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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Camel" data-source="post: 13297" data-attributes="member: 5378">Hi BethanyThanks for starting this thread.It made me think about about what goes on in my AuDHD brain. I’d be interested to know if this rings true for anyone else. I have had more passionate interests than I can remember. They become all consuming at first, I buy every piece of equipment associated with it. I do it in every possible spare moment. I’ll research the living daylights out of it.  Then one of two things happens:1. I get “reasonably good” at it, try to find the most difficult and challenging aspects, don’t find it stimulating enough and invariably get distracted by something else or 2. Pour huge amounts of time, money and effort into it, get frustrated and annoyed with myself, then, after months and months of trying, realise I’m not going to become “reasonably good” and then get distracted by something else!In no particular order my passionate interests have been:Herpetology…reptiles and amphibians. Had a meltdown to beat all melt downs aged 7 when my mother refused to buy me a real live crocodile!DinosaursFossilsSkeletonsAirfix model 2nd world war models mostly.Wood turning…..2 lathes, boxes of tools and enough wood to build an ark still cluttering my garage. Unused in 3 years.Wood carvingCanoeingmaking Canadian canoe paddlesMaking wooden canoes…..2 hanging up in my garage. Unused in 5 years.Scuba divingPhotography…..I have at least 10 cameras from 40 years of trying to be a great photographer. I never learn and still keep buying them!Underwater photography…like terrestrial photography wasn’t hard enough I had to add the risk of drowning!Mountain Biking. Still have 4 bikes in the garage.Road cyclingCarnivorous plant Growing fruit and vegetablesBonsai treesKnittingPainting. Every medium you can think of I’ve had a go.Kinsugi….repairing broken pottery using an ancient Japanese method employing resins and gold powder.OrigamiCross country skiingFell runningWeightliftingRock climbingThe entire works of Kurt Vonnegut Baking Sourdough breadBy no means is this exhaustive, but I think you are getting the general picture.At the moment It’s gardening, Bonsai trees and painting…….and researching all things neurodivergent.I don’t know how to stay focused on one interest. My Autistic brain is screaming for bit of peace and quiet. (Not much chance of that). My ADHD brain is always off on manoeuvres to find the next brief dopamine hit!<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😁" title="Beaming face with smiling eyes    :grin:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f601.png" data-shortname=":grin:" />For most of my life I thought this was “normal”. I thought everyone had lots of interests and hobbies and would spend days totally absorbed in them. I’ve only recently learned this is not the case at all. This is very much the AuDHD approach to hobbies and interests.I’m fascinated to see where this thread goes.Wade</blockquote>

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