Is ADHD real? Doesn't everyone have it then

>>33380025 (OP)
Wait... The oversized blocks of time I set aside because I can't be sure I'll have time is ADHD?
Fug the things you learn.

>>33380025 (OP)
I fucking hate waiting mode. OP that image is talking about a real adhdism. It's not like waiting like normie waiting. ADHD waiting mode is paralyzing, you just sit there and can't do anything dont wanna start anything, not even watching TV or taking a shit. You just wait like a dog until the [appointment] is over. Appointments are fucking kryptonite

>>33380103
That's me whenever I finish work and know I have work again the next day. It's a perpetual nightmare.

>>33380163
Yeah. Fuckin curse having ADHD dog brain. Not even dog brain, less than dog brain. My dog is intelligent enough to know when it's time for his food at 6pm on the dot. My ass can't even estimate time properly innately, internal clock is bugged. That's why waiting mode is hell cuz you overestimate or underestimate how much free time you actually have before the [APPOINTMENT]. So you just freeze up and do nothing till then. Yare yare fuckin daze

>>33380181
>you overestimate or underestimate how much free time you actually have before the [APPOINTMENT]
I arrive for things at least 20 minutes early and used to think I was just being timely which is a good thing, but then someone told me it's a sig of autism/ADHD. Fucking sucks. I also stress on the whole ride over that I probably don't have enough time and finding parking will be difficult.

>>33380025 (OP)
Humans have been making all sorts of different things day-to-day during the last 300K years
hunting, gathering, crafting, growing stuff, raising cattle, leisuring, battling neighbors, running, swimming, sexing, raising their kids, etc.
notice how an 'ADHD' person would have been perfectly fine doing a little of this, a little of that every day in a primitive society

here comes mr Shekelberg who needs you to sit at a desk for 8 hours straight. of course, some people can't do it, so he comes up with an 'illness' and its treatment:
you're being rewired into a good obedient slave thanks to chemical dopamine.

>>33380187
But the issue is that even in free time where you could do all that, you freeze and can only focus on one thing that comes later on at a specific place. It would be like knowing you're going hunting at the river and then you just stay inside your hut until its the time of day that you actually go there for hunting.

In school I used to just sit at my desk and fiddle with the mechanical pencils or pretend my hands were ninjas having a battle. Literally never learned anything, failed most of my tests, and still somehow graduated. The American indoctrination system is a joke

>>33380204
I used to just not show up to school for most regular days, learned what I needed for tests, did the tests on test days, got average grades on them and then just took more time off school when it wasn't test time. Graduated as a completely average student and wasted all that other time playing PS2 games.

Sometimes I wonder how I'd of turned out if I did actually try harder and got high grades instead of absolute average.

>>33380210
When I skipped school the board of education sued my mom and they brought me into court and this bitch judge told me I needed to attend school or my mom would go to jail

>>33380216
My school didn't give a shit kek. I suppose the fact that I did okay on tests meant they weren't too worried and I also wasn't very memorable as a person anyway.

>>33380218
Probably just cus I'm from a very small town, they knew immediately when any one kid was absent.

But they didn't notice that I was a fucking retard with no future. Assholes

>>33380221
>But they didn't notice that I was a fucking retard with no future. Assholes
Yeah that's pretty typical of schools. If school didn't suck so much, I probably would've been there more often. My English teach was some pissed off feminist that hated men too, so I almost never showed up for her classes, which was kinda the same story for a lot of people. Also another teach got fired for what he was doing with one of the girls on the basketball team.

My school was kind of a shithole I guess, so maybe I was just considered the absolute least of their concerns.

>>33380025 (OP)
ADHD is real, it's an actual physical brain disorder that affects dopamine receptors and neural activity.

But as with a lot of medical conditions it becomes a good excuse for normal people with bad behavior.

Procrastination, lazyness, being distracted, difficulty multitasking, overthinking, etc are all things neurotypical experience. It just has to do with discipline or personality. Saying you have ADHD then becomes a convenient excuse for poor behavior, much like with depression, anxiety, BPD, etc. it's become a buzzword.

If you do actually have ADHD and it's medically diagnosed you can get meds for it. Then it stops being an excuse. See how most people parade the diagnosis but do nothing to address it? Probably don't have ADHD, just like the excuse

>>33380240
I got tested for it but it was inconclusive, which I didn't know was even an outcome. They did say without doubt that I have clinical depression however.

>>33380244
You may be confusing depression symptoms for ADHD symptoms. As far as motivation goes they're fairly similar

>>33380230
>Feminist English teacher
Literally same for me, and I've heard that story repeated by hundreds of people it's crazy.

For us it was the gym teacher who got caught with child porn on his phone (at work). Also one of our history teachers was a 50 year old gay man married to a former student. Faggot didn't even know shit about history, just read to us from a textbook and printed out tests from some website. How much more fast and loose can we get with our children's future?

>Covid happened
Oh yeah

>>33380245
Ah, I wasn't really aware of that. So treating the depression might help with that? So far none of those anti-depressants have done shit for me other than make me gain weight or make me dizzy and therapists don't seem to give a shit.

>>33380246
>Literally same for me, and I've heard that story repeated by hundreds of people it's crazy.
No shit? I wonder why that's so common.

>For us it was the gym teacher
Yeah it was our gym teacher too, though I guess that was implied with it being a girl on the basketball team.

>one of our history teachers was a 50 year old gay man married to a former student
Heh, I forgot about our history teach until now. He tried making a move on a few students during the my first year there and he disappeared a few weeks later. He must've got a transfer or something since he ended up at a different school across town.

Oh and one of the art teachers was absolutely insane. She dressed and sort of spoke like that psychic teacher from Harry Potter that would read the future from tea leaves or whatever.

>>33380025 (OP)
>Is ADHD real?
Yes.
>Doesn't everyone have it then
No. A good test is to give someone amphetamine: a normal person becomes stimulated, active and emotional; someone with ADHD becomes calmer and more focused.

>>33380257
>though I guess that was implied with it being a girl on the basketball team
Not necessarily. At our school the girl's volleyball coach was one of the math teachers. We all called him a pedo but as far as I know he never got caught doing anything.

>>33380267
We used to call our gym teacher that too but then it stopped being funny when it turned out to be true kek. I can only imagine how fucked up schools must be currently and what kind of degenerate teachers are now front and center.

A lot of losers in this thread

I think it's real. It's kind of useful for gunter gatherer nomads because it helps us explore, learn lots of easy to learn skills, and generally throw ourselves like shit at a wall and hope we stick, but it makes us bad at school and the rigid military industrial complex that consumes the lives of all but the wealthy.

>>33380187
>>33380874
So you don't actually have any sort of problem and it's actually society that's wrong and since you don't have a problem you can't do anything and so society needs to change everything to suit your needs? How convenient for you...

>>33380903
this, but unironically

see also: "burnout" which implies there's something wrong with the wagie.

it's the super optimized work conditions where you find yourself in a place where you're supposed to do the same shit over and over for 10 hours that are wrong.

Like most psych diagnoses, ADHD is real but the scope has expanded far too much. There's SO much feature creep it's actually insane. Anything a person with a given label does is declared a symptom, anyone with any one symptom must be someone of that label, and anyone under a label is presumed to have every single symptom. The concept behind the label has completely lost the plot.

>>33380903
>Just let people tell you when to sleep and take the profits of most of your work
But no I'm also smart so am accumulating wealth and am slowly optimizing my life to be effortless, I might even be beating you. Partly this is because my non-conformist genetics allow me to think outside the box while you likely live check to check, if we're making assumptions about one another, Anonymous, if that's even your real name.

>>33380903
Oh, also you are the evolutionary byproduct of peasants living in literally 1984, and you are basically the human equivalent of domesticated animals.

>>33380025 (OP)
Lol, that's me. I never heard about this, though.
>start working afternoon shifts
>think I'll have a lot of time in the morning to do stuff
>wake up at 8 AM
>doomscroll for five hours straight until it's time to go to work
>never do anything even remotely productive

>>33380025 (OP)
Yes for you, No for me.