I’m ADD, but didn’t know about it until my 30’s. Every now and then someone will ask me what it’s like and I usually say that it’s like having a television remote control with a stuck channel changer button. That’s not a great analogy.
This is a much better one:
Via the always great XKCD.
There is no such thing as ADD. You’re just easily distrac…….HEY LOOK A SQUIRREL!
That comic introduced me to kerbal space program… I should be doing work right now.
For me, and yes I am classically-diagnosed, it is less like having a Tv channel changed involuntarily and randomly, and more like watching 6 TV’s at once.
Sigh.. But it has its advantages, at least that’s the platitude I have comforted myself with. đŸ˜‰