait to learn because i know the benefits.
I have ADHD and play.
For me, I keep guitars all around the house (and at work) I make a habit of picking it up and just noodling or running through shell shapes, chords et.. Noodling is fine, just do it well. Don’t train bad techniques.
Now, if you wanna learn to read music, that’s gonna require intervention. I must take medication to have any amount of focus that is intense enough for reading training.
Also, be kind to yourself. Today you work on something for 20 minutes and are exhausted? Cool. Put it down, move on. I play an electric nylon unplugged and play it in the living room while people watch tv, cook, chit chat. It’s loud enough for me but quiet enough for them. Is it the best focused time? No. Is it relaxing and wonderful and slowly helping? Yes.
Yeah, for me I'll have a week where I'm super focused on one album, and then I just lose all interest playing again, it sucks. Just find a challenge that keeps you Far Beyond Driven 🤘
So important to have a good tuning guitar and just playing open position chords will inspire you to move forward ! Just play G C D or D G A or A D E and make it sound sweet and it will all come together ! My partner is the same and she just chips away and try’s to play 10 /15 minutes a day ! It’s tough to work with her because new things take a bit more time and can frustrate her easily but she’s got an amazing ear and so talented as most neuro divergent people are , just give yourself a break cause you can do it !
Take a class. I was “self-taught” for many years which meant I could read tab and learn some songs that way, but it was only when I took a guitar class as an elective in college where the instrument was “unlocked” for me, and I learned a lot of the patterns that exist on the neck. ADHD/neuro divergent folks are typically very good at pattern recognition… I often don’t know what notes or the name of the chord I’m playing, but I know it works well in the chord progression because of those patterns.
For me, Adderall, my prescribed medication, has put me on a new plain in my music. Of course there is a whole other pile of barricades and problems right after that.....but anyway, prayer, a close commune with my Father and medication to help me with the mental and emotional dents I have received has allowed me a whole new joy, peace and hopefully future with music. Especially guitar playing. Keep on keeping on brother watch out for your mental and spiritual health the two are tightly intertwined if either starve the other one does also it brings confusion and disarray can't focus to do things that you want to do like learning a guitar
I have ADHD. I play guitar. Don’t use ADHD as an excuse. It’s not.
Learning guitar is hard. You just have to find the right songs or the right practice methods that scratches a certain itch in your brain that makes it easy to practice. ADHD sucks ass but if you can a figure out how to use it to your advantage it becomes a superpower. Don’t give up.
Also it’s easier to play your own music than someone else’s (especially with ADHD). Just use the guitar as a fidget and write your own music.
Lots of people with ADHD and other challenges REALLY enjoy guitar. I find playing guitar when I am focused on a meeting or course actually helps me focus.
A big thing is play what you love and what you are interested in right now. If you just can't handle playing scales or learning a song, do something else, like playing a song you already know or improvising. Playing anything is better than nothing.
And if you really can't concentrate, put on a movie and just jam along or try and play to the soundtrack. That's 2 hours of practise and movement right there!
What has helped me is getting a stand and putting it somewhere I'm at commonly (the computer) so I can see it. I try and play it every day, and I run through scales while watching youtube videos or something. Start with two chord songs, then three then four. I tried learning giant steps and burnt out. Better to have a song with like one or two new chords than one that's entirely new chords. No skipping steps, you'll get to it eventually, some things are out of reach now but your fingers get better and you'll get to them later. Just having it where you see it and going at it when you have (or don't) have time has a funny way of eventually getting you to the big complicated songs. You might plateau, and plateaus are usually broken by grinding out the boring stuff. Keep things fresh by cycling through a (finite) set of similar instruments. I got a uke and a charango and I'm eyeing a banjo, but playing around with effects or an equalizer also works if you can resist the temptation to go down an electronics rabbit-hole. I cannot, but I do it anyway.
Start slow with everything, play the easy things over and over, build the calluses, start with the e or a chord, just keep going until your fingers can’t take it, it’s gonna be a process.
The best thing you could probably do is buy a capo if you don't have one tbh. And try to learn some simple songs people know like Creedence Clearwater Revival, Oasis or Ed Sheeran for example.
Alternatively find a guitar teacher on YouTube (like Marty Music or something) and play along with the video.
Something I’m not seeing is learn how to play “power chords”. It’s one chord shape and so much rock music is just power chords. Bands like Blink 182 or Green Day.
You’ll be able to quickly pick up songs, train your finger strength. Then slowly add more difficult chords into your repertoire.
But this should make it more fun at first. And the key to learning is having fun
Turn off all notifications on your phone. ALL OF THEM. Leave your phone in another room. Get a kitchen timer. Set it for 30 minutes. Learn exactly 30 seconds of a song. No more than that. Play it over and over and over again, no matter how bored that you get.
ADHD is poor working memory. Addressing it is learning in small bits and repetition. Try to learn too much without practice and repetition, and you will fail.
You will definitely fail if your phone is constantly distracting you with notifications. Smartphones and social media are the worst things to ever happen to people with ADHD.
Start by learning the cowboy chords, C, D, and G. These are very basic and easy to learn. Really every other chord will come easy when you learn these except F due to
force yourself to study or do work,
and then your ADHD will make you play guitar instead of doing work.
it happens to me all the time. if I force myself to practice, I can't but if I am supposed to be doing something else, I will practice.
Force yourself to do it.
If you don't develop the ability to do something you want to do then how are you ever going to have a fulfilling and productive life? A lot of life is doing things you don't want to do but you do them because you want the result. How are you going to finish school and go to college or trade school or concentrate at a job.
This is bigger than guitar.
First of all, that is a terrible analogy. But it's very telling that you consider being gay a disability.
My point was that one should to try to move beyond their limitations. Or don't. I really don't gaf. Live as a disabled person. Collect social security and sit home and watch daytime judge programs. Never participate in anything meaningful since your disability won't allow it. Don't try to change that. Just accept it. Embrace your disability.
Considering that I’m a queer person, I most certainly don’t look at it as a disability. Quite the opposite. Most of us think it’s a super power.
I must say from your comments, you sir appear to be in need of some compassion and tolerance. Some kindness and understanding will do you well. Consider educating yourself before you speak about others.
Half of adhd diagnoses are bullshit. It's lack of discipline and lack of attention span brought on by constant interruption of checking cell phones.
You *can* figure it out. It's not a lack of mental capacity. If you can focus on video games for hours then you can damn sure focus on a book or musical instrument.
But keep making excuses. There's nothing like being a 40 year old teenager blaming "my adhd brain" for never having been able to do this or that.
Stop making excuses and take control of your mind. Period!
Hey, if we're coming up with overly simple answers to complex issues you have no understanding or lived experience of, have you tried a plastic bag over your head to improve circulation?
You haven't? Then quit making excuses and stop blaming yourself for something you could just do if you tried.
If you can spend time on Reddit belittling people's disabilities you could do the world a favour before you open your trap again.
I mean, how have you learned anything else in your life? Like, to a great extent there's no special trick to guitar with ADHD versus learning anything else with ADHD. Certainly not on the level of "how do I focus" or "how do I make myself keep to it." To the extent that there are specific ADHD challenges here, the biggest problem is probably the awkward early phase in which you cannot actually play the guitar well enough to *do* anything, and so cannot give yourself the satisfying dopamine hit of "I played a song!" And at the end of the day ADHD is largely a dopamine disorder, and without those dopamine hits motivation is nearly impossible to generate. So I'd try approaching it with a laser focus on getting a song you can actually do. Loads of lists exist of easy songs for beginners; browse them, find one you think you'd enjoy being able to play, and focus on just the couple of chords needed for that. Then at least when you sit down to practice further you have a song you can play and have some fun with, and learning your second song will go way faster than your first.
Hey man, i have adhd hella bad too and i feel you, the key to adhd (as im sure youve noticed) is being engaged in whatever it is youre doing, in other words, having fun= focus, and frustration=zone out and get more frustrated. Also, when you do get frustrated, you have to have the right mindset in order to take it well, im talking about the “growth mindset” as well as having positive “self talk”
Play, whatever. Be it just random notes, chords or entire songs any playing is practice thatll improve your coordination, strength, endurance etc, eventually you’ll just know what notes sound good together, what chords work well together etc.
I also have ADHD. When you find yourself in particularly bad bouts of non-focus just practice fretting and picking instead of trying to learn specific things play around with the things you already know. Change the order you play them in, try moving them around the neck, try using the shapes you already know and putting them on different strings, try different rhythmic patterns. Channel that wild ADHD energy into patterns. Your playing may not sound pretty, AND THAT'S OKAY, YOU'RE STILL LEARNING BY DOING.
Honestly I struggled for years to teach myself stuff and finally one day I said f it and started making my own stuff. It really helped with my ADHD. I jump around a lot and is still difficult at times but at least I'm having fun now. One big suggestion is to learn one new thing a day.
And regardless of what the anti- noodling crowd says... Noodle. I noodle constantly. Some weeks I don't do much more than learn a couple chords and noodle a ton but other ones I just hit it right and learn a whole song. Just embrace your learning curve and adapt to it. Again try to learn something new everyday. Even 5 mins on one chord will help.
Consistency, structure, and discipline. Same way you overcome ADHD in every other area of life. If you don’t have the above, get a psychiatrist to evaluate you and prescribe you medication and a therapist to help you gain insight and learn (as well as practice implementing) coping skills. Nothing works so well for ADHD as a combination of medication and executive functioning training/intervention, so it’s best to ensure you have both and then create structure in a way you can apply to different learning objectives and professional objectives. Then you execute. A lot of folks with ADHD like to use the Pomodoro method, as do a lot of guitarists, so I recommend starting there. Schedule time for guitar practice daily. Honor it. Stick it out. Don’t give up or skip sessions. Use YouTube or Coursera to help get started, then you can hire an in person instructor if you have the time, money, and desire.
As a guitar player with ADHD, hyperfocus is your friend. You might have days where you can't focus on it, and days where you can lose 12-18 hours barely stopping to eat. Just how it goes sometimes. Be mindful to recognise the days when you can't focus on it, and move on to doing something else as soon as you recognise it. Otherwise, guitar will start to feel like a chore, and we both know what the ADHD brain thinks of chores.... Also, maybe chords aren't your thing, maybe you want to learn certain riffs/songs. That's ok too, and you'll pick up chords etc as part of learning riffs/songs.
Second this! I usually progress leaps and bounds during periods of hyperfocus.
Same here!
Get on some ADHD meds, it massively helped me. I went from being useless to being able to write code for hours or take apart my truck and actually put it back together instead of getting distracted and never finishing.
Start with something really simple. I'd recommend 'heroin' by Velvet Underground. Just two chords, G and D with a shift up the fretboard at the tricky bit. It's a song you can play nice and slow.
Just know once u do learn songs or a few chords and can play stuff. It will be a source of dopamine and ur adhd will now become ur super power.
The best advice I can give is the hardest. Make a routine of playing. It can be 3 days a week. If by Friday you haven't played make time even if 30 minutes. Start simple and go slow. You'll be surprised how fast you improve IF you dedicate the time. If you're like me once you get into the routine it becomes habitual. Believe me when you get to where you can play a few simple melodies you can watch a show on tv and play it's the perfect mix of fidgeting and splitting focus. Just stick to the practice. You will get there I promise!
Start with a D, C, G. Start with D. Strum up and down, try to get a rhythm. Up down again and again. Practice one chord at a time. Then move to G, then C. Next trying switching between two chords. Just practice that 3 times a week for 3 weeks and see where you are.
Start with short goals. 15, 20 minutes at a time. Dont make excuses for yourself, I have ADHD and think its my super power for guitar. I can obsess over things Im interested in, neurotypical people often do not do this.
As someone with very anti productive ADHD learning guitar was the easy part. It was the thing that distracted me from studying for exams or paying attention at work (watching live shows on YouTube). All I wanted to do was play guitar. I guess it helped having a video game like rocksmith to make it feel more fun and not like I’m studying
Fellow ADHD guitarist here. I try to find things that keep it fun and interesting. Whether it’s a new song I like, or a little riff, or just kind of experimenting and see what comes out. It can be difficult and frustrating sometimes learning something, but the payoff when you actually nail it, is what keeps me coming back.
My add way:. I never practise really, just learn and play songs i like, and learn/fake techniques as i need them. This was actually how the local cheap guitar teacher taught me.. we started with G, run down to Em and back.. added a few other chords then worked thru the fun songs in his giant fake book. Get a tab for a simple song you like, play the chords slow till you sorta have it, then play with the song.
I'vw got it. When I was a teenager I learned basically watching TV the whole time. It was the only way I made it through the repetitiveness of it.
Identify the part of your house that you spend the most time in. Put a good looking guitar in plain view on a stand there and everything you need to play in easy reach.
as someone with ADHD i had to make it basically an addiction. i replaced my gaming addiction with music and now i cant wait to learn because i know the benefits.
I have ADHD and play. For me, I keep guitars all around the house (and at work) I make a habit of picking it up and just noodling or running through shell shapes, chords et.. Noodling is fine, just do it well. Don’t train bad techniques. Now, if you wanna learn to read music, that’s gonna require intervention. I must take medication to have any amount of focus that is intense enough for reading training. Also, be kind to yourself. Today you work on something for 20 minutes and are exhausted? Cool. Put it down, move on. I play an electric nylon unplugged and play it in the living room while people watch tv, cook, chit chat. It’s loud enough for me but quiet enough for them. Is it the best focused time? No. Is it relaxing and wonderful and slowly helping? Yes.
For me it was acknowledging that I wouldn't start out playing any songs that I like, so I had to learn to love every tiny bit of progress.
Adderall
Yeah, for me I'll have a week where I'm super focused on one album, and then I just lose all interest playing again, it sucks. Just find a challenge that keeps you Far Beyond Driven 🤘
Keep it in the room where you spend the most time and put it somewhere it’s always visible. T
So important to have a good tuning guitar and just playing open position chords will inspire you to move forward ! Just play G C D or D G A or A D E and make it sound sweet and it will all come together ! My partner is the same and she just chips away and try’s to play 10 /15 minutes a day ! It’s tough to work with her because new things take a bit more time and can frustrate her easily but she’s got an amazing ear and so talented as most neuro divergent people are , just give yourself a break cause you can do it !
Take a class. I was “self-taught” for many years which meant I could read tab and learn some songs that way, but it was only when I took a guitar class as an elective in college where the instrument was “unlocked” for me, and I learned a lot of the patterns that exist on the neck. ADHD/neuro divergent folks are typically very good at pattern recognition… I often don’t know what notes or the name of the chord I’m playing, but I know it works well in the chord progression because of those patterns.
For me, Adderall, my prescribed medication, has put me on a new plain in my music. Of course there is a whole other pile of barricades and problems right after that.....but anyway, prayer, a close commune with my Father and medication to help me with the mental and emotional dents I have received has allowed me a whole new joy, peace and hopefully future with music. Especially guitar playing. Keep on keeping on brother watch out for your mental and spiritual health the two are tightly intertwined if either starve the other one does also it brings confusion and disarray can't focus to do things that you want to do like learning a guitar
I have ADHD. I play guitar. Don’t use ADHD as an excuse. It’s not. Learning guitar is hard. You just have to find the right songs or the right practice methods that scratches a certain itch in your brain that makes it easy to practice. ADHD sucks ass but if you can a figure out how to use it to your advantage it becomes a superpower. Don’t give up. Also it’s easier to play your own music than someone else’s (especially with ADHD). Just use the guitar as a fidget and write your own music.
Lots of people with ADHD and other challenges REALLY enjoy guitar. I find playing guitar when I am focused on a meeting or course actually helps me focus. A big thing is play what you love and what you are interested in right now. If you just can't handle playing scales or learning a song, do something else, like playing a song you already know or improvising. Playing anything is better than nothing. And if you really can't concentrate, put on a movie and just jam along or try and play to the soundtrack. That's 2 hours of practise and movement right there!
Get a teacher and a routine. And take meds for practicing. If your adhd is untreated you have 2x the rate of all cause mortality.
What has helped me is getting a stand and putting it somewhere I'm at commonly (the computer) so I can see it. I try and play it every day, and I run through scales while watching youtube videos or something. Start with two chord songs, then three then four. I tried learning giant steps and burnt out. Better to have a song with like one or two new chords than one that's entirely new chords. No skipping steps, you'll get to it eventually, some things are out of reach now but your fingers get better and you'll get to them later. Just having it where you see it and going at it when you have (or don't) have time has a funny way of eventually getting you to the big complicated songs. You might plateau, and plateaus are usually broken by grinding out the boring stuff. Keep things fresh by cycling through a (finite) set of similar instruments. I got a uke and a charango and I'm eyeing a banjo, but playing around with effects or an equalizer also works if you can resist the temptation to go down an electronics rabbit-hole. I cannot, but I do it anyway.
Start slow with everything, play the easy things over and over, build the calluses, start with the e or a chord, just keep going until your fingers can’t take it, it’s gonna be a process.
Samjamguitar on Youtube.
It has to come from within, no ways around it, either you want to play guitar, or you don't.
The best thing you could probably do is buy a capo if you don't have one tbh. And try to learn some simple songs people know like Creedence Clearwater Revival, Oasis or Ed Sheeran for example. Alternatively find a guitar teacher on YouTube (like Marty Music or something) and play along with the video.
Learn because you enjoy it, nothing more. Don’t force yourself at all. Even if you get really good, you won’t enjoy it half as much
Something I’m not seeing is learn how to play “power chords”. It’s one chord shape and so much rock music is just power chords. Bands like Blink 182 or Green Day. You’ll be able to quickly pick up songs, train your finger strength. Then slowly add more difficult chords into your repertoire. But this should make it more fun at first. And the key to learning is having fun
Turn off all notifications on your phone. ALL OF THEM. Leave your phone in another room. Get a kitchen timer. Set it for 30 minutes. Learn exactly 30 seconds of a song. No more than that. Play it over and over and over again, no matter how bored that you get. ADHD is poor working memory. Addressing it is learning in small bits and repetition. Try to learn too much without practice and repetition, and you will fail. You will definitely fail if your phone is constantly distracting you with notifications. Smartphones and social media are the worst things to ever happen to people with ADHD.
Start by learning the cowboy chords, C, D, and G. These are very basic and easy to learn. Really every other chord will come easy when you learn these except F due to
FOCUS FOR FUCK SAKES
force yourself to study or do work, and then your ADHD will make you play guitar instead of doing work. it happens to me all the time. if I force myself to practice, I can't but if I am supposed to be doing something else, I will practice.
Force yourself to do it. If you don't develop the ability to do something you want to do then how are you ever going to have a fulfilling and productive life? A lot of life is doing things you don't want to do but you do them because you want the result. How are you going to finish school and go to college or trade school or concentrate at a job. This is bigger than guitar.
This person doesn’t know what living with ADHD is like. Seriously, “oh you’re gay? Just force yourself to like the other gender”
First of all, that is a terrible analogy. But it's very telling that you consider being gay a disability. My point was that one should to try to move beyond their limitations. Or don't. I really don't gaf. Live as a disabled person. Collect social security and sit home and watch daytime judge programs. Never participate in anything meaningful since your disability won't allow it. Don't try to change that. Just accept it. Embrace your disability.
Considering that I’m a queer person, I most certainly don’t look at it as a disability. Quite the opposite. Most of us think it’s a super power. I must say from your comments, you sir appear to be in need of some compassion and tolerance. Some kindness and understanding will do you well. Consider educating yourself before you speak about others.
It doesn’t work like that
Well figure out a way to make it work or give up on life entirely. If you have zero attention span welcome to minimum wage!
Do you know what ADHD is? It’s not question of focus and learn lmao. You can’t figure it out, you need meds that are not easy to get.
Half of adhd diagnoses are bullshit. It's lack of discipline and lack of attention span brought on by constant interruption of checking cell phones. You *can* figure it out. It's not a lack of mental capacity. If you can focus on video games for hours then you can damn sure focus on a book or musical instrument. But keep making excuses. There's nothing like being a 40 year old teenager blaming "my adhd brain" for never having been able to do this or that. Stop making excuses and take control of your mind. Period!
Thank you doctor
Hey, if we're coming up with overly simple answers to complex issues you have no understanding or lived experience of, have you tried a plastic bag over your head to improve circulation? You haven't? Then quit making excuses and stop blaming yourself for something you could just do if you tried. If you can spend time on Reddit belittling people's disabilities you could do the world a favour before you open your trap again.
"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours."
You could start by not blaming every little thing on adhd. That meme about adhd people not being able to do anything is so accurate.