Apytele 44 points a year ago

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stray 13 points a year ago

Other animals like the wheels too, and bees love balls for some reason. :D

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Zidane 11 points a year ago

Bees love balls

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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Zidane 10 points a year ago

Well shit. Excuse me while I go spend a few hours looking up wild hamsters

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Apytele 10 points a year ago

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getoffthedrugsdude 7 points a year ago

I relate to this so much. I frequently describe my thoughts as multiple hamsters running on different wheels in my head that are all trying to outpace the other.

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Zorsith 33 points a year ago

Many cores, poor single-core performance

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Whats_your_reasoning 17 points a year ago

Haha, I've used an analogy like this before. Not only is the CPU fast and the RAM low, but the entire system doesn't like to go to sleep when you tell it to. Ever had a computer that woke up from sleep mode from the slightest bump? That's me. That's my brain. It's why I was up at 4am this morning.

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brokenlcd 10 points a year ago

One of my friends has ADHD and has described it to me as:" like having a GLA motor on a smart. And the clutch is completely worn out. It may rev high. But we're getting nowhere" Not sure how correct of an explanation it was. But it was a woderful metaphor.

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kkj 10 points a year ago

I liken it to a single incredibly fast core and a scheduler that was written in Malbolge. I also have a ton of cache, but no RAM.

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Katzimir 9 points a year ago

Now couple that with way off iq metrics and anything from butterfly to your cat is a valid input device while output is only possible via symphony orchestra and oscilloscope oh and of course input parsing is whacky as hell

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ButteryMonkey 7 points a year ago

My storage doesn’t randomly disconnect, but frequently (and randomly) when I open saved files, three to six other files open alongside it for whatever reason and that can get a bit overwhelming and for sure bogs everything down.

Very helpful for making diverse connections between the files (how my OS knows which files are related is beyond my comprehension), but way too much for daily use.

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avg 4 points a year ago

This is a great idea to illustrate what it is like having ADHD.

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Modern_medicine_isnt 6 points a year ago

Also no cache, and only one small register that is limited to 3 ascii digits.

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mad_lentil 3 points a year ago

I have a small amount of swap that I can use for extra burst maybe once or twice a week. I almost always use it up on work.

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Evil_Shrubbery 6 points a year ago

Yeah, ofc it feels like a fast CPU compared to the rest of the spec, the CPU is brilliant to put up with all the bullshit.

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southsamurai 5 points a year ago

As I've been discovering what I strongly suspect is adhd within my own brain (undiagnosed, and likely will never pursue such), I think my analogy is that my cpu is over clocked and running hot. Plenty of ram usually, and the storage is plentiful but in need of a defragging; but that CPU is always churning, even when there's no tasks assigned to it.

I'm also discovering that what I thought the H in adhd meant isn't what it really means in practice. I always thought of it is translating to a physical expression, but it doesn't, at least not for me. It's pretty much exclusively internal for me.

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GaMEChld 3 points a year ago

There are 3 main manifestations, and they all can vary in severity.

-Predominantly Inattentive
-Predominantly Hyperactive
-Combined Type

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chuckleslord 3 points a year ago

ADHD was a bad name for it based on the symptoms. Any deeper thought into the name is likely to cause incorrect conclusions. It meant literal, physical hyperactiveness.

It's like naming the flu "coughy chills with a runny nose".

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TempermentalAnomaly 5 points a year ago

Influenza comes from the astrological belief that the stars had influence on one's health.

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chuckleslord 3 points a year ago

Hell yeah. Love random factoids.

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sibannac 2 points a year ago

There is the ADHD-I ('I' for inattentive) designation which is closer to what you are describing.

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L7HM77 1 point a year ago

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Bael422 4 points a year ago

I prefer the analogy of not having a heat sync/fan. In a ice cold room with an external fan? Works wonders. Anywhere else? Overheats. Once you overheat you have to take time to cool it off and possibly fix what broke.

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BagOfHeavyStones 4 points a year ago

Paging, paging, paging, paging, paging...

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idunnololz 3 points a year ago

I am almost certain ive made this analogy about my self multiple times before to different people. I am almost certain i dont have adhd though. What do I do now ._.

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Brickhead92 4 points a year ago

Download some extra ADHD from a reputable site?

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AppleStrudel 2 points a year ago

Watch some How to ADHD on YouTube
Discover that you relate to all of them
Get a diagnosis

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idunnololz 2 points a year ago

Things could definitely change but my parents did test me as a kid and it was negative.

Also every time I take a test online, I always score pretty low mostly because I can force myself to focus too well and also because I lack the procrastination stuff as well. I just have everything else.

It's likely just that ADHD is a spectrum and I am not high enough on the spectrum to be formally diagnosed.

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AppleStrudel 1 point a year ago

It's also very possible that you might have something else altogether. It could be some other psychiatric condition like cPTSD (which wouldn't emulate ADHD well enough to pass a rigorous ADHD specific test), a vitamin deficiency such as with a lack of B12, hypothyroidism, etc, etc.

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idunnololz 2 points a year ago

Maybe but the key thing I think is what ever it is it doesn't affect my day to day enough to make me want seaech for an answer.

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janus2 3 points a year ago

i feel more like my brain is crappy 15 year old midrange spec hardware but now that I've put Linux on it and am learning how to use it, it can sorta keep up with modern PCs

(the Linux is stimulants lol)

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SkyHeart 2 points a year ago

I have ADHD. Life is tough, I could never focus, it lowers my attention span and makes me lose focus on the stuff I need making me pay attention to unwanted stuff near.

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some_guy 1 point a year ago

What a beautiful analogy.

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AppleStrudel 1 point a year ago

Having ADHD is like running memtest and getting errors logged again and again.

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meme_historian 1 point a year ago

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