Prepare bullet points, not a script, for talks
A rigid full script fights the ADHD tendency to follow tangents, so it gets abandoned mid-talk. Prepare only three or four rough bullet points as anchors and improvise the connective material — and keep a mental library of pre-tested 'Lego brick' anecdotes and metaphors to drop in any order and land on when a tangent leaves you lost.
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Writing a full speech and trying to deliver it fights how an ADHD brain actually talks: it wants to follow spontaneous tangents, so the fixed script gets dropped partway through and then there’s nothing to fall back on. A loose scaffold works with the tendency instead. Prepare only three or four rough bullet points — the anchors you want to hit — and improvise everything between them. To make improvising safe rather than risky, keep a mental library of reusable modules: anecdotes, metaphors, examples and explanations you’ve used and tested before, each a self-contained ‘Lego brick’ you can deploy in any order. When a tangent leaves you lost, you reach for a known brick, which grounds you again before you set off on the next one. So the only things pre-written are the anchors and the tested building blocks; the ordering and the linking are done live. This turns the wandering that would derail a scripted talk into the actual method — bounded by anchors, cushioned by familiar modules — so losing your place becomes recoverable instead of catastrophic.
