Only historical materialism can placate their rabid curiosity now
Nonsense. I’ve had myself certified to be riddled with ADHD by 5 separate psychiatrists, and I’ve lost count of my hobbies/interests. And I have every intention of returning to leathercraft one day… just as soon as I dig my bed back out and get a good nights sleep.
Part of me really misses the certainty of the old school psychiatry. It seemed to hold the promise of answers and ultimately solutions. For if conclusions cold be reached problems could be identified and solved or otherwise compensated for.
Unfortunately this was never the case. It was just well meaning folks making it up as they went along. If they could convince their colleagues to buy in and do a bit of limited research… bingo, accepted theory.
Now we just get an endless wash of statistics and papers loaded with so much domain specific language they are practically indecipherable.
You misread it just like I did the first time!
The post says people without ADHD only have like 2 interests.
Which… is also baffling to me.
no i do not have adhd. i love doing lots of things and learning lots of things. it means you are a smart person and have alot of time on your hands to do all that. most people are in a RUT and work home and family thats it.
The big diagnostic factor is, do you FINISH those lots of things.
It’s ok to occasionally try something and be like yeah, this wasn’t as great as advertised, I’m walking away.
But if your shelves are covered in an assortment of unfinished projects that never will be finished? ADHD
wonder if this has anything to do with an inability to say youre not interested when someone starts talking to you about something (at least in my case because i perceive it as being rude and i absolute hate feeling like ive been rude) leading to the actual development of a larger range of interests
Yup, that’s me. Only have a handful of active interests at a time. But a couple of those are free floating interest slots that I’ll swap out every month or few as I really dig into something new. And then everything else gets moved into passive interest territory, where I’m not seeking it out but can still relate or engage if it comes up again. So that’s how I live with it.
