From the “This is only news to neurotypicals” department

  • nixcamic@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    “People with ADHD can only get shit done when they’re stressed and will often create stress just to motivate themselves” is in freaking Driven to Distraction, the first mainstream book about ADHD from like 30 years ago haha.

    • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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      3 days ago

      I thought I read that somewhere, many years before this study “just” discovered it. Shoot, I’ve been using that knowledge as a coping mechanism for at least a decade lol