I know this is a common experience with ADHD, but somehow I’m the opposite. Visual media makes me hyper focus. As a kid, I was usually the only one still awake at the end of a late night movie. If there’s a tv on and someone is trying to talk to me, it takes a lot of effort to focus on what’s being said to me. I can’t put things on in the background unless it’s just music. Does anyone else experience this?
Yeah I always thought I was just weird for how much I focus on politics and programming. Recently discovered I have ADHD and it makes so much more sense now.
I don’t to my knowledge have ADHD but if there’s a movie on it’s hard for me to completely ignore it. I memorably had to switch seats at a restaurant once with my partner at the time because I could see some shitty movie playing behind them and it was too distracting
Definitely me. I’m big time into movies because when I was a kid my parents, my brother and I would all watch movies together. Legitimately like 3 times a week.
I was ALWAYS the last one awake. I’d get up, put my brother to bed, and let my parents sleep.
I could also quote the movie exceedingly well even after one watch at a young age - just because the world around me basically ceased to exist when a flick was on.
Mom would sometimes wake up and go to bed in their bedroom on her own and I wouldn’t notice, with her sitting 5 feet from me.
I know this is a common experience with ADHD, but somehow I’m the opposite. Visual media makes me hyper focus. As a kid, I was usually the only one still awake at the end of a late night movie. If there’s a tv on and someone is trying to talk to me, it takes a lot of effort to focus on what’s being said to me. I can’t put things on in the background unless it’s just music. Does anyone else experience this?
Thats a fairly common aspect of ADHD, hyperfocus on some specific domain. Its like we min/max what we think about.
Yeah I always thought I was just weird for how much I focus on politics and programming. Recently discovered I have ADHD and it makes so much more sense now.
I don’t to my knowledge have ADHD but if there’s a movie on it’s hard for me to completely ignore it. I memorably had to switch seats at a restaurant once with my partner at the time because I could see some shitty movie playing behind them and it was too distracting
I’m easily mesmerized by televisions and have been my entire life!
Definitely me. I’m big time into movies because when I was a kid my parents, my brother and I would all watch movies together. Legitimately like 3 times a week.
I was ALWAYS the last one awake. I’d get up, put my brother to bed, and let my parents sleep.
I could also quote the movie exceedingly well even after one watch at a young age - just because the world around me basically ceased to exist when a flick was on.
Mom would sometimes wake up and go to bed in their bedroom on her own and I wouldn’t notice, with her sitting 5 feet from me.
Very similar experience for me, even down to being the last one awake. If someone wants my full attention the movie has to be paused.
Same for the most part, but I do often put on a familiar movie to be in the background. Usually extended LotR series while I play switch or something.