Complete inability to focus! I'm like a potato or something.

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But... mostly not in the traditional sense... My attention span isn't 'that' short, though much shorter than the average person, but I can live with it.

My lack of focus truly shows when I want to make a decision, even if it's a tiny one.

My brain simply stops functioning... I'm doing something else.. I'm emotionally involved in what it is I'm doing.. I am unable to spare any bit of focus or energy for making the decision that I must make... If I try to force myself, it usually has a disastrous ending. I'm basically a slave to my subconscious.

This has effected every single aspect of my life. I can't keep a job.. Can't study.. Can't live.. Can't keep any healthy habits at all... My mind is far too unfocused for me to gather enough energy to do the right thing. Even when I'm lucky enough to be able make a decision, it's only a matter of minutes before my mind wanders off to something else, and I'm unable to follow up.

Feels like my brain is hyper active. It's impossible for me to control it.

There was one medication that helped me miraculously, and that was Adderall. I tried other ADHD medications, but non of them worked. Unfortunately Adderall is not available where I currently live.

I've seen and conversed with people with ADHD, and they're not like me at all.. What is it that I suffer from then? Probably a combination of Asperger's and ADHD, or something weirder. I don't know.

Wanted to share. Thanks in advance.

Sounds like Asperger's combined with ADHD. You have ADHD but your Asperger's can be seen in how you get mentally hung up on desicions. The reason people with ADHD seem so different is because you're seeing them through the eyes of an aspie. As you become more aware it will start to make more sense.

^ my diagnosis

I can't relate to what you wrote so far, but that's not saying much. Could be the wording or so.

I have ADHD + ASD.

I for one have all the energy in the world to decide (metaphorically speaking) ten thousand things at a time.

That's the hyperactivity and impulsivity part of ADHD for me. I want to do everything at once, because I see this and that and hear another few things and... there's countless around me that I see and decide I want/need to do at once.

I am lacking the typically 'day-dreaming' and being lost in thought of ADD (the inattentive type that's missing hyperactivity and physical impulsivity).

Basically the opposite of what I am.. It's strange.. As if I'm trapped inside my own mind. My brain is hyperactive, but in a passive sort of way. It's so difficult to make a conscious decision against my subconscious.

WELCOME TO THE "lost and found, and lost and found again, and again and again and so on" CLUB

Hi there!

I understand completely what you mean!

I have ADHD combined type (periods of short attention span, and periods of hyperfocusing).

I have undiagnosed AS and I think dyspraxia (DCD) as well, since i already posted a lot about this triad AS-AD(H)D-DCD (=DAMP) in another forum i'll just quote what i wrote.

People like us tends to feel even more mentally disabled than other AD(H)Ders or Aspies, for us the world is so confusing that we feel overwhelmed by it.

I survive all the frustration trying to understand everything, by accepting that I'm not as fast as I should be, giving my mind the time it needs to make desicions or understand situations and laughing as much as I can for example of those embaracing misfortunated situations I get my self into by not making right decisions.

I do have to recognize that the ADHD medicine helps me a lot! without it I would be almost completely lost to even be able to focuse enough to see the good side of the situation. But the ADHD coaching has helped me a lot teaching me how to organize my ideas, thoughts and feelings in schemas so I can understand better the situations around me and inside me to not feel that lost any more with or without medicine.

Have you tried other ADHD medicine available in your region?

Good luck in your journey!

I have AS and multiple types of ADHD, and I can relate to you entirely. It is extremely hard to explain to people how my brain works and it sounds like ours work in the same way. While I know it sucks to be going through that, as it does suck badly for me, at the same time I am glad to finally see someone with the exact same problem.

I relate...as one with an ASD and ADHD indicators.

However, i see myself more as a turnip...or possibly a root artichoke or sweet potato.