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Informal Ramble: Fighting Games, ADHD, and Me.

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Note: I am not a medical professional, nor someone qualified to talk about ADHD in an authoritative manner. This is solely about my personal experience, and my advice may not apply to you. This disability can be rough when it comes to fighting games. Fighting games demand a lot of focus, critical thinking, and discipline to improve at. I'm capable of doing these things at various times, but it's hard to remain diligent every skill all the time. The worst thing about ADHD, for me, is that I can be so into something and then have zero ability to focus on it when I want to.  It's a genuinely painful feeling: being passionate about something, but not being able to focus on it. I'm fortunate that ADHD isn't too interrupting for me these days. I suspect that it contributes to my bottomless passion and dedication for fighting games, but it also makes following up on that passion extremely hard. One thing I will say, though: I despise the notion that ADHD is some superpower...