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Why Task-switching is Difficult for ADHD Brains





ADDitude
#adhd#adhd post#task-switching#why it’s difficult for adhd brains#multitasking#source: ADDitude (Facebook)#feel free to reblog/share#tw bright colors#tw eye strain
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I do think Blazing Saddles handled its one depiction of native americans very poorly, and the full extent of its representation of chinese workers on the railroad is they were literally just there. not even one single speaking line. unclear if this is worse or better than the redface.
it's fucking phenomenal at lampooning antiblack racism though. extremely blatant, extremely funny satire, which is constantly and loudly saying "racism is the philosophy of the terminally stupid at best and morally depraved at worst, and we should all be pointing and laughing at them 24/7"
plus the main character is a heroic black man who has to navigate a whole lot of bullshit but is constantly smirking at the extraordinarily stupid racists and inviting the audience into the joke. the one heroic white character is a guy who was suicidally depressed until he met the protagonist and they just instantly became buds, and he's firmly in a supporting role the whole time and happy to be there. the protagonist saves the day with the help of his black friends from the railroad, and uses the position of power he was given to uplift not only those friends, but all the railroad workers of other minorities too, in an explicit show of solidarity.
anyone saying "Blazing Saddles is racist" had better be talking about its treatment of non-black minorities. it had better not be such superficial takes as "oh but they say the n-word all the time" or "they have nazis and the kkk in there!" because goddamn if that's the full extent of your critique I very seriously suggest you read up on media analysis. there is too much going over your head, you need to learn to recognize satire.
#blazing saddles#finx watches tv#finx rambles#I recognize that I'm saying all this as someone who's not black#but I am also saying it as someone with a basic understanding of race relations in the usa#and a basic understanding of sarcasm#bc it really does not take more than that to recognize what they're doing in this movie#it is NOT subtle#and it is very funny#mel brooks movies are kinda hit or miss for me ngl#men in tights is great if a bit too crass for my taste#spaceballs has great jokes but the central story lacks any real heart so it doesn't grab me#history of the world was just kind of unpleasant and then I switched it off#but blazing saddles? phenomenal#I could not stop laughing the whole way through#and the central story DOES have heart bc it's the friendship between bart and#whassisname#jim#the Kid#plus bart working out how to succeed at an impossible task#also frankly cleavon little just grounds the comedy really well even before gene wilder shows up and we get their chemistry#bc he's cool calm collected and constantly inviting the audience into the joke#but the character's not too cool to ever mess up or ever be silly#he makes bad choices and gets into bad situations and then has to get himself out of them#but it's.....oh wait duh there's a term for this already#he's the straight man#he grounds all the zany nonsense by being in strong contrast to it#and he does a great job of it!#anyway#point is I deeply enjoyed this movie and I'm glad I finally watched it
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Imagine you're like a butler or something, and you chat with the prince about serious kingdom stuff, right?
And he gets all fancy, uses BIGG words and is just really sophisticated in his movements and vocabulary.
Then he ends the phrase with "whatever I gotta go see ya later jimmy" and just storms off
#god i forgot how he just casually goes “hey bestie what's up” as he eslaves you and makes you do dangerous tasks for his own amusement#and because he's a lazy ass to do it himself#ahit#a hat in time#ahit snatcher#ahit prince#a hat in time the prince#a hat in time snatcher#god i miss him#downloading back ahit on my switch to see him
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#adhd memes#neurodivergence#adhd#adult adhd#neurodiversity#neurodiversesquad#adhd brain#adhd things#adhd mood#adhd problems#adhd probably#doomscrolling#task switching#we hyperfixating#hyperfocus#revenge bedtime procrastination
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Left handed people
What are all the things that make life different and/or dangerous for you because of your handedness
#personal#all art programs are designed for right handed ppl : ^)#i have to switch around the UI to be on the other side so i can fucking see them#i have to always be aware of where i sit at gatherings#so i have room not to knock elbows#if im taught a new task its taught to me right handed#and someone will try to correct me and im like#no. i hold with this hand dude#holding a gun#i had to get a bow special ordered for me#cuz they only carry for right handed
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heard whispers of tubbo saying he wanted to do something purgatory-esque event or bounties on the realm... not to be a downer but those both sound like terrible nightmares i can't lie . bounties would only be fun if it was like a week max or something
#saph speaks#the realm liveblogs#neg#like bounties could be fun as a switch up for tasks or something but it would just be a horrific nightmare if it went on for too long
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ADHD & Task Switching








Future Grimm
#adhd#adhd post#adhd stuff#adhd problems#adhd & task switching#adhd and tasks#neurodiversity#actually neurodivergent#feel free to share/reblog#Future ADHD (Facebook)
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#I struggled so hard today#and for no apparent fucking reason#I struggled with something at work that I've done for the first time while also constantly task switching#and I STILL NOTICED MY MISTAKE#but the fact that I made a mistake in the first place is fucking killing me#I feel like I will be executed for it#it makes my skin crawl#and to know that I'll have to go up to another human being who I respect deeply and be like hey I made a mistake please don't hate me#is the first fucking thing#BUT IT DOESN'T NEED TO BE#part of science is noticing your own mistakes so why is this so terrible to me#I know upbringing bla#yes I was raised to believe that among all other things I'm smart#and I have had this proven to me over and over and over growing up#so when I actually struggle with something I can no longer be smart therefore I am nothing#utterly worthless#and nobody even meant me any harm by telling me I was smart#this is such a STUPID FUCKING problem to have#uh I was told I'm smart#bitch what#yes being yelled at from 10 through 28 by my father for completely unpredictable reasons did not help with me thinking this is terrible#BUT STILL#get your shit together#see and even now I'm beating myself up for struggling with something#URGH#I just want peace and not existential dread whenever I make a mistake that is definitely my fault#personal#so and if you've actually made it till down here I'm giving you a big hug#we'll make it somehow
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It has been one of those times where switching attention is especially hard and once again I am very grateful for The Phone. The Phone contains Activities that are not subject to completion and therefore do not trap me like a book or project traps me. Being able to do something that is engaging but doesn't pull me into deep focus is a great relief at the moment.
#autie blogging#i have often felt that smartphones just don't degrade my ability to focus like a lot of people feel it does to them#but today i wonder if it DOES... and that's their benefit for me#because one of the more challenging aspects of autism for me#is the fact that i cannot regulate my focus#and can easily get to a point where i just spend all day doing one thing even if i don't want to#phone offers a breakup point. if I'm checking my phone i can get up and go to the BATHROOM#switching back to the task is then harder of course but it's sort of worth it
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man. i miss The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword for the Nintendo Wii (2011) and The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD for the Nintendo Switch (2021)
#i miss my wife tails.... i miss her a lot#i could just get up and play yes. but regretfully ive got Tasks for today 😔 and my switch is uncharged#tortilla rambles
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I'm having A Thought about cultural assumptions and how people often conflate their own cultural quirks and patterns as being either universal or Obviously Logical, based on seeing a post with someone's lock screen, because I have ADHD.
It was a simple example but a very neat one, and it's about how we write and speak about dates (as in the measure of time, not the fruit of the date palm or an intimate meeting). Americans write dates backwards, by the standards of nearly every culture (inc. other English speaking cultures). They write them MM/DD/YY instead of DD/MM/YY, this is known.
But the thing is, ok there is a good reason most people write the day then month but none the less, what a culture decides on is still just a little bit arbitrary, the point is it's a cultural agreement that This Is How It's Done. Earlier I saw a post with someone's lock screen, an American, and it displayed something like "Wednesday, December 12" and that caught my eye because mine obviously reads "Thursday, 9 March", because I come from the UK, where we use DD/MM.
And I was reminded of an American once telling me how MM/DD obviously makes more sense though, because you see, that's how you say dates in English! You would say "March ninth", so you write the month then the day! Except, well, that's not how we say dates here, we say "the ninth of March". But this guy had assumed that the standard phrasing in his culture was just how all English speakers would say it, therefore the date format they used was clearly the more natural and intuitive way, and of course you think in terms of the month something is happening and then when in the month it is!
To me, however, this feels like someone earnestly and confidently explaining that naturally you put your socks on over your shoes.
Obviously there's a bunch of examples of this kind of thing, and many with far greater importance, but it just seemed like a really very telling and concise example of how people will see features of their culture that result from specific quirks as universalities that make more sense than any other system.
#culture#musings#other examples specifically dealing with Americans are like measuring granular ingredients in cups and the fucking Fahrenheit scale#like that one time an American got very angry with me and some others for explaining that actually people *do* weigh flour when baking#he was insistent that ''no one would go to that effort'' and that recipes that list weights for flour and sugar are stupid#absolutely convinced that people who use weights are secretly converting them to cups or something because he couldn't imagine#the arduous task of *weighing flour* (which is extremely simple and a normal part of baking)#or US American insistence on Fahrenheit as being ''more intuitive to humans'' compared to Celsius#spoiler: it really isn't it actually sounds fucking insane to people who grew up with Celsius#it's just a matter of what you've internalised as feeling like [near arbitrary number] degrees#but people back-justify it like ''but it's more granular!'' like yeah actually we have half degrees#but also functionally do you really actually note a huge difference between 20 (68F) and 20.5 (69F) degrees?#will you go ''oh it's one F higher so this coat can stay at home today'?'#maybe US Americans do because they were brought up on Fahrenheit#maybe that's my Celsius based cultural assumptions#anyway the UK switched to Celsius during my mother's childhood and she doesn't use Fahrenheit#my grandparents didn't use Fahrenheit despite being middle aged when the switch happened#turns out if you make everyone learn Celsius the vast majority get the hang of it and go ''wow Fahrenheit sucked lol''#and then proceed to never use it again#it now only exists when newspapers want a heat wave to sound hotter - like 70% of the populace have no fucking clue what it means
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I set so many alarms and reminders.
Alarms to get up. Alarms to tell me to go to bed. Alarms to time my lunch break. Alarms to remind me I'm making tea. Calendar reminders to put the bins out and to pay bills. A timer to go off to make me start a task. A timer to make me stop a task.
And yet I am still able to snooze them all.
#neurodivergence#adult adhd#neurodiversity#adhd brain#pomodoro#task avoidance#task switching#get out of bed#get a planner#make a list#snooze button#alarm clock#neurodiverse stuff#neurodiversesquad#adhd#adhd memes#executive dysfunction#adhd things
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I need to do something I need to do something I need to do something I need to do something-
Scrolls Tumblr frantically with mounting anxiety
#audhd problems#audhd system#pluralpunk#pluralgang#endo safe#endo friendly#tulpa safe#tulpa friendly#willogenic safe#willogenic friendly#multiplicity#plural#system#did osdd#plural community#actually mentally ill#actually disabled#actually autistic#actually adhd#actually audhd#task paralysis#adhd inertia#someone switch in pls#aaaaaaaaaaa#yami posting
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trying to remember to give myself credit whenever I try something new because for years my main symptom of depression was the complete stagnation of all of my interests so I literally went over five years never playing anything new or watching anything new or listening to new music or trying any new activities etc…..and I remember how miserable that felt and how hard it’s been to shake myself out of that
so anyway I started playing Doom (2016) on a whim today. Beat a few levels! just destroyed some sort of tower and now im tracking down Olivia…. enjoying it :)
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hey question
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I am the sweatiest tryhard in the fucking world in Warframe but not in the actual gameplay or the combat or whatever I just spend hours on end sitting around in my orbiter like
#Forgive how sloppy my playing is here#it was my first day learning that song#I'm not much better now though I still can't play it at full speed#Pun's text Posts#Warframe#I'm still getting the hang of like#very quickly switching which direction I've gotta hold on the arrow keys still#it's not an easy task especially with this song specifically lmao#does this game have midi support? I feel like that'd make this a lot easier 🤔#Octavia Prime#Octavia#Shawzin
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