I love planning

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I really enjoy creating timetables for myself and planning out stories to the smallest detail. I would say that it's something that I'm really good at....
But, I never follow the timetable. I can start writing the story, but I rarely finish it. I've never finshed the longer, more complex ones. Once I've finsihed planning I move onto the next one. I just enjoy doing it. It's a hobby.
But, lately I've been wondering if I have ADD (I apologize because I've started a lot of threads asking questions about it. I do have other reasons for considering ADD, but I don't want to bore everyone by writing the same things) and is this something that would mean I don't have ADD?
I know that people with ADD can focus on something that interests them and I'm wondering if it's that. I can and will spend all my free time working on them and thinking about them. When working on them feels great because for once I am to focus and keep working on them without getting distracted.
I just wish I could follow my timetables or complete some of those stories. That's frustrating.

Anyone else like this?
Thanks, everyone

Planning prowess does not conflict with ADHD, so you can have ADHD and be good at planning.

I know a person with ADHD, and she is verry merry berry good at planning what she is going to do, but not good at following plan due to initiation issues.

I know another person with ADHD, and she is verry merry berry good at planning what she is going to do, but not good at finishing plan due to distraction issues.

I know yet another person with ADHD, and she is verry merry berry good at planning and following and finishing due to years of training herself to plan and follow and finish.

I have ASD, not ADHD, and I am not good at planning what I am going to do.

Instead, I start doing, detail by detail to build up the big picture from the small details over time, and I know what I am doing only after I have been doing what I am doing for awhile, from a few hours to a few days.

I think that I am not as good at planning as most neurotypical people or most people with ADHD.

I think that my lack of planning prowess may be related to my non-verbal mode of thinking, and I am going to create a cognitive eggsperiment to unbersmand whatever it is that I am trying to unbersmand, which I will be able to unbersmand and verbalize only after I have created the eggsperiment and eggsperimented on myself for awhile.

Hi, thanks for replying!
Hmm, I guess that I'm like your friends who have trouble with initiation and distraction.
Btw, your phrase, "verry, merry berry" is awesome and makes me happy just saying it in my head.

It's not ADD simply to not do something voluntarily that you're not interested in.

I wonder why so many people think that? "I don't 'finish' something so I must be ADD."

Hi, thanks for your reply.
Yep, I agree that simply choosing not to do something is not ADD.
I'm still in the early stages of trying to understand ADD better, which means researching and asking lots of questions.
As I said I find it frustratingly difficult to focus on writing and finish the projects I start. If I could, I would.

Since I don't have ADD. I love planning things. I outline every story that I write since I love to write and I have to plan out my daily tasks of the day.

I do love to plan for certain things, despite hints that I may have ADHD. For instance, even though I am early in my relationship stage, I am planning my future wedding to whomever I'll marry.

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