Asklemmy

44152 readers

1283 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
[email protected]: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

What ability from people did you wish you had? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

69 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Being able to just simply move on from something as easily.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Its a super power in battle/reaction situations. In all aplicable areas of modern age, its a nightmare.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Nope. Absolutely not. That is your experience with it. Not mine. It's a disability. Please don't describe my experience with a disability as a super power.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I say because I have ADHD too. My reaction are more thoughtful and cold in stress situations like theft assaults or accidents are way better that neurotypical ones (I'm from latinamerica so they are very common). But I have so much problems to do normal things daily and they are ruining my life.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Is that directly related to ADHD or just an independent character trait?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I don't think it is. There are plenty of neurotypical people who have those qualities and plenty of people with ADHD who don't. My wife has ADHD and wouldn't fit that definition.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I have ADHD too and in those few high stress / life or death situations I've been in, I suddenly felt super calm and focused while some other people were just screaming. I read somewhere that people with ADHD are overrepresented in first responders and similar jobs and I can believe that.

That being said, I very much agree with JackByDev. Yeah, ADHD is a disability. It has caused much pain and suffering for me and I wish I could get rid of it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks for the insight, that’s pretty interesting. But yes, it does not sound like it would be worth the trade-offs, if one got the chance to choose