[Apfel]

I'm someone who was perfectly able to use anki and learn chinese to a decent level with fairly intense combined-type untreated (at the time) ADHD. What you need is a compelling reason to learn (for me, it was the fear of letting down my wife by not being able to talk to her family).

[pessimizer]

Ignore them. There's a belief system that sees a lack of success in anything that one wants to do as illness or witchcraft. For them, a person doesn't lack motivation to practice something because that thing is difficult and exhausting and one can't always see a sufficient reward (or chance of gaining that reward in a reasonable amount of time) in the end. For them, it's always going to be an illness or a curse that is stealing away your ability to achieve your true desires.

They might be recommending pharma here, but it would be prayer on another forum, or more protein intake on a third.

[Apocryphon]

Perhaps the solution is to not be on forums.

> Another came with sad eyes and said to him: "I don't know what my sickness is."

  "I know," Baudolino said. "You are slothful."

  "How can I be cured?"

  "Sloth appears the first time when you notice the slowness of the movement of the sun."

  "And then—?"

  "Never look at the sun."

[sn9]

The ability to focus on some things but not others is perfectly consistent with ADHD.

Disordered attention is the whole deal.

You might find it easy but that doesn't mean others will.

[atomicUpdate]

> The ability to focus on some things but not others is perfectly consistent with ADHD.

This is an insanely broad definition that literally the entire population would fall under.

> You might find it easy but that doesn't mean others will.

No one finds concentrating on any and every subject easy. Assuming this is due to ADHD, and not something in their control, is a cop out.