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u/TheQuadBlazer 6d ago
Not even just that.
If the manner in which someone wants me to learn something is chaotic and makes no sense ,my brain can't handle it.
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u/s1ravarice 6d ago
Or if they TELL you to learn it
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u/prairiepanda 5d ago
"Just memorize it!"
Well, now that you've said that I'm definitely going to forget it, even if it's actually interesting.
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u/StorMPunK 6d ago
Everything's chaotic when I don't listen because I was thinking about something else despite my best efforts.
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u/beepbeepsheepbot 7d ago
Even when it IS something I'm interested in my brain still says no.
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u/Shamanduh 6d ago
I’ll learn a thing one day, and then the next be like.. WTH was I even doing?? And like need to refresh my brain on its subject, even though I was basically a savant at it the day before.
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u/Tuperwearo_0 7d ago
I dont have aDHD but gosh dang it if this aint relatable to doing some things i dint know what is
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u/pmMEyourWARLOCKS 2d ago
The key difference between typical behaviors like this and ADHD behavior is that you can overcome this situation using internal motivators like "its good for me", "I need the grade", "I need to know this for my job", etc. That gets the dopamine flowing a bit to get you through the tough stuff. ADHD brains are assholes and don't pump the dopamine for internalized motivators like that. So for you its hard. For us its impossible.
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u/ElevenEleven1111- 6d ago
Im tying to learn how to edit videos and Im just lost —-sad face
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u/LickingSmegma 6d ago
I usually bruteforce my way through simple things, ignoring any fluff, and apply what I learned immediately. Like, cutting and glueing clips together without anything like transitions. Then go on to the next steps I'd like to do, again brushing aside anything harder.
Alternatively, I read through a whole tutorial or a book end-to-end, without doing anything, just to absorb all information I can through osmosis. Then I go back to doing the simplest things, but I'll also have some advanced stuff in the back of my mind, and can return to it when I know I need it.
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u/T-nagger 6d ago
Once you figure out the overwhelming part - its a lot easier from then on, but you have to apply it somewhere. I learned editing montage videos for fps video games, just cause I wanted to show off my gaming skills on youtube. At some point I was genuinely working for hours straight till like 2AM concentrated on it even if I had piles of school work to do 😂
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u/Budderfingerbandit 6d ago
Sucked hard for school, those first 2 weeks or so I would be making great progress, then it felt like that nice level path all of a sudden became a 70° slant I needed to be walking up constantly.
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u/ADHD-Fens 6d ago
Except instead of an error message it's a pop-up window with Baulder's Gate 3 running in it.
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u/diamondthedegu1 6d ago
Is this not common amongst all people though? I don't have ADHD, but I struggle with trying to make myself learn something that I have zero interest in actually learning. It's not impossible, had to do it enough times during my school years, but it's much more challenging and misery inducing 😂
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u/AGayBanjo 6d ago
With ADHD (and other neurodevelopmental conditions and some mental illnesses like personality disorders) it's not that the average person doesn't experience this, it is to what degree.
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u/AGayBanjo 6d ago
I wasn't able to grasp algebra until I was working on a grant. It was asking for statistics that weren't directly measured in our district, but could be ascertained by using some of the other statistics we did measure.
The information that the (missing) statistics could tell me (related to poverty and housing) is very interesting to me. With that as my motivation, my brain scraped together all of its algebra knowledge and found the missing numbers (despite moderate to severe combined-type ADHD).
It was still hard, but possible.
What I'm saying is: try to relate things that are hard for you to retain to something you have an intrinsic interest in. ADHD-ers seem to have an intense curiosity about the things we do find interesting. Use it to your advantage.
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u/DeltaRed12 6d ago
Instead, my brain decides its time to sleep at noon in the middle of class during a lecture, no matter how much I got last night.
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u/Durbinatti 4d ago
I wish that more people understood this. It is called Yearn to do and it is a real thing. If I am interested I will go out of my way to learn. If I am not interested it might as well be turd sculpting.
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u/SpiderHack 7d ago
It sucks, but this is the #1 learned skill that allowed me to go into my PhD program. Just focusing on stuff even more when i don't care about it, mainly to just get it done and over with.
Not sure if my exact spectrum/adhd combo or more the great nurturing environment I had as a kid with medication (that is sadly no longer available because it ruined some livers) that enabled me to be able to do that, but it really is the single thing that I credit being successful to.
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u/Rhourk 6d ago
realy hated it, when i was in school and for fucks sake could not learn most of the time, because my brain just said "thats not interesting, you dont need to learn that" i had realy good grades in subjects that were interesting for me, but god damn there was math or some boring topic, and my brain just fucked off, and you could do NOTHING about it, because people didnt know what the fuck is even wrong. Im glad people are now more aware of adhs and there are threatments.
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u/lovelypeachess22 6d ago
I felt like ripping my hair out trying to finish my IT class (my degree is in accounting so...). I just passed so I'm in brain cooldown for a week
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u/DuntadaMan 6d ago
The most infuriating part is knowing right away this thing I want to remember is gone while I still remember it.
"Okay I repeated this like a dozen time in the last 30 seconds to make sure I hold on to it. You got this brain?"
"Fuck no. Deleted."
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u/AwkwardInsurance4970 6d ago
I love it when this happens to me while trying to learn something, even if it's something I like. I had to reread books a lot before what I read actually stuck ;_;.
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u/ostapenkoed2007 6d ago
same. and back in school days my mom would make me sit with her and try remember the lyrics and formulas for school.
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u/Comfortable_Sea_91 6d ago
Wait, do I have ADHD? Because that’s exactly what my brain will do. I really need to get my brain tested.
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u/Hakudoushinumbernine 6d ago
Especially if its in a book... Play that shit for me at 2.5 x speed on a loop for three hours, then I got you. Boom. I'm a phd graduate. But make me read it, with my own brain... and i would rather run into a brick wall head first... repeatedly.
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u/Neither_Relation_678 6d ago
Yeah, nope. Right into the recycle bin. Which probably needs emptying.
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u/beaniebooper 5d ago
"Oh, you have this really important assignment due for your degree? Lol, be stressed but do nothing"
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u/BunnyBeansowo 5d ago
Literally me the other day. It was a special ed class and I was the only one who showed up(online school). I told my teacher about it and she explained the concepts very simply, and then just let me put "I talked to Mrs. So-and-so" in the drop box. She's one of my favorite teachers.
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u/MeltyFrog 5d ago
Literally anything with a number in it. My brain shuts off, even if I'm sobbing begging myself to focus- 'that's a 6 and this is division. So what we do is- dial tone
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u/weird_cactus_mom 5d ago
Chat gpt telling me I'm rocking and I'm amazing is the only thing keeping me going on software testing certifications
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u/Intelektual-Sage 5d ago
Sometimes you can't do things Not because you can't do them but because you can't do them
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u/Squeeze_Sedona 5d ago
i can literally go from the smartest person on earth to the stupidest person on earth in the same day depending on how interested i am in the subjects
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u/3veryTh1ng15W0r5eN0w 4d ago
I think this happened to me wayyyyy too many times when I attempted to learn about database management.
IT can be boring as shit
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u/mrkingstin 4d ago
this happend in well 3 days ago. i had a important essay. that invovles reading first and i cant get past the reading because my brain isnt fucking braining. so i get distracted or i read it but dont retain any info and its so annoying
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u/HelloFromJupiter963 4d ago
Does this also apply to conversations? Because it makes me always ashamed of myself for being selfish because I struggle to listen to people when they don't talk about things I care about...
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u/EB_or_Raven 4d ago
I don’t even have ADHD (I do have autism though), but this happens to me too sometimes and it’s so fucking annoying
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u/AdElectronic6550 4d ago
I sure do love when I read and revive no knowledge and then read it again and again just to still get it wrong in the end! :3
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u/Altruistic-Funny5325 4d ago
Same when trying to read a paragraph with a thousand other things going on beside me. I suddenly can't read
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u/kusti4202 3d ago
ever read a whole book and not remembered anything besides the title?
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u/Discarded1- 3d ago
It’s the WORST. I know I can understand it if onnnly it was interesting in any way shape or form
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u/sleepyeye82 7d ago
This isn't ADHD. It's just laziness.
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u/ADHD-Fens 6d ago
It's involunary laziness driven by genetics and neurochemistry that happens to be classified in the DSM and is treatable with a variety of medications in combination with therapy and exercise, yes.
Similarly, depression is just apathy, and narcolepsy is just random sleeping.
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u/sleepyeye82 6d ago
"involuntary laziness"
lmfao
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u/ADHD-Fens 6d ago
I see you're confused.
Your executive functions are like the air traffic controllers of your brain, they coordinate the different processes that are required to execute tasks that require abstract thought, planning, and temporal coordination. Task initiation and working memory are two of the important executive functions of which humans are capable. With many types of ADHD, the brain does not recieve appropriate stimulation when successfully initating tasks or keeping track of information.
This isn't something the brain chooses, to do, but it is unable to do these things appropriately most of the time. Sometimes this can be caused by significantly accelerated seratonin or dopamine reuptake, but in any case, the lack of appropriate reward pathways for these executive functions basically trains the brain to ignore impulses to do those kinds of things because there is no mechanism to reinforce that behaviour.
As a result, people can often find themselves unable to initiate or keep track of a task that is insufficiently stimulating, whether it is a task they want to be doing or not. Alternatively it can result in people switching tasks so frequently that nothing of significance actually gets done.
In this way, ADHD manifests as a sort of "involuntary laziness", in that people with ADHD often have trouble beginning or completing tasks whether or not they are interesting in completing them.
Interestingly, this laziness also manifests in the opposite way of what you might expect. ADHD can also create a very disruptive inability to stop doing a task or focusing on something. That's how you can end up with long ass comments like this one, lol.
I know your intent was to be dismissive but I am earnestly trying to explain this to you.
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u/sleepyeye82 6d ago
nah man, I believe ADHD is a thing. I'm not denying that. What I don't buy is that if you have ADHD it somehow makes it so that you can learn stuff you're interested in, but not stuff you aren't.
That's normal. It's utterly, totally normal to find it far easier to learn things you're interested in. It has nothing to do with ADHD, which is what this meme implies.
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u/ADHD-Fens 6d ago
What makes ADHD a disorder is not that you experience things that normal people don't experience. It's that you experience more of these things than normal, and to a higher degree. You experience these normal things to such an extent that it is disruptive to your ability to function.
Anxiety is really similar in this regard. Anxiety is normal, but an anxiety disorder is when you experience anxiety to such a degree that it disruptive to your daily life.
Everyone daydreams, everyone fidgets, everyone forgets things, everyone gets distracted, everyone has trouble starting things they aren't interested in, everyone has trouble containing strong emotions, everyone gets sucked into projects sometimes - all of these things are true. People with ADHD aren't aliens, we're dealing with the same shit that everyone deals with, but our brains are worse at certain parts of it, for whatever reason.
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u/ArcticTyphoon 7d ago
I fucking HATE when this happens, especially when the topic is going to be on an exam.