Neuroscientist: How ADHD Makes You Hyperfocus | Andrew Huberman
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I wish they would quit talking about me like I'm not here
Me too
Ditto!😂
Huh? Who said that?
I always knew i am sick, me you, its a condition
No one cares about you John Smith
That hyperfocus is truly unreal. it helps so much when you procrastinate too and have a short deadline
Unless of course you are hyperfocused on something else entirely and can't seem to process a single thought on what you should be doing. That's my experience.
@@brandonhalvorsen2185 Same, brother. And half the time, Adderall doesn't even help because it just makes me laser focus on fun things instead of work.
@@SpiceWeazel tell your doctor that, not all ADHD meds are the same. Maybe a change of meds will help focus on things you need to do and not just things you want to do.
People with ADHD are the laziest hard workers out there.
I dont know if I have adhd because I never been doagnosed, but I did a 10 page report on some bs I had no interest in, in a single sundat day (last day to turn it, after being given 3 months to work on it)
it’s not only fun stuff you can hyper focus on. If you are very worried about something that needs to be done, you can funnel the anxiety into pure focus.
yea like especially if you put it off till almost too late, bam super focus!
Thats basically how I finished college
The deadline saves us once again
And the time blindness is super real so if you can master it, you can turn anxiety into a long day of productive “hyper focus”
Unless you've done it so many times that you can no longer handle the stress so all that anxiety becomes burnout and instead of being productive you're just stuck in a state of stress induced paralysis.
We should add another layer to this: it’s not just what you don’t wanna do, it’s if there is any level of uphill battle to do something you brain will magnify that into seeming like the task is impossible.
100% when I see dishes in the sink, sometimes it can take me forever to get them started and to finish them. Literally feel paralyzed by just the sight of them, it’s very strange feeling.
Did u not just describe anxiety not adhd
My doc said that ADHD is not as much about being deficit of attention as it is about not being able to regulate their attention.
Someone may have noticed that all babies can be diagnosed with adhd, what does that tell about this being a “disorder”. The modern world create the framework to label a normal human function into a disability.
Exactly it's all in what produces abs what doesn't produce dopamine. It's why many adhd people go into creative or analytical roles
Yes so they aren't that special,I only focus on things I like, and it goes for most people,all these' special' labels weren't around 30 yrs ago ,people just got on with life
Yes that's exactly it. That's what my daughter's specialist said as well
Wow. That’s exactly it! Ugh. The struggle!
"Oh that's me"- every guy ever
Yeah it's kinda annoying even at this point
@@man_i_forgot_to_take_a_shit That shit real I Have ADHD you guys have no idea how difficult it is be in that spot it’s like your mind is doing everything in it’s power to not be there right now and it’s annoying because I know i should be paying attention and focusing but I can’t
I’m better now slightly but when i was a kid if I wasn’t interested Literally everything around didn’t exist but my thoughts and if you tried to talk to me all you’d get was a blank stare because I can’t hear you or see you
Ok
@@pete5516 Yeah it be like that it still happens to me from time to time but i don’t even notice it until i snap out of it and move on
I have the hyperactivity part with ADHD. I love to move around and talk. My enemy is sitting still or being quiet. When I get hyper-focused. I just zone out until someone or something distracts me. It's like I have to snap back in to reality.
Why did this man just describe my life in a nutshell?
It’s honestly a curse when life is 90% stuff I don’t wanna do
Your dopamine reward system is messed up, you gotta go on a dopamine fast for a week
@@scottanno8861 How do I do that?
@@ToxicIXIIAbstain from screens, practice meditation/prayer, eat very simply, exercise, go outside for a walk. NO NUTTING TO VIDEOS. If possible, plan it around a vacation for a change of scenery.
@@ToxicIXII so basically like becoming celibate but for life. Putting interactions on hold on the world around you, from work, relationships, your regular time spending habits.
And I mean from even thinking about them, even ads, just let yourself wonder.
True
Only 3 hours? They be having rookie ADHD, the solution I found is to disconnect from all pleasures until everything feels a little bland, then there is no significantly better thing to do
That's what Dr. Huberman actually says. He says when you have excessive dopamine derived from one activity like gaming, he recommends taking a 30 day break completely from video games to reset the dopamine function.
@@Bittzen I do the opposite, play until it becomes boring, thus the task no longer has sway over every other task
@@IgniKing doing something untill it becomes boring is the worst, you can be playing for years (like me). 30 days is way better
@@lol-ct7xw it is not about days playing, it is about long play sessions that are bound to make you more tired of the game, and thus, more able to divert your focus when needed
@@lol-ct7xw word is you never left that gaming seat, and the new ones just kept coming, exactly me on TH-cam
I feel it, I love reading, I hyperfocus on reading... but sometimes it becomes impossible to get through a sentence
Sometimes I can read 30 Wikipedia articles.
Sometimes i blow through 15 pages before realizing I don’t remember a damn thing.
Frustrating as shit
The hyper focus is truly awesome. Help accomplish things that other "norms"
cant, but it doest shut off until 20 hours later and leave me extremely tire!!!
I was an A student with undiagnosed ADHD and you can make yourself learn something or read something but the constant refocusing and essentially straight jacketing yourself caused headaches and tension that I thought was normal when studying.
Trying to get myself into a focused mood to study took me hours but when I would get into it I would have no problem studying for the next few hours until I either felt burned out or lost focus.
@@kkkkk12122323232 yes. It seemed so easy for everyone else. I always felt like I was an imposter or something.
@@kimandcaffeine5999 I couldn't do a lot of those things until I started taking medication. The headaches from constantly trying to focus on something I couldn't was just something I had to deal with and it was one of the reasons I became depressed. Everyone else made it seem so easy, like they had a superpower and I was an imposter.
Medication isn't as bad as people are making it out to be. It has the highest likelihood of achieving the desired effect than any other psychotropic medication. If it doesn't work, a person can always try something else or they've been misdiagnosed and they actually have something else. Now I have more control over my executive dysfunction. My only regret is I didn't start sooner. I was diagnosed 3 separate times at different times and I often wonder where I would be in life if I had the proper interventions from the get-go.
As someone with ADHD, the hyperfocus isn’t always on something you’re actually interested in. The defining characteristic of attention deficit disorders isn’t a short attention span, it’s a lack of ability to control attention; I’ll lose hours throughout the day doing random shit that I don’t even care about because I’m unable to switch focus. Hell, I’ve spent hours staring at a wall because I couldn’t translate the thought of moving and actually doing something into a real action.
Oh f*ck I hate that I can relate that catch myself staring at shit for long stints all the time and trying to process doing anything else is legitimately arguing with myself in head
Do you ever lay in bed . And realize your head has been against the wall since for hours in the same position and then your head starts to hurt
Right sometimes I just want to sleep not create shit while I sleep sometimes its nice to just relax without being in outer space
I was actually looking to see if someone would mention this because this is my experience. I dont always know why i am hyperfocusing on things. 😂 I literally spend my whole morning sorting rocks in my garden with no actual purpose. 🤣😭
Fuck, I need to talk to my doctor now.
This is so true. A buddy of mine has pretty bad ADHD, so he’s on adderall which really is probably responsible for his focus levels. When that guy is playing that online chess you can say his name, wave your hand in front of his face, and he never flinches or moves, it’s like everything else just doesn’t exist. Same thing with school work. Shit is crazy.
When I was growing up my mom used to mention that she would try to get my attention while I was watching TV or video games when I was like 6 or 7. Was tough to break that focus, I wasn't aware she was even talking to me!
You just explained me. I have ADHD and if there's something I enjoy I can do it forever but the moment I ain't interested in something count me out
I mean that applies to like most of the world though..
Hyperfocus can be *crippling* and it’s awful to have someone call you lazy or accuse you of making excuses or tryin to get out of shit when your brain is just…. Wired in a way that makes just trying to focus on things like brushing your teeth or even getting food a struggle.
i once didn’t eat for almost 2 days because i was genuinely so focused on a drama (that i now have no recollection of because that’s just how it ends up being). i was in my dark bedroom, just staring at my phone screen for 18 hours straight, then i decided to start reading on wattpad and because i picked a story that was very heartbreaking and tough to get through emotionally, i zoned out and read for 5 hours until i went to sleep because my eyes hurt too much from the constant screen and tears. being hyper focused is my genuine fear now, it gets out of hand so easily if you don’t have other distractions around you
Dude that happens to me daily I’m called lazy and accused of making excuses every day by my family
I agree. Coming out of a hyperfocus session is like being hit with a tidal wave of sensations, the equivalent of alarm bells going off in your nerve cells! All of a sudden I realize I need to pee realy bad, my body is killing me from being in one position too long, I have a migraine from eye strain, dehydration, and my blood sugar is tanking! 😫
I can’t even make 2 minute noodles
But there are several other factors that truly make it adhd. don’t forget that sometimes they can focus on something (like picking at their face or finishing that video game level) and they can’t tear their focus away. They focus on it so intensely that they can go do something else and will even forget to eat/sleep/drink sometimes
No if it's been deemed by a psychiatrist as ADHD then it's ADHD regardless of the other factors you think there should be
@@bluehornet197 oh yeah psychiatrists are the end all be all. What a load of crap
I remember shitting my pants cause I was too focused on playing rachet and clank when I was a kid lmao
I consistently forget I need to pee, only to remember 3 hours later and go "How did I forget that"
I am ashamed to say that I have forgotten to drink water or anything for an entire day.
Late diagnosis here, my mom used to always tell me growing up, "if you can find a career you're interested in, you'll be okay" now that I'm diagnosed, makes sense.
thats me. literally can't focus on anything i don't want to do. its pretty rough tbh
I finally got diagnosed last year (26) and since learning about it my entire life makes sense now 😂, procrastinate for 3 months on my school project and then hyper focused the night before for seven hours. This happened with literally everything.
Was diagnosed in October of last year and made the same observation
With girls and sex also? Youbeaitvfor three months and then ro it for 7 hours with hyperfocus?
My buddy in highschool had ADHD. In school he couldn't focus but when we hit the gym he was insanely focused. Completely different person
Exercise also significantly improves the symptoms of ADHD for hours after
Same here I'm all over the place at home. But at work my guy we focused we doing 5 and 6 things at once while watching everybody else fuck up
@@charlesthreatt7096 superpower
Always knew there was a reason i get so focused on some stuff and not others.
Too true. You just forget everything else and lose yourself in it, but putting it to use is like catching smoke
3 hours feels like nothing to someone with ADHD. We focus on things (anything, not just “addictive” things) so hard we forget we’re hungry or have to pee.
True I've played video games starting @ noon and come 8 I'm like hey I haven't peed in a while
Forgetting to pee is the funniest "ill piss after this game (3games later) oh fuck i needed to piss" by the time you take a couplw steps you are BUSTING for a piss 😂😂
Don’t speak on behalf of all of us.
Yep, I've done this. Fuck I did this this morning.
Came downstairs, went to make breakfast, ended browsing my phone on the couch for like 2 hours without even realizing. Completely forgot I was actually really fucking hungry.
Thats called flow state, and everybody have it
Being someone who has dealt with ADD my entire life, it's quite true. There were times when I couldn't remember names, news, or sports events because they were never that interesting. I would even lose such interest that I would forget whole moments. But when I sat down and wrote stories or played video games, I would spend hours just focusing on what I was doing to the point where the whole world just didn't exist. Now, I'm just dreading the fact that one day I'll focus too much and miss everything around me. Having a disability is nothing to enjoy, you just learn to overcome it and push forward.
It's not really a disability. It's just a zero tolerance policy on anything that isn't of value to the individual. I know it varies from person to person. That's just my thoughts. Really can't let yourself feel down for being wired differently.
@@libefiken1863 It’s a disability no matter how you spin it
Object permanence machine broken.
This is true .
It is a disability because it puts you at a "disadvantage" in abilities compared to the majority of society. I was diagnosed with attention deficit disorder (not hyperactivity) which is inattentive. There is inactivity in the frontal cortex rather than over activity. It's not narcolepsy but I can fall asleep in a heartbeat. I can read a page in a book and not remember a thing when I get to the bottom of the page if it's not interesting to me. That is a curse!
That's why having long term goals is important.
It allows you to focus on menial tasks that get you what you want.
Makes it hard to keep track of time when your that locked in on something sometimes I can’t even hear people say my name when I’m reading
The reason a child with ADHD can play video games for hours is because video games provide instant feedback on how you are performing. That instant feedback increases the learning and understanding of the game, and boosts serotonin and norepinephrine. Regular school learning does not provide instant feedback on how the child is doing, and without that feedback they don't know how to make sense of what they are being taught, how to stay engaged, and have a decrease of serotonin. ADHD kids and adults require instant feedback in order to pay attention and learn.
That's crazy right.... thanks
@Caitlin Broza•
That makes sense
Hope you’re in Education
SE4/13🇬🇧
So you're saying...they're dogs.
I noticed this, if the teacher was there teaching me as im doing it ill understand it alot better than if i were to try n copy what the teacher is doing on the board, tht 1 on 1 care with instant feedback was always better
@@TheMRBIGD36 absolutely
Joe really said: "he just like me fr"
"oh its focused" -legend
These types of videos always makes me wonder if I have it.
its not about discipline its simply being unable to do the work due to having zero interest so you find something else without trying, and you cant just try harder, in fact it has been proven that trying harder makes it even harder to do it in an never ending loop
I would have to kind of disagree. It is not just simply about interest, this is what can be so challenging about living with ADHD. Sometimes I desperately want to do something, including things like hobbies I really enjoy. But I get stuck in 'ADHD paralysis' or I simply procrastinate with other stuff despite having a desire to do a certain activity. Switching activities is just unexplainably challenging and I cant even explain why but this is a super common thing people with ADHD go through.
@Biddy Reid trust me I know, I play games to relax and calm my brain, yet I sometimes spend over an hour at my pc trying to decide what to play out of my 150 games on steam, I know choice paralysis, my point was more related to the trying harder and just needing discipline to overcome adhd
It’s deeper than not being interested. There’s no sense of reward; no drive to pursue. It feels existentially meaningless to engage.
@@biddyreid1567 exactly. You desperately _want_ to engage, but the task provides no sense of desire or drive to engage. I have ADHD too, and I know it all too well lol
@@biddyreid1567 Sounds like me when I try to write. I love books but gods forbid I try to write one. One chapter in amd my brain takes a dump.
It’s called an interest based nervous system. I love that hyperbole and a half meme where the character is like “ALL THE THINGS!”
Not me watching this while my homework still unfinished
The hyper focus always hit me with lego sets.
I remember when I was younger, my teachers thought I had ADHD, both for hyperactivity and attention issues, but my parents shot the idea down immediately because they said "I could pay attention when I play video games all the time, so I can't have ADHD, because they can't pay attention to anything". Now i'm a diagnosed adult with proper medication and it seriously helps. I just wish I could've had it when I was younger, would've really helped me in school.
Pill form amphetamines are a MIRACLE tool. I took them for finals. Or go ask any meth head.
Would be better to stop taking that dude…
I was diagnosed as a kid, but never treated. Now as an adult, I’m interested in medication but I have a few reservations. What has your experience with it been like?
@@crazyscarecrow8136 It's definitely worth it, and I was lucky with medication, Strattera was the first and only medication I tried and it works well, but in most people's cases they need to try multiple medications before they find the right one. Thats really the only negative part
You don’t need the meth! Well at least I don’t need it😅. My mom used to say the same thing but as I got older, I realized I have extreme adhd but I’ve been able to accept it and work along with it. I’ve been training ADHD focused productivity advice (normative brain structure productivity advice doesn’t really work)
I was diagnosed as a young child, but my parents didn't like medication cuz it "made me a zombie". They always assured my teachers they would eventually be able to force me to focus because I was able to focus on video games. Yet they also refused to get me any sort of real psychological help besides meds, like some kinda therapy or discipline training. I asked for therapy and/or meds many times throughout my life, and was told I didn't need it because I can focus fine on my games, so I'm either lazy or lying, and either way I don't need therapy or meds I just need to stop being a fuck up and do what I'm supposed to do. I dropped out of school by the way.
I'm 60 yrs old and have dealt with Dyxselsia and ADHD and my life has been a train wreck for 45 years
Hope you had lots of girlfriends though
i hope things get better for you.. or got better
@@Derpderpson123 i have 4 times diagnosed adhd and i had no girlfriends at all im 29 but blessed with good looks (but cant consistantly motovate gym and even if cant ask out girls and even if i force myself wont work tone of voice woman smell stuff oike that)
Meds = brain does stuff oike i trained it 100000 hours.
Only perfect dose
Cant play video games no interesst too bored and even if i play video ganes (and i do often or did) (extremly often at leats compared to other thibgs) then i had no motivation to grind the equipment or play good since my brain just turns off. I get insane discomfort and my brain laggs/brainfog so bad i cant remmeber or think fast enought.
With meds perfectly dosed its as if my brain turns on.
It woeks perfectly amazingly somethimes but just wont cooperate.
Endless pain and discomfort since motivation and deive böunt thise bad feelings
No friends (exept if i devout to keep 1 they dont eelly like me since i have little fun or drive in life (ecept i have insanely high goals and never give up) but does not matter too tired too anhedonic no drive
Its complicated i dont know it perfectly wven after öartial meda and tousands of hours of reading and professionsals scolars listenibg the brain is undoscovered.
But i think it sucks and something is wrong but the brain seems perfectly able it just wont and meds only work perfect when perfect and thats extremly hard to do
Most dhdh people are so fucked or vrazy they take some med and think its amazing and autosuggestion hype themselfs up and believe trash like they are superman.
Then again you never know what crazy games evolution plays.
It ucks but adhd oeople will never advocate since contrary to bipolar and any other disorder its kinda fuckibg with Motivation to vote and so on the most
Many high functioning depressed people
Fucked, economy wont break throu ceiling until adhd people are not ignored and the therapy pseudoscience and trivial folk symthoms that are trivial and only outside small symthoms that dont matther at all and are only good for diagnosing stop.
Not completely true i have 1 from 26 but i was on drugs and rippped out of my mind and she is not relly a girlfriend more of a rare meet
But yes im horny since im 5 very and all my bully and fat ugly discusting classmates no matter how horrendously ugly have tonns of sex and gfs.
There was even this insanely fat one that sleep with one while drunk.
I dont think real severe adhd people have many girls at all.
They want to but if they can i dont thunk they are severe at all. I dont think you can how are you meeting? You need to meet make profiles behave be adult be disiplined good body maybe fit have deive/motivation to do things.
No way mild adhd peoole sure i think those are the obly ones heared pr talking any ay.
Exept some severe that are halv medicated maybe
@@hanskraut2018 reading that almost gave me a stroke but i get what you mean
Me! I stuggle with not being able to focus enough on finishing stuff I don’t like to do. I have a huge complex of not being good enough. When I do something I love to do it makes me realize I am smart and can do great things.
my adhd self playing rhythm games is now explained lol
I’ve dealt with this for years. I always thought it was weird how I’d shut down when faced with something uninteresting to my mind. A doctor diagnosed me with ADHD and it all made sense. I can draw for an entire day straight but let me have to change a part on my car😒. Takes me 2 days to change oil and spark plugs🤷🏽♂️. I literally lose all desire to finish randomly. After 29 years I’ve adapted. My imaginary girlfriend can’t stand it though.
Lol
Imaginary girlfriend?
Damn man. I feel you with the imaginary girlfriend not understanding my ADHD. I go through that same problem. It really gets hard sometimes, but I also feel so blessed to have her imaginary presence in my life.
Its crazy I will lay in bed and plan my day. Like okay I'm going to clean my bedroom today. I have to literally get up and clean the bedroom because if I leave that room I'm going forget all about it. Because I really don't want to do it I want to be outside in my garden.. I literally have to bring everything I'm going to need clean the room up the night before but once I leave the room it's done it's over
Idk if it's discipline. People with ADHD often have difficulty with executive functioning which is a term used to describe cognitive functions such as initiating tasks, working memory, emotion regulation, planning, organizing, shifting from one task to another, etc. Some people with ADHD hyperfocus on things they like as a means of self medicating. They are chronically understimulated and so when they find something that keeps them feeling calm and comfortable such as a stimulating game, they will stick to it. There are a lot of strategies people with ADHD can use to make navigating the expectations of the world more managable. The problem is that many people with ADHD are not taught these strategies or given space to figure out which ones help them the most so instead people say they don't have discipline.
What are the strategies?
@@mattjones2003 on thing that has helped with my ADHD is a type of meditation where you go to the busiest place possible and single out individual sounds with your eyes closed. This effect on me was it tired my brain out making it less prone to hyperfocusing. Idk how it works scientifically though tbh.
@@mattjones2003 it's not a scientifically proven strategy but one that has severely helped me (I've had add since I was a kid, I'm also not medicated anymore) I'd having a passive interest happening while your doing the task you don't like.
By a passive interest I mean something you don't need to physically interact either to enjoy. So like, a conversation with someone, or a phone call, or for me it's music. I nearly ALWAYS have music or a TH-cam video in my ear. All day. Every day.
I sort of just focus on the music. Whatever task I'm doing does end up taking longer than it should, but at least it gets done...
My adhd likes to kick in while I’m fishing lol 😅
As an engineering student who has been on prescribed ADHD meds for ~8 years, I can truly say that the meds help. They unlock your full potential and allow you to focus on your work, driving, social encounters. It’s awesome and honesty I don’t know where I would be today without them
What medication?
"literally me" - every human being on the planet apparently
Yeah , that's why there are people without adhd on stimulants and then those with actual adhd and no meds because of over prescription.
It looks like we need to treat idiocracy before we treat ADHD.
Yeah all human beings have it to an extent but it becomes a a DISORDER when it starts to affect your life negatively and it’s very, very hard to do anything about.
It’s like a minor sprain of the ankle and running it off versus tearing an ACL and trying to run it off
There’s a reason you’re not a mental health professional.
@@sidvyas8549 yeah and that reason is if someone came in telling me they can't focus I'd tell them to fucking focus and man up
@@Mohammad927 this doesn’t need dignifying with a response haha cheers bud
@@sidvyas8549Many doctors have debunked the existence of ADHD.
he really did the “he just like me”
Zoned out n had to rewatch after “something they don’t like…” 😂
I felt attacked in this video😂😂😂
The balance between video audio and the music is on point with this one
my cure for ADHD has always been a good old fashioned drum set.
Yeah sometimes that focus can turn into a bit of an obsession
This man is so close to being right. We don't get to choose and a large amount of the time we don't focus on the shit we like either.
ADHD is a curse and a blessing. I have low production because im high in procrastination thanks to ADHD but i can learn incredibly fast. If im engaged i can learn everything about a topic in hours and never forget it. My brain is always running constantly nonstop, which causes me to be disorganized but this allows me to contimplate multiple things at the same time and not loose track of my thought processes.
Accurate
Bullshit
That sounds like a normal person with + 5% adhd than average
Also
You learn fast because you're smart.
Thank you for sharing. So glad im not the only one that has this exact experience in their life dealing with the issues/benefits of adhd
i get lost in my head very often contemplating subjects to the point where I don't remember the original thought. the subject change in my head goes something like this;
cell divisions > fetal growth/ birth > stars reproduce? > stars gravity > black holes > we've never actually experienced the true flow of time because we are inside multiple large gravity wells that bend space and time
and all of that from cell division, and I somehow go way off track from the original thought which made school hell.
Joe: "OmG sAmE!"
As someone with diagnosed ADHD this is very true
Bruh that just clicked in my head. I was diagnosed with ADHD a long time ago but didnt really know what it meant. I cant focus on school crap but when I come home and play games I'm super focused
True, just that it's not "discipline" someone with AD(H)D is lacking, but certain neurotransmitters. People with AD(H)D can be tremendously hard working, interested, engaged and disciplined people when they are given the right working conditions and/or medication.
You wouldn't tell someone with Diabetes [edit: Type 1] that their pancreas is lacking "discipline", would you?
@Nikolas S False, while a trash diet can increase the risk of type 2, it’s not the defining factor. The pancreas stops insulin production. Being overweight is more of a factor, which is attainable a result of bad diet, but also genetic predisposition and medical conditions.
@Nikolas S yeah, well, then just assume I wrote Diabetes Type 1.
Or choose a different physical condition as a comparison: How about telling an amputee that it's just a lack of discipline that they can't [insert here whatever it is someone with a missing hand can't do: knitting maybe?]
I think you are bright enough to get the point I was making.
@Nikolas S I concede. I think I was just splitting hairs. Your argument is indeed correct. Thanks for being civil.
@Nikolas S I reread your initial comment (different headspace) and yep, I laughed 😂
Im an ex “gym bro” type that decided to actually fit and limber instead of swole and bulky. That’s actually exactly how I feel about the “body positive” community.
Once again, after reading your response to the other guy I definitely agree.
@Nikolas S "Pedantic" is something I actually really like 😅. I think I got your point and you got mine. They are not that far apart actually - we are just emphasizing different aspects of the same concept, I think.
Have a good day!
I do have adhd and I always went less focused to school being told I should try my best but be lowered to a standard.
One day I bought my first multiplayer game and talked to people from all over the world.
I was so excited and happy to hear people say my English wasn't so bad I wanted to get better. It only took me 2 years to get where I am now and surprised my teachers with my new knowledge it lighten a flame in me that I can do better.
People with Adhd are being seen most of the time as lower as the standard but that's what we are told.
Finding yourself and reaching your own goals is the most important thing is what I learned cause if you have a passion for something you can become more than good in it.
HECK YEAH!!! I SUPPORT THIS 100%!!! I absolutely love you!!! LESGO MOON LIGHT!!!
ADHDer here as well, I went from not being able to read a sentence in English when I was in secondary school, to being the top of my class just because my classmates laughed at me for having a poor English. Now I live in London and speak 4 languages. My ADHD is my superpower 😌
@@HyagoRodriguez facts! You lucky ass mf's🔥🤣 BUILT DIFFERENT OUT HERE 😤
People like you should get the diagnosis revoked. Thats nothing thats laugable
I have it. When you try to focus it's like trying to walk straight on ice.
I've got add, and I can hyper focus on things I don't want to do. However, it is exhausting, physically, mentally, and emotionally. Going through a lunch rush at work I'm on my shit, I know what order goes where, what needs to go out first, I run shit at an elite level. But, once that rush is over, I have to take my break in the walk in cooler and just decompress. I can't talk to people, I can't remember any details from the rush, I'm useless until I have a second to restart.
I definitely have adhd, but i will force myself to do something i dont want. Discipline yourself, or failure is the default
Learning to focus it like having a super power in my eyes. Literally can watch something one time and mimic til you learn a faster way then just shock people like damn who is this guy
My guy, I can't even brute force myself to focus on eating when I'm starved most days. Discipline can't override broken neurotransmitters.
You definitely don't have adhd
@@Thorium_ ok lol
@@charlesthreatt7096 My friend, I say this with my dearest words, I was not talking to you, I was talking to the person who made the orginal comment
Ah yes hyperfocus, I hate it lol. Makes me do things for wasaaaaaay too long.
Feels great tho
It can be great though when you get it working on something worthwhile. For my final year project in computer science I stayed up 24 hours straight coding. Now, I probably won't do that again cause that was a bit extreme, but it definitely can be a massive advantage when you harness hyperfocus in a positive way
That's how I can focus on more than one thing at time
It's so hard going through college like this. I really enjoyed some of my freshman and sophomore programming classes because I'm a computer science student, I was just learning how to program, it was new and fresh, and the programming problems assigned for homeworks were enjoyable challenges I had to think through and overcome, like puzzles. Now I'm in the part of my major where it's just about theoretical mathematical stuff and computer science electives that are more focused on concepts and vocabs rather than programming and I've never wanted to drop out so bad but am already too invested into my degree and already spent too much money. I can't motivate myself to focus in any of my classes and it's destroying my grades this semester. Adhd and college don't mix at all, this shit has just made me depressed
I can hyperfocus on something I don't like by shutting out everything else and that's it. If I let myself be distracted for a second it all falls apart.
This is so true! I have the capability to do something but if it’s not something I like or love I can’t find the motivation to do it. ADD is fun but hard all at the same time.
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Interest focused
Coming from someone who was diagnosed with ADHD at 4 years old. This literally describes how we are.
As a person who goes to therapy and has conversations about other mental illnesses (I'm a curious person, leave me alone) with their therapist, this is spot on. It can be called hyperfocusing, but it's more commonly known as hyperfixation. You can have it because of ADHD, ADD, Anxiety disorders, Depression, and many other mental illnesses. Love to see stuff like this given awareness. Good on ya, shorts feed!
Yes. I learned about it just by having ADHD. Life experience taught me it wasn't always lack of focus, but hyperfocus is another issue with ADHD as well. ADHD is just brutal no matter what you try.
Love the background music that you add to these videos ❤
Keep them coming 😊
I'm 52 years old and this man is speaking about me.
This is absolutely true. I have ADHD. If it’s something I enjoy, want to do, or if I can get myself involved and go, I can stay focused and be incredibly zoned in for 5, 6, 7 hours. If I DONT want to do something, or if it’s not enjoyable at all, it’s almost impossible to actually start. If I can get started generally I can finish but getting over the hurdle to actually get my focus on target is almost impossible
Same
It really isn’t a matter of discipline. If it were something I could force myself to do, I could do that. I’ll be paying attention, then suddenly be staring out the window. It was like someone else had the remote.
Yeah, the poor phrasing, myths, and lack of empathy around ADHD really makes our lives hell. "Like someone else had the remote" is a good phrase. I'll use it if I remember it.
@@uku4171 It prepared me for a partner who insists on having the remote. 😂
Even if teachers know you can’t help it, they still don’t like you. I’ve wondered if the “rejection sensitivity” observed in people with ADHD was actually just a normal reaction to being different, and made to feel badly about it.
@@bethmoore7722 may well be
This is the first time I'm hear this despite having ADD my whole life
2 letters in, you already lost your concentration 😅😆 its ADHD not ADD
@@warrenarnold I do not have ADHD, I have Attention Deficit Disorder, I do not have the Hyperactive part that is included in ADHD
@@101Gamerbot oo aha i get you was not serious though, wanted to share a laugh
@@warrenarnold Oh my bad homie
@@101Gamerbot According to The dsm-5, add And adhd Are now Considered to Be the Same disorder.
Add is Now called ADHD inattentive/distractable Type.
When it's stuff I enjoy doing I can blink and suddenly 4am and I haven't even ate the previous day.
I'm feeling attacked lol...
Finally someone is getting it right! I am just like this, but I see too many people on tiktok and yt shorts either faking adhd symptoms or overplaying it like they’re actually on the spectrum but they still “only have adhd.”
It really pisses me off to think my own not super serious condition is just being used like that, and why adhd anyways?! It’s easy to find fakers because it’s not as serious as they act on camera! Literally anything else would be better.
Autism isn't a stronger form of ADHD. You can have very severe ADHD. They share symptoms but both can be mild or severe.
@@uku4171 I’m saying people display behavior similar to autism while only claiming to have adhd and nothing else
Can confirm is true
"Three hours" bro thats light work for me
that is true if you have adhd or not
this is akin to saying water is wet
and the worst part is a lot of people
thinks that this is some profound information
ffs use that brain for one second
He literally just described me wtf
He described every human ever
It describes virtually every human, especially children. It’s just generally more profound in those with ADHD.
Honestly I think that is most people. It takes a lot of effort for me too pay attention to / focus on something I don’t like or don’t want to do. Kids with ADHD diagnosis can do it also, they just are less willing to acquiesce to the standard social structure. My son was diagnosed with ADHD b/c he wouldn’t sit still in reading class. He wiggled and wanted to roam around (sounds like his mom), but when I told them just let him read standing up or while he was working on one of his drawings - kid has the reading comprehension and speed of a high schooler (he was in 3rd grade). He was bored, and learning things faster than the teacher was going. He’s not an “office” type person - he’s an outdoor physical person, and has adjusted to adult social construct (discipline) just fine in his work. He never was on medication.
This sort of think is the reason the US is over medicating people. If everyone has ADHD, it ceases to mean anything. Only someone skilled in diagnosis can reliably determine this and even if they are skilled they can get it wrong. Behavioral disorders aren’t like a blood test that tells you yes or no that you have a disorder. Everyone can have similar tendencies but the severity and the presence of other symptoms are critical.
@@W1HURInah. Stop making excuses
Bro this is so true as someone with ADHD who loves video games I feel like there talking about me
This man just described me perfectly..
Wow…… you’ve described every person ever. Harder to focus on things you don’t want to do or have little interest in? Get this man a Nobel Prize.
Hard to notice your nose even though it’s clear in your field of vision, right? The brain intentionally blocked this out, so you have to really focus to see it, and even when you do focus on your nose and see it, it’s annoying to do that for a while. It requires more attentiveness for individuals with adhd.
Damn, so inspiring. People are willing to do things they enjoy, but dont want to do things they dont enjoy. Just wow
Fr🤣this sounds like astrology
It’s not that we don’t want to do something we cannot focus on it to the point where it is not possible to do. This is different from just not wanting to do something
@@andrewtheisen2870 good slap in the face will make you focus🤣wonder where were all the a.d.d. people in the past
@@andrewtheisen2870 well yeah..getting something done is impossible if you never do it.
morons lol
the adhd people in the past were just plainly defined as ‘idiots’ with extra steps like every god forsaken simplified thing back then
and yeah sure, you could ‘just do’ the task but after jumping off the metaphorical cliff of focusing or applying yourself over and over again, your brain just ceases to function from pure exhaustion. And also the fact that what you get from this hard work is sadly consistently mediocre, or just not well-done because said lack of focusing.
I am the result of when an unmedicated adhd person goes out of their way to do work hard in the american education system- exhausted constantly and a shell of a person.
As someone who has ADHD I was seen as slow mentally and never made friends until highschool my life was hell funny I could be dead but I'm not sometimes its great to die alone
It's Scary when focus and hyper kick in at the same time but the things you can get done.
"That sounds like me." -people who self diagnose
i think this is universal. of course someone is going to focus on something they like
Me as a kid, me today still lacks in deciplin in some fields.
Hyper focusing is part of my hyperactivity
It’s not that we don’t want to, it’s that we literally can’t. It’s a chemical deficiency
Eat a healthy diet
Medication helps. Seriously. It's one of those things you should talk to your doctor about. The healthy lifestyle advice also helps as well, but even moreso when you can address the executive dysfunction.
"That sounds like me" i love Joe
Oh can confirm its really sucks at times
Remember in the late 80's doctors wanted to put me on ADHD meds. Mom was like I'll put him in Soccer instead
Then we get put down and treated like lazy bums because we literally can't mentally get through to ourselves to do something we don't care about
Literally the opposite is true. ADHD makes it hard for me to focus on ANYTHING, especially the things I enjoy.
This... I've tried to explain exactly this to my brother with ADHD. It's not exactly a lack of attention, but a lack of being able to control that focus.
I can finish a game in one sitting but it takes me hours to write a 300 word essay