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no i do not have adhd. i love doing lots of things and learning lots of things. it means you are a smart person and have alot of time on your hands to do all that. most people are in a RUT and work home and family thats it.
The big diagnostic factor is, do you FINISH those lots of things.
It’s ok to occasionally try something and be like yeah, this wasn’t as great as advertised, I’m walking away.
But if your shelves are covered in an assortment of unfinished projects that never will be finished? ADHD
I don’t THINK I’m ADHD but I feel called out by your last sentence.
I mean, I wouldn’t call it living. Maybe rather existing. :D
What does it say about starting all those hobbies / projects and not finishing any?
Nonsense. I’ve had myself certified to be riddled with ADHD by 5 separate psychiatrists, and I’ve lost count of my hobbies/interests. And I have every intention of returning to leathercraft one day… just as soon as I dig my bed back out and get a good nights sleep.
Part of me really misses the certainty of the old school psychiatry. It seemed to hold the promise of answers and ultimately solutions. For if conclusions cold be reached problems could be identified and solved or otherwise compensated for.
Unfortunately this was never the case. It was just well meaning folks making it up as they went along. If they could convince their colleagues to buy in and do a bit of limited research… bingo, accepted theory.
Now we just get an endless wash of statistics and papers loaded with so much domain specific language they are practically indecipherable.
You misread it just like I did the first time!
The post says people without ADHD only have like 2 interests.
Which… is also baffling to me.
I read it like 4 times and still got it backwards, thank you friend.
Yeah… I’m not sure that’s accurate either, I certainly know plenty of people with more than 2 hobbies or interests.
Perhaps something you tell a new patient to make them feel better :-)
How I am is not a disorder. Other people just want to put me in line behind them.
As someone who switched meds, didn’t sleep much for about 14 days and discovered modular synths: I’m in this picture and I don’t like it.
Disclaimer: let’s face it, I actually love it. Like others in this thread, I can’t even imagine how boring I’d feel not discovering a completely new interest / hobby / aspect of life all the time.
Hell, I know so many people my age who simply seem to stagnate and are simply not interested in anything any longer, and I feel “protected” from that. Life is fucking exciting, let me try all the things!
There are definitely layers to this though, I have core interests that are more aligned with my personality, and I feel that governs how invested I am into each particular hobby. That doesn’t keep me from having wildly varying interests, though.
ADHD: how to get more out of life and less out of life at the same time.
Slicing up the candle into smaller candles and burning all the ends.
My mother used to say about my brother and I, “they aren’t content with burning the candle at both ends, they also take a blowtorch to the middle.”
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ive never understood when my friends decline something because it “sounds boring” i just cant think that way at all
They feel the same about me when I decline the opportunity to get shitfaced drunk and banter over 17 games of “Mexican train dominoes” for the 59574th time.
that sounds like it would be insanely interesting maybe the first and second time.
Specially when it’s something new.
I find the world to be crawling with interesting things to learn about. From electric plugs, to coffee, to how computers work, etc. It always drives me insane that the average person doesn’t seem to be remotely interested in learning much about how and why the world works…
Didn’t know it could be an ADHD thing though.
electric plugs
I thought that I was the only one… But it makes sense that other ADHD folks would too. Have a favorite plug? Mine’s the CEE 7/4 (Schuko). It just has a lovely symmetry and thoughtful, safety-conscious design.
Ok, I had to look at this and I definitely agree. It’s much better than the US Type B plug which I’m always afraid I’ll short out when a random piece of metal falls on it.
The UK plug seems to be the best engineered one, I’m partial to the French one, along the Schuko.
The UK plugs are pretty great too. Easy to wire and designed to have fuses. I felt much more confident wiring one of those for my in-laws than I ever would with a US plug.
it’s unnecessarily large but it has great safety features!
at the moment i’m partial to andersons, wonderfully versatile, modular, and scalable. You can get them ranging from itty bitty baby connectors, to big chungus giga connectors.
It’s a very nice design. I don’t like plugs, i think they’re all bad tbh.
Hey I think I should get tested or something. I’ll make a phone call… Eventually
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That’s why I love technology connection guy, I can just skim through his list of videos and find some weird things to watch about some random tech.
My ADHD interests: intensely researching a topic that has no prospect of financial reward and wanting to talk about it to people who don’t care
What was your last one? I lately fell into the Esperanto rabbit hole.
Not OP, but TTRPGs. Started after I finished BG3, and talked my friends into playing DnD, with me as a DM. Knew literally nothing, and hyperfocused for months learning as much as I could.
I’ve prepared a 70 page document for my players detailing every one of my 6 homebrew classes, 20 subclasses, 15 origins (races don’t make sense in the setting), and some lore about our ASOIAF campaign (I could keep going for hours about all I’ve homebrewed).
We’re all ready and rearing to go and I’m kind of… Already over it. I’m homebrewing vampire bloodlines ala dragonborn lineages and wild magic radiation and mutation systems on the side but those don’t make sense in this setting, and it hurts.
Edit: the worst thing is, I do have people that would be interested in those homebrews, but they’re my players and I don’t want to spoil them!
Conlanging is great for this because you can make and abandon basic sketches of languages forever.
I think what bothers me most is having no one to talk about things with. Like, I just made this cool thing! Someone ask me about it!!
The only person I have to babble at has level 2 autism and can only process a finite (and very small) number of words per day before she combusts 😭
Don’t forget waking up a month or two later and realizing that you no longer care about the subject you’ve been hyperfocusing on and now have no idea what to do with yourself until the next hyperfixation shows up.
People: what do you do in life? Me: video games. that’s it, just videogames. A LOT of videogames
This is one of the things my other ND things cancels out. Or maybe just the way my ADHD is more on hyper focusing than being totally unfocused? I only like, basically, 3 things. Video games, music, and language. Granted, “language,” covers a lot.
I genuinely thought I was NT because I was comparing my quantity of interests to my brothers quantity of interests. He’s autistic, he has one interest.
Then I’d compare my quantity of interests to my best friends quantity of interests, he has ADHD hyperactive type, he has 700+ interests.
And I have like, 25 (and that’s if I split up larger interests into subcategories)
So I’m normal…except for all the sensory issues, executive dysfunction, impulsively, social difficulties, memory issues, communication deficits, learning difficulties, inability to establish routines, poor interoception resulting in medical complications from failing to attend to basic needs because I’m “in the zone” on something else.
Jokes on me, I have AuDHD.
Some of my “symptoms” cancel each other out in a way I’m very grateful for, and others conflict with each other in the most debilitating ways. That feeling when you are somehow catastrophically overstimulated and also your brain is tearing itself down the middle in desperate need for some dopamine through sensory input…
I consider video games to be multiple hobbies as each genre can scratch such a massively different brain itch. Sinking into a JRPG vs sinking into an RTS are very different levels of mental engagement.
Video games can also be a lot. When normies play, they play one game or two. Say fifa and cod. My steam lib is 500+
NT: “So what are your interests?”
Me, inside: “Software development, compression algorithms, binary file processing, scripting in Bash and Powershell, web development, networking, homelab/selfhosting, household automation, 3D graphics and modelling (and a particular fascination with Geometry Nodes), shader programming, video game development, video games…”
Me, outside: “… …I like computer? Like, all of computer?”
I have one broad interest that manifests in many ways: I like to make things. From a D&D table, to a workbench, to glowing led hex panels, to making automated blinds from scratch, to cutting worm gears, to internal keyway cutters, to sex machines, to syncing up videos to said sex machines, to grind rails and ramps for skating, to gearboxes, to spool un-winders, to book presses, to rpi powered media centers, to pi arcades, to bed frames…just to name a few.
