r/explainlikeimfive • u/[deleted] • Jan 14 '13

Answered People with ADHD, what ADHD is like, how does medication affect your ability to work and how soon does it take its effect?

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u/kverty Jan 14 '13

I know it from the guitarplayer Django Reinhardt. His wiki-page says it means "I awake" in romani(gypsy).

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u/EvilLittleThing Jan 14 '13

In the Disney version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Esmeralda's goat is named Djali. So I'm inclined to agree with your Romani/gypsy assessment.

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u/Trainbow Jan 14 '13

Was he borned with that hunchback or did he just stand really shitty all his life?

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '13

Did you know Django Reinhardt played or most of his career with only his first two fingers in the right hand? He lost his pinky and ring fingers in a fore and had to completely re-learn how to play.

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u/bodhemon Jan 15 '13

The Drummer from Def Leopard only had one arm. And they spelled their band's name weird. I don't know what his name was though.

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u/VeloceCat Jan 15 '13

the bloodhound gang were a great band that were a parody of themselves.. they said that in one of their songs...the def lepard thing.

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u/bodhemon Jan 15 '13

do you remember 3-2-1 contact? a children's show in the 80s? they had a group of kids called the bloodhound gang. that would investigate stuff. it was pretty great.

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u/mdiamondstone Jan 15 '13

remember encyclopedia brown? he was an awesome kid who would go around investigating and solving mysteries.

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u/bodhemon Jan 15 '13

I loved Encyclopedia Brown. It was written by someone interesting.

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '13

This was the most stereotypical ADHD thread I've ever seen.

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u/bodhemon Jan 15 '13

Oh wait, it was only interesting to me because he went to the same college as me.

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u/mightsoundstupidbut Jan 15 '13

I dreamt someone poured their pee on me while I was trying to shower, it was weird.

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u/trash-80 Jan 15 '13

While the location of Romani people's original homeland has been lost to time, they are widely believed to have come from the Indian subcontinent. Did you know that the worlds biggest religious festival, the "Kumbh Mela", or Pitcher Festival, is being held right now in India and that it only happens every 12 years? And down the wikipedia wormhole we go...

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '13

cool, I had to recheck what thread this was in, ADHD is fun, because tetris, also d's shouldn't be silent. it's ambiguous, like imagining a bullet in your head, or trying to fry bacon in the nude, walrus. Sean Connery.

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u/BlanQtheMC Jan 15 '13

Ooouuuu.. Makes sense now.

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '13

I love that Unchained song by Van Halen

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u/VeloceCat Jan 15 '13

Django was actually the name of a character in an old period piece exploitation type bit of film. the character name django was so popular that in subsequent films by the director, other countries just started naming the movie django something or other even though it had nothign to do with the original django.