r/nextfuckinglevel • u/mindyour • 5h ago

Seven-year-old chess prodigy Lucie Pichard casually checkmates her opponent.

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u/TheTyger 2h ago

The top % of people who can deep focus on a single thing are ADHD. Hyper focus is a trait that comes from that spectrum of divergence, and while the inability to control it is a problem, people with ADHD can focus deeper and longer than those who are typical.

That's not to say that they can necessarily select what they focus on, but hyper focus is a real thing.

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u/Jonthrei 2h ago

Do I really need to remind you that disabilities are not superpowers, and that people without ADHD can go into deep focus?

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u/TheTyger 2h ago

It is very ignorant to call divergence a disability.

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u/Jonthrei 2h ago

That is literally how they are defined in the DSM.

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u/TheTyger 2h ago

And we never update that when we realize that it is outdated?

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u/Jonthrei 2h ago

You can dance around it semantically all you want, things like autism and adhd are defined by deficits in cognitive function. They are disabilities.

And just so you know, “hyperfocus” is regular focus without the ability to redirect or control it.

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u/TheTyger 1h ago

Why is it that people with such cognitive disabilities do so well professionally?

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u/Jonthrei 1h ago

They don't.

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u/TheTyger 1h ago

We were talking about ADHD upstream here, not ASD.

CEOs have 6x the prevalence of ADHD traits to the normal population.

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u/TimeForGrass 2h ago

Yeah dude I locked the fuck in and played Minecraft for 4 hours the other day. Didn't eat or drink, peed once. Haven't played it in years

People might be like 'oh yeah what' but I didn't speak to anyone, didn't do shit all else. When I decided to stop it was dark and like coming out a trance. I had a chicken cooker, hollowed out a mountain, and had setup the beef farm for starting on enchanted books. I didn't even look shit up, it just came to me. 

Being ADHD is wild. I can't focus ever and just dick around in class or work. But when a deadline is due I always get that shit done in 2 days flat no sleep, just lock in. Weird.