I've got late-diagnosed ADHD, and so of course I've tried many hacks and techniques to make my brain work better. There are five of them that have been particularly effective -- but they also SUCK. You can read more at ADHDopen.space, , but let me know in the comments -- what is your suckiest ADHD hack?

You can get more of Gray's takes on ADHD at the ADHD Open Space webpage and YouTube Channel. If you're a member of Medium, he often publishes there as well, and his personal side quest is the Papermancy Guild.

This wasn't supposed to be an episode.

I've been trying to find more ways to overcome my strange block to creating content here, and one suggestion I got from another content creator was "just put on a mic or a camera and just talk. No expectation of creating something worth publishing -- just getting used to being recorded."

On the afternoon of Friday, May 1st, I had to drive out to the VA to (ha!) pick up my ADHD meds for the next month. It takes about thirty minutes to get to the pharmacy there, and I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to put this into practice.

What it turned out to be was a textbook example of working memory failure, distraction, and the ways our systems we create to externalize executive function can both fail spectacularly and also mitigate the consequences.

Honestly, there's nothing I could say or edit that would make the point more clearly, so I am presenting it here in its unedited, live, on the spot glory.

Enjoy. And, if you can empathize...I see you.

Read more about ADHD at http://adhdopen.space -- and if you want to learn how to use paper-based thinking to help your brain, you might enjoy http://papermancy.art !

A lot of maxims, truisms, corollaries, and such got left on the metaphorical cutting room floor. In the interest of completeness and inclusion, here are some of the related phenomena that have epitomized my experience of ADHD: