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▲ ADHD Is Not a Superpower(technotheoria.org)
11 points by paulpauper 14 hours ago | 8 comments
▲lazystar 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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.

▲silverFork 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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.

▲whoanoway 8 hours ago | parent [-]

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▲rekabis 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> ADHD in these environments is a weakness.

It has always hurt me immensely.

The focus issues alone would drive managers to have kittens - I would latch onto something interesting, and could not break off to handle the “grey goo” of some essential aspect of work for nothing.

Plus, the time blindness is absolutely brutal.

▲ctmlr 3 hours ago | parent [-]

It's a terrible affliction for career advancement however anecdotally it seems like there is always one or two ADHD type developers in any org who seem to bring something valuable to a team (enough to be tolerated and sometimes appreciated).

Also I think it's possible to be almost as productive doing the grey goo work in a supportive environment, good luck finding a supportive environment though!

▲OhMeadhbh 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

   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.
▲silverFork 12 hours ago | parent [-]

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

▲silverFork 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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.