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What does adhd have to do with anything?
ADHD is sometimes used as a catchall to mean a set of behaviors that does not coincide with the majority at school or work. Ive met a bunch of people on ADHD medicine, but it was usually because they wanted to force themselves to be good at or like something they didnt want to do normally.
In this case its called ADHD because the student has found their own way to solve it despite the method the teacher is teaching and that the rest of the class uses.
It's because it's stupid. The bottom answer is at least sort of similar to a simple rule for adding 9s. But the op is just so incredibly specific that it won't help most of the time.
Well the OP is a joke form of a more serious example. Its meant to illustrate the point but not actually require much thought or calculation.
Yep. Just because you do something in a nonsensical, stupid way doesn't mean you have ADHD or that is what someone with ADHD would do. People with ADHD are also "intellectual."
For me, this is how I'd solve 9+7:
Day 1: Fuck it, I'll do it tomorrow
Day 2: Alright gotta do that problem now! Just gonna eat and take a walk to prepare my mind
Day 3: okay for real this time
Day 4: staring intently at problem for half an hour before getting incredibly inspired to do anything else
Day 5: anxiety
Day 6: paralyzed but anxiety
Day 7: Either I actually try to do it and it takes 30 seconds or I give up entirely and flunk the class
Not "hehe quirky look at me I'm so stupid because my brain does things differently, ur so smart I wish I was like you and not so dumb! x3"
I wanna be charitable and say that these sort of behaviors might be commonly associated with ADHD because for us they become a necessity to exist in the world.
While an NT person might have no problem adding 9+7 without breaking up the problem, it becomes much harder with ADHD. so ADHD people are more likely to develop them as a coping mechanism.
For me personally, the more steps a math problem has, the less likely I am to follow through. My mind prefers cutting corners rather than breaking equations up
For many of us it is cutting corners. Memory is hard, but I know my fives and anything less than five so really I just need two spots in ram instead of a bunch of tables on my tiny hard drive
Yes! This is true, for example, if I'm given something like 16 + 27, I'll sooner make an educated (wrong) guess 3 times than stop and think about it. Not sure if that's ADHD though!
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The problem here is that what you’re posting is accurate, realistic, and far more importantly, makes no use of italibold. Sorry, friend.
You know how sometimes you go outside and there's a bird and you're like, "cool"
classic adhd
If you said squirrel I would've called you ableist.
Absolutely fuckall, because apparently no one with ADHD can ever be (an) intellectual.
I don't think manipulating an addition problem so you can equate it to a multiplication problem would be a normal action.
They are probably just using ADHD ~~(not even a diagnoses anymore IIRC - it's all ADD now)~~ as a shorthand for 'funky brain thing goin on'. Not exactly good, but I don't really think it does any meaningful harm either.
Edit: had it the other way around. It's all ADHD now, not ADD. Thankyou for the correction @JackbyDev .
Other way around.
TY, my B.