Censored the brandname, no exposure for you today.
this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2025
231 points (97.5% liked)
Fuck AI
4571 readers
2272 users here now
"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
A place for all those who loathe AI to discuss things, post articles, and ridicule the AI hype. Proud supporter of working people. And proud booer of SXSW 2024.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
For SOME reason this reminds me of this short:
How to understand ADHD overwhelm
Maybe I'm misunderstanding and I bet ADHD people agree with his assessment, but don't we all have multiple thoughts at the same time. The list he had for the ADHD brain is some kind of list I can imagine having in my brain at one time. I think the difference between the two brains is the ability to prioritise. The thoughts all nag, but you have to choose one to deal with first. If you can't prioritise e.g when stressed or perhaps if you have ADHD overwhelm going on you procrastinate and then the task list sits unchanged and gets more and more daunting as time goes on and it becomes a loop. So in short, I think the difference is the threshold for procrastination because we all really fall into procrastination, but I'm neurotypical (AFAIK) so I can only speak to my own experience of how my brain works and contrast with this analogy.
I had the same reaction. Either I have undiagnosed ADHD and just... somehow don't freeze up, or the analogy isn't great.
If he extended the analogy just a little I think it might make more sense to you?
The “freeze up” is when all those thoughts are competing for attention and you can’t focus on just one, so you either choose your favorite color (your current hyperfixation for example), or literally just sit there, not doing anything of value. The dysfunction literally is the inability to choose one of those thoughts and run with it, at least not without expending significant amounts of energy to do so (meaning we get tired out while doing less) or coming up with some system to trick our brain into choosing and focusing on something.
Neurotypical brains have many of the same traits that ADHD and autistic people have… just not as many, and they’re not as crippling. It’s like pain in that regard - everyone experiences pain, but someone with chronic pain may have difficulty doing normal tasks, or if the pain is bad enough, unable to do those tasks at all.
In the case of ADHD I can take some medication and sometimes my brain acts like a normal person. Without trying, I realize a couple hours later that I accomplished a bunch of stuff without doing or thinking any differently. I just… suddenly can do stuff. First time I tried medication it really was magical; I didn’t feel or think any differently, I just… did stuff. It was weird.
Thank you for the explainer