Hello
Asten here for the ADHD
survival guide.
People say Einstein might have had
ADHD
and looking at his work maybe
this was true,
because ADHD allows you
to time travel.
Yeah that's obvs a lie.
But ADHDers do experience time
differently to neurotypical people
When people say
"Live in the now man"
"Time isn't linear anyway".
That is an possible paradox
for most people.
The only people who can live in the now
for real are ADHDers
or babies.
Living in the now looks better
on babies than it does adult ADHDers.
Babies are like "Hey, what time is it?
Oh, wait, I don't care. I'm a baby."
But on an ADHDer it looks like
"AGH! What time is it? 4:30?"
"What does that mean?"
"I can't work out how that correlates
to my life right now!"
"Help meee!"
You see to perceive time as linear
with a yesterday, today & tomorrow
or a beginning, middle and end
or a then, now & later
you need a set of processes working in your
brain
which are collectively called "executive functions".
Boring name - important functions.
They allow you to self monitor or self regulate
to get to or achieve a goal.
"What's this to do with Einstein?" I hear you
cry
Don't worry I'm kind of getting there.
To mention a few functions:
You need good impulse control
to regulate discipline in yourself.
You need working memory
so the capacity to hold information
for the purpose of completing the task, or to call on past info to help you this time.
Emotion control to modulate
emotional responses to keep rational thought.
Planning so you can see the future
in your mind's eye so you can manage
current and future-orientated tasks.
There's more but I'm bored.
The result of weak executive functioning
has strange ethereal effects.
For me, anyway,
instead of time there's just a
black hole.
I know time must be passing but I can't feel it.
This is why you have to make all the
functions external to get by.
My planner looks like 
a Rubik's Cube made by
Satan.
Time feels kind of stretchy to me
moving in and out in all directions,
rather than forwards.
This is why I'm inclined to believe
Einstein might have had ADHD.
If weak executive functioning makes
traditional concepts of time and space
feel strange to an ADHDer,
then it makes sense he could
come up with the theory of relativity.
Yes! Got there in the end.
Or you know it could have all the maths and
physics and science and stuff...
Whatever, I'm trying to make a point here.
But I'm convinced many of his quotes
came from the soul of an ADHDer.
He said "Time is an illusion". I think.
I know time must be there, 
because people tell me.
But for me and many other ADHDers,
time just doesn't exist.
Good luck, ADHDers!
