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The solution is to get medicated with the right medicine for you if you truely have adhd

Medication helps, but it doesn’t cure ADHD on the spot, you know.

Medication doesn't cure ADHD like glasses don't cure your shortsightedness. Still doesn't make them useless.

I wear glasses, have ADHD, and take ADHD medication. Glasses make me see perfectly well. Medication, sadly, restores about 40% of my executive activity, I still can’t do many things that come effortlessly to a normal person (thankfully, I also can do some things that are usually difficult for neurotypical people, and the medication doesn’t make it worse).

I don't know. I would have a hard time determining how much executive ability I lack.

When medicated I just find I am myself, but doing things. I couldn't tell you if it's 40% or what, just that I imagine I am like most people now. Doing, slowly moving towards my goals, without being a soulless hyperproductive machine. There's times I have to force myself to do something boring, like everybody else does, but I can still take them to completion. I think this is a healthy balance, yet much better than my previous state of complete and total inertia and infinite self-loathing.

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