My ADHD interests: intensely researching a topic that has no prospect of financial reward and wanting to talk about it to people who don’t care
Don't forget waking up a month or two later and realizing that you no longer care about the subject you've been hyperfocusing on and now have no idea what to do with yourself until the next hyperfixation shows up.
What was your last one? I lately fell into the Esperanto rabbit hole.
Not OP, but TTRPGs. Started after I finished BG3, and talked my friends into playing DnD, with me as a DM. Knew literally nothing, and hyperfocused for months learning as much as I could.
I've prepared a 70 page document for my players detailing every one of my 6 homebrew classes, 20 subclasses, 15 origins (races don't make sense in the setting), and some lore about our ASOIAF campaign (I could keep going for hours about all I've homebrewed).
We're all ready and rearing to go and I'm kind of... Already over it. I'm homebrewing vampire bloodlines ala dragonborn lineages and wild magic radiation and mutation systems on the side but those don't make sense in this setting, and it hurts.
Edit: the worst thing is, I do have people that would be interested in those homebrews, but they're my players and I don't want to spoil them!
Conlanging is great for this because you can make and abandon basic sketches of languages forever.
I find the world to be crawling with interesting things to learn about. From electric plugs, to coffee, to how computers work, etc. It always drives me insane that the average person doesn't seem to be remotely interested in learning much about how and why the world works..
Didn't know it could be an ADHD thing though.
That's why I love technology connection guy, I can just skim through his list of videos and find some weird things to watch about some random tech.
electric plugs
I thought that I was the only one... But it makes sense that other ADHD folks would too. Have a favorite plug? Mine's the CEE 7/4 (Schuko). It just has a lovely symmetry and thoughtful, safety-conscious design.
The UK plug seems to be the best engineered one, I'm partial to the French one, along the Schuko.
The UK plugs are pretty great too. Easy to wire and designed to have fuses. I felt much more confident wiring one of those for my in-laws than I ever would with a US plug.
at the moment i'm partial to andersons, wonderfully versatile, modular, and scalable. You can get them ranging from itty bitty baby connectors, to big chungus giga connectors.
It's a very nice design. I don't like plugs, i think they're all bad tbh.
Huh. I used to write notes to myself a few years ago when I was still in school and would get super drunk. "Look up modular synths," was one of my notes and I never went and actually did it. This is probably my calling to learn about them 🤔.
Me, autistic: "Huh, what are modular synths? I wonder what Pickle Junior meant by that."
Me, autistic, 9 months from now, probably:
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I'd really suggest fiddling around in VCV rack before committing yourself to building anything for real. It's free too. Individual modules cost upwards of $300 at minimum and you need at least 10 of them to do the crazy generative stuff people are into.
My interests tend to rotate, thankfully. I try to decorate my room or have things that will physically remind me of old hobbies and get me to jump start them back to life.
i think ADHD is probably responsible for the bastardized version of "jack of all trades master of none"
That's my headcanon for it at least.
when self-hating people who've learned a little about genetics and evolution pipe up with "why are we even still in the gene pool" sadposts ... this is why. overall, this style of thinking is a net positive to the proliferation of Homo sapiens, and every now and then even a net positive to the people who embody it.
