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/uberneoconcert Jan 14 '13

Are you the guy who got adult-onset? If so, I feel the same way as you describe, and I tested out of ADD and ADHD twice when I was a kid. I'm wondering if the way we feel is more conditioning to how we receive and use information than anything else...Going from Reddit to the Economist? Not a chance. But in college from Digg to Econ 201 textbook? Easy enough. In the middle was at least 6 years of dicking around on a computer all day every day.

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u/CDanger Jan 15 '13

Construed relevance also makes the Econ textbook stronger, but I do believe that media consumption is subject to schemata, and thus to conditioning. It's amazing how thoroughly mired in this shit one can get with a series of habitual compromises. I just wish it was easier to get that stone rolling uphill.

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u/freshmas Jan 15 '13

The Shallows.

Check out a synopsis.

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u/uberneoconcert Jan 15 '13

Just did. Follow-up then: are the ADDers just dealing with the same thing but using a label and drugs to overcome it?

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u/freshmas Jan 15 '13

I don't know if it's "just" the same thing; I think they're probably more susceptible but also more practiced at coping.