BONUS - How ChatGPT helped his daughter with ADHD

ADHD - Chat GPT has changed my daughter's life.

I have ADHD and am one of the unfortunate ones who has had no success with the various drugs. Unfortunately, I've also passed this genetic issue on to my daughter. One of the major difficulties with ADHD when you're given a complex task, is that you lack the working memory to hold things in a buffer, especially when you're attempting to research a project. You may need to read, re-read, and re-read a single sentence over and over again to understand it, it's frankly exhausting. My daughter WANTS to work hard but ends up procrastinating and catastrophizing, and taking time off school, before ending up in a nasty panic attack.

We stepped through the project together, using ChatGPT to understand what they meant by the questions, We gave it starter information and asked for more direction, We asked it to produce high-level information and then she wrote it in one sitting, not under stress, not in a panic, not doom scrolling on her phone to delay the frustration.

She was able to submit the work on time, which meant the next day she felt so much better that without that on her mind she was able to go to school and went to a cafe after school to get other homework done, again, less stressed.

I had always told her that I was very optimistic about her future because I believed that with all this AI stuff a drug targeted for her exact neuropathology would be likely. But ChatGPT and others have provided a tool that is incredibly valuable to people with ADHD right now, and I can't stress enough that if you have kids with ADHD or are yourself ADHD exploring these AI helpers is the best thing you can do for yourself.