A good way to lower your risk of alzheimers/dementia is by continuing to do things that stimulate and nourish your brain.

Doing puzzles

Learning new things

Having new experiences

Taking brain supporting supplements

Eating omega fatty acid rich foods

Etc

All of these things (and more) require executive functioning to do.

It requires you taking initiative.

So imagine the challenge for ADHD folks, whose executive functioning is SHOT.

But here's the fun part

We LIKE to learn new things. WE LIKE to have new experiences. We LIKE to explore. In fact we NEED it, I would say, even more than our neurotypical counterparts.

So if we can make the connection between "have to do" and "like to do", we stand a fighting chance. It won't be a battle against executive functioning anymore. It won't be a battle at all.

Because a lot of times, we dont need to be MADE to do the things we enjoy, because those things release the dopamine that we need to keep coming back to it.

Just keep chasing the experience. Chase the knowledge. Chase the dopamine.