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running in circles doesn’t make you faster
going blahblahblahblah doesn’t make you smarter
I thought of a quick mental pace, frequently jumping from thought to thought, inevitably going off on tangents. That’s what I interpreted from the line about being “smarter and faster.” However, having that quickness translated into “smartness” is far from the only way for it to manifest.
You may have a quick mental pace, but it doesn’t help you find solutions - it just repeatedly pulls you into depression or anxiety by effortlessly connecting negative thoughts to literally anything that crosses your mind. Or you have quick thoughts, but struggle to track back to things from earlier on - leading to a feedback loop of distraction that makes conversations, movies, and sometimes even your own ideas, very difficult to follow.
Side note: I feel like if I lived in a pre-literate society, I’d be far more disabled than today. I don’t know how I’d function if I weren’t able to write down my thoughts, or read (and re-read) information. The written word provides a structure and direction that the spoken word and abstract thoughts don’t have. I may be seen as “smarter” in the modern world, but someone like me from the ancient past would’ve been at a massive disadvantage.
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.
And we would be the scouts and night watch for the community. If neurodivergence isn’t environmentally caused, and I don’t believe it is, why would it still be so common in our species?
ADHD makes you smarter? That’s some bullshit
Curiosity is often enough.
Yes. I got it from an ex and now I’m smart af
Can we stop with the narrative that disorders that completely fuck your life up and make you struggle with things normal people do without thinking is somehow a "“superpower”?
The last word is “disorder” for a reason
And the other D is for “deficit”!
ADHD makes you more intelligent in the same way that being chased by a bear makes you a runner, or having kids makes you a morning person.
A weaponised intellect is a useful counter to ADHD. We also tend to be built differently. Think tank Vs car. This makes us abnormally good at certain tasks, at the cost of others.
Poor impulse control, novelty seeking, and unlimited internet access tends to explain the rest.
all i can say is ive met many people with adhd who are definitely not smarter than, well, anybody.
please stop glazing my mental condition it will get more confident and take over the world
ADHD doesn’t make you smarter or faster.
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.
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!
Disagree.
It may make one smarter if it causes them to have to work harder than others to reach the same level.
With speed it is too easy to be distracted getting things done quickly and efficiently can become a coping skill.
Not how any of that works, this is all contrarian coping propaganda.
Feels like gassing adhders up.
Fun but not accurate.
I don’t think ADHD itself makes you smarter. It’s more about autism and some personality disorders which look very similar to ADHD or even live alongside it.
Autism and other personality disorders don’t make you smarter or faster, either…
Hmm maybe if you have a very distorted definition of “smart”. I’m talking about intelligence and it’s a well known observation amongst therapists that such disorders are related to increased intelligence. Faster though? More likely the opposite.
And yet there’s people whose autism is severely debilitating…
I’m certainly not saying autism makes you stupid but people diagnosed with it have a huge range of intelligence so it’s unfair to say it “makes you smarter” IMO. There’s no proof of causation even if it often does correlate
Oh I probably forgot to mention that the mentioned disorders don’t always correlate (very good word for it btw) but in many cases (2/3 I’d say) they do. It also depends on the exact condition as some do not have such effect. And I don’t have proof of causation either. They’re related but idk what causes what. However for the purpose of meme creation it’s enough.
The fastest lemmy alive
