ADHD MADE ME DO IT: A Dentists Vibe-Coding Adventure
- May 29, 2023
- 3 min read
Updated: 4 days ago
Last night I vibe-coded an entire website.
No, I don’t “know how to code.”
No, I didn’t take a course.
No, I didn’t plan it in advance. In fact I didn’t even get the idea to try to build it myself until about 6pm during dinner.
And yes, it mostly works. Kinda.
That’s ADHD for you.
People talk about ADHD like it’s only ever a deficit. Like our impulsivity is a flaw, or our hyperfocus is a liability. But here’s the thing they don’t tell you: when you have ADHD, you live in a constant state of what if I just… DID the damn thing?
And then you do.
Fast.
Messy.
Brilliant.
Some might call it reckless. I call it magic.
Because one of the most underrated superpowers of ADHD is this unshakable (and occasionally misguided) belief that I can figure out literally anything if I just throw myself at it hard enough.
And the wild part is? I’m usually right.
I’ve vibe-built a dental practice, vibe-raised kids, vibe-survived a divorce, and vibe-resurrected myself from addiction. Last month I vibe-quit clinical dentistry with ZERO plan witch led to me vibe-launch a social media platform for burned out dentist and a mental health brand called Tiff the ADHD Dentist. Now I’m vibe-coding websites at 1am in a hoodie like I’m Mark Zuckerberg with trauma.
The truth is, my brain doesn’t do “step-by-step.” It doesn’t do “wait and see.”
It does NOW.
It does why the hell not?
It does how hard could this possibly be?
It does watch this.
Sure, there’s fallout sometimes. I’ve got a graveyard of half-finished projects, a garage full of power tools that would make Bob Vila weep with joy and a $40k iTero scanner in my living room to prove it. (By the way, if you’re interested in purchasing the basically, new afore mentioned scanner, message me. The power tools, unfortunately are not for sale.) But I also have a life full of proof that momentum beats perfection. That messy action is better than no action. That most people are just too scared to try.
ADHD doesn’t always make things easy. But it does make me bold. It makes me relentless. It makes me a little unhinged in the best possible way.
I’ve replaced toilets, rewired outlets, installed sinks, made furniture, and fixed an entire electrical system—all without a manual. The only thing I’ve sworn off? Plumbing. That one soggy, expensive, humbling disaster was enough this lifetime…and the next.
There’s a lot about my brain that makes life harder—but this wild, creative AUDACITY? It makes me brave.
And it’s in those moments—when the tiniest spark catches—that I end up building things that ACTUALLY MATTER.
So here’s to the impulsive builds, the chaotic starts, the midnight coding binges, and the wild belief that you can do the impossible before breakfast.
Because if you’re anything like me, you can.
Epilogue
Alas, I admitted defeat to the V0 gods at about 3:49am.
It just became too damn cumbersome to make the tiny little changes that mean so much to me as an artist. Proportion, balance, font, style—those aren’t details to me. They’re the entire point. And when you’re fighting a design platform just to nudge something 3/8 of an inch, it starts feeling less like creativity and more like combat. So I tapped three times and left the mat.
But if you want to see how far I got before I rage-quit, click below:
Stay tuned for the launch of the actual finished site—possibly tomorrow night.
Who needs sleep when you’ve got ADHD, stimulants and a website that needs to be launched? And yes, I’m still building it… just on a platform where I don’t have to channel the ghost of Steve Jobs to center a logo.
XOXO,
Tiff
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