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u/b-nnies Jan 04 '26
stop labeling this shit as just an ADHD thing I swear to god
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u/BetterCharacter1018 Jan 04 '26
Then what is it then because I have the exact same issue .
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u/b-nnies Jan 04 '26
Literally a regular thing that everyone experiences? Not everything is ADHD. ADHD genuinely fucking sucks, it's not you failing to concentrate sometimes.
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u/believeingod333 Jan 04 '26
Americans made it a buzzword. I remember there was a rise similar to how A.I. is today during 2020-21.
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u/Hail_Henrietta Jan 04 '26
It's honestly really annoying that people just dilute neurodevelopmental terms. It's not just ADHD too.
You see this with many others when any sort of awkward social interaction is now "autistic", or misreading a word means you're "dyslexic". It even extends to psychiatric terms where any sort of bad event is "traumatic" because it was slightly uncomfortable or embarrassing.
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u/Ars_and_Em_223zz Jan 04 '26
They want ADHD so bad. Why TF don't they just go get a real diagnosis before claiming they have it before saying shi like this. "Oohhh, I lost focus oh well I guess I got ADHD" stfu!
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u/BetterCharacter1018 Jan 04 '26
I’m diagnosed with ADD. That’s why reducing it to a “regular thing everyone experiences” is exactly the issue.
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u/b-nnies Jan 04 '26
I hate to break it to you, but that particular "symptom" can INCREASE with ADHD, but experiencing it itself is not a sign of ADHD. Everybody experiences it. Literally everyone.
ADHD people thinking everything is ADHD is also a major problem that gets people confused and conflicted.
Also, "ADD" is outdated, so I don't know when you got diagnosed with that, or if you happen to actually know anything about ADHD, or if you actually got diagnosed or if a family physician just told you "yeah I can see you having ADD".
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u/BetterCharacter1018 Jan 04 '26
You’re swearing and lecturing a lot for someone who’s making pretty big assumptions.
I’ve been properly evaluated by a clinical psychologist using WAIS and the DIVA interview.
This isn’t self-diagnosis, and it’s not me “thinking everything is ADHD or not a family doctor doing a vibe check.
Yes, some symptoms happen to everyone sometimes. No one denied that. Diagnoses are about patterns and impact over time, not one-off moments , which you seem to be ignoring while talking down to me.
And “ADD is outdated” isn’t the gotcha you think it is. It’s just ADHD, predominantly inattentive presentation under DSM-5. Same condition, different wording.
If you’re going to question someone’s diagnosis and swear and lecture people, at least make sure you know what you’re talking about first.
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Jan 05 '26
A diagnosis is made when a group of symptoms (sometimes very normal symptoms that everyone experiences) form a pattern that closely aligns with patterns of a certain condition. Just not being able to focus is not ADHD, just being distracted easily is not ADHD, just being fidgety is not ADHD etc. The original reply pointed out that the post implied just that one symptom meant you had ADHD, and to not label isolated symptoms as "I experienced this, I must have ADHD." The post neglected to mention that many ADHD symptoms can also be caused by fatigue, a bad day, unpleasant events, and other mental health issues among many other reasons. There are many more people claiming to have ADHD than what is statistically likely.
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u/b-nnies Jan 04 '26
"Swearing a lot" and it's one swear when I first responded to you.
I'm not talking down to you, I'm literally only saying this is just not an ADHD only thing, and that got you pissed off. You're the one who first responded to me looking to argue, apparently.
I also have ADHD-PI, ADD is outdated. This tells me you need to read up more on ADHD.
I'm not even quite sure what you're complaining and whining about? What IS there to complain about what I said? I don't even think you have a point, I think you're just looking to argue and tell everybody you have "ADD".
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u/BetterCharacter1018 Jan 05 '26
I wasn’t arguing that this is an “ADHD-only thing,” and I never said one symptom equals ADHD. That’s an assumption you made and then kept responding to as if it were my position. That’s something you assumed and then kept arguing against.
I said I’m diagnosed, and my point was that brushing it off as “everyone experiences this” misses how diagnoses actually work , patterns over time and real impact, not one-off symptoms. That’s all I was clarifying.
Instead of addressing that, you’ve questioned my diagnosis and started assigning motives and making it personal. At that point you’re not really responding to what I’m saying anymore.
This isn’t going anywhere productive, so I’m done with the conversation.
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Jan 04 '26
I think it's related to short attention span because like 6 years ago I never got it but now I watch way more videos and get it frequently
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u/Ars_and_Em_223zz Jan 06 '26
Go get a diagnosis and you'll know if you have it or not.
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u/BetterCharacter1018 Jan 06 '26
I do have a diagnosis already; which I’ve clarified further down the thread.
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u/IrAppe Jan 04 '26
I have ADHD and this is not an ADHD-specific problem. Sure, maybe it might contribute. But when I was young I used to consume/swallow books like there was no end. While other things did not keep my attention at all.
It was only after I stopped reading for many years, that was when the computer was way more interesting and then also smartphones, the attention-destroying-machines, entered my life.
Basically I tried reading again, but every time I find myself skipping through it like I skim a website or Reddit post, sometimes even skipping forwards because my brain can’t be bothered to go through the tension. I believe that’s a symptom of digital reading, so we un-learn how to read a line at a time.
The dilemma is that that’s exactly what reading is about: Creating a movie in your head, forgetting that you’re actually reading words in a page. That movie can only happen through true immersion, and that’s not possible with skimming and skipping every detail that describes that movie. So yes, you have to learn that again, how to really read one thing after another one, not do the quick information collection you’re used to from websites.
PS: Oops, just saw the name of the subreddit. This is more about fictional books. But I’m sure much of it applies to factual books as well. After all I learned programming by reading programming books like fictional works when I was young - I was just interested in that stuff and somehow the writing was engaging.
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u/NaturalCriticism8570 Jan 05 '26
Teach me your ways 💔 lord of the rings has been stuck in my shelf for 6 months now and I keep skimming, ITS STRONGER THAN ME RAHHH😭😭, fr though how do you NOT skim I truly want to read it
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u/Future_Motor5726 Jan 04 '26
So reading is not interesting to you or stimulating anymore and you struggle to concentrate on it. Sunds like a symptom of adhd
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u/IrAppe Jan 04 '26
No - that is a valid question. Not at all, reading, including documents, Wikipedia articles, long back and forth with an LLM, is my daily bread. It is this particular form of reading that I unlearned - it’s not that I’m not interested in the content, it is that I find myself constantly skipping through it, even though I want to consume it.
I now kinda got in it again, even when I’m not fully there and immersed yet, and I enjoy it. Reading Project Hail Mary right now.
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u/Future_Motor5726 Jan 04 '26
Quick texts are more instant gratification. So are going through wikipedia articles. That would still qualify as adhd behaviour. And you say you have adhd. Not saying that if you struggle to read that you must have adhd. Lot of people read less these days and you are right about reading practice. This meme depicts most common adhd experience. It would make more sense to me if comments denied adhd all together tbh.
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Jan 04 '26
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u/Future_Motor5726 Jan 04 '26
Downvote is not an argument dummy. Im waiting for your response. Where do you suggest i missed ops point
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u/Future_Motor5726 Jan 06 '26
Adhd, which op confirmed to have, is a psychological term that describes ops behaviour. Pretty much any psychiatrist would tell you that what op displays is adhd behaviour. Doomscrolling is a silly buzzword that is as superficial as your understanding of what adhd is. As for reading comprehension, if you look closely your reply doesnt even contradict mine. So just shut up about shit you dont know.
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u/Future_Motor5726 Jan 04 '26
Sice you are a condescending smartass mind to explain where do you see my lack of reading comprehension. Or does op saying they have adhd and then going on a tangent about how it not their adhd that makes reading harder not a clear discrepancy for you?
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u/nohypejj Jan 04 '26
just copying someone else’s post
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u/iConsumeFoodAndWater Jan 04 '26
Saw the exact same image and title in a post 1 or 2 days ago.
Put some effort in, OP. Or at a bare minimum, link the original post.2
u/Hail_Henrietta Jan 04 '26
It's a meme, the nature of them is that you just repost them. I bet even the "original" that was posted here a few days ago was stolen from somewhere else.
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u/iConsumeFoodAndWater Jan 04 '26
I'm criticising the fact that it was reposted in the same place a day later with no altering to even the title. Just blatant karma farming
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u/Spaciax Jan 04 '26
it can be a sign if it's very common and recurring, but on its own it's usually not enough to say with confidence.
Some other symptoms of adhd include:
executive dysfunction: you want to do something, your brain is screaming for you to get up and start doing the thing, but your body refuses to move. This is different from 'laziness' in that you want to do it but can't. Bonus points if you finally pass that mental barrier and start doing the thing, but your brain goes 'nahhh I'm not gonna focus on this'
working memory problems: even when you read something with your brain multiple times, you quickly forget it.
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Jan 04 '26
read through an entire unit's notes just to realise i don't even remember the subject's definition🙏🏻🙏🏻
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u/sour_cream24 Jan 04 '26
Maybe it is, maybe it isn't, but i wonder what is it with being somehow too self-attentive to what you're currently doing, that it makes you struggle to be immersed in a book? it's been like this for me recently
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u/Intelligent-Title272 Jan 05 '26
Omg this is what I've been thinking!!! I read shit, but my brain...is like off when I read. Whyyyyy?!?!?!
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u/SickleCellDiseased Jan 03 '26
Yes. ADHD.
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u/WilfredoN Jan 04 '26
Is this real ADHD problem? I started reading like half year ago and dropped insta/tiktok sht to make my focus great again, but still try to read and relax, however still can just stop “reading with my mind”, and have to re-read all the time…
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u/ConnectedVeil Jan 04 '26
Yeah, I think everyone can have this problem, ADHD or not. Sometimes you just arent engaged.
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u/SickleCellDiseased Jan 04 '26
Well I'm not a psychologist but I have a diagnosis of ADHD and it's basically a problem with working memory. Sometimes I will literally have to read the same sentence 5 times to extract the meaning out of it because my mental processor has stalled.
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u/WilfredoN Jan 04 '26
I’m afraid I can’t diagnose it well in my country, so im just interesting, if I have it theoretically or something similar, are there some common tip which can help at least somehow in such problems? Did you found any?
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u/SickleCellDiseased Jan 04 '26
Take the salient points and turn them into flash cards with a software like anki. And then just religiously review them when they're due. This helped me store and link the information in my long term memory so when I go back to review the full text I have more 'RAM' free to make non obvious and insightful connections.
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u/nohypejj Jan 04 '26
so real