Or metaphor? I can never remember….
“A Mindblowing Way to Think About ADHD” by The Gamer Educator
When you start out in a video game and you have only one “slot” in your inventory for, say, shields, then you have to keep juggling which shield you have. But other people have bigger inventories and can just swap shields as many times as they want.
For people with ADHD, their “inventory” is often just one single slot, and it is also often occupied by whatever is directly in front of them or in their hands.