Except when your horse starts to stray off the path you've told it to go, often you won't even notice until you're already far down that other path. Sort of a "What was I doing again?"
Reddit is legitimately the worst thing to happen to people with ADHD yet.
At the same time, though, it's also the best thing to ever happen to people with ADHD, and that's why it's the worst thing.
It's the absolute perfect dopamine machine. I spend more time on subs like /r/gaming, /r/movies, /r/television, etc than I do actually playing games or watching movies or TV or whatever. I'm distracted from my distractions.
So you think "Well, I'll delete my account and cut myself off." But the issue is reddit is actually incredibly useful in certain ways and it's helped you a great deal with other things. It's a double edged sword.
Never put two and two together, but you are absolutely right! I always go back and check to see how many upvotes my comments get; really had no rational reason why but dopamine definitely makes sense.
I have an addictive personality, so Reddit just further feeds that.
Awe shit we are just like Instagram hoes. We think we are better but we are all the same, we just don't have big asses or pretty faces. Or we are too arrogant.
I delete my accounts every now and again, this one is due being toasted too tbh. I recognised that I was having fun just getting the reply notification rather than enjoying the discussion.
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u/Hellknightx May 30 '17
Except when your horse starts to stray off the path you've told it to go, often you won't even notice until you're already far down that other path. Sort of a "What was I doing again?"