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My adhd is broken. I never have an interesting collection of questions to unleash on people; my brain just goes blank while I try to remember what a question is.
Completely depends on the situation and what I did before the question. But yeah most of the time I'm either trying so hard to focus on what we're talking about that I don't let other thoughts come up or I have way to many thoughts to keep track and they all vanish the moment I get asked a question.
It's like asking "what are you thinking about?" - I'll answer "nothing specific" because the honest answer would require to go back 30 minutes of thoughts so you get the context of why I'm even thinking all those things that seem unrelated otherwise.
The secret is to not have a filter. Like any filter at all.
Comorbid autism helps.
"hold on let me activate the -tism.. click okay so this is a story all about how my life got flipped turned upside down"
This really hits home.
If you ask me to list things, I'll struggle to find more than 1 example of whatever. Even stuff that I know so well I could do a ted talk on, but my brain just violently opposes enumerating stuff...
Well, it's a spectrum :) I have 4 ADHD people at home, all diagnosed and medicated, but they all behave differently. One has too many questions, another one none... 🤷