It gets exhausting to hear people talk about how it’s some sort of hunter gatherer super power… Bro do you know how boring sitting in nature is without a phone? You ever built a house from mud and sticks? Shit takes days of organized planning and you thinkg ADHD will help with that?
you never gone picking mushrooms? shit’s great and very stimulating so long as you actually find a mushroom or two.
I would have died because of ADHD in hunter gatherer times. I would have just forgotten to bring my f-ing spear to a hunt or something. I’d have definitely never managed to survive any winter if that includes having to prepare for it.
A lot of people confuse ADHD which “I am a quirky creative person”.
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Do you think that hunter gatherers built a home? They slept on the ground, maybe by a fire. And have you tried walking in nature? Totally different experience than sitting in nature.
I really like Daniel Craig’s character in these movies. The accent makes me laugh every time he opens his mouth though.
They were such fun films to watch. Hope they make a 3rd one.
Could you tell me the name? :)
This one is from Glass Onion but the first movie is Knives Out.
Added. Thank you :)
Ugh, he’s so unbelievably terrible. I haaated these movies.
Yeah, not everything has to be positive and cotton candy fluff. It’s okay that I have a handicap and I find it offensive that people feel the need to sell me my handicap to me as some sort of boon…
Yeah, like people, some things just suck. Trying to find the positive in some situations just isn’t helpful. Some people even try to find the positives with my migraine. Like no, it just sucks.
Some people even try to find the positives with my migraine.
It’s the typical reaction of people who lack compassion (to your situation) but still want to fulfill the societal expectation of being sympathetic. They try silver lining it so it doesn’t feel uncomfortable to them anymore. It happens so much…
I’ve known an ADHD-Kid that was really suffering most from the typical self-consciousness-issues. The kid was in the boyscouts-group I used to run. I - ADHD myself - always had a pretty good connection to the kid, so we got to talk by the campfire one evening and the kid told me that what hurt them the most (kid was about 12 at the time) was that their parents always told them to see their ADHD as their super special superpower and as a boon. Yet, the kid was not at all able to see it that way (go figure) and thus felt even worse because they felt that they were so incompetent that they could not even use that superpower they got as such but only got negative effects on their life from it.
I never tried to insert myself into the upbringing of any of the children (that’d be super out of place), it was pretty hard for me to help the kid navigate this issue…
@Captain_Waffles It’s subjective of course, but sometimes I feel good about it and other times, like you said, it just sucks. (in regards to ADHD, not migraines which i can’t imagine having any upside)
Would it be fair to say “it sucks _right now_”?
“Super power” is obviously an oversimplification, but there are plenty of people with ADHD, like myself, who wouldn’t change it if we could. My justice sensitivity is part of my ADHD, and it’s central to who I am.
There’s no part of the mechanism by which the neocortex is impaired in ADHD that explains “justice sensitivity” except dysregulated emotional control, which is present in myriad disorders and may result in hundreds of psychological pathologies.
If you’ve any sense of justice at all, you may feel it to a greater intensity than the average person but have less chance of directing it towards useful action. If you get so far as to take action, tendency towards impulsivity also dilutes the utility of such a trait.
You’ve got the best chance of taking thoughtful action if you’re also intelligent, but in ADHD, all that’s going to do is add a layer of imposter syndrome to a positive outcome because a part of you knows you weren’t in full control when you leapt into the fray.
I’ll also point out that the second result of the search you posted is a study that attempts to quantify the phenomenon of ‘justice sensitivity’, and concludes by suggesting “that higher justice sensitivity in people with ADHD is a coping strategy to prevent the impression that they do not care about social norms and thus to avoid social conflicts and denigration.” I don’t think that’s the the only possible interpretation, but it does speak to what I’ve described.
There’s also people like me that hate it, get no positives out of it, and are aware of the research that says it leads to worse outcomes in employment, relationships, finance, safety, etc. I’d change it in a heartbeat.
I never heard that justice sensitivity was a part of ADHD. I associated high morals more with ASD. If that’s true, then it’s the first positive I can name for ADHD.
I’ve never seen this as a result of ADHD but as a result of how I was treated throughout my life, in part because of my ADHD. It can’t compensate for the pain, trouble and stress I bring to others and myself because of ADHD, though. Not by a long shot.
What does this mean?
I too would not change my (slight) adhd because i can be stubborn and give my full effort to the stuff i like with hyperactivity
Adhd people will change the world!
Thanks guys, I will be here on my sofa waiting…
I mean there’s some things I like about it, but other things that are annoying. Either way though if some cure ever came out I don’t think I could bring myself to take it.
