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[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 53 points 1 year ago

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[-] Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 1 year ago

Impulsively buying stuff, hyperfixating on it for some time, losing that fixation and then having problems with keeping it in your routine as a habit is very much ADHD. ADHD is not 1s ans 0s, how people experience it varies from person to person and the severity of their ADHD. If you didn't have much problems with that in your life then I'm happy for you but I for example wasn't lucky enough with dna and stuff.

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 47 points 1 year ago

I very much understand hyperfixation and then moving on but that's not the example given. Buying a new toy, playing with it for two weeks then moving on is basic human behavior, not hyperfixation. Buying a blender then becoming so obsessed with it that you become fixated with it to the point where you think about it constantly, read, research and basically know more about it than could possibly be necessary then poof...gone, is hyperfixation.

Over diagnosing can lead to over correction. This is how we end up with basically normal people getting pumped full of meds that were not designed for them. Someone reads examples like the one posted, talks to a doctor and the next thing you know are on a cocktail of Adderall and antidepressants, which in turn destroys their ability to sleep, so then they also end up taking Ambien. So on, and so forth.

I am not minimizing the disruptive effects of ADHD, obviously. I am suggesting that EVERYONE take posts like this with a big grain of salt

[-] witheyeandclaw@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago

Yes, this tweet is very routine human behavior.

[-] ProletarianDictator@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Tons of intense, short-lived hobbies is one of the biggest hallmarks of ADHD.

This is how we end up with basically normal people getting pumped full of meds that were not designed for them. Someone reads examples like the one posted, talks to a doctor and the next thing you know are on a cocktail of Adderall and antidepressants, which in turn destroys their ability to sleep, so then they also end up taking Ambien. So on, and so forth.

Over-prevalence of this notion does a lot more harm to me than people wrongly identifying with the OP.

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[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

Buying something new, using it then moving on is a neurotypical behavior.

[-] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 year ago

Maybe the people who liked the post also have ADHD and understand that this is a single example of a trend and not a one time thing.

[-] obinice@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Woah now, assuming people on the internet are real human beings with the ability to read context and understand complex ideas? Are you crazy?

😂

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[-] MargotRobbie@lemm.ee 50 points 1 year ago

But the good news is you just kinda learn quite a bit about every hobby you pick up, so people are always impressed with how much random stuff you know.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year ago

"I know enough to finish this if I wanted to"

[-] ProletarianDictator@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

✅ I'm in this picture and I don't like it

[-] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

Crap, I have ADHD

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[-] PeWu@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

With that I relate. I don't have knowledge, but only surface information about a variety of topics, because I fricking jump from one thing and the other, and this maddens me.

[-] Kage520@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

My knowledge base has the breadth of an ocean, but the depth of a puddle.

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[-] Patches@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You remember the random stuff you read?

It's in and out. I feel that people would actually think I'm smart if I could recall even 2% of all the shit I learn on demand.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My memory is really, really good. It's my recall that's crap. Feels more like my brain works like RAM and not a hard drive in that my memories are randomly accessed.

[-] Patches@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If it was Ram then everything you learned would disappear when you went to sleep. But it would all be easily accessible at all times instantly.

A hard drive sounds way more appropriate. It's really good at following a single chain of information. It is terrible at randomly accessing information but it's all there. The problem of course is that - people don't talk as one long chain. There are tangents and then the drive must seek which is slow.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 points 1 year ago

If it was Ram then everything you learned would disappear when you went to sleep.

I mean, it does feel like that sometimes.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

I remember enough to somewhat know what I'm talking about and especially enough to know what I need to quickly google to get the full details.

[-] gila@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Not necessarily in a way where I can effectively demonstrate everything I've learned, but sure, a lot goes somewhere in the back of my memory bank. It's created job opportunities for me in disruptive tech fields because I'm just able to absorb so much in that initial hyperfocus phase, and come across like a subject matter expert on something I just heard about a couple of weeks ago. Sucks when you land in what seems to be a great position and just lose interest in the field though. Good recipe for imposter syndrome

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[-] pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 year ago

Joke's on you, I have so many abandoned activities, I can just cycle through them

[-] NielsBohron@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Sure, I haven't brewed beer in 3 years but I still have my equipment, so that when I get sick of building guitars, I can go back to brewing beer. But wait, what about the transition from guitar building to tabletop gaming? I guess I can store the brewing stuff and the guitar-building stuff for a year while I go down the TT gaming rabbit-hole. And then there was that quick detour into making kombucha...and then pickling stuff...

[-] pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago

Dude you're fucking flourishing don't change a thing

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[-] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 5 points 1 year ago

My brain and closet are like IRL Steam.

[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

They're never truly abandoned if you cycle thru them taps temple

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[-] nickwitha_k 20 points 1 year ago

I discovered a great way to reduce the financial burden: join a Makerspace.

Since joining a local one, I now know:

How to use a CNC laser cutter
How to use a thickness planer
How to use a MIG welder (poorly)
And, as of today, how to use a TIG welder (also poorly but, I did better than with the MIG)

Still to come:

How to use a terrifyingly powerful, 2.5 ton milling machine
How to use a similar size lathe
How to use a plasma cutter
How to use a fiber laser
How to use a vintage oscilloscope

And a ton more. Seriously, its awesome.

[-] EhEhraughn@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I'm so so jealous. The closest Makerspace to me is over 1 hour away.

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[-] Squirrel@thelemmy.club 17 points 1 year ago

Doesn't that just come with disposable income?

[-] nednobbins@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago

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[-] PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

I was just thinking how I'm tired of seeing even the most normal scenarios constantly attributed to ADHD just to try and squeeze some humor out of it.

[-] oldGregg@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

Someone start a community to trade hobby startup equipment once you're bored with it

[+] ElHexo@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

And that's why I never made it as a writer

[-] hayes_@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

I literally have a blender on my counter that I haven’t touched in… probably 12 months.

[-] gencha@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

I will use it soon. I promise! It wouldn't make sense to sell it. I'll literally need it the next day!

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[-] thenofootcanman@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

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[-] Asymptote@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago

Totally unrelated, but I have a nearly new Dremel ...

[-] Steak@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

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[-] argentcorvid@midwest.social 7 points 1 year ago

You got yours out of the box?

[-] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 6 points 1 year ago

I have 4 RC cars because of this. They’re amazing and I still use them, but not like I did when the hobby first got injected into my veins.

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[-] D61@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

me side-eye-1

my pasta maker under an inch of dust side-eye-2

[-] cybermass@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

Shit I was not ready for this personal attack

[-] Tofushopdriftin@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I love learning I might be on a spectrum from a meme

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