What ADHD Taught Me About Productivity

These tools help me to maintain my focus even when it’s an uphill battle

Gabrielle Smith
Forge
Published in
5 min readOct 5, 2020

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I was diagnosed with ADHD a year ago, but I probably always knew on some level that this was part of my makeup. After I completed college two semesters late, I attempted to begin my writing career, but I’d find myself spending days trying to write 800-word articles. I missed…

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Gabrielle Smith
Forge
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Brooklyn based poet and essayist. Queer & Afro-Latina. Writing about love, sex, mental illness and intersectionality. // bygabriellesmith.com