David Cain of Raptitude (previously, previously, previously) has blogged for over a decade about his efforts at improving his life, including several structured experiments around “A place for everything, and everything in its place”, meditation, exercise, and more. This year, Cain received an ADHD diagnosis and wrote: “One of the bigger bombshells was realizing that this mystery issue is the whole reason this blog exists. Raptitude has been my response to living with ADHD and not knowing it.”
Cain has also written an explanation of what ADHD is like for him, “for two reasons: To help other people understand what ADHD actually does…. [and] To help myself understand and manage ADHD’s effects in my life.”
Further quotes from Cain’s “What Raptitude Has Always Been About”:
I guess I didn’t suspect ADHD because I was too busy doing everything possible not to look like a kid who has ADHD.
When I did finally try medication, it felt like being released from prison. I could just do things, in the direct and uncomplicated way other people seem to.
What’s most exciting to me is that, after a decade of blindfolded molasses-walking, I can finally begin to realize my original vision for Raptitude. Because I have simply not been able to.
The comments on that post also include several people’s stories of realizing they have ADHD.