The first step is understanding how your unique brain with ADHD functions. The next step is accepting the distinctive ways you problem-solve, often skipping steps and embracing the creativity that accompanies them. Acceptance brings self-compassion and kindness toward your so-called deficits that require correction. Individuals with ADHD seek novelty and excitement. Let us explore the reasons why. The neurotransmitter dopamine is responsible for pleasure and reward. While neurotypicals do not need to seek out activities that boost dopamine levels, they can engage in mundane tasks.
In contrast, individuals with ADHD consistently seek new and novel activities that provide immediate thrills and excitement. This behaviour can be seen as a form of dopamine-seeking.However, the propensity for thrill and novelty-seeking varies from person to person. Those with ADHD also express their unique personalities and pursue what resonates most with their hearts and interests. Working towards these goals delivers a dopamine rush; thus, novelty and thrill-seeking activities depend on this. One can harness this characteristic of one’s ADHD to discover innovative methods for approaching projects, incorporating periods of exercise during work, and engaging in a hobby that is of personal interest and offers immediate rewards.This may break the cycle of boredom and help you concentrate on the mundane task after a break.
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Another often underestimated aspect of ADHD is the capacity for resilience and the ability to build it over time. The challenges faced by individuals with ADHD, which may usually seem effortless to neurotypical people, can cultivate determination and perseverance. Over time, those with ADHD emerge as stress-resilient and confident. We must move beyond viewing ADHD solely as an issue of inattention and impulsivity. The passion that individuals with ADHD exhibit for their interests is admirable, not to mention their quickwit and capacity for independent thinking.
Despite their impulsiveness, they quickly adapt to changes in circumstances and can excel at novel problem-solving. Due to the way their brainsarewired, they can make connections in diverse and complex ways, allowing them to conceive new inventions and strategies that may not occur to someone who is neurotypical. Hyperactivity, which can be seen as boundless energy, when channelled through exercise, can be a significant advantage for those who enthusiastically pursue their passions and experience little fatigue or loss of energy. Many people might misunderstand people with ADHD, but it is often see them as very compassionate and empathetic people.
Getting quickly irked at injustices and not fearing to stand up to them is one unique and appreciable quality they have. They are rarely conformists or conventional. Because of the way their brain is wired, they think outside the box and challenge the status quo. Neurotypicals might find this strange when they toe the line, follow instructions to the dot, sit quietly and have no problem with mundane routine tasks. However, routine can be the bane of people with ADHD, and this itself is a rewarding quality to foster and improve.
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