ADHD ends with 'disorder' which includes not being able to control or commit to things by choice. If someone can focus really well on something they commit to, then it isn't a disorder.
But you left out the rest of the story.
Hyperfocus allows you to immerse yourself to a profound degree.
To observe your subject with surpassing clarity. To control it deeply. To see what others cannot see. To create what others cannot create. To solve the hardest riddles.
We owe much of our great art, science and technology to it.
If that isn’t a superpower then I don’t know what is.
Maybe you just lack commitment.
snooggums@kbin.social 7 months ago
PlasterAnalyst@kbin.social 7 months ago
It's called a manic episode.
rikudou@lemmings.world 7 months ago
Dude, just read what you wrote again, slowly. Telling people with an illness that maybe they just lack commitment is a very shitty behaviour.
There’s no rest of the story, most people agree that it’s a huge disadvantage in life. And most importantly, it’s their story, not yours, so don’t pretend like you have the right to tell others what their life is like.
dope@lemm.ee 7 months ago
And yet it’s true about all the advantages that I listed. You seem to want to avoid that particular very important elephant. Hmm.
Are you hyperfocusing on the negative?
InquisitiveApathy@lemm.ee 7 months ago
All of your points only have any validity if you could control what you actually hyperfocus on, which you cannot. It’s not something that you get to pick and choose what to use it on or turn it on and off at will.
You really don’t understand what hyperfocus is from your remarks.
dope@lemm.ee 7 months ago
You clearly fail to sympathize with the suffering of “normies”. Bound in a web of illusion. Never seeing clearly. I am shocked and appalled. :)
Also, some can control it. The power of hyperfocus is not exclusive to ADHD. Consider the autist, the sperg, the concentration meditation enthusiast.
The world is large and you are small. Think on that the next time you feel tempted to wallow in outrage.