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Episode 16: Hyperfocus

The ADHD Adults Podcast

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Hyper Focus: A Strength or Superpower?

I've given up counting the amount of times that I've seen hyper focusing listed as either a strength or a superpower in a variety of different places including kind of really prominent social media accounts for ADHD. So if you're lucky enough that you can hyper focus on your job for example then that's going to be incredibly useful because you'll be more productive than everybody else and be incredibly successful. If you can also hyper focus on something as we said emotionally rewarding you know I bet it does feel like astrength or a superpower but if not then it's about as useful as a chocolate teapot. You might just assume well everybody can do that this is ADHD It's that thing we talked about

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