How Claude Helps Me as a Neurodivergent Freelancer

I started a new project last month. A cool new app. Revolutionary, obviously. The kind of idea that hits you at 11 PM and has you standing at your desk by midnight with a fresh repo and a head full of architecture decisions. I went hard. Hours. Days. Skipping meals, forgetting to reply to messages, operating in that beautiful tunnel where the code just flows and every problem has a solution you can almost see before you finish typing the question. I built the core. I solved the hard parts. I got it to the point where the remaining work was clear, scoped, and totally achievable. And then I stopped caring about it. Not consciously. I didn't decide to abandon it. I just woke up one morning and the pull was gone. The dopamine faucet turned off. What was left was finish work. Polish. Edge cases. The kind of steady, unglamorous effort that turns a prototype into a product. And my brain had already moved on to the next interesting problem. If you're neurodivergent and you've built anything, y