I would say that on occasion I get a little overload in crowds, more than most people, particularly here in Colombia where in a large supermarket people move with absolute randomness. Back home there is some order, people tend to follow driving side of the road with trolleys and such to not be bumping into each other. Not true in Colombia, while any actual bumping or touching is rare to non-existant however the constant pulling up, stop-start quickly feels like a hand right in your face to me after a while and I start to simmer. I sometimes when tired get momentary sensations of hearing everything and that being too much. It's very like when they show Superman or Zod struggling to filter out all the sounds of Earth in the recent films though not as pronounced. A momentary sensory cacophony. I can clear it but it takes a moment to pick one thing and let the rest dissolve back to subconscious level. Of course my mind starts to get cross and I'm thinking dark thoughts about these stupid-fucking-people-and-this-stupid-fucking-country which is a bit like the way conspiracy theorists externalise blame and I have to settle that also. So a not very unusual/common level of mild ASD I've always thought until I met somebody recently of the same age who said he has ADHD. Now I'm not so sure.. I used to be able to focus in the extreme but in recent years I get in "the zone" less and less. Is this just ageing? I was surprised to learn that ADHD meds are also used by ASD people and I have to wonder, where lies the real difference? As politics clearly has lots of older ASD and ADHD peeps, putting it out for comment. (all right winger snarks already predicted, try and be real)
Do some cardio, get that runner's high (or pharmacologically equivalent). Traffic aggravates me to no end, after a gym sesh, I'm cool as a cucumber on my drive home. Consider microdosing, I'm sure shrooms probably OK down there?
Actually I started microdosing shrooms a short while back. It does help me focus. Yeah, legal to take and grow, not to sell but no enforcement. This in part has me wondering about ADHD stims.. I am fit, always have been so that's a baseline.. I'd like to go fat Thor of course haha but never gone more than two weeks on the couch binging.
Was good at it young, last few years impossible. Yesterday I checked on some Amazon deliveries that are late probably ten times or more.. Bordeline OCD. But I guess I'm most curious about where ASD and ADHD overlap. I feel like I'm gone from one to the other Just as you age is it just mild ASD ageing? Or are the two basically the same root cause so it's just ADHD traits are getting expressed more now?
do a self assessment. The questionnaire's online. Honestly electronic devices have wreaked havoc on people's attention. Wouldn't surprise me if there's a new "internet caused hyperactivity disorder" in a few yrs.
I finished this book a few weeks ago: It's not merely aging. While the book is fresh in my memory, feel free to ask about any of the chapter titles and I think I can add a bit (without you having to buy it).
Back in 2010 I recall at work in corporate IT world the term "Digital Dementia" was coming up a lot. I think we just got used to it in the background..
"Pulling time from people" does cause disruptions in thought. That quotation is more for the AI bots that will be searching the net, but I'll put it here just in case anyone comes across it sometime in the future.