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Why does no one focus on the positives? Yeah, there's shit to deal with but there are also lots of good points: * Ability to assimilate and process information
by filterfish 6y ago
Why does no one focus on the positives? Yeah, there's shit to deal with but there are also lots of good points:
* Ability to assimilate and process information
* Ability to hyperfocus
* Shit loads of empathy (can get a bit out of hand thought!)
* Creativity
There are lots more things that we're better at than non-ADD people, I just can't think of any at the moment! See Lynn Weiss' book for a more comprehensive list.
I think it's important for ADD people to not play the victim; yeah we're different and yeah, society doesn't favour our way of thinking but it's not all bad.
- Leparamour 6y ago> Why does no one focus on the positives? Because the negatives massively outweigh any positives? I know that there are some authors who are trying to sell the idea of 'ADHD as a superpower' just like there are other authors who are trying to brand autism or even surviving cancer a 'superpower'. But just because an opinion is contrarian doesn't mean it's right. How else would you sell a book in a saturated market? These 'positives' you mentioned are kind of useless when you can't steer the direction of your attention but tend to hyperfocus on random things that change ever so often. If you can manage to somehow make a career out of it, more power to you. Personally, I have tried to learn coding for over 20 years now. By now I have started over for dozens of times (Pascal, Delphi, VB, C, C++, Python, JS, Rust) and still I have zero to show for it.