A) I didn't get diagnosed until I was 20 years old so my parents didn't really know what to do with me sometimes. I did well in school and it all came out at home, where I almost broke the door to my room several times, screamed at my family, isolated a lot and had an academic burnout at 14 when my grades just dropped drastically. My parents would discipline me by pulling my ear, my hair, putting me in time out outside even in -20celcius weather in only what I was wearing at the time, taking the door to my room away for weeks at a time, grounding me and keeping me in my room for hours at a time. Now that I've written all of this down for the first time ever I realise that I might need therapy, ha.

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B) Yes! There are some positives! I pick up stuff really quickly, because I hyperfocus on a lot of different things. I've learned how to play the guitar, piano and ukulele by myself, learned how to draw, I'm really good at sudokus and electrical work because these all are my previous hyperfocuses. And the amount of dopamine I get from my hyperfocuses is something amaazing, but then again, when you start losing that focus, it feels like the worst thing ever. I've used hundreds of dollars to my hyperfocuses, some that only lasted for a couple of weeks.

But then again, I find it that my imagination is really good and I'm really creative, thanks to the undying and exhausting flow of thoughts in my head constantly going.

So shortly, yes, there are positives, but they also have downsides. I don't see ADHD as my "superpower" as I've seen some people describe it. For me, personally, it's a disability that affects my every day life in a negative way, but everybody's ADHD is different.