Ahem. That's what yours is. Mine is straight-up time defiance. I stopped caring about clocks and deadlines. You speak for yourself: attentional difference is a cluster, not a fixed set of symptoms and behaviours.
Another example, I'm not short of motivation. It's just there are so many interesting things to work on.
No, it's not just what mine is. It agrees with the clinical definition of ADHD, with the experiences of all who I have spoken to about it, including many friends, with multiple[0] articles[1] describing[2] the disorder[3], and so on.
Your time defiance is a symptom of a deeper problem. While I can't guarantee it's the exact same problem that I have, your disorder is certainly not just "time defiance", and if it truly is ADHD, the root of it will be executive dysfunction, as that is what defines the disorder.
> For example, I'm not short of motivation. It's just there are so many interesting things to work on.
I could say the same thing. But I can't choose which thing I work on. I want to draw. I want to code. I have hundreds of unfinished projects I could have finished. I have hundreds of abandoned hobbies I could have stayed with. Sure I have "motivation", but it's motivation to do whatever catches my interest at the moment, not motivation to do any of the things that I actually want to do.
Edit: based on interaction elsewhere in this thread, it seems I and LoganDark agree very much. I don't have time to rewrite this now, the compile finished a few minutes ago already, so just keep in mind that I and LoganDark seems to agree to a large degree when you read this.
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There are the medical definitions, and there are the things you understand when you have friends and family with ADHD and you hear them describe it.
Yes, executive function is the problem.
Also yes, thanks partially to that and frequent comorbidities ADHD-ers also experience:
- time blindness (maybe because flow is so much more important to ADHD-ers that they have learned to hold to it at all cost?)
- on average fewer slots in short time memory (I don't know it this is in DSM, but it is well known)
- anxiety and depression
- etc
Every doctor I have spoken to is well aware that ADHD has many problems in addition to the ones stated in the diagnostic criterias.
Another example, I'm not short of motivation. It's just there are so many interesting things to work on.