My theory of adhd management is that in order to focus there are 4 things that need to be sufficiently occupied:
Eyes
Ears
Hands (or body)
Brain
And if you aren’t occupying them enough or there’s too many things demanding the use of one, it’ll start to wreck havoc on your ability to do things.
So for example, listening to a podcast. This occupies your ears and brain as you focus on both listening and processing what you hear, but it leaves your hands and eyes completely without anything to do. If you tried to sit down and just listen to a podcast by itself you’d probably get unbearably bored and stop doing it.
But if you pair that activity with something that uses your hands and eyes, like a craft, household chore, or commute, suddenly you’re fully plugged in and can in fact focus better on both tasks than you could if you tried doing them separately.
It’s also why you can’t listen to a podcast while doing homework; you’re trying to use your brain for two different tasks. To occupy your ears while doing homework (which is already using eyes, brain, and hands) you need something for your ears that doesn’t require your brain: music. Specifically music that doesn’t use too much brain power, which is why some people prefer instrumentals or songs in other languages.
Hyperfixation and sensory overload change this by moving the threshold for how much sensory input you need to be able to function. If I’m extremely focused on a craft project (eyes, hands, brain) I might not even need something for my ears; my interest in the project makes up for it. If i’ve had a very overwhelming day, trying to listen to an audiobook while I do some stretches could be too much to process. My brain needs a break.
Video games, which pretty much universally occupy all 4 areas, are basically instant, easy focus wrapped up in a neat little bow. No wonder adhd-havers tend to love them.
If you’re struggling with a task, try looking at which areas it occupies and which are left unattended. Then try to find something enjoyable to fill those gaps, and see if that helps.
i see your “goncharov can’t be made into a real movie cause that would ruin it” and raise you; someone does make a real version of goncharov but films 3 or 4 different versions of each scene/plot point, and than mashes them up to create like 30 different versions of the same movie. it’s released in theaters under the guise of being a perfectly normal film, but every person who goes to see it sees a slightly different version, which will just increase the confusion and amount of unconnected lore. is that possible? probably not. but it would be hilarious.
they’ll fund a genocide and let their poor regions be destroyed. don’t fucking forgive them for that.
my hometown is completely gone from what pictures i can find of it, i have not heard from my family (including aunts, uncles, parents, one sibling, and a grandparent), and the infrastructure in the mountain communities is wiped out. i cannot stress how catastrophic this is, or how difficult it will be for these communities to build back. i am angry, and scared, and heartbroken by everything that’s happened.
and our government is spending it’s money to fund a genocide.
free palestine, and don’t be complicit. realize that this is not something happening that doesn’t affect you–although it shouldn’t take this to care about the deaths of thousands of people anyway.
ur future nurse is using chapgpt to glide thru school u better take care of urself
Yep. This is terrifying. I’ve caught nursing majors, engineering majors, architecture majors relying on ChatGPT to do their homework. These are people who need to know their field well to ensure people don’t die and they’re letting a glorified algorithm cheat them through school. It’s so dangerous
a reminder that consuming problematic media is incredibly important at times because never consuming any problematic media is how critical thinking withers.
I don’t think we take enough time to appreciate the periods in our life when our noses aren’t runny. Is your nose runny right now? No? Think about that. Honestly reflect on it. Enjoy this era of peace. There are dark times on the horizon
i like when things are bad in an interesting way compared to good in a boring way. Creativity with a lack of technical skill is where the Good Shit happens.
I unironically wish I could write like the 14 year olds who made the Backrooms Wiki.
[Image ID: Text reading: Although the Gaza Strip has been substantially destroyed, Hamas has yet to be significantly degraded and (start underline) the Israeli army has yet to kill more Hamas commanders than United Nations staff. /End ID]
How did one day give us “the GOP candidate for NC governor posted extensive political comments in a porn site’s forum, calling himself ‘the Black Nazi’ who wanted to bring slavery back” & “the New York Magazine writer who did a big article boosting RFK Jr last year was having an affair with him”. Which came out at the same time as a story about RFK Jr cutting open a dead whale with a chainsaw and taking its skull. Gear dog what’s next
October Surprise 2024 should be a hoot, based on the opening acts.
Said Lt. Gov also outed himself as while he hated trans people, really being into trans lesbian porn.
News says Diddy’s on suicide watch, in the same facility Jeff Epstein spent his final hours. My question is, who’s gonna Epstein him to try and keep their Freak-Off out of the news?
Christopher Rufo, Mr. Morality and Honesty who first started the crusade against “critical race theory”, apparently a patron of Ashley Madison.
And here, have some raging antisemitism/highkey pogrom threats:
ALT
LIke, today. This shit all either dropped or got dug up today. what the fuck is left for a surprise? What would it surprise you to hear about any of these horrible people doing?
This is the game they made a brain rot movie of and it is kinda sad seeing such a big piece of nostalgia turned into something that is clearly not geared towards the age group who was raised with it. They could’ve made something so beautiful and at least tried to replicate that magical feeling of being a kid and discovering/learning everything this game has to offer whilst the soft music plays in the background.
I say “oh don’t worry he doesn’t bite” and you’re confused because you don’t see any dog but then you notice a single inchworm moving purposefully across the floor towards you at an alarming pace
sometimes i forget most people don’t know that birdhouse shapes aren’t just for shits and giggles and that birds actively prefer and even need specific shapes to nest in
So which ones need the Frank Lloyd Wright ass houses?
the ones that make 240,000$ a year by making other birds work in their warehouse for 5 sunflower seeds an hour
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Yet privately under the username minisoldr on Nude Africa, Robinson graphically described his own sexual arousal as an adult from the memory of secretly “peeping” on women in public gym showers as a 14-year-old. Robinson recounted the story as a memory he said he still fantasized about.
“I came to a spot that was a dead end but had two big vent covers over it! It just so happened it overlooked the showers! I sat there for about an hour and watched as several girls came in and showered,” Robinson wrote on Nude Africa.
CNN is not publishing the graphic sexual details of Robinson’s story.
“I went peeping again the next morning,” Robinson wrote. “but after that I went back the ladder was locked! So those two times where [sic] the only times I got to do it! Ahhhhh memories!!!!”
In other comments on Nude Africa, Robinson discussed his affinity for transgender pornography.
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