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Tell me you don’t understand the neurochemical mechanisms of ADHD without telling me you don’t understand the neurochemical mechanisms of ADHD
Look, you're obviously not just some random person who doesn't understand how this shit works. You aren't wrong. But you are being a monumental fucking asshole.
Maybe you're one of the rare few where this sort of hard talk helped you, but for the overwhelming majority of people they aren't going to get anything helpful to them from the way you're posting.
If you wanted to gloat about how you've managed to get over this shit while bullying people who are still struggling, congrats you did it with aplomb.
If you were hoping to do literally anything else you've failed.
All you're doing is coming in and declaring it a personal problem to suffer from chemical imbalances in the brain. This is the very first comment here that you've even touched on coping strategies or anything other than "lol, stop being lazy and just try you sack of shit".
There absolutely is a lot of learned helplessness in ADHD and other neurodivergent communities online, and an increasing trend of it in online spaces in general. It bothers the hell out of me too.
This is absolutely not the fucking way to respond to it.
I'd posit that a lot of your abuse here is just externalizing your own negative self talk. Be better to others and to yourself, you festering dickhead.
You're not wrong. That guy was being a dick and he also had some good points. The two aren't mutually exclusive and more people need to learn that being blunt isn't the same thing as being incorrect. People shouldn't be required to predict how you will respond when they're making a point. Granted, it's certainly easier to be convincing when you're not alienating your audience by the way you structure your argument but sometimes, especially on the internet, it's much easier to jump right to the point than to spend the time listing out all the potential caveats to what you're saying. It's just as easy to make an attempt to understand the overall point as it is to choose to get hung up on the way something is worded. People just choose the latter because it makes dismissing the point being made easier.
Honestly though the most interesting thing about this thread is that his comments got removed and all the comments telling him to go fuck himself are still up. That seems like inconsistent moderation to me. Either let people speak their mind or encourage civil discourse evenly.
"you festering dick head"
Hahahaha, oh, evoking some Monty Python! I need to go get some of their wonderful insults to use around here.
One I do recall (that seems appropriate to that commenter) : "shut your festering gob, you tit!" hahahaha
That’s all impossible without help or a support group, it’s great you have it, not everyone else is as lucky.
You’re a piece of shit who doesn’t understand this disorder or are just lying about having it.
Either way you’re a piece of work and I hope 50 other people tell you before this gets moderated. Get a fucking life you loser.