Yep! Just as common for me to start responding to the initial comment before they’re even able to start repeating themselves. Just reflexive “what?” from me all day, people hate it (me)

Sometimes I just mentally move on from the topic and start a new discussion right after I asked what which makes many people very confused

I do the same but with emailing questions to my boss. As I’m writing out the pros and cons I make the decision myself and delete the email.

Which is better in the end tbh since he doesn’t ever read more than about 2 sentences at once before replying. 🙄

Now that I think about it, I’m going to propose that rubber duck debugging is a way to compensate for ADHD and undiagnosed ADHD is very common among programmers. It’s really just a variant of the “talk through a problem out loud” coping strategy.

Not exclusive to ADHD at all but being on medications really helps me think things through beforehand, which helps avoid OP’s situation.

But anyway you are voluntarily posting on an ADHD forum and finding commonality with an ADHD meme. If you were waiting for a sign to get evaluated: this is it. Just keep an open mind, since ADHD symptoms can be caused by a lot of things.

Not completely exclusive, but if you find a whole bunch of ADHD posts to be perfectly relateable, uhh… You might have ADHD.

I’d say it does very well happen to everyone, but some people might find it much more relatable in general than others. And there would be a correlation between finding it very relatable and a diagnosis on the spectrum, but no hard causality.

Nah. There are plenty of self diagnosed people who post slightly weird but totally normal behaviour to ADHD subs.

Same. Happens with my work. I’m sitting on a problem I cannot get past. So I start a group email to see if someone else has had a similar problem before. Halfway through explaining, I find the answer.

At least with an email, you can just close it and pretend it didn’t happen.