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Managing time when time doesn't exist

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178 points TMEHpodcast | 1 comments | 25 Jun 25 00:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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Raphell ◴[25 Jun 25 07:37 UTC] No.44374594[source]▶
We keep stressing about not having enough time, and then physicists come along and say, "Well, time might not even exist." It’s like carefully trying to organize a desk that isn’t actually there. Maybe focus is the only real resource.
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hshshshshsh ◴[25 Jun 25 07:58 UTC] No.44374723[source]▶
Focus assumes you have free will.
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LoganDark ◴[25 Jun 25 09:27 UTC] No.44375260[source]▶
ADHD says I do not
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throwawaymeta01 ◴[25 Jun 25 12:54 UTC] No.44376746[source]▶
or maybe it's learned helplessness?

i have adhd and can't stand these type victim mindset promoting comments.

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1. LoganDark ◴[25 Jun 25 15:25 UTC] No.44378395[source]▶
Not to say I entirely lack learned helplessness, but not everybody with ADHD is the same. With my ADHD I can try to get out of bed and the body will refuse to move. I can try to get something done and I just won't be able to focus long enough for that to happen. Or, I'll do something useless like watching YouTube videos or scrolling Twitter and the entire time I will be screaming at myself trying to do the productive thing that I'm supposed to have been doing the whole time and it just won't happen. It doesn't feel like learned helplessness; I'm not deciding that things are hopeless "because of ADHD". In fact, the only reason I found out I had ADHD is because I posted about constantly being unable to do even things I know I enjoy and someone commented that it could be ADHD and I had apparently never heard of this aspect of that before. Turns out I definitely have ADHD.

Sorry you can't stand my comment. It's genuinely how I feel. I'm sorry if I haven't sufficiently conquered my mental disorder to your standards yet - maybe I should get off the Internet until I do?

It's cool if you don't feel the same way I do. I don't have that privilege yet. Maybe one day I will, but that's no reason I should wait to express myself. This is a genuine struggle I face and I'm not saying ADHD makes everyone helpless but it sure as hell makes me feel helpless.