If I have too much time before an appointment, I will be late. If I do everything at the last second, I’ll usually be a little early.

We started out playing on a system that’s in beta (DC20) using a scenario where the players could wind up intentionally or unintentionally winding up in another reality (I want to try out a lot of different systems).

One of the players had a vision of a future where basically she killed the whole party, but while she knew this was her party, she didn’t recognize them. I threw this in to eventually use in one of the other realties.

Cut to a few months later and DC20 was changing a bit too much for us so we switched to 5e to wait for the beta-ness to settle. I gave the players the opportunity to change their characters up if they wanted, and made the switchover by using a five room dungeon in the form of a dream sequence.

At the end, everyone was their new 5e character except the one who had the vision because she loves her character so much. At the end of the dream sequence, I told her that as she looked around at her party, she saw the faces in her vision and subsequent nightmares. I wound up looking like a master strategist.

My crazy neural connections make me creative. My life of making excuses for my ADHD makes me a great DM and storyteller.

It’s a hungry world

I’ve just started a new job with a lot of onboarding and my new coworker said “Now you know all of the things! I’ll direct everyone your way!” He was really confused when I tried to explain to him that yes, my hard drive has written all of the information I’ve heard, but my file system is shit so I’ll probably never see it again.

My music varies. Sometimes it’s music I’ve heard recently on loop, sometimes it’s music my brain came up with, but a lot of times it’s in the background. At times I don’t even notice the music is there until I realize I’ve been playing the King George songs from Hamilton on a loop for a couple of weeks. Either that or I’ll start focusing in on something external and start humming what’s in my head without realizing it. Right now, it’s Foxy Brown’s “Oh Lord” on muddled repeat. Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah.

One One One One One One One One One One One One

The internet definition, yes. Because you’ll get a bunch of people who are diagnosed who think that since they have ADHD, everything they do is a symptom so they’ll spread some things that’s just basic human nature.

In the real world, it’s defined just right. The problem there is that people will ignore the “interfering with daily activities/life” part. Sure, everyone is distracted or hyperfocused sometimes, but for us it’s more of a constant issue that we have to find ways to get around to function in society. Or people will look at something like executive dysfunction and think “yeah, sometimes I don’t want to <insert name of task no one wants to do>” because they can’t comprehend the hell of having to force yourself to do the things you love.

I liken it to someone saying “I’m so OCD” just because they put their pens in a desk drawer. No man, OCD wrecks people. You’ve just finally decided to be slightly neat.