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Don't get me wrong, I'm right there with you! My career as an on-call SRE dealing with incident response wasn't chosen by accident. If the website's on fire, su

by zamnos 3y ago

Don't get me wrong, I'm right there with you! My career as an on-call SRE dealing with incident response wasn't chosen by accident. If the website's on fire, suddenly I can move mountains, but if I have the luxury of waiting until 9 am Monday morning to do the exact same tasks, my brain just won't cooperate. It's easy to frame the demands of modern working environments as the problem, but it's really the other way around. Modern society is so luxurious, so privileged, there's just so much excess, that bills don't rise to the level of emergency that my lizard brain is able to comprehend. Consciously, yes, I need to pay my bills, but it's nothing bad happens immediately the instant my power bill is late. Even when the power company does send somebody out, they don't ring my doorbell and start yelling at me for not paying. If someone I didn't know came by and yelled at me I'd be way more able to remember to pay my bill. (SYayaS? Stranger yelling at you as a service?) But that's rude and unpleasant and no one wants that. Meanwhile, outside the trappings of modern society, you don't have a plan for catching the woolly mammoth until you're too hungry to think, and then you can't think (not that you were great at planning to begin with) so you starve and die. This whole "it's modern society that's the problem with my ADHD" is a stupid myth that needs to die.

tstrimple 3y ago
> Meanwhile, outside the trappings of modern society, you don't have a plan for catching the woolly mammoth until you're too hungry to think, and then you can't think (not that you were great at planning to begin with) so you starve and die. I also wouldn't have thousands of completely meaningless distractions. It's not like the choice was doom scroll Twitter or go hunt that woolly mammoth. You also get hungry long before your body falls apart due to starvation. I can't imagine anyone's ADHD making them lay around until their body was too emaciated to hunt. If the tribe is unsure of how to take out a woolly mammoth, that sounds like the sort of problem I'd (involuntarily) ideate on instead of twisting all that cordage. For me to accept this as a myth, I'd need something far more compelling.

by zamnos 3y ago

tstrimple 3y ago

> Meanwhile, outside the trappings of modern society, you don't have a plan for catching the woolly mammoth until you're too hungry to think, and then you can't think (not that you were great at planning to begin with) so you starve and die. I also wouldn't have thousands of completely meaningless distractions. It's not like the choice was doom scroll Twitter or go hunt that woolly mammoth. You also get hungry long before your body falls apart due to starvation. I can't imagine anyone's ADHD making them lay around until their body was too emaciated to hunt. If the tribe is unsure of how to take out a woolly mammoth, that sounds like the sort of problem I'd (involuntarily) ideate on instead of twisting all that cordage. For me to accept this as a myth, I'd need something far more compelling.