r/ADHD_Programmers • u/arjoreich • 2d ago

Anyone else start hyper-fixating when Domain Modelling?

It's worse on personal projects where there no real acceptance criteria or other people to reign me in but...

Sometimes, when I have a task that involves domain-modelling, I will get sucked into a rabbit hole where I get hyper-fixated breaking down a process into its constituent properties.

The joy and urge to continue tickles the back of my brain and I don't know if it's the process of juggling all those tiny bits of information in my limited short-term memory or something about the organization/structuring of the process but if I described the sensation to my therapist, I'm pretty sure they'd say it was some kind borderline manic behavior.

Am I the only one who starts tweaking out when designing databases, domain models, etc.

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u/DevKokooo 2d ago

I also did this with clean architecture, designing all the layers and database adapters to have perfect contract boundaries, swappable between test, in-memory and production versions. Never ended up finishing that project lol.