God I wanna make so much art (drawing/painting/wood carving/crochet/build things/etc), make comics, learn languages, learn how to deep clean and power wash, garden, make clothes, make fursuits, travel, hike, forage, make youtube videos, go urban exploring, go ghost hunting, animate, preserve animal skeletons and insects, etc etc.
But I’m so perpetually exhausted that even just planning out an idea takes a lot out of me, and it feels so unfair.
Thankfully medication has helped out a looot (I mean the difference between taking genuinely months to do anything vs being able to do so within a week or even a day if lucky is quite an improvement) but it’s not gonna make me superhuman any time soon ^^;
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People used to call me little Einstein, next Bill Gates and next Elon Musk (eww lmao) many times because of my ideas. Many of them may be revolutionary, but I can’t even start working on them because I feel like my day is 5 minutes long… I feel severely disabled by ADHD
I feel this in my soul. I have all these hobbies I want to do, and I keep finding more and I keep buying stuff for said hobbies but barely actually manage to do any of them. Same reason I have never been able to decide on a career…to many things I want to do. I genuinely want to do these things, I have officially overwhelmed myself I think. So instead I sit here and waste time on my phone.
I have a pretty varied skillset. I’ve been drawing since I was a kid, I’m a programmer, and a designer. But once the work part of the day is over, I couldn’t carry out a single creative thing if you paid me. It’s crazy how debilitating ADHD can be and it’s been that way since I was a kid (I was officially diagnosed in the early 90s).
I find that meds can help but sometimes the side effects suck. If you can get your hands on a prescription, it helps a ton. It doesn’t have to be a stimulant either. There’s a lot of non-stimulant ones that do wonders. Just make sure you take it consistently. The one I was prescribed gives me hyper focus.
Can you share some ideas for programming projects? I have time but no ideas.
You could try contributing to an existing open-source project.
How about a cross-platform yt-dlp GUI made in the Qt framework?
Very specific but I’m sure people would appreciate a GUI for it.
What’s your skill level?
I can build what I want, it’s more about having ideas in think. Except math intensive things, I’m not interested in algorithms.
This is my current idea. I have been asked by my family to get a private messaging solution so we can all share pictures etc, basically facebook but we have control of our own data. Friendica is close and takes care of the web side, but doesn’t have an effective messenger.
So, the idea is to use this https://github.com/mesibo/messenger-app-android and integrate it so it uses the profiles configured in our Friendica instance.
When this is done, Friendica will be a truely viable alternative to Facebook that anyone can use. Long term goal is a one-click installer to set up all of the above on AWS or something, so that any family can have their own private facebook and federate with their friends.
Dude. Same. So many abandoned projects
A year ago, I discovered I have ADHD. Suddenly, everything fell into place. I’ve had many hobbies, projects, and ideas throughout my life, but I’ve rarely completed or stuck with them for long. I’m still working to develop a system that allows me to explore while helping me complete tasks over time.
I’ve thought about using medication but I don’t want to depend on it for productivity. I’m curious, has it significantly changed things for any of you?
If you know you have ADHD, give the meds a go and then decide.
Imagine if in 30 years you finally try them and see what life could have been like. If they are not for you, no problem.
It’s funny as the other commenter said about the dependence thing - most other drugs make you unproductive, and so they are harmful to you fulfilling your life goals. This is kinda different, and there are many days where I just go without because I feel like being lazy or just kicking around doing whatever.
Oh I know this struggle! I constantly have a magnitude of hobbies, projects and tasks that I wish to complete.
It helps when you learn that you cannot do everything all at once. While I still naiively think I will accomplish all the things, I sorted all the things I want to do in a priority list; from most important to least important.
“If I die tomorrow, what would I be most upset about for not having done while living?”
Once you have a list (or even a rough list) then start at the top. Do a little each day. You can bounce around the list. You can re-prioritize items. Remember: It’s your list.
The key thing I found is that no matter which of the 1000s of things you want to accomplish, you’re usually happy in the process, so you really can’t go wrong. While working on a thing, just lose yourself in the process until you move onto the next thing.
Good luck, friend!
Embrace side quests. If your stuck on motivation, do an easy part first, or work on a related project for a bit to build up momentums. Once you start working on something it becomes much easier to continue, but you won’t get anywere by staring at the hard part.
