The ADHD Iceberg : adhd

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (16 children)

I feel terrible for my kid. It's really rough to every day see jokes about how doomed he is.

[–] GetAwayWithThis@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago

I was a "hyperactive" kid, I am not sure if I even have ADHD. It sure feels like I do or at least did have more severe symptoms when I was a kid. I kind of turned out ok. I can live a healthy, full life, married. My parents barely have any idea of how and why I was a negligent, immature kid who couldn't get better grades or make friends despite doing everything in my power.

Looking back, the support I would have needed is just patience, understanding, reassurance and acceptance. If there are proven methots that work with learning difficulties, then that! To this day learning more than surface level information is pure pain. Teach him how to learn in my opinion.

On the other hand, I am great at seeing the "big picture" and can derive information off of it to solve most of my problems on the go. It's not a lost cause, it's just different. Having to fit in society's narrow minded "just because I said so" standards is what made me feel and act worse when I think of it.

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[–] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 2 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Doesn't everyone have many of those things?

[–] andybytes@programming.dev 2 points 5 days ago

Take your medicine

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Most people have attention spans with limits.

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[–] amateurcrastinator@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

And if you only have some of those?

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[–] andybytes@programming.dev -1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Seems like the byproduct of a financial system in decay. Sounds like we live a mathmatical exponential function that feeds on the blood of the innocent, that corrupts all as it spits in the face of the natural hierarchy. Sound like repression, anxiety, alienation and depression. Sounds like predatory medical conformity of a institution that was once looked a as virtued. The beatings will continue until the moral improves...SOUNDS LIKE BULLSHIT NOW TAKE YOUR MEDICINE

[+] applemao@lemmy.world -7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

I still feel like this is everyone and not really ADHD. I'm willing to bet a large percentage of people have most of these symptoms. If everyone has it, then no one does..

And before anyone says I'm dismissing it, I'm not, I'm just saying it's kind of like anxiety. Literally everyone in the world who has lived and will ever live has anxiety probably everyday. Are there varying degrees, of course.

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[–] Chef_Boyardee@lemm.ee -3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Been diagnosed with ADHD, but I just know I'm lazy. You do too.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago

I wish I could just be lazy.

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