r/videos • u/Jtaimelafolie • May 30 '17

This guy's presentation on ADHD is excellent

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JowPOqRmxNs
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u/NowanIlfideme May 30 '17

This sounds all too fun. Maybe I'll have tiime to read that. I don't personally have the disorder (probably just actually habitually lazy), but what you described sounds like a blender of a time.

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u/Aneurysm-Em May 30 '17

It's actually kind of depressing. Few posts about "how do I manage time better", they're all about "everyone I know thinks ADHD is made up and they just think I'm a lazy shithead and that makes me sad"

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u/NowanIlfideme May 30 '17

Damn. That is indeed unfortunate. It'd be much better if people learned to differentiate between the condition and actual lazy people - they'd (possibly) spend their effort on the lazy folk, to (hopefully) greater success.

Though of course, "normal but lazy" <-> ADHD is a continuum that is hard to pinpoint.

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u/Aneurysm-Em May 30 '17

It's like a lot of things in life. Take welfare. Everyone focuses on those that abuse it and are just lazy but 99% of normal people don't WANT to be on welfare, why would anyone want to be?

I don't WANT to be lazy and shitty and I do everything I can (medication is among my tools) so that I can live the life of a normal productive person.

It's a nice little scam we have going.

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u/NowanIlfideme May 30 '17

Yep, I think you hit the nail on the head. Sensationalism. It keeps getting worse, too, though it's hard for me to imagine even more clickbaity headlines. And I'm guessing that, ironically, those sites don't actually appeal to "people with short attention spans" (which is the public's conception of ADHD), but rather "people who can't think of what to do with their time" (which is ... the general public)...

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u/the_codewarrior May 31 '17

Though some people with ADHD (me) don't really try to not be lazy. (At least for me I think it's a learned helplessness thing that has been getting better, but I'm still pretty passive about it)

So some people with ADHD are lazy by choice, and of course there are some that make it an excuse for everything (I do this quite a bit, though mainly to get my self-esteem back up to reasonable levels, and to get out of that learned helplessness by making the problem caused by an opponent as opposed to myself)