The best thing about having ADHD, I think, is hyperfocus.

我认为患有多动症最好的一点就是，注意力过度集中。

No, I need a new woman in my life to ignore so I can hyperfocus on my work again.

不，所以我需要一个新女人来被我忽略，好让我再次过度专注于工作。

Our hyperfocus on our children and our students's success is backfiring.

我们对孩子和学生成功的过度关注产生了事与愿违的效果。

Sometimes, the ability to hyperfocus is actually helpful.

有时候，过度专注的能力实际上是有帮助的。

The second way my ADHD makes adulting hard is that I lose hours of my life to hyperfocus.

我的 ADHD 让我长大成人变得困难的第二种方式是，我迷失在生活中几个小时的高度专注时间之中。

Hyperfocus is kind of a surprising symptom of ADHD since it's basically the complete opposite of distraction.

过度专注是 ADHD 的一种令人惊讶的症状，因为它基本上与注意力分散完全相反。

Hyperfocus is when a person becomes intensely immersed on something like a new hobby or topic of activity for a long time.

过度专注是指一个人长时间专注于一种新的爱好或活动主题。

As the responsibilities of adulting continue to pile up, my ability to hyperfocus isn't always enough to help me get by like it used to.

随着成年人的责任不断堆积，我过度专注的能力并不总是足以帮助我像过去那样生活。

And that's why a lot of creatives they master what they do if they've got ADHD because when hyperfocus kicks in nothing will distract you.

这就是为什么很多创意人员在患有注意力缺陷多动症时会精通他们所做的事情，因为当注意力集中时，什么都不会分散你的注意力。

And that's why yeah, a lot of creatives I think, they master what they do if they've got ADHD because when hyperfocus kicks in, yeah nothing will distract you. Not even hunger or sleep.

我想，这就是为什么很多创意人员在患有多动症时都能掌控自己的工作，因为当注意力过度集中时，什么也不会分散你的注意力，甚至不会饿也不会困。

Think pulling an all nighter to cram for an exam, for example, because I can completely block out all distractions and focus super intensely, but more often than not, my hyperfocus gets me into trouble.

例如，想想为考试挑灯夜读，因为我可以完全屏蔽所有干扰，超级集中注意力，但通常情况下，我的过度专注给我带来了麻烦。