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What’s your “I can’t believe other people don’t do this” hack? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 103 points 2 months ago (24 children)

Continuing study after school. Whether its science, political theory, or anything, a lot of people stop reading or studying anything after college / school.
Doing something creative as an outlet (music, art, knitting, anything). A lot of people are just consumption machines nowadays, mostly consuming things other people have made, rather than creating something.
Physical exercise.
Having explicit long-term goals and working towards them.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (8 children)

As someone with both ASD and ADHD, I'm practically allergic to not learning. Blows my mind that most people aren't the same in some regard.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What do these diagnoses have to do with learning? In my experience, these conditions can manifest in many different ways for people.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

For the most part, you can over generalise by saying it causes me to obsess/hyper focus on these topics.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I have ADHD with ASD tendencies, despite not being autistic (long story). People like us are more frequently the types who find something new to be interesting, then dive in and learn EVERYTHING about it. For example, I recently bought a new car and spent days near obsessively learning about it. How it works (first electric car), how to model current vs acceleration, how to tear it down and rebuild it, etc. I'm now in the process of compiling a FAQ for my wife, who doesn't share my obsessive tendencies and can't retain my frequent "hey sweetie, this is interesting!" data dumps, and setting up monitoring and automations for it on our home lab.

I used to think this was what everyone did. Turns out it's not normal.

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