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I remember being a kid during peak ADD hype. I was "diagnosed" by a teacher, who recommended drugs, which my father unapologetically told to go fuck herself. W
by friend_and_foe 3y ago
I remember being a kid during peak ADD hype. I was "diagnosed" by a teacher, who recommended drugs, which my father unapologetically told to go fuck herself.
When I have taken aderall as an adult, I find that it is not conducive to mental work. It's fantastic if I need to hammer out a bunch of rote, physical tasks. I can't think about anything complex on it, I can't program on it, because my mind is everwyere.
I do believe wholeheartedly that this new trend in software where everything is constantly broken, overcomplicated, well thought out decisions thrown out for no reason without a second thought (looking at you, side scrolling "open with..." dialog in android) is largely due to people tweaking behind their keyboards.
To get a little woo woo, I remember reading a study about spiders on different drugs and how they spun their webs, and I came to the conclusion our form follows our function, we are what we do, and drugs modify our expression of our very being, and the feedback mechanisms by which we assess that expression. This can be good, bad, there can be tradeoffs, we may understand those or not, but the effect is evident in what we do, in the world we build around us.
- 7thaccount 3y agoWasn't the spider thing just a YouTube joke or was that from an actual legit study?
- friend_and_foe 3y agoYeah it was real. Conducted in 1948 by Peter N Witt, the experiment was funded by NASA.
- IAmGraydon 3y agoI'll never understand making a post instead of running a quick Google search. https://www.miragenews.com/nasas-experiment-with-spiders-mind-altering-996703/ https://www.miragenews.com/nasas-experiment-with-spiders-min...
- 7thaccount 3y agoHonestly? Usually because 1.) there are tons of folks on HN FAR more knowledgeable than I on many subjects, 2.) it's more annoying on my phone, and 3.) frequently it's not just a simple search. My apologies for being lazy though and thanks for the link.
- lathiat 3y agoCounterpoint: I was professionally diagnosed as a child, my mum got me medicated, my dad got me off it a year later because it was "all about discipline". Typical untreated ADHD style I excelled through early school until the later years of high school and struggled hard with procrastination, etc. Got lucky with work for the first 8 years of my career in support work that is constantly changing, often high pressure which tends to capitalise on the ADHD brain but always struggled with anything long term, any project or case that takes more than a few days or weeks is a struggle. Finally got re-diagnosed as an adult and it was LIFE CHANGING. Been on medication for about 10 years now. My psych retired and I was off medication for about a month and then briefly tried a different medication for another few weeks before going back to my original and it was miserable, I got almost nothing done for those 2 months. I promise you, I just cannot think or disclipline my way out of it :)