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If you do it enough you will be the most competent person in the room. With our wildly cross wired brains and enough time taking in all forms of information we can really dazzle the normal hairless monkeys. As long as we can avoid those wildly branching thoughts that start with the proper way to set up a 3d printer and quickly move into how to get the best consistency when making mashed potatoes with a mixer. The two things are related but if they ask you how you freeze up because the gap is hundred thoughts wide between them. A fraction of a second for you but it would take an hour to explain it to them and no one has that kind of time as we quickly lose patience because they cannot just see that.
That doesn’t really sound like ADHD to me, but rather low self-esteem. I am sure the ADHD could be contributing to the low self-esteem but it doesn’t sound like the same thing.
It’s internalized ableism related to being told their whole lives they’re so smart and talented if only they weren’t so lazy. We’re extremely capable - sometimes. The rest of the time we struggle at the most basic of everyday tasks that normal people find trivial. Now combine that with late diagnosis. That’s a lot of years being told you should be better and wondering why you’re not. At the very least, it’s an extremely specific kind of low self esteem.
It may not be solely caused by dopamine levels, but the experience is common among many ADHD sufferers and our brain chemistry does predispose us to responding to that in certain ways (which is why we can break out of that pattern more easily when medicated).
