As someone who has always said "ADD" is bullshit, this changes my perspective. I've seen too many people with "ADD" spend ridiculous amounts of time on things they wanted to do, but never on things they needed to do.
After watching this video, I can absolutely get behind an idea that someone can have a complete mental inability to process consequence...or possibly a better word would be necessity to be forward thinking. I get that. But I've always had a hard time about the calling it a "deficit of attention".
I've seen the same person who couldn't handle sitting in school for 30 minutes sit in a tree for hours completely still while hunting, or stand in a stream fishing all day saying nothing. If it was truly a deficit of attention this wouldn't be possible.
But now, thinking about this as a lack of being able to think about the consequences of doing the thing you don't presently want to do and how it will affect you later.... that's really eye opening.
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u/poscaps May 30 '17
As someone who has always said "ADD" is bullshit, this changes my perspective. I've seen too many people with "ADD" spend ridiculous amounts of time on things they wanted to do, but never on things they needed to do.
After watching this video, I can absolutely get behind an idea that someone can have a complete mental inability to process consequence...or possibly a better word would be necessity to be forward thinking. I get that. But I've always had a hard time about the calling it a "deficit of attention".
I've seen the same person who couldn't handle sitting in school for 30 minutes sit in a tree for hours completely still while hunting, or stand in a stream fishing all day saying nothing. If it was truly a deficit of attention this wouldn't be possible.
But now, thinking about this as a lack of being able to think about the consequences of doing the thing you don't presently want to do and how it will affect you later.... that's really eye opening.