While there are negatives to adult ADHD, some positives include the ability to hyper-focus, intuitiveness and sensitivity. Learn how to live with adult ADHD in this free video.
I wanted to close this series of videos by highlighting some of the strengths of ADHD, and some of the strengths that it lends to a person. Both people with ADHD and those who don't have ADHD, but have to deal continuously with ADHD-affected people, can start to have a fully negative perspective on the disorder, and while the disorder does have it's downsides and its negatives, there seems to be a collective strength in ADHD that makes ADHD people just a little more sparkley and special than others in the world. And that's not to say that everybody doesn't have their sparkle or their special parts to them, but ADHD people often feel terrible about themselves, or have had bad experiences that can lend to an overall negative self-image. And I just wanted to talk about some of the positives, and hyper-focusing is one of the big positives. When ADHD people find something they like, we can focus on it for hours. We can work at it for hours. This is where ADHD people excel in the workplace, when they're doing work that they really enjoy or really have an interest in, they can work at it almost tirelessly, and that can be a real strength in a personal life as well as a professional life, and while ADHD people have incredible problems with lack of focus, for some reason we also have this power to hyperfocus on things. ADHD people are intuitive, we have strong gut instincts, we feel more strongly than we think at times, and often our sense of intuition is pretty accurate. We're sensitive people, generally very emotionally open, which can be an incredible strength in interacting with others and relating to others. Generally, we want to be understood more than anybody does, so we're more willing to understand others and be open to working with others. And I think ADHD overall doesn't need to be a detraction or a disadvantage from somebody's life; it takes a lot of work and a lot of discipline to learn how to manage it, but once you have the negative symptoms managed, the positives can be a very warm, open, life changing experience.
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