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I have about a 3:2 ratio in favor of stupid vs. smart.
Yeah you're right Pete, you're much smarter and faster than everyone else buddy, I'm gonna put this tweet up on the fridge because it's so clever
circle j***ing much?
running in circles doesn't make you faster
going blahblahblahblah doesn't make you smarter
Smarter and faster* ! Yey !
Effect only applies in the last 10 minutes before a task is due*
When you have ADHD and Dunning-Kruger.
It does not affect IQ, but the average ADHD brain is smaller.
We just have good compression
PNGs in a BMP world.
More like SVGs in a PNG world - Much better compression and quality, but completely foreign to someone who only knows how to work with rasterized formats
Tip-to-tip efficiency
Middle out?
Forced induction, bro
Smarter: lmao, thats the autism, the adhd hyperfocus gives me super task-avoidance
Faster: LMFAO. My reaction time is noticeably slow. I was a lifeguard for a while, which is why I am very aware of this
The only upsides are the coping mechanisms I have been forced to develop for it have been super helpful in my adult life
Yes!!!! Task avoidance is the absolute worst.
Coping mechanisms? Apparently I didn’t get those. I’m currently sitting on the couch avoiding a multitude of things I need to do reading ADHD memes.
Hey, I'm not saying i don't do that, but I'm really good at forgiving myself for getting stuck in an avoidance spiral (since if you start beating yourself up you now have one more thing to avoid) and that means I'm really fucking good at forgiving other people, which means I'm also really fucking good at conflict resolution.
There’s a point in the movie Frank where the protagonist is talking to the parents of the mentally disabled musical savant he rode to fame and the subject eventually turns to his disability. The protagonist suggests to Frank’s parents that Frank’s experiences with mental illness are probably what made him so good at music. The parents object, and insist that he was always good at music; his illness only ever held him back.
that was such a good movie, highly recommend
Smarter and faster, but the same fuel tank and no brakes.
Can we stop with the narrative that disorders that completely fuck your life up and make you struggle with things normal people do without thinking is somehow a ""superpower"?
If you have an above average Intelligence, the mechanisms you develop can lead to excelling in many areas. But it comes at great costs and not everyone is this way. It also depends how bad you've got it.
If you are smart, you manage it better and people perceive you as smart.
Uh... Duh? You basically said "if smart, smart".
Fair enough :D
The point is, if you're lacking in the intelligence department, then you gain nothing from ADHD and are perceived as annoying and that's it. If you're intelligent, you're at least likely to become something of a jack of all trades.
ADHD has pros and cons. People usually forget about the pros, a little balance seems a good thing to me.
(Although ADHD does not mean higher than average intelligence, that is not one of the pros.)
For me, it's been a net negative (I think). But I wouldn't have been with my loved ones if I don't have ADHD.
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ADHD makes you smarter? That’s some bullshit
Saying that ADHD makes you smarter is bullshit. However there are definitely tasks that ADHD can make you better at which is likely what this person was refering to. There's a reason a lot of the best repair techs I work with have an ADHD diagnosis or show clear symptoms despite having never sought out a diagnosis. ADHD can make you really good and forming connections between different ideas that most people wouldn't be able to do as quickly which can help with, for example, diagnosing issues in complex systems. However if you ask those same people to perform a basic task thoroughly and in a standardized fashion then we're usually going to be way worse at it than the average person. It's literally just being differently abled.
For example, when I'm off my sweet sweet prescription speed, I can narrow down and locate issues in a building wide automation system in a couple of hours where other techs spent all day trying and failing to find it. But at the same time, when I'm off my meds, cleaning an ice machine can take me 6 hours where one of our neurotypical techs would easily have it done even better in under 3 hours and I will have no idea what I spent all that extra time on because I will have felt like I was rushing the entire time.
Some people see being able to do complex troubleshooting quickly as beeing "smart" but it's really just a different skillset. You could call me "smart" but I literally need regular doses of amphetamines just to be able to do the most basic prioritization like paying bills on time, and cleaning my house so I personally wouldn't say that I'm particularly "smart".
There's also a reason a very large portion of developers are neurodivergent.
IT in general but yes, and you can tell they aren't smarter because a lot of them are Libertarians as well. Fucking morons.
devils advocate, some libertarians are baby leftists. I described myself as a libertarian throughout high school before experiencing the Real World™ as a college student/dropout/student again who had to support my dumb fuckin self with artificially inadequate social services
yeah I'm probably not a great person since I only changed my mind after Bad Shit Happened To Me Personally®, but like, a lot of humans be like that
It helps with pattern recognition and one of the main aspect of intelligence tested on IQ tests are pattern recognition, so it might inflate the IQ scores of people with ADHD and gives the impression that they're smarter than the average person?
Also, lots of early primary school stuff can be easily deduced by pattern recognition. I coasted school until I hit high school, which I think a lot of people here can relate.
I excelled at taking tests. One of my particularly exceptional (now useless) abilities was to deduce the answer to one question based on the wording of another question.
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Take a Lemmy Silver™ 🥈
Yes. I got it from an ex and now I'm smart af
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