Since the topic has come up again, I'd like to take the opportunity to thank the people on HN who have commented at length about ADHD in the past. Without it I might not have realized that the thing that's made my life laborious, if not miserable, since I was a teenager wasn't me being « lazy » or my « temper ». I simply happened to have ADHD and never realized it. Without it I might just have lived the rest of my life thinking that I'm just that way and I'll never be able to fullfil my goals because my brain won't let me. That's a sort of despair I don't know many people can emphasize with, at least none whom I'm familiar in my everyday life.

Over the years I had come up with ways to deal with myself, but they're barely sufficient.