Most people tend to develop coping mechanisms that help them pass as non-ADHD individuals, by lowering their standards for what they can achieve in life and by accepting the abnormally high amounts of stress that hiding their ADHD causes them.

Psychologists call this "growing out of ADHD".

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 74 points 1 week ago (1 children)

“Gifted child, if only they’d apply themselves”, turns into “Average adult, not always reliable and my god have you seen their <thing we ignore because we don’t have the bandwidth> but usually gets things done.”

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Well, guess they need to be diagnosed for LBD (Low Bandwidth Disorder).

And then start berating everyone who doesn't care about the small stuff, instead of letting them say that we are "overreacting", just because we realise that, under different conditions, ignoring some of that stuff could cause bigger problems.

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