When you search up the definition of Hyper Focus it explains how you focus on something so much that you kinda forget about everything else. Like daily tasks or other work, you should be doing. Google also connects it with having Adhd and then gives a list of symptoms of having ADHD. It’s a never-ending cycle on google. 

I didn’t know that there was a thing called hyper-focus until I started watching people on Tik Tok who had ADHD. Now I can go on and on about how I think I have ADHD and how I should really get tested for it but I feel like it would be a little bit boring. 

When people with ADHD started talking about hyperfocus I remember just thinking woah I do this. I do this a lot. I never really noticed I did it until this year since I have been home all day every single day. 

The first thing I did and was very hyper-focused on was crocheting. Well learning how to do it anyway. I was on YouTube for hours trying to learn how to make a simple blanket. It took me a couple of days and I finally learned how to make a blanket and well from there I went on a week actually making the blanket forgetting my other tasks in life and well ending up with a sore neck and very sore fingers then I kinda just stopped. The blanket is not done yet and it’s been a year it’s just chilling in a Walmart bag with my other yarn. 

From there I moved on to doing other things. I went on to doing Patreon for my writing and once again I worked days on it and well I haven’t touched it in months. I mean it was a good thing to focus on since it would be a good way to make money. But that never happened. Then again with Fiverr but I still use that of course. 

Then I had the chance to start a blog and well I did that. Same old same old I watched videos for weeks made a whole bunch of blog posts and made the site perfect. Am I still posting on the blog? Yes. Did I stop hyper-focusing on it? 100% it’s a on and off relationship with this blog. 

But to not bore you with the rest I will just say the rest of the stuff I did without a huge paragraph for each one. I went on another site to sell my work. I made shirts on teespring. I gamed a lot and by a lot, I mean for six hours on end (animal crossing). I almost started an Etsy shop (now that would have costed me some money) I crocheted flowers for a week also a part of the Etsy shop. I spent hours on end making journals for Amazon books. I was trying to sell my unworn clothes on posh mark and I wanna say there is more but I currently can’t remember because of how much I did. 

Now some people can say well you can’t really focus on some of the things like posting photos of your clothes and hoping people will buy them. You would think that….Somehow I did…

With all of those hobbies/ side jobs. Everyone single one has just been left and untouched besides Fiverr and my blog and sometimes crocheting. I always found it weird how the human brain works and I can go into the science of it but that’s too many big words. The best way to put it is kinda small big words is that my brain likes Dopamine and by likes it, it loves it. So once the high is done my brain is also done with the project. Do I like that my mind is like this? Sorta but at the same time, I had all these side jobs that had such potential and well there just sitting there doing nothing. I have learned this past year how weird and strange my brain really is. I also have learned that other people’s brains are just as weird as mine. 

I wrote this blog post because I know somewhere out there someone did or is doing the same things. Hyper focusing is a very weird thing, to say the least. It’s literally like our brain goes into some sort of autopilot and wants to get to some sort of destination and then halfway through it’s deciding it doesn’t wanna go to Paris it wants to go to New York and well it repeats itself until the end time. 

So if you reading this and you happen to relate. Welcome, I think we may be aliens but that’s beside the point.