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Yeah, if _things_ distract you easily, it's one thing. Notifications are DESIGNED to distract you, if they do, that's not an indicator of anything. ADHD is mor
by WhyNotHugo 5y ago
Yeah, if _things_ distract you easily, it's one thing. Notifications are DESIGNED to distract you, if they do, that's not an indicator of anything.
ADHD is more like "I was cooking dinner and got distracted by the idea of cleaning the toilet, so here I am buying new socks. Oh, the unfinished dinner is still on the counter."
- jkhdigital 5y agoYour example is a pretty extreme caricature; I suspect many of us are more familiar with the slower but broader version of this sequence where we gain and lose interest in careers/partners/lifestyles with alarming and exhausting frequency.
- tgaj 5y agoFor some it's not a caricature. For me is how my life looks like without meds. But yeah, ADHD is probably a spectrum.
- q3k 5y ago> Your example is a pretty extreme caricature; It's a caricature? I've only recently learned that this is not something that everyone struggles with daily...
- Ancapistani 5y ago> our example is a pretty extreme caricature Extreme, yes, but far from a caricature. You should see my office. I’m constantly surrounded by unfinished projects - I either unmedicated and don’t have the ability to finish them because I’m distracted by other things, or I’m medicated and don’t have time to finish them because I’m trying to catch up with the things that I’ve neglected because I didn’t have the ability to prioritize them.