• don@lemm.ee
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      Absolutely fuckall, because apparently no one with ADHD can ever be (an) intellectual.

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      Nothing, it has become quite common to say ADHD causes every little odd behavior. I’m not sure if all those people are even actually diagnosed and not just lying for internet points…

      I assume people with actual ADHD find it offensive their condition is made fun of by “quirky” idiots online.

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        Yep. Just because you do something in a nonsensical, stupid way doesn’t mean you have ADHD or that is what someone with ADHD would do. People with ADHD are also “intellectual.”

        For me, this is how I’d solve 9+7:

        Day 1: Fuck it, I’ll do it tomorrow

        Day 2: Alright gotta do that problem now! Just gonna eat and take a walk to prepare my mind

        Day 3: okay for real this time

        Day 4: staring intently at problem for half an hour before getting incredibly inspired to do anything else

        Day 5: anxiety

        Day 6: paralyzed but anxiety

        Day 7: Either I actually try to do it and it takes 30 seconds or I give up entirely and flunk the class

        Not “hehe quirky look at me I’m so stupid because my brain does things differently, ur so smart I wish I was like you and not so dumb! x3”

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          I wanna be charitable and say that these sort of behaviors might be commonly associated with ADHD because for us they become a necessity to exist in the world.

          While an NT person might have no problem adding 9+7 without breaking up the problem, it becomes much harder with ADHD. so ADHD people are more likely to develop them as a coping mechanism.

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            For me personally, the more steps a math problem has, the less likely I am to follow through. My mind prefers cutting corners rather than breaking equations up

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              For many of us it is cutting corners. Memory is hard, but I know my fives and anything less than five so really I just need two spots in ram instead of a bunch of tables on my tiny hard drive

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                Yes! This is true, for example, if I’m given something like 16 + 27, I’ll sooner make an educated (wrong) guess 3 times than stop and think about it. Not sure if that’s ADHD though!

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          The problem here is that what you’re posting is accurate, realistic, and far more importantly, makes no use of italibold. Sorry, friend.

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      ADHD is sometimes used as a catchall to mean a set of behaviors that does not coincide with the majority at school or work. Ive met a bunch of people on ADHD medicine, but it was usually because they wanted to force themselves to be good at or like something they didnt want to do normally.

      In this case its called ADHD because the student has found their own way to solve it despite the method the teacher is teaching and that the rest of the class uses.

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        It’s because it’s stupid. The bottom answer is at least sort of similar to a simple rule for adding 9s. But the op is just so incredibly specific that it won’t help most of the time.