You focus for 5 minutes, do something else, then get back to focusing for 5 minutes.

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>>31411
seems good

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it helps if you have someone to keep you on track

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>>31410
You don't or use drugs unless you have someone tard wrangling you like >>31413 says

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>>31410
Caffeine helps heaps for me. It's awful for me to be so reliant on it so I detox myself and wait a few months between energy drink binges but when I need to get stuff done pounding 3 cans will let me do whatever I need to instead of being distracted. Not sure how that works but I am certain it's not placebo.

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I find it easier to focus on something I'm learning if it's something that can be applied to while learning immediately, programming in my case was something easy for me to do because if I fucked something up it would go south quite quickly
>>31411 Sometimes is good too, I like something to fiddle with while working through things even if it's just like looking at my images folder in one window and reading in another
Sorry if you're trying to learn like history or something though I have no tips for that

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>>31416
>learn like history
All you need is to like history

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>>31417
True true
I used to imagine the subject matters as girls before it was trendy to do that in phone games and it kind of helped

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AuDHD and cycle between things every 5 days instead of 5 min

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You can get software that will lock you out of websites or programs for a certain amount of time, or limit how long you can run them. I'm not sure what they're called, but I've heard of them.
I have a lot of trouble maintaining focus myself, but sometimes you can just power through it if motivated enough. I think the main issue is that you have to find something that truly interests you, and something that interests you and is also "productive' can be hard to find.
Wait a minute, I'm getting deja vu here. I think I've said this a few years ago...

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Anki

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i would've shot myself years ago were it not for leechblock ng, and recently the program Cold Turkey was helpful in curbing my CoE5 addiction
if you want to read something, my advice is to turn your phone off, unplug your router, and then try reading

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>>31410
You have to find things that click with your 'tism brain so you want to learn them and can't pull away. Find them or make the things you have to learn more interesting somehow. The gravity pulling you towards the activity must outweigh the gravity pulling you towards time wasting activities you are doing by default.

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>>31423
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>>31410
Exercise outside before working.

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>>31410
You get into the army so you're actually fucked by knowledge checks if you're slacking

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>>31410
DO METH

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If what you're trying to learn is practically applicable, I find it easier to retain/learn by daily practice rather than reading or watching videos. Easier to ingrain it into muscle memory through repetition than reading memory I guess.

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>>31426
Is it worth it to go the ADHD telehealth route? I don't have insurance.

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My autism diagnosis has been helpful in various ways. Maybe it is the same for ADHD.

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>>31429
Helpful how?

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You fix your ADHD first
You start by lowering the amount of task-swaps you commit in a day by a drastic amount. An extreme ideal example is doing one task only for the whole day, aim for as close to that as you reasonably can. This means that even when you are on puter, you keep only one single tab open rather than jumping between several, you avoid leaving the one website you're on or you don't come back to it once you're done with it, naturally no having youtube or music running in the background.
This one's important, if you get bored or find yourself starting to look for something else to do/consume, you stop and take a break. Watching a video and feel like pausing it to check some other tab? Break away. Finished reading some manga chapter and not sure what to do next? Break away.
Put away 20 or so minutes a day to just meditate, doing that for several weeks is known to have a big impact on burnt attention span

I'm no hydrologist so I don't have the credentials to say this, but I'm pretty sure that ADHD is simply a habit built over time to avoid even the shortest sense of boredom. This habit is built up from childhood and most people just feed into it, these days especially with smartphones in their pockets, so fixing it can be as grueling as overcoming a drug addiction. Lotta people don't even remember what being bored feels like anymore, most kids probably never knew. Getting used to boredom and getting over the urge to chase dopamine is what overcoming ADHD is

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You admit that mental illness is an excuse for personal weakness and get your fucking act together.

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>>31432
I'm guessing you've never been in a psychiatric ward. Be thankful for that

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>>31433
NTA but psychic ward was pretty interesting experience, it made me realize quite a few things.
I wouldn't call it a negative experience.

Also in case of ADHD specifically it is generally true that it can be managed (at least in most cases) to a pretty good degree.

Though saying that every mental illness is like that is foolish.

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