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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Why? Not that i use that as an excuse. But why would that make you a moron?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Because being horrible with time is a predictable thing. As a human being, we have the ability to plan and act in ways that compensate for predictable weaknesses.

If you notice you're always late, but you never try to leave earlier, you're either a moron or an asshole.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It seems like you don't understand the point of time blindness then. How do you "leave earlier" when you completely lose track of time?

Hell, even for work meetings, I have to have the most obnoxiously loud and annoying notification alert on my work computer that can be heard throughout the entire house, and I still end up late to some meetings, even though I'm already sitting at my desk.

Your post is like complaining that a blind person just needs to open their eyes if they want to see, or they're just a moron or an asshole. It shows profound ignorance about the subject and complete lack of empathy for people who have a problem that you don't have direct experience with.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It strikes me that your belief that someone is a moron or an asshole if they fail to leave earlier might be coming from a place of not understanding ADHD. You say "as a human being" which drastically oversimplifies and understates the irratic nature of the mind of someone suffering with the condition.

As someone who has ADHD, i believe i can say, with a fairly high degree of confidence, that you do not suffer with the condition. Or that if you do, you have found a good coping mechanism for issues with timekeeping. Or at the very least timekeeping is not one of the aspects of ADHD that affects you.

But to call someone an asshole or a moron because you dont understand how their mind works and you seem to think what works for one, works for all, is the most moronic and asshole-like thing that you can do.

I put it to you, that you have no idea what you are talking about, and despite the fact that alot of people mistake normal aspects of various personalities with full blown ADHD, and thusly self diagnose, in error, that your opinion on the simplicity of changing ones behaviour on a dime has no place on an ADHD forum.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

I see. So you'd rather write multiple paragraphs of excuses instead of spending that time on coping with what you can.

I understand how this sub works now, and I'm disappointed. Bye.