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Water before toothpaste = adhd now?
by mmmlinux 10mo ago
Water before toothpaste = adhd now?
- TeMPOraL 10mo agoIsn't this how you're supposed to be doing it anyway?
- Lammy 10mo agoADHD is when high school chemistry class covers emulsifiers and you remember it
- lazide 10mo agoBut can’t remember if you ate today or not.
- Terr_ 10mo agoIt's 5PM and I haven't eaten yet, good reminder. /joking-but-factually-true
- peterfirefly 10mo agoI have a really bad episodic memory and my sense of hunger stopped working normally in my teens. It's got nothing to do with anything else.
- missingdays 10mo agoWhy does remembering a topic covered in school mean having ADHD?
- Lammy 10mo agoIt doesn't. I was being sarcastic :)
- GaryBluto 10mo agoThis has been the exact opposite of my experience. It feels as if I can't remember what happened yesterday, let alone during my school years.
- TeMPOraL 10mo agoI do remember that (one of a few things I remember from HS chemistry) - but I fail to see how it relates to the question of whether to water the toothbrush before putting on toothpaste, vs. watering after or not at all.
- psunavy03 10mo agoSort of like having any kind of strong interest in any kind of niche topic apparently now magically teleports you onto the autism spectrum. No, that's not how that works . . .
- doctorwho42 10mo agoDon't forget being observant of things that many people in our distracted (attention economy) society tend to miss/ignore. I had a friend's wife gas-light him into thinking he is on the spectrum and that many of his friends from college are as well... A well established and respected engineering school in the US. I'm not saying there aren't people there who would most likely fall onto it, but being detail oriented or interested in science and engineering enough to get credentialed in it being a signifier of autism was just sheer lunacy. It really is frustrating how fast our society devalues and dilutes the meaning of any word these days.
- astrange 10mo agoIf his friends are engineers that's, uh, believable. It depends on the kind of engineer of course, but they are certainly like that. The question is if they're high-functioning or not. I always think of the SMBC "old physicist" comic: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-03-21 https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-03-21
- wizzwizz4 10mo ago"High-functioning" is contextual for most autistic people. (The trick is to remain in those contexts, while developing skills to push the boundary a bit further out: get good enough at it, and even your closest friends will say "wow, that meltdown came out of nowhere!".)
- LorenPechtel 10mo agoAutism spectrum highly favors jobs where it's basically person with data. I have seen estimates that a *majority* of programmers (my own field) lie somewhere on the spectrum. I suspect I lie at the mild end of the spectrum--and I see programming as playing to my strengths and against my weaknesses.
- SanjayMehta 10mo agoI wash the brush before putting the paste on. I also doodle. I guess I have ADHD and everyone here should now accommodate my eccentricities.