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Visa ✈️ SF (Aug 2-14)
@visakanv
I’ll simplify it further: ADHD is really ODD. Obedience deficit disorder. Some of us are wired to disobey. That’s it
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brainlet
@magicianbrain
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idk why everyone is so confused about ADHD. it's just what happens when the alienation of modern life biases your central nervous system to produce disordered phenomenology such that variegated emotional blocks will hinder cogent evaluation of relational stakes. simple really
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Naia Bouscal
@nbouscal
fwiw i strongly disagree with both models, and especially with the idea of ADHD as a reversible impairment. (i remain confused by the idea of a doctor saying ADHD is a “reversible impairment” while also saying he still has it.) ADHD is a neurotype, but it’s distinct from ODD/PDA
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
i think the neurotype difference is upstream (what i've been calling "sensitivity") and most of what people call ADHD symptoms are what you might call accumulated trauma that sort of stems from the neurotype difference. does that feel consistent with your sense of things?
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lisatomic
@lisatomic5
you might be interested in the predictive processing model-- importantly it gives some more precision to the idea of "sensitivity" here in a way that does distinguish and relate ASD and ADHD (ex: there's a difference btw expected vs unexpected stimuli)
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lisatomic
@lisatomic5
as I understand it, the difference is like: ASD: "I have strong/precise expectations for sensory input (and so these keep getting violated)" ADHD: "I don't have strong expectations (so all sensory input seems potentially important)"
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