a question to people with ADHD: how many of you would want to be able to turn hyperfocus on/off on demand if you knew there is definitely, absolutely, completely no way anyone would hurt or punish you for doing so?
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ok but consider: if you're hungry you could turn it off for 15 min and then turn back on again
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Replying to @whitequark
...god please yes?
Rehydrating and sleeping enough after will suck tho
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i think there are at least some etiologies of ADHD in which the lack of control comes into existence as a honest defense mechanism against an external force, and i'm wondering which other factors it occurs with, as well as the strategies that could be used to rearrange the parts
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(this is one of the reasons why "just use a TODO list" never works: it's still an external force and it pattern matches as something that activates the same defense mechanism. that it may no longer be actively relevant doesn't matter, you build it, it keeps working)
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You have no obligation to the past and are free to choose who you are at any moment anew (which means you have no reason to expect your future self to remain loyal to your identity if it comes up with a better one). Minds don’t want you to know this!
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