Before I start, I went to my doctor (general physician) with the list I’m about to share, it’s basically a list compiled of “symptoms” or just experiences that I’ve had that I think align with ADHD. He said it sounds like what a normal teenager goes through and I probably don’t have ADHD but I should go to a psychologist to fix my concentration issues. Now for the list:

I switch hobbies a lot because I always get bored of them super quickly

Unless my dad is next to me when I’m doing homework I get distracted really easily and I can’t stay focused for more than a few minutes

I get fixated on certain ideas or thoughts to the point where I’ll waste money on them or be too focused on them

Whenever someone’s talking to me and I get a strong urge to say something sometimes I’ll just interrupt them because I can’t stand to have the thought in my mind and I need to get it out

When I’m doing homework alone, most of the time I can’t sit and do it for more than five minutes before my brain feels overloaded and I’m past the “threshold,” I just start feeling mentally exhausted. Once I’m past that point I won’t register anything I’m reading and it’ll just be like I’m skimming over words with my eyes, no information will register because my brain can’t process it anymore. But sometimes even after five minutes and I take a break on my phone, I still feel that way.

Adding on to the last point, I can’t ever sit down and get something done without feeling mentally exhausted, I always get tired quickly and have to take a break.

I’ll be reading something for school or for my own pleasure and realize that I wasn’t processing what I was looking over with my eyes and I wasn’t actually reading reading, more just moving my eyes over the words and not actually paying attention to what the text was saying or what it meant

I make a lot of careless mistakes in things like math because my brain thinks too fast as I’m writing things down and I miss important details

I am always getting distracted by something and my attention easily wanders

I take too long on simple tasks like homework

Once I get distracted it takes a lot for me to get back in the zone, even while I’m doing chores I’ll pick up something and get distracted for too long

I have a lot of trouble waiting for someone to finish talking if I think of something and my mind will flat out stop listening to them until i can finally talk. It’s like once I think of something to say, I feel this sudden energy and whatever the other person is saying just stops processing in my head 

I get fixated on certain things/ideas and get bored of them quickly after starting it

I’m really forgetful, someone will tell me something and a minute later I’ll ask them about it again or I’ll simply just forget, either I zoned out and couldn’t pay attention to what they were saying or the case was that I forgot

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To clarify, I’m not trying to get anyone here to diagnose me. Maybe if you have ADHD and you’ve also felt these things let me know, but I do want to see a psychologist about it. I wrote a list for my doctor because I’m bad at verbalizing things and I’ll just say things I don’t mean, and he’ll take it the wrong way.