You must log in or register to comment.
But the good news is you just kinda learn quite a bit about every hobby you pick up, so people are always impressed with how much random stuff you know.
✅ I’m in this picture and I don’t like it
Crap, I have ADHD
The story of this community 😂
With that I relate. I don’t have knowledge, but only surface information about a variety of topics, because I fricking jump from one thing and the other, and this maddens me.
This is true, though sometimes one may unintentionally come across as a “know it all” (I know this from experience). Having an unending number of hobbies and the philosophy of “there is no such thing as useless knowledge”, just leads to accruing knowledge on a wide breadth of topics and surprising depth on some of the more esoteric.
I can tell you about some of the practical efforts required to safely raise chickens in the PNW (free-range, in a yard, or chicken tractors), several forms of metal casting, basic garment construction, luthiery, gardening, archery, industrial microbiology, and a number of other things. My former boss would often ask if I knew anything about a given unusual topic that came up in conversation, just to see if he could find something that I didn’t have any knowledge or experience with (really old programming languages like COBOL were among the winners). Now, I’m currently really into digital electronics, so, I’m shopping around for an oscilloscope and other equipment that would allow me to reverse engineer some of the newer protocols.
“I know enough to finish this if I wanted to”
Removed by mod
Impulsively buying stuff, hyperfixating on it for some time, losing that fixation and then having problems with keeping it in your routine as a habit is very much ADHD. ADHD is not 1s ans 0s, how people experience it varies from person to person and the severity of their ADHD. If you didn’t have much problems with that in your life then I’m happy for you but I for example wasn’t lucky enough with dna and stuff.
I very much understand hyperfixation and then moving on but that’s not the example given. Buying a new toy, playing with it for two weeks then moving on is basic human behavior, not hyperfixation. Buying a blender then becoming so obsessed with it that you become fixated with it to the point where you think about it constantly, read, research and basically know more about it than could possibly be necessary then poof…gone, is hyperfixation.
Over diagnosing can lead to over correction. This is how we end up with basically normal people getting pumped full of meds that were not designed for them. Someone reads examples like the one posted, talks to a doctor and the next thing you know are on a cocktail of Adderall and antidepressants, which in turn destroys their ability to sleep, so then they also end up taking Ambien. So on, and so forth.
I am not minimizing the disruptive effects of ADHD, obviously. I am suggesting that EVERYONE take posts like this with a big grain of salt
Yes, this tweet is very routine human behavior.
Tons of intense, short-lived hobbies is one of the biggest hallmarks of ADHD.
This is how we end up with basically normal people getting pumped full of meds that were not designed for them. Someone reads examples like the one posted, talks to a doctor and the next thing you know are on a cocktail of Adderall and antidepressants, which in turn destroys their ability to sleep, so then they also end up taking Ambien. So on, and so forth.
Over-prevalence of this notion does a lot more harm to me than people wrongly identifying with the OP.
ADHD is underdiagnosed, not over diagnosed. That’s is a really bad myth originating from parents who refuse to believe that their kids are different.
It’s far from that easy to get meds and a diagnosis, you know. You need to take an evaluation that lasts at least 3 hours in total. You are effectively saying that doctors don’t know what they’re doing, and that you know more than the literal experts.
It’s far from that easy to get meds and a diagnosis, you know. You need to take an evaluation that lasts at least 3 hours in total.
That wasn’t my experience at all. The meds definitely helped me but they also triggered high blood pressure, funky heart beats, and ultimately panic attacks. Then they gave me effexor for the panic attacks which made me twitch. There was no three hour eval for none of it. Doc just chatted me for like fifteen minutes about my struggles at work and gave me a script. I’m happy for those it helps but it took me years to clear that shit from my system. I rather forget half the shit I’m doing at any time than rely on meds again. Thankfully a few life hacks I picked up in Reddit have really helped me something serious.
Buying something new, using it then moving on is a neurotypical behavior.
Maybe the people who liked the post also have ADHD and understand that this is a single example of a trend and not a one time thing.
Thank you. I was confused for a bit and pretty sure this is common stuff.
deleted by creator
And I’m also tired of people constantly downplaying my patterns, and always saying it’s not “really” ADHD, then wondering why I’m acting so odd and different. Or why I’m struggling with stuff even though “everybody does that”. This sort of mentality has hurt me massively.
Maybe it’s more nuanced than “this is adhd” and “this is not”. Maybe it had to do with the intensity and rate of occurrence as well? But do you feel that a tweet needs to include all the goddamn nuances that come with a disorder that is primarily diagnosed by the intensity and disruptiveness of its symptoms just to make a joke?
deleted by creator
This community has ONE rule, and ya broke it. Good job. https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/4051762
Doesn’t that just come with disposable income?
deleted by creator
Oh, I’m pretty sure I have ADHD, but I’m certain my wife doesn’t, and she has done this with smoothies and several other things. She doesn’t do it as frequently as me, but she definitely does it.
My point was that it’s ADHD if you do this a lot and have problems with controlling that behavior. There are totally different ways to achieve what’s in the post but it’s just a dumbed down joke meant for people do have ADHD and not the people outside the circle.
I discovered a great way to reduce the financial burden: join a Makerspace.
Since joining a local one, I now know:
- How to use a CNC laser cutter
- How to use a thickness planer
- How to use a MIG welder (poorly)
- And, as of today, how to use a TIG welder (also poorly but, I did better than with the MIG)
Still to come:
- How to use a terrifyingly powerful, 2.5 ton milling machine
- How to use a similar size lathe
- How to use a plasma cutter
- How to use a fiber laser
- How to use a vintage oscilloscope
And a ton more. Seriously, its awesome.
Plasma cutting is fun your gonna like that 1!
I’ve absolutely fallen in love with TIG. I need a lot of practice but I’ve NEVER been able to lay as nice of a weld with stick or MIG.
deleted by creator
Haha, seems recognizable. Blender x has a pulse setting, but blender y has an extra mini bowl for herbs. Can’t choose so I’ll just forget about it.
Someone start a community to trade hobby startup equipment once you’re bored with it
Removed by mod
I was just thinking how I’m tired of seeing even the most normal scenarios constantly attributed to ADHD just to try and squeeze some humor out of it.
I have 4 RC cars because of this. They’re amazing and I still use them, but not like I did when the hobby first got injected into my veins.
I bought a 1/6 scale pos off a friend years ago, just for shits and giggles to see how much power I could dump into it before it blew up. After a bit it got shelved, and sat in the garage for a couple of years. This spring I dumped another couple hundred dollars into it to get it running again… new esc, brushless motor, batteries, some lights, and a new steering servo. Used it twice and now it’s been sitting again collecting dust for the last 5 months.
I have a cheap Arrma Voltage I did this with. It was my first RC car and I had a blast with it. Then I got curious about improving it and pushing it to its limits. I put better wheels on it, some lights, and dropped a Spektrum Firma Motor in it with the Smart ESC. The thing wheelies everywhere and basically becomes a missile lmao. If you turn it upside down and go full speed, the wheels balloon like crazy.
Glances nervously between 3 dusty RC cars, 5 dusty RC planes and a dusty RC heli. Also quickly hides browser tab with a selection of RC crawlers to buy
me
my pasta maker under an inch of dust
Totally unrelated, but I have a nearly new Dremel …
And that’s why I never made it as a writer
Seriously tho, I’m gonna start using the George Foreman grill any day now.
You got yours out of the box?
Removed by mod
You just reminded me that I own an expensive vitamix blender that I haven’t used or even thought of for over a year
