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Re:Ask HN: Discuss ADHD and your use of medication on Thursday May 23, 2024 @09:13AM (#40454279)
I was diagnosed with ADHD in my early twenties during university and didn't manage to get medicated until 3 years later (The queue was quite long and I ended up getting a prescription from a private doctor in my home country)

I think it became really obvious to me when I would require a ton of discipline to do assignments around making applications, but doing something like configuring linux from scratch was so personally interesting to me I could stay up nights and days without any external stimulation.

I found that medication (Methylphendiate 20mg) have definitely helped me focus, but the direction of what I'm focusing doesn't always yield productive results (hyperfocusing on reddit for example). I've also started worring that what I've really done is created a dependence, where eventually ill have to up the dose as what I'm currently on will make me feel like I did pre meds, and stopping will make me feel worse.

I hope you find a treatment that works for you OP, but I agree with other comments that you might have just discovered you have had ADHD all this time because its not 'onset'.

Re:Calendar Types in Watches on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @05:55AM (#40221282)
While the rest of what you said is true, perpetual calendars require setting for the year 2100, still a while to go though!
Re:Ask HN: React Native or Flutter for a new app in 2023? on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @03:54PM (#36700743)
This might be derailing but I've personally had a lot of success with CapacitorJS + Nativescript, which is a Webview with hooks into native API's for anything you might need access to at a lower level. But out of the list I'd probably pick Flutter, I don't really see Google culling it anytime soon.