Obsessive Perfectionist 🧐 (4/9) (Patreon)

This is the #1 way I cope with my ADHD. If I care about a project (and I care about nearly everything), anything less than my best effort feels like a failure. The thought “I could have done better” plays on repeat in my brain, even after I’ve already turned something in or posted it online. I pore over my own work with a fine-tooth comb and want to make sure nothing could possibly be criticized about it— and yet things always still manage to fall through the cracks. Obsessive Perfectionist should really be called “hyperfocus on steroids.” I can’t stop until it’s perfect, if I’ve decided it’s important to me.

I get called “talented” sometimes, but the reality is that I don’t know how to not over-tinker with a project for hours, how to stop something and pick it back up again, how to determine when something is “good enough,” and how to get out of my own head and stop being so hard on myself.