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  • Vengefu1 Tuna@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    you haven’t watched the movie.

    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?

    • hglman@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Thats a fairly common aspect of ADHD, hyperfocus on some specific domain. Its like we min/max what we think about.

      • AnarchoYeasty@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        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.

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      1 year ago

      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

      • reedbendOP
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        1 year ago

        I’m easily mesmerized by televisions and have been my entire life!

    • Cyanogenmon@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      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.

    • Sharkwellington@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      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.

    • xpinchx@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      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.