Is it me or ADHD?

Published March 17, 2024

So here’s what I’m won­der­ing: How much of what I think of as my quirky behav­ior is because of ADHD, and how much is just personal? 

I’ll spend a ton of mon­ey to find the per­fect [insert prod­uct here — hik­ing boots, back­pack, pen — because each one I buy is almost per­fect, but not quite. (I have quite a col­lec­tion of those, and more.) And once I find what I think is exact­ly it, I’ll buy sev­er­al “just in case.” 

Is that an ADHD thing?

How about switch­ing office chairs every few weeks? (One is a Steelcase, the oth­er is from Secret Labs.) Neither is bet­ter, but they’re dif­fer­ent and I feel the urge to switch every now and then. 

ADHD? 

I enjoy meet­ing new peo­ple, but then I feel like I’ve run out of things to say and I’ll drift away.

ADHD? Social anxiety? 

It’s like that with oth­er habits — and I always won­der which are a result of ADHD and which are just per­son­al quirks. 

I rec­og­nize that the line between is blurred, but I won­der how many of these quirks are com­mon. “Yeah! I do that too!”