Writing ADHD

Why I like writing ADHD characters more than neurotypicals

* If I'm describing an action or event and having to mention the timing.

"In ten minutes we were done and ready to go." "It took half an hour to finish before they could start the next task." Anything like that. The problem is, I have no sense of time at all, I have no idea how long normal things that I do every day take. So, I always have this fear of 'is is realistic that the conversation I just described took that much time'.

The answer is - write it from the POV of a character who has ADHD as well. I have no sense of time and neither would they, unless they were looking at the clock they couldn't describe the time passing in minutes or hours. I could just have them say 'it felt like a lot of time had passed' and it would be logical.

* If I forgot a detail.

I was editing a chapter and discovered I had written my character thinking of an important thing that they had to remember. I had forgotten that I wrote this detail in there and therefore hadn't mentioned it in the following chapters. Luckily for me, it made perfect sense for the character to forget it - it was even framed like that, they were thinking 'it's important, I have to remember but I probably wont'. Cause they had ADHD too.

* If I'm in a weird mood.

I may randomly be feeling philosophical or funny. It will reflect in my writing, but that's okay, as I'm writing from the POV of someone with ADHD, and therefore them having thoughts totally inappropriate to the situation is not weird at all. That's just how we are.