If you have adhd, or suspect adhd, are you interested in Everything?

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I'm just fascinated and interested in absolutely anything and everything. I'll hear something and just want to go and look it up and find out more about it.
It's always random things. Like galaxies or arctic hates (look them up. They're gorgeous) or self drive cars.
It adds to my procrastination too. Always interesting stuff to research rather than doing what I'm meant to be doing.
Is this quite common?

I get briefly interested in a lot of random subjects, read lots about them then lose interest.

Yup, I get 'power interests/hobbies' as DH calls them.

You name it, I've probably read an article on it 🤷

Yes. Finding out about random shit is what I’m best at in life. The less applicable to anything useful to me, the better.

It’s pretty standard for ADHD as far as I know.

Yep...for a time. Then onto the next thing.

Yep. It actually keeps me awake at night. There's always something new I discover that seems really frickin interesting at 1am!

Yes!

I am always finding out about random stuff. I class it as informing myself. I do not have AHD

I think I might have adhd to the extent I cannot get excited until I come close to a deadline or burning platform. Very much a crammer.

When I am not cramming (hyperfocus?) I am meandering down lanes looking up things that interest me, not everything, just things of interest. I do so much more than dh or dcs and get frustrated when they don't know something but then don't reach for google.

My general knowledge, particularly finance, science and medicine, is wider than the rest of my family.

No. Im very disinterested in most things due to them being boring to me.

I’m very much like this, but no ADHD. Possible I would meet ASD criteria though.

Especially things like the history of a saying or word. The history of a company, anything. I’m always researching the most random things.

I remember feeling sad that I won’t have time in my life to read all the good books.

Yup! I don’t have ADHD but definitely have some traits.

A smart phone is my nemesis as I have to Google anything that pops into my head.

Some examples might be, I’ve just taken up running, so today I’ve read loads of articles about how running builds muscle, pacing, heart rates. Looked at my Fitbit. All when I should be working 😬

or I might look at my cat and Google ‘2 year old cat traits’ ‘what do cats do at 2 years old’.

Its just random crap that doesn’t really matter.

I have excellent general knowledge though.

Yes. I wish I could upload information into my brain 😂 (I realise someone will come along as say that called reading).

Intense interest. Last week it was the Tudors

Podcast about Tudor history in the car/around the house. Imagine myself as a Tudor lady, randomly my mindset randomly changes to what I'm currently interested in. Running my bath and having a little convo in my head about what I'd be saying as a woman in 1545.

Then bam, nothing. Onto the next thing in a few months but before then I'll be flat with 0 interest in much

What's funny is after all that, I won't remember most of the stuff I could've actually gained knowledge from remembering

I simply can't remember

Wow so many of us! I felt quite the anomaly.
Of course, I was referring to arctic hares in my op. I don't hate the arctic. I love it and would love to go to such a fascinating place.

@blueshoes I get that meandering and hyperfocus thing. I do it all the time even though I try to change. As for dcs, they seem to think I know everything and I'm always saying 'do I look like Google?' to them. But then go off to Google with them.

Ok something else relating to this - I feel like I've had a pretty mediocre career because I never knew what I was actually interested in. I was good at all my subjects and struggled to know if I was actually interested in going in any particular direction. I couldn't figure myself out so just ended up drifting along.
I do ok but never really excelled in anything and feel I could have and should have.

Are you me?

I had no idea these were ADHD traits! AFAIK I'm just interested. My parents used to say that I have the brain for studying, but not the bottom (ie I can't sit still and focus for long enough).

Yep.
Have to know about everything I even vaguely get interested in.
And it definitely adds to my terrible procrastination!
But also, like ClemFandango I get power interests and must deep dive and know everything.

For example I'm doing keto at the moment, and I can't just know enough to do it, I'm reading really long books on all the science, watching videos and documentaries etc.

I now know a lot more than the person who introduced me to it!

See also... Land Rovers, Military planes, lurchers, canal boats etc

Most of it completely useless to my everyday life.
My fiance is exactly the same but with other things, we're a right pair! 😂

Not diagnosed but have a kid with ADHD and a lot of what I've learned about it sounds very familiar.
My college application list was Art and Design, Business, Languages, Pre-Engineering, different Arts degrees, Law, so yes, interested in everything 😂

Yeah this is also very much me.
I was only diagnosed in my late 30s.
Suddenly a lot of things make sense.

"Buttered would excel at her subjects if only she focused enough to apply herself properly" was literally every single school report

Oh and I hadn't heard the phrase "hyper focus" until diagnosis but that's what I do.

Procrastinate about everything until it fascinates me, then I'm like a laser beam until I know absolutely everything about it.

More often than not I then get bored and find the next thing to focus on.

I do this all the time

so many things grab my interest

i also can’t rest until I know more/everything 😁

as a student my friends always laughed about me knowing the most obscure and random facts

i don’t have adhd, but my teens do. One of them always smiles knowingly when I reminisce about climbing out of windows at school or my inability to focus or my chaotic mind full of anything and everything apart from the thing I have to do 😁… and he says: yeah you def don’t have adhd 🤨😁

off to Google artic hares now

@ButteredJorts lurchers!!! 😍 I have 2, and read everything there is to know about them

Pretty sure I am ADHD - but I've (accidentally) navigated this by having jobs/a career where variety was key and I had to constantly learn new things.

Also, having a portfolio career so I have a 'main' job and then a load of revolving power hobbies that I often train to career level at part time or seriously volunteer (I keep Friday free for these).

So far I have been a journalist, product manager and digital strategist in my 'proper career' as they all led from each other, and power hobbies/second jobs have been songwriter, band member, volunteer police officer, and now outdoor educator and trainee herbalist.

Also peppered with a lot of serious other crafty hobbies and obsessions about history too. Ancient Rome was a big one during Lockdown.

There is literally not enough time in the world for me to have all the careers and jobs I want lol.

This!