What Do Viewers Really Think of “ADHD & How Anyone Can Improve Their Focus”? 7M views

I view my ADHD as a superpower. I’m more creative and have gotten a lot further in life with it than I would have without it and so did my father before me. The world would never have known Robin Williams if his parents forced him to take meds as a child. Many believe Einstein had ADHD too. His hyperfocus on things that interested him was the key to his genius. Yet he often forgot to wear socks or make sure his shoes matched. We are different, that doesn’t mean we need to be fixed. I’m all for ways to learn about focusing, and I do appreciate this video for that. However, consider rethinking the idea that ADHD is a bad thing that needs to be fixed. Neurotypicals always think we all want to be like them. I wouldn’t trade my neurodivergent brain for anything. I believe the world needs both.

But I can explain that, one I feel the ability to 'zoom out' in the present moment and take in all my surroundings, and manually blink (Physical & attention) to RESET my time awareness, and since I know I'm resetting it I can ground myself on purpose and re-orient towards a task. Also keeping my eyes open or focused on a task legitimately feels similar to adderall, ( I get the intensive focus, higher heart rate, and dry eyes But I got all of those back when I was prescribed!) I'm going to look into seeing how much I can or can't improve this eye-control skill and see if it makes a difference being better at it, or if this effect is mostly flat. ( I assume better timing and more frequent use of the ideas will make it better for me. We'll see!) I just wanted you to see this impact on me at some point, I have been searching for a good stepping stone for my ADHD for years, it's extremely strong and detrimental to me even though I manage to function in very short bursts, all my significantly productive goals end up getting damaged. (Sometimes even favoured activities drop out of dopamine cycle, as well as work and relationship bumps from it.) I even got stuck in the, I can't seem to set up an appointment for ADHD meds because I need the meds to help do it in the first place. I wish I could genuinely express how much I feel like I just learned a new skill, and even show other people the concept of eye control/attentional blinking that I got from this that seems to make such a difference for me. Thank you!

There were few videos on ADHD, only Russell Barkley, until Huberman made this gem. I started taking Vyvanse recently and it's been lifechanging, apart from the insomnia-esque symptoms you get (waking up on 7 hours of sleep, waking up early, feeling your heart race because the drug lasts 24 hours) and so on. I had a lot of noise doing tasks but was markedly successful for years until the noise became too much. I abused caffeine for years, as well, to spike my dopamine and do tasks without that noise. I would be working on a 3D project and have this strange noise for years, as if I should open a tab or watch something while doing it, or try to spike my dopamine by finding something exciting to do twice. Thousand of tabs open on my computer, too, like 200 (64GB of ram), and knew I exhibited a lot of these ADHD traits prior to taking it. I was unable to swap tasks, too, so I'd do 3D for 8 hours, and be unable to even play a game afterward, relax, or do something that was not work-related because the work was the main thing giving me dopamine at the time. Same thing with gaming: dopamine spikes and you can't switch off. I was better if I meditated, but that meditation focus only lasted for about 20 minutes until I fell back into the same traits. I've been meditating for years, too. I still meditate nonetheless on Vyvanse. On Vyvanse, I remember things more, while doing them, and have more space in my brain as if there's less noise. I can be focused on multiple things, but do each task at once.