High functioning is a label that fails to capture the immense stubbornness, effort, and exhaustion that lies behind my successes.

How my ADHD works. THE SHINY I see a shiny. I can't ignore the shiny. I follow it into the depths until nothing else exists but the shiny. I can learn and know everything about the shiny. Suddenly there's a new shiny. I can't ignore the new shiny. I follow it into the depths until nothing else exists but the new shiny. I can learn and know everything about the new shiny. But now I can't remember anything about the before shiny. There is only the now shiny. But then. . . The b