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Some people with ADHD like my wife have difficults with navigation. Some people like me with ADHD are particuarly above-average with navigation. So it just depends.
The major thing I have trouble with is that having a high IQ, as a kid I never had to study all that much. In college, I did for the first time - and I didn't have the skills or patience. And even to this day: I have low patience to learn a new videogame, and even lower patience to try and try againt o beat it. I hate losing, and I play mostly simulation games or games like GTA where I can cheat and just wander around an open world. I'm not proud of this, it's just fact. Dont' think I'm bragging about my IQ, either, that has limited benefit and my life is pretty shitty - mostly unemployed most of my adult life, I'm 51 now on dialysis and I'm most likely going to be dead within the next decade thanks to all that shit that ultiamtely is due to having ADHD.