What are you talking about? I know very little about so many things! I can hyperfocus on like 3 different activities that just pass the time until death and don’t benefit me at all!
I don’t ever stop moving. I do isometric exercises constantly as part of my fidgeting. Some of my muscle groups, weird ones, are genuinely terrifying at this point. Like i have to be careful what gear i buy because ill just break some of it while im watching a movie.
If i didnt id be a lump. So not faster, but stronger, more flexible, more coordinated, with a little more endurance.
My curiosity and tangents over the decades have lead me to a ridiculously broad pool of knowledge, with very small wells of substantial depth, just kind of passively as a result of being me.
If you have to work harder than other to reach the same level and to keep it, you are not smarter or dumber, you just have a disability that makes it harder.
I can’t say I’m surprised how adamantly people want to play the disability card. Life’s hard. My family is full of people with adhd and the ones that lean into it are all doing very very poorly. Those of us that have worked out coping mechanisms have all increased our socioeconomic position.
It’s your life. Do with it what you want.
This sort of thinking isn’t unique to ADHD. For example, there are also Little people who refuse to see themselves as disabled.
That doesn’t mean those who choose to see themselves are disabled are wrong but anyone who demands someone see themselves as disabled is not only wrong, they’re also an asshole.
ADHD doesn’t make you smarter or faster.
What are you talking about? I know very little about so many things! I can hyperfocus on like 3 different activities that just pass the time until death and don’t benefit me at all!
I don’t ever stop moving. I do isometric exercises constantly as part of my fidgeting. Some of my muscle groups, weird ones, are genuinely terrifying at this point. Like i have to be careful what gear i buy because ill just break some of it while im watching a movie.
If i didnt id be a lump. So not faster, but stronger, more flexible, more coordinated, with a little more endurance.
My curiosity and tangents over the decades have lead me to a ridiculously broad pool of knowledge, with very small wells of substantial depth, just kind of passively as a result of being me.
Disagree.
It may make one smarter if it causes them to have to work harder than others to reach the same level.
With speed it is too easy to be distracted getting things done quickly and efficiently can become a coping skill.
If you have to work harder than other to reach the same level and to keep it, you are not smarter or dumber, you just have a disability that makes it harder.
That’s not what I said.
I can’t say I’m surprised how adamantly people want to play the disability card. Life’s hard. My family is full of people with adhd and the ones that lean into it are all doing very very poorly. Those of us that have worked out coping mechanisms have all increased our socioeconomic position.
It’s your life. Do with it what you want.
This sort of thinking isn’t unique to ADHD. For example, there are also Little people who refuse to see themselves as disabled.
That doesn’t mean those who choose to see themselves are disabled are wrong but anyone who demands someone see themselves as disabled is not only wrong, they’re also an asshole.
Not how any of that works, this is all contrarian coping propaganda.
Life is all about coping. Feeling like your neurological differences makes you weak is one way to cope but not for me.