• @Apocalypteroid@lemmy.world
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    214 days ago

    ADHD is being intelligent and hard working but completely unable to decide a career path, so drifting through life into your 40s when you finally realise you have ADHD and have wasted the past 25 years.

    • @kureta@lemmy.ml
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      4 days ago

      dude…

      edit: I studied physics, quit, became a bass player, then a street musician playing percussion, then software developer, then translator, then studied classical music composition, then quit, then became conference interpreter, then learned neural networks and gave a seminar on using neural networks in contemporary music at Ircam Paris in 2018, then went back to studying composition at the university. This year I will finally graduate at 41. Hope to do my masters and become a college professor.

    • Apathy Tree
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      44 days ago

      Hey nuh uh, I did all that having been diagnosed at 5, thank you.

  • @Taleya@aussie.zone
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    234 days ago

    If you’re my husband the key is apparently to marry an autist and let her manage all your projects.

    Shit gets done.

  • CaptainBlagbird
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    4 days ago

    That sounds more like depression to me?

    But in my ADHD experience: I’d think of 1000 fun things to do, but do some minor hyperfixation thing(s) and then it’s 3am and I did nothing I should have done or actually wanted to do 😵‍💫

    • @Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf
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      64 days ago

      It can go both ways. If it goes your way, I consider that a successful day. Its usually easier to just watch YouTube videos to no end instead of doing all the cool things you thought about.

  • @Pnut@lemm.ee
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    12 days ago

    I’m getting pretty sick of “ADHD is specifically this”

    That is not how it works.

    • spicy pancake
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      22 days ago

      devil’s advocate: “[thing] is” has become internet shorthand for “a common attribute of [thing]” likely due to microblog character limits

      that being said I do get a “it’s ALWAYS like this for ALL OF US” vibe from a lot of these types of posts that is uhhhh not great