Re:I used AI to make an app to help me with my ADHD
by qwqetyr on Friday November 17, 2023 @02:17AM
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I would guess getting access to drugs is the main (and for some the only) reason.
Re:I used AI to make an app to help me with my ADHD
by Ancapistani on Friday November 17, 2023 @01:02PM
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> Why do I need to go to the doctor to have them tell me "you can only focus on interesting things"? Isn't that everyone to some degree?
Sure, but ADHD has a couple of others features that break from the norm:
* what you find "interesting" is seemingly completely arbitrary, can change in an instant, and is totally outside your control
* when you try to do something "uninteresting", the harder you try to focus on it the more difficult it is to do so.
At the same time, I do kind of question the utility of the formal diagnosis. Why do I need to go to the doctor to have them tell me "you can only focus on interesting things"? Isn't that everyone to some degree? If we had an education system that was less boring and stupid, "ADHD" wouldn't be an illness.