My husband's and my brains are so different and yet similar

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The more I cook at home now that I have time the more I realize the way my brain works is very different from my husband's. My husband is a better cook in that he's better with his process and knows how to do more than I do as far as cooking techniques go but I'm far more creative. I almost never follow a recipe the way my husband does and it usually turns out good. I'm better at coming up with meals or getting inspired by watching other people's cooking videos. I don't typically follow their recipes but use them as inspiration for something similar but more my own. My husband hates watching me cook because he is very much a recipe guy and he will tell me something won't turn out and it usually does. I think it drives him nuts that I don't do things the technical way. I usually have a good idea of what will taste good together and I go with it. I hate measuring things out and rarely do which also drives him nuts. I have only on rare occasions had something not turn out. Most of the recipes my husband uses are ones I found and doctored. I've come up with a lot of the meals he cooks but they're slightly different every time they're made because I've never had measurements. My meals are usually created based on cheap ingredients or what we already have. I also love a simple meal that doesn't take a ton of time to make. This week I've made my own version of a chopped cheese sandwich, a flatbread pizza, spaghetti and meat sauce (the sauce was jarred but I cooked and seasoned the ground beef to go with it, I usually do meatballs but didn't have everything I needed to make them). I am going to try some tortellini I bought at Aldi this week but am kind of leery about since it wasn't cold. They sold it like regular pasta and I'm questioning how good it will be but I'm going with it. I have pork chops I plan to make a pork stir fry with if they thaw out in time. I also have some chicken I might make chicken alfredo with later. I do a lot of jarred sauces because while not as good as fresh made it's ultimately cheaper because I can buy them on sale. I also use a lot of Aldi brand things. With me not being paid over the summer we shop at Aldi a lot and do a lot of sales. I'm able to make a decent dinner relatively cheaply. My husband bought some steaks on sale at Meijer last weekend that he plans to grill this weekend. I love watching food videos where I can get ideas. I almost never follow someone else's recipe exactly. I almost always use it as inspiration. My husband has a very literal brain when it comes to certain things and I'm usually more creative, albeit I'm not creative at everything but my brain is more everywhere, and when I get an idea it won't rest until I do something with it. My husband can be creative when it comes to fixing things but not in a lot of other areas. His brain is much more mechanical. I'm pretty sure I have undiagnosed ADHD and my husband has diagnosed ADHD but the way are brains work are different and yet similar depending on the situation. I'm very scatterbrained a lot of the time. I'm in my own head a lot. My brain never stops moving. I found out my son is very similar to me with the way he thinks. We've always suspected he has ADHD too but never got a diagnosis due to the fact that he was getting what he needed and we didn't want him on meds unless he really needed them and since he was doing well as a whole we didn't. If they ever pressed it we would go for the diagnosis but he has been thriving the past few years with the help he gets at school. Our house is an interesting place to be sometimes but my son's personality and the way he thinks is similar to mine. I need to start teaching my son to cook. He informed me he's afraid of burning the house down which is a fair fear considering I have forgotten to turn off a burner a time or two and my husband had to tell me I left it on and I felt horrible. I am usually great at remembering stuff like that but when too much happens at the same time I get distracted. I need to start training my brain to check everything before I leave the kitchen. My husband is terrible about leaving cupboards and drawers open and any time he is in the kitchen I know because everything is open. I've left a burner on maybe twice but that's a much more dangerous thing to do, that said I think my husband and I both need to start working on training our brains to double check things before we leave a room.