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[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I had a similar moment of confusion when I realized "normal" people have to put forth effort to think. Your brains aren't always on, always thinking, about everything? You don't always notice every little detail (though sometimes at the expense of the bigger picture)? How can you do one thing over and over again without getting bored? You just obey and believe things you're told? You can follow rules you don't personally understand a need for? You've been doing a thing the same way forever just because that's the way it's always been done?

Sometimes it's aggravating to me as it seems like other people are being intentionally obtuse, but other times I envy the ability to float through life, free of thoughts and therefore free of anxiety.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I feel like "free of anxiety" is a rather large assumption. I'm definitely riddled with anxiety but that doesn't mean a more neurotypical individual is free from that burden. We likely just deal with much more mental instability as a result of the ADHD firehose-like stream of consciousness exacerbating any already present sources of anxiety. :shrug:

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

i think ADHD is probably responsible for the bastardized version of "jack of all trades master of none"

That's my headcanon for it at least.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

when self-hating people who've learned a little about genetics and evolution pipe up with "why are we even still in the gene pool" sadposts ... this is why. overall, this style of thinking is a net positive to the proliferation of Homo sapiens, and every now and then even a net positive to the people who embody it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

no i do not have adhd. i love doing lots of things and learning lots of things. it means you are a smart person and have alot of time on your hands to do all that. most people are in a RUT and work home and family thats it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The big diagnostic factor is, do you FINISH those lots of things.

It's ok to occasionally try something and be like yeah, this wasn't as great as advertised, I'm walking away.

But if your shelves are covered in an assortment of unfinished projects that never will be finished? ADHD

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I don't THINK I'm ADHD but I feel called out by your last sentence.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

I have one broad interest that manifests in many ways: I like to make things. From a D&D table, to a workbench, to glowing led hex panels, to making automated blinds from scratch, to cutting worm gears, to internal keyway cutters, to sex machines, to syncing up videos to said sex machines, to grind rails and ramps for skating, to gearboxes, to spool un-winders, to book presses, to rpi powered media centers, to pi arcades, to bed frames.....just to name a few.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

What does it say about starting all those hobbies / projects and not finishing any?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (3 children)

This is one of the things my other ND things cancels out. Or maybe just the way my ADHD is more on hyper focusing than being totally unfocused? I only like, basically, 3 things. Video games, music, and language. Granted, "language," covers a lot.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

I genuinely thought I was NT because I was comparing my quantity of interests to my brothers quantity of interests. He's autistic, he has one interest.

Then I'd compare my quantity of interests to my best friends quantity of interests, he has ADHD hyperactive type, he has 700+ interests.

And I have like, 25 (and that's if I split up larger interests into subcategories)

So I'm normal...except for all the sensory issues, executive dysfunction, impulsively, social difficulties, memory issues, communication deficits, learning difficulties, inability to establish routines, poor interoception resulting in medical complications from failing to attend to basic needs because I'm "in the zone" on something else.

Jokes on me, I have AuDHD.

Some of my "symptoms" cancel each other out in a way I'm very grateful for, and others conflict with each other in the most debilitating ways. That feeling when you are somehow catastrophically overstimulated and also your brain is tearing itself down the middle in desperate need for some dopamine through sensory input...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Video games can also be a lot. When normies play, they play one game or two. Say fifa and cod. My steam lib is 500+

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I consider video games to be multiple hobbies as each genre can scratch such a massively different brain itch. Sinking into a JRPG vs sinking into an RTS are very different levels of mental engagement.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago (3 children)

My ADHD interests: intensely researching a topic that has no prospect of financial reward and wanting to talk about it to people who don’t care

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Don't forget waking up a month or two later and realizing that you no longer care about the subject you've been hyperfocusing on and now have no idea what to do with yourself until the next hyperfixation shows up.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think what bothers me most is having no one to talk about things with. Like, I just made this cool thing! Someone ask me about it!!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The only person I have to babble at has level 2 autism and can only process a finite (and very small) number of words per day before she combusts 😭

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

What was your last one? I lately fell into the Esperanto rabbit hole.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Conlanging is great for this because you can make and abandon basic sketches of languages forever.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Not OP, but TTRPGs. Started after I finished BG3, and talked my friends into playing DnD, with me as a DM. Knew literally nothing, and hyperfocused for months learning as much as I could.

I've prepared a 70 page document for my players detailing every one of my 6 homebrew classes, 20 subclasses, 15 origins (races don't make sense in the setting), and some lore about our ASOIAF campaign (I could keep going for hours about all I've homebrewed).

We're all ready and rearing to go and I'm kind of... Already over it. I'm homebrewing vampire bloodlines ala dragonborn lineages and wild magic radiation and mutation systems on the side but those don't make sense in this setting, and it hurts.

Edit: the worst thing is, I do have people that would be interested in those homebrews, but they're my players and I don't want to spoil them!

[–] [email protected] 51 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

I find the world to be crawling with interesting things to learn about. From electric plugs, to coffee, to how computers work, etc. It always drives me insane that the average person doesn't seem to be remotely interested in learning much about how and why the world works..

Didn't know it could be an ADHD thing though.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago

That's why I love technology connection guy, I can just skim through his list of videos and find some weird things to watch about some random tech.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Hey I think I should get tested or something. I'll make a phone call.... Eventually

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (3 children)

electric plugs

I thought that I was the only one... But it makes sense that other ADHD folks would too. Have a favorite plug? Mine's the CEE 7/4 (Schuko). It just has a lovely symmetry and thoughtful, safety-conscious design.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

at the moment i'm partial to andersons, wonderfully versatile, modular, and scalable. You can get them ranging from itty bitty baby connectors, to big chungus giga connectors.

It's a very nice design. I don't like plugs, i think they're all bad tbh.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The UK plug seems to be the best engineered one, I'm partial to the French one, along the Schuko.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The UK plugs are pretty great too. Easy to wire and designed to have fuses. I felt much more confident wiring one of those for my in-laws than I ever would with a US plug.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

it's unnecessarily large but it has great safety features!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Ok, I had to look at this and I definitely agree. It's much better than the US Type B plug which I'm always afraid I'll short out when a random piece of metal falls on it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

How I am is not a disorder. Other people just want to put me in line behind them.

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