ADHD can help developers be more creative

Key Takeaways

ADHD folks tend to be absurdly creative in a way that some neurotypical folks are but sometimes neurotypical folks really struggle with like we're really good at out of the boox thinking um and I was having a chat with someone the other day about this and one thought that had never occurred to me so um I once had someone describe the inside of my head as like a lottery ball machine you know with all the the balls bouncing all over the place and like my self-awareness was this little puppy that's like ball ball ball ball ball right and it was very accurate I really felt like it at the time um but the the thing is if each of those balls is like an idea or a thing that like currently on your mind um they're bouncing around and smashing into each other in lots of like really like weird and unexpected ways and if the average neurotypical person is like here's the thing I'm focused on this and your life can be a little bit more compartmentalized it's sometimes more difficult for you to think in this big open empty box with all of these different things that are not related somehow being interconnected but as an ADHD person I'm thinking about all the things all the time and so I will sometimes come up with weird kind of overlaps or connections to things that like someone else might not observe