ADHD memes

Like, people will call this neurodivergent but this is literally how all brains work.

The neurodivergence is in failing to read the social queues of your dad, who was clearly very invested in talking to you about the carnival.

I'm pretty sure this is how all humans think..things relate to one another.

this has nothing to do with neurodivergence. it's just how brains work. necessarily, in fact. your dad's just an idiot.

by the way it's not the same thing but one thing I enjoyed doing when i was younger and talked with my dad for long enough, we would stop at a point and think "wait how did we even get here?" and trace back the conversation to several topics ago.

we both have diverse interests, maybe that's why things we talked about would keep chaining to random other things. now that i think of it, my dad used to buy lots of encyclopedias before the internet, and we'd just randomly browse them. even on our computer we had multiple versions of Encarta. and now we use wikipedia and it's so easy to jump from one article to another.

so i guess what we did all those years ago wasn't far off from wiki surfing verbally.

That’s just how brains work, nothing to do with neurodivergent.

Let me tell you how my mum's brain works:

• Me: "So how was your day?"

• Mum: "We had a session with Sasha and the report she mentioned to Jenny my boss, cos the whole department was axed, as you remember the last election, and maybe you should start looking for a job around there, and so the report came back empty and...."

• Me (used to her tangents), a report was made between her and Sasha, given to Jenny the boss, but the report was ignored and sent back, most likely due to lack of personell because the department was axed by the Tories in the last election, and she fears it might happen to me too and that I should look for a job in that potential vacuum.

https://imgur.com/a/brain-is-annoying-alHOPXC

Thread that explains it pretty well.

Ehh, all brains kinda work like that, though

As soon as I saw "carnival" and "wasps," I understood the connection immediately.

I always assumed that most people do this just much slower. Hence why they would switch fewer topics.

Funny thing is, sometimes I'll do this out of the blue days later and my wife picks up on it immediately.

This extends to being an expert in your field as well. We've done an experiment and the result is both incredible and obvious. To me.

The struggle is then to connect and explain these things I am seeing to other people who are themselves also extremely intelligent but don't have the same exact brand of autism.

I followed that like a train tracks.

If the other person can't follow your train of thought, it can feel as though the emotional and cognitive connection/trust that was built in the conversation was abandoned along with the previous context. This can happen when there is a non-trivial jump in context between ideas.

Steering the conversation can be done by introducing intermediary steps that are connected to the previous topic in a self-evident way. This maintains that cognitive and emotional connection/trust because you are showing that you value the other person's understanding and participation.

Figuring out what "non-trivial" or "self-evident" means is probably the hard part but you'd probably want to consider each step in, for example:

Grass, meadow, forest, tree, timber, log truck, mill, paper, exports, shipping dock, ocean, ice caps, ice bergs, titantic, James Cameron, Michael bay, transformers.

You could probably go from each one to the next trivially, steering the conversation from grass to meadow and so on through the list. But to go from grass to transformers without intermediate ideas truly makes absolutely no sense.

Building off this, im fully capable of having 2 entirely different conversations at once.

Ive been talking to one person at work, stop mid sentence to correct the other crew, and go back to what I was saying with a small reminder.

ime they simply don’t think