My under-stimulated mind sought refuge. I discovered my Dad’s extensive Science-Fiction collection, hundreds of books available for me to browse and read.
It was my “twenty in a stack rule”. I forbade myself from returning to the Sci-Fi bookcases. I had to clear down every one of my active twenty books to zero, before I allowed myself to even pick up another.
It is pretty common for undiagnosed people with ADHD to unconsciously build work-arounds, strategies to help with their ADHD challenges – sometimes pretty creative and innovative solutions too.
Andrew Lewis is an ADHD Coach, writer and founder of SimplyWellbeing. He has over 10,000 hours and 15 years of experience in coaching hundreds of ADHD executives, business professionals and creatives, and previously running a large ADHD support group and an ADHD diagnostic clinic. His business expertise comes from a twenty years career in software, from programming, through marketing, sales and running a few start-ups. His ADHD insight is personal, with decades understanding his own ADHD experience and in bringing up his ADHD daughter. He has published his writing primarily via this website, with interactive ADHD courses in development.