Today's Takeaway Lesson

[soc_puppet]

Shiiiit, I am super ADHD.

(Oh look, it's that lack of ability to prioritize thing that my boss has gotten on my case about before! And not being able to manage my time properly! And deciding to actually leave when I'm scheduled to leave when there's still a few things that could conceivably be done either today or tomorrow! HOW ABOUT THAT!)



Also, a fun quote from me:

"Brains: Can't reason with 'em, can't reason without 'em."

Because brains. And neurodivergence. And all of that fun stuff.

Comments

[mesotablar]

haha, I read those first three lines of the article and laughed.

“I told you the movie started at 8 p.m., but we missed it because you’re always late.”

“Let’s just see another movie. This one looks good.”

A primary foundation of any relationship is spending time together,

Movies (especially at the cinema), in themselves are not 'spending time together' it is just a mutual activity that allows more conjoined points of reference in your lives. The more meaningful time is the conversations after the movie or the preparation/organisation time before the movie when the two people are actually interacting.

The article was interesting but the examples all seemed really flawed (as in they don't make anything clearer). The movies example and the meal-20-years-ago were just terrible. 'Baffling' is a good description for them.

[soc_puppet]

*shrugs* IDK, different people draw their lines in different places.


I can put together an approximate meal from ten or twenty years ago, but that's mostly because what I tend to make to eat on my own hasn't changed a lot over the years, even after becoming a food industry professional. Fixing the changes in relation to different specific years would definitely prove a challenge to me, though. Like, what year did Dad get diagnosed with diabetes? We definitely cut a lot of carb-heavy meals out of regular rotation at that point. When exactly did we stop doing our regular "everyone cooks a meal for the family at least once a week" rotation? Was it before or after I moved out? And when did that happen in relation to Diabetes? I think we were still doing meal rotation up until I moved out, and I had to switch out my carb-heavy easy meal options a few years before then, so I guess Diabetes happened when I was in high school?

Someone with a better sense of where these events happened on a linear time frame might be able to build a probable menu faster than me, was my interpretation.


I definitely agree it wasn't the best article I could have chosen to link, but at twenty hours awake, Tired Brain wanted to get this dang post up, and it seemed like the best choice at the time. I may try and find a better one sometime today.

[mesotablar]

Your post is fine, and the article information is interesting. The only thing that lets it down are the examples that are there to make things easier to understand but the writers are clearly showing their internal bias that the readers should all be older-ish (and understand a standard marriage dynamic, but that is another issue)....cause 20 years ago I would have been 6-7 and the only food thing I remember is I didn't like cake. And even then I am not sure if it is something I remember or if it is just me remembering what other people say about what I was like. (Basically I think my memory banks are ...tricky)

[soc_puppet]

Ugh, agreed. I mean, it's nice that ADHD adults are getting attention and are subject to studies like this and stuff? But there's got to be some more universal options to be had.

My memory is actually ridiculously good in a lot of ways, but the fact that it tends to pile everything related to a certain subject in one area without sorting out which came first sometimes even when I work at it is... problematic 9_9a

[mesotablar]

Studies are great, especially when they get attention. Even ones like this one where some people have issues understanding their method because if people see it and complain then there will be a rival institute somewhere who will want to do a better job on the same subject. Science is so competitive that even massively flawed/bad studies are useful to push information along for a certain subject.