I’m offended by the attention deficit and the disorder part. I don’t have a deficit, I have an abundance of attention, it’s just not linear. I have parallel attention, not serial. In my close circle I’m the guy people often go for answers, because I often have them, albeit often somewhat superficial, because it’s near impossible to go deep in any subject, unless hyperfocus kicks in.
I feel seen lmao
In ways you’re not even aware of, but yes. 🖖🏼
I have more attention than most, but I just can’t put it all in the same basket! (Unless hyperfocus…)
“And she often obsessed over random projects before abruptly abandoning them.”
Preach.
You mean like my 256,475 hobbies?
Our queen
I need to watch this movie again
“When you look at the way people with ADHD learn, and especially if they are hypercurious, they start reading something and they’re like, ‘Ooh what is that? I want to learn about this. What is that? Does it connect to that?’ It looks a lot more like a messy mind map rather than a straight [line],” Le Cunff says. “The problem is when there’s no space for exploration.”
I cannot express to you how much this captures my experience reading. It can sometimes take days for me to get past a page when I’m constantly stopping to look up other things a passage made me think of or write down ideas and questions.
I feel this too when I play video games. I like to open every box, go through every door, listen to all the recordings etc. When I play coop with my husband it drives him a bit nuts when he wants to focus on a specific quest and I’m exploring.
Alas, I have the ‘nothing at all gives me dopamine’ ADHD. I thought it was just depression for years, but turns out it was ADHD. I struggle to see any benefits that come from my condition.
ADHD can correlate with depression. You still need to treat the depression though. Untreated depression will indeed blind you to anything positive about anything.
Yup, it‘s probably that. In a societal vacuum, the curiosity would exist, but the daily struggle and resulting depression overshadows it.
(Source: Been through it, currently recovering.)
I think most people who have it figure this out pretty quickly. NT normies feel like they accept the world completely at face value by comparison and it can cause a lot of friction
I was regularly told to stop asking “too many” questions in class when I was a kid.
I mean it’s a “water is wet” kind of “discovery” for anyone who has or understands ADHD, but it’s nice to see it spelled out in an accessible way for laymen. Many types of neurodivergence have advantages, it’s just that those advantages are not as impactful as the disadvantages because they the disadvantages break societal norms. Just like a person in a wheelchair breaks the societal norm of stairs. Unless accommodations are made, they disabled person is unable to participate in society and thus they are unable to use or sometimes even show their advantages.
TBF, we’re the ones who’ve always known “water” isn’t “wet”, it does the wettening. 🤷🏼♂️
I mean, yeah, but it’s the idiom for that and is why I put it in quotes. Not all idioms make logical sense.
The fact remains.
FYI, many modern idioms are bullshit shadows of their original phrasing, (eg. “Blood is thicker…”, “Great minds…”, “Birds of a feather…”, etc.) and arguing that they’re fine as-is smacks more of anti-intellectualism (if not outright laziness) than anything meaningful. 🙇🏼♂️
at least for blood is thicker the “full version” is actually most likely newer than the one you’re complaining about. it’s almost as though people use language to say what they want to say. nothing anti-intellectual about that
But that’s how language works. Things mean what the majority of people say they mean. Otherwise, everyone would still be using the n word because it wouldn’t have a negative meaning. It’s about communication, not absolute logic.
Just because the horizon exists doesn’t mean every path toward it is equal in value. Logical fallacy aside, you seem to agree that improvement as a species is a worthy goal, and maybe even a personal obligation to promote such.
Language works a lot of ways. Don’t let laziness and cognitive ambivalence hold the reins of linguistic morphology.
in what way is calling water wet laziness or cognitive ambivalence? it’s not like wetness is something that just exists in the world prior to our construction of it
I’m sorry, did you just imply that wetness depends on observation to exist?
Duh.
You think a behavior that was handled in humanity for thousands of years would be fully disadvantageous or perhaps just we are letting our world be dominated by what a few think it should look like?
It may not fit into the current world but that is more a statement on it than us.It’s like my boss says
“Just shut up and do your job”
Right now I am into mushrooms but that doesn’t pay the bills
Yeah i wish it was easier to get in and out of jobs. I would open a really awesome popcorn shop i think but i cant risk the bills.
But thats the flaw of our current society that we cant explore how we can help make the world a little more full instead of utilitarian.
