ADHD memes

I have about a 3:2 ratio in favor of stupid vs. smart.

What are you talking about? I know very little about so many things! I can hyperfocus on like 3 different activities that just pass the time until death and don't benefit me at all!

I don't ever stop moving. I do isometric exercises constantly as part of my fidgeting. Some of my muscle groups, weird ones, are genuinely terrifying at this point. Like i have to be careful what gear i buy because ill just break some of it while im watching a movie.

If i didnt id be a lump. So not faster, but stronger, more flexible, more coordinated, with a little more endurance.

My curiosity and tangents over the decades have lead me to a ridiculously broad pool of knowledge, with very small wells of substantial depth, just kind of passively as a result of being me.

The last word is “disorder” for a reason

ADHD has pros and cons. People usually forget about the pros, a little balance seems a good thing to me.

(Although ADHD does not mean higher than average intelligence, that is not one of the pros.)

If you have an above average Intelligence, the mechanisms you develop can lead to excelling in many areas. But it comes at great costs and not everyone is this way. It also depends how bad you've got it.

Saying that ADHD makes you smarter is bullshit. However there are definitely tasks that ADHD can make you better at which is likely what this person was refering to. There's a reason a lot of the best repair techs I work with have an ADHD diagnosis or show clear symptoms despite having never sought out a diagnosis. ADHD can make you really good and forming connections between different ideas that most people wouldn't be able to do as quickly which can help with, for example, diagnosing issues in complex systems. However if you ask those same people to perform a basic task thoroughly and in a standardized fashion then we're usually going to be way worse at it than the average person. It's literally just being differently abled.

For example, when I'm off my sweet sweet prescription speed, I can narrow down and locate issues in a building wide automation system in a couple of hours where other techs spent all day trying and failing to find it. But at the same time, when I'm off my meds, cleaning an ice machine can take me 6 hours where one of our neurotypical techs would easily have it done even better in under 3 hours and I will have no idea what I spent all that extra time on because I will have felt like I was rushing the entire time.

Some people see being able to do complex troubleshooting quickly as beeing "smart" but it's really just a different skillset. You could call me "smart" but I literally need regular doses of amphetamines just to be able to do the most basic prioritization like paying bills on time, and cleaning my house so I personally wouldn't say that I'm particularly "smart".

Curiosity is often enough.

We just have good compression

I feel like if I lived in a pre-literate society, I'd be far more disabled than today

Living and working in a more close knit social group could offset many ADHD issues. Our strengths and weaknesses could balance each other out.

Information retainment and such can be accomplished with songs and stories.

Yes!!!! Task avoidance is the absolute worst.

Coping mechanisms? Apparently I didn’t get those. I’m currently sitting on the couch avoiding a multitude of things I need to do reading ADHD memes.

Autism and other personality disorders don't make you smarter or faster, either...