The standard ADHD model says we have deficient working memory. Not enough RAM.

But that never fit my experience. I can hold enormously complex models in my head. See patterns others miss. Process information at unreasonable speeds when I'm in flow.

What I can't do is retain any of it.

I don't have deficient working memory. I have fragile working memory.

The bandwidth is there (sometimes massive bandwidth). But it's unreliable. It doesn't persist. It doesn't automatically consolidate.

The difference matters. Deficit implies broken. Fragility implies different infrastructure requirements.

I'm not a broken storage device. I'm a high-performance processor that needs external scaffolding.