Short monologue (YouTube) by Katie McManus discussing ADHD as a double-edged trait: high creativity and prolific idea generation paired with distractibility and fear of losing ideas. Speaker emphasizes that people with ADHD generate many ideas and must learn systems to capture/manage them to get work done.
One of the best things about having ADHD is how creative we are. And also it's one of the most distracting things, because ideas strike us at any moment, at any time. Along with all the ideas that we have as ADHD people, we also have this underlying fear that this is the last idea we're ever going to have. This weird belief, like there's no proof that it's true because we're coming up with ideas constantly. But. But we tend to have an idea and think, oh, my God, I need to grab onto it right now and run with it, because if I don't, then I'm gonna lose it. We are idea hoarders. And sure, sometimes we'll write an idea down and go back to it, but oftentimes we don't. You are an idea generator. There's a reason why there are so many people with ADHD who do things that are so innovative, because we are far more creative than neurotypicals. But you have to learn how to manage it so that you can get shit done in your business.