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r_lee parent
Sounds like ADD to me. Easy to be labeled as "Lazy" etc.
Fokamul
ADD is an old term -> ADHD. Nvm.

I wouldn't be so quick to judge someone for ADHD.

Because I have it, untreated. And I couldn't even finish university because of it. I'm unable to do certain things, like at all, I'm nearly physically ill when doing these things. Hard to explain it, to someone without these problems :)

Luckily enough, it's not that important here / Idc about money, career etc.

r_lee OP
Alright. ADHD-PI, that's simpler.

I have ADHD-PI or whatever (diagnosed). I know the struggle. it's a life long battle that never ends.

Hang in there

jondwillis
Yeah, no way there’s any evolutionary fitness to having a brain that only works on problems it finds worthwhile. /s
mschuster91
Ideally, society would be aware of such people and actually use their potential. AR struck it lucky and so did a few others (cough Richard Stallman cough), but most don't and end up burned out by rigid megacorp structures and processes that don't respect that people, even those one might call "neurotypical", aren't cogs in a machine.

I've said it before and I will keep saying it again: the financialization of everything and the utter dominance of braindead, long-since disproven MBA ideology is going to seriously impede our societies in the next decades.

r_lee OP
Yup.

And now that tech is flooded with people, it's gonna be easy to just not deal with the troublesome "weird" people, and instead go with those who are happy to go thru all the bureaucracy and 10 stage interviews

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