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Everything I Needed to Know About Managing Adult ADHD I Learned From Star Trek

12 min readJun 2, 2025

“…to boldly go where no brain has gone before!”

There’s one phrase I think I hear more than any other from my fellow late-diagnosed ADHDers:

  • I’ve always felt like I’m living in a world that was not made for me.

Something about that phrase pinged in my imagination: a world that was not made for me. A world where I felt alienated…struggling in a hostile environment…exhausted from trying to accomplish my tasks and never knowing what new obstacle or even attack might be coming next…

Wait a minute. I know this trope. I’ve watched, read, and gamed riffs on this story for my entire life. Imagine some ethereal, high-pitched pinging tones, with a rising trombone fanfare underneath…”

I am the voyages of the Braincraft Gray.
My lifelong mission: to eke out good life and well-thought-out decisions.

To boldly go where my brain has never gone before…

Cue theremin and whooshing spaceship noises!

Drawn by the author with Procreate on an iPad Mini (as trek as it gets!)
Drawn by the author with Procreate on an iPad Mini (as trek as it gets!)

Just Because It Wasn’t Made for My Brain Doesn’t Make It…

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Gray Miller
Gray Miller

Written by Gray Miller

Gray is a former Marine dancer grandpa visualist who writes to help adults figure out what they want to be when they grow up.

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