I don't know that my vision loss affects my ADD. Sometimes I get distracted by sounds/things going on around me. Most of the time, my mind just wanders off on its own.

I have a mild visual impairment and severe ADHD, I honestly can’t explain what distracts me, it’s kind of intransic in a way. I’m my own distraction. For exemple, I was trying to study earlier today and I was hyperfocusing on my toes for some reasons. Like I genuinely could not get the work done, I just had to get up and move around. I don’t think my eyesight and my ADHD is correlated, I don’t think my ADHD would be any worse or any better if I had better eyesight. It does make the blind life kind of harder honestly.

I have ADHD and have been slowly losing my vision since I was about 10, recently, I feel like it's been getting harder and harder to keep my thoughts grounded in the present and I've noticed that I've been day dreaming a lot more. It's harder to stay stimulated visually these days since within the last year I've lost a decent amount of sight which of course makes it harder to focus. I've never been medicated and only got my diagnosis last year so I imagine medication would be really helpful especially now.

Ah. its interesting you bring this up; because I was diagnosed with adhd when I was a teen. I have sound processing issues and I am pretty sure that is part of adhd. Example loud music is playing at a bar it overwelms me and I just sit there like a statue and cannot hear anything else or communicate.
There are other things besides that like the previous poster said setting stuff down and forgetting it, or trying to remember a list of steps and usually forgetting the last one.
I am trying to get rediagnosed, and all the people I talk to say they can’t test me because of total blindness and how the test has visual steps. I would also like an autism test as well as adhd and autism kind of overlap.
This not being abled to be tested is really frustrating, I know when i was tested younger they just asked me a bunch of questions and that was it.

I'm bipolar but we have a lot of the same concentration problems as ADHD - for example getting hyperfocused on a project or a book or cleaning/fixing an item. We also have the opposite problem of being \*unable\* to focus. A lot of us also have executive functioning and memory issues as well. I'm visually and hearing impaired (blind in one eye just impaired enough not to be able to drive in the other eye. My hearing is nearly deaf). Sound does help me concentrate and help motivate me, but man I have to play it loud and my wife's not keen on the sound level lol. Mentally, I am disorganized or organized in a way no one would understand. Needless to say with the vision impairment does not help looking for item that I just put down along the way of moving about the house. For example when I'm putting things away, I might get sidetracked and set a cup down on a table. I know everything needs it "place". But I often forget where that place is, which makes the exercise futile. I'm working more on being intentional and better focused as I'm moving about.

Adding this info here because I x-posted: I understand that people have lots of different experiences of visual impairment or blindness, so I'd be super interested in hearing about your thoughts regardless of your 'level' of impairment :)