10 pointsby paulpauper5 hours ago3 comments
  • lazystaran hour ago
    In corporate environments where every task is written down in a ticket, and work each day is determined by story points, success is determined more by organizational skills than by intelligence/subject matter expertise. ADHD in these environments is a weakness.
    • silverFork40 minutes ago
      In a corporate environment the boss is having affairs with a foreign country's spy. Not just one of these guys is at it like that.. Every person has a weakness.. The worse are those that believe that they are above it all.
  • OhMeadhbh4 hours ago

       The article could have used  an abstract, you have to read
       a third  into it  before the text  starts relating  to the
       title.
    
       But...  It does a decent  job of pointing out diagnoses in
       various DSMs describe sets of symptoms and not etiologies.
       Which is  to say, a "disorder"  in the DSM doesn't  give a
       biochemical explanation for the  origin of a behaviour, it
       just describes  the behaviours (often  using self-reported
       observations of one's own emotions.)
    
       Given  the way  English-speaking  humans  use language,  I
       would argue that "superpower" is something more akin to an
       innate  ability.   It's  not  //just//  a  description  of
       behaviours.  Superman  is superman  not simply  because he
       leaps tall  buildings with  a single  bound or  because he
       races faster than  a speeding bullet.  The  state of being
       called "Superman"  is dependent  on Kal-El /  Clark Kent's
       path through  phenomenal existence.  (I'm  obviously using
       Superman  as   the  exemplar   of  entities   who  possess
       super-powers.)
    
       If the  nature of  having a super-power  is innate  to the
       individual  and  the  underlying  hypostasis  of  an  ADHD
       diagnosis  is  dependent   on  descriptions  of  behaviour
       independent   of   any   biochemical   cause   then   yes,
       "superpower" and "ADHD" are not in the same class.
    
       However...  Gods of Catachresis forgive me...  Language is
       complex and those damn'd  humans often use it imprecisely.
       From  context,  I think  we  can  infer  that "ADHD  is  a
       Super-Power" means  that the behaviours described  by ADHD
       in the  DSM-X are associated with  iteologies which confer
       benefits to the individual.
    
       Still.  I enjoyed reading the article.
    • silverFork4 hours ago
      There are others that would contest that claim. ADHD is now a medical industry buzz word that can map a person to a psych disease based on some self reporting methodology via some check boxes.. What it really is a monthly payment for some pills that are meant to solve some moving target of problems that some or many humans experience. Sleeping disorder is a new addition I suspect.

      According to these people it is a super power.. who knows for sure https://bloomclinical.co.uk/adhd-a-superpower-in-disguise/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G14Q_izwflg

  • silverFork5 hours ago
    It is a superpower for those that claim that they can diagnose it and pharmas just like pain medication was... makes a lot of money for the adhd ecosystem.