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