Comment on Ferns

Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  there are two kind of people in PhD programs, autistic, and undiagnosed.

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  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Nah, you also have abundance of ADHD folks that are hyper focused on the only subject that they care about, or anxiety disorder folks who are worried about not achieving a goal.

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    • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      And let’s admit it, also a few are neurotypical and genuinely enjoy university academia. They thrive in that environment & dread the day it ends because there’s nothing else they’d rather be doing.

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      • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        100%

        Just mocking OP’s stupid post. There is an abundance of neurodivergent people who successfully go super deep on academic pursuits. Many would argue that they came prewired with a cheating code for deep specialization in a field.

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• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  if they did they never would have wrote the article because they’d still be there having a firehose of information blasted at them.

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