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Comment on How can people with ADHD possibly enjoy movies if they daydream and can't focus on the movie?

DarkMayhemXIII@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Because a film or television show, regardless of the quality, is to be experienced with full focus. You aren’t supposed to wander off or daydream when watching something. You are supposed to take in the characters, dialogue, cinematography, animation, etc., take in the story, and follow it. Escape into that world, not focus on anything else. That’s how you watch something.

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ToastedCoconuts@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Adhd is, for many of us, a disability. That means we aren’t able to do things the same way that people without disabilities can. You may as well say that deaf or blind people shouldn’t enjoy movies either, because they are unable to enjoy the cinematography or audio like “you’re supposed to”

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MonaySimpson@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
That’s simply not true. You don’t HAVE to sit down and stop everything to enjoy a movie or film.

Grandma knitted through everything and still enjoyed it. So it dodn’t have to be seen. The same goes for vision impaired. The same goes for washing the dishes or any task on auto pilot.

I’m also sure the Spanish soap opera where a breakup scene goes for 5 episodes can be walked in and out of without someone coming back in and going “oh damn I’m so lost what’s happening.” Later seasons of Walking Dead are much the same. So is Big Bang Theory.

What about music? Must an album be listened to in full without doing anything? A radio song played out before turning off the car.

I digress. People can enjoy things in a different way to you my dude.

If you have a nuro spicy friend that won’t sit still and watch a movie from start to end with you maybe find something else to do.

But it feels like your not REALLY asking a question here and accepting answer’s. You just want to stand on a soapbox and say “THIS IS HOW I ENJOY AN ACTIVITY AND THINK IT IS DONE. YOU MUST DO IT LIKE ME”.

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sbeak@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

You aren’t supposed to wander off or daydream when watching something.

Again, people with ADHD aren’t constantly daydreaming.

You are supposed to take in the characters, dialogue, cinematography, animation, etc., take in the story, and follow it. Escape into that world, not focus on anything else. That’s how you watch something.

You keep emphasising on how you are “supposed” to watch a film, again you are speaking as if people with ADHD aren’t doing what they are “supposed” to do.

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Binturong@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I enjoy movies most when your moms is giving me top in the back of the theatre. To each their own, fella.

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