The bar for being treated as a genius by media seems extremely low now.
jonhendry
joined 2 years ago
"What do you think would happen if you asked the redheaded couple about race and IQ?"
Oh god it's those two again.
Oh god we're going to see hybrid home brewer / crossfitter / biohackers aren't we. Heretofore unseen levels of tedium.
I suspect (without evidence) that what a lot of the NT people get from ADHD stimulants is not so much focus but "better alertness than you get from caffeine". And being more alert by itself would probably help an NT person focus especially when they're burning the candle at both ends.
As opposed to needing the extra dopamine in the frontal lobe to kick the executive function into gear to concentrate at all.
To really test this you'd probably have to get some NT people and some ADHD people, ensure that they're well-rested, fed with adequate nutrition, exercised a bit, and have them do an incredibly fucking boring task both medicated and unmedicated. (Perhaps take in a 90 minute lecture and do a quiz about the medieval open-field farming system.)
I might be anhedonic because I've been using methylphenidate for ADHD since 1992, but I've always been somewhat anhedonic. To paraphrase Maria Bamford "Some people really love life. I've always been on the fence." The question "what do you do for fun" has always been a bit difficult for me.
Of course it's also hard to find pleasure in many things if you can't stay with them long enough for the pleasure to really develop.
I don't think they imagine themselves to be the ones living on Mars.
My general assumption is that ADHD is both underdiagnosed and overdiagnosed but I'm generally chill about it and not a gatekeeper. But the recent shortages and delays have me a little more on edge about it.
I guess we're going to find out just how committed they are to taking the trash when they leave.
They've been playing the long game. It's all been building up to this.
Shit like this is exactly why I'm skeptical of FTX boy's Adderall prescription.
"Those Who Build Omelas"
I'd think being there to take a photo of her mid-Caesarian section would have convinced him otherwise.