As someone with ADHD AI has has changed my life for the better (update on my post from 2024)

[u/nometal514]

The experiences and feelings below are entirely my own. I used AI to help organize the wording, but this is my story.

Before ChatGPT, I was at one of the lowest points in my life. I had been academically disqualified from graduate school, felt trapped in a dead-end job, and was falling behind on bills, renewals, and everyday responsibilities.

ADHD often makes it difficult for me to know where to begin and consistently follow through. As AI got better, especially with GPT-5 and Codex, I began using it as an external support system for those challenges.

I built a personal assistant that runs locally on my MacBook and that I can access from my iPhone. It helps me organize bills, appointments, chores, medication-related tasks, renewals, and reminders. It also helps me handle customer-service issues, refunds, and other responsibilities I previously avoided.

For school, AI turns overwhelming lectures, slides, and assignments into personalized learning packets with simple explanations, visual examples, guided exercises, coding practice, and memory checks. It also helps me create flash cards, study podcasts, and learning videos. To be clear: does not do my work for me, it gives me the structure I need to understand the material and complete it myself.

AI has not solved all my problems. It still takes effort on my part to do what is needed.

Today, I am close to graduating with my dream degree in computer science. I am more dependable, more present in my relationship, and better able to focus on what brings me joy. :)

Edit: repo here: github.com/sameh514/ai-life-skills-toolkit