1. This is basically your brain all the time. How is it possible to have so many ideas at once?
2. You're incapable of doing one thing at a time. Why only write that paper when you can write that paper and text your bestie about her breakup and start researching your spring break trip and get started on eight other assignments?
3. You have a great idea and then forget it a second later because you got distracted by something. Do you ever reminisce about all those lost ideas? All the wonderful things they could've become...
4. Speaking of which, you forget everything you need to do unless you write it down. The dog didn't eat my homework, my ADHD did.
5. And you can never remember where you put your keys, wallet, phone, sweater, scarf, umbrella, glasses, hat ... Basically, you lose everything.
6. When you do write down everything you need to do, crossing off all the tasks you completed is insanely gratifying. Never mind having to rewrite your to-do list because it got out of control and now everything is illegible.
7. A simple task like putting your laundry away takes two hours because you get so freaking distracted. Let's be real, most of the time, it just ends up on the floor.
8. You have a love-hate relationship with ADHD spokesman Adam Levine. OK, maybe I just love him...
9. The anger you feel when you finally start focusing and then the person behind you starts talking: Back to square one.
10. How tired your brain feels at the end of a long day. It literally turns off.
11. Sometimes you feel like the most impulsive person in the world. Once you decide you need to do something ASAP, no one can talk you out of it, even if that means texting that guy you just started seeing at midnight on a Thursday or sending that really important email without reading it over. You want to do everything, and you want to do it right now.
12. When someone tells you to sit still and pay attention to a long presentation. If only people understood that all your fidgeting or doodling actually helps you focus.
13. You're always late because you get distracted. You tell yourself you're going to leave the house in 10 minutes, but then you wash the dishes, touch up your hair, tweet a couple jokes, and oops, you're a half hour late.
14. You get bored with things 10 times faster than all your friends. How do people sit through long events? Seriously, can someone explain this to me???!!
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Eve Peyser is a writer from New York City whose work has been featured in The New York Times, VICE, Rolling Stone, and New York Magazine.
