ADHD (repost)

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hi my dear friends,

i noticed, that I intensively focus when i sit at the computer at very small and unimportant things, and can't stop detaching from my computer. Often the overall thing i wanted to do is lost. I know i can do hyperfocus, but only when i am not depressed and so on. Yeah, and i never planned anything, and i have problems not to go too much into details. And i always want to go to bed early... but mostly i can't do it, so often there are so many little things i want to do, and then i hang on the computer and don't get much done... but still go very late to bed.

Sometimes when i drink coffee or alcohole i get pretty excited, sort of hyperactive... don't know. I know i got AS, but i don't know if i got ADHD as well. Anyhow, the name of the label is not such important, i would like to know more about how to recognize my attention behavior and how i can improve it if there is something to improve. Therefore, could you give me any hints what kind of books i could read to improve that?

all good books about attention, planning and ADHD are welcome. Which one would you recommend?

thanks,
anton

Well I don't know of many books but I do know how some people with ADHD react to caffeine.

It can do nothing. It can make them jittery. It can make them more focused.

so, are there AS people who have no problems with caffeine? Only those who got simultaneously ADHD?

thanks,
anton

I always recommend meditation, and then never tell anyone how. I find that if I start the day with 15 minutes of quality meditation, the rest of my day sticks together much more coherently and purposefully.

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The computer is the worst and most challenging thing for me to deal with. There's just so much symbolic data to chug in this internet, I find myself attempting to drink an ocean like Thor once did.

I have a little alert in my phone calendar... it simply says 'Is this so important right now?' and I have it set to go off regularly. Sometimes it helps.

When I'm in procrastination mode, I will kinda go ADD nuts+, looking at or playing all kinds of meaningless stuff.

I have AS + ADHD, and caffeine keeps me able to mentally focus. If I go without caffeine, I get hyper and thinking complete thoughts becomes more challenging. Caffeine also helps calm me down on occasion and even occasionally makes me feel tired after I drink some. I've been self-medicating myself with it for nearly my entire life.

verdandi: i got so used to your avatar... why did you change it?

and why is there always a woman as avatar? to fool us ?

greets,
anton