Working with an AuDHD brain: why I automate everything
For a long time I thought the problem was me. I have AuDHD: the combination of autism and ADHD. Specifically ADHD-PI, the inattentive variant, without the hyperactivity most people picture when they hear ADHD. For years I treated that as a defect to overcome. I bought the planners. I read the productivity books. I told myself that next Monday I’d finally be disciplined. This post is the story of how that approach failed, what I built instead, and why the systems I ended up depending on turn out to be good engineering for anyone. ...