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Imagine studying for hours on end?
| Yup, same here. Can't hold my concentration for too long. Never could, really.
| ADHD?
| Self control is hard.
| The only time I ever manage to study/work properly if I let myself get distracted every couple of minutes (yes, minutes). Alt-tab to Twitter. Read a webcomic page. Let a casual podcast run and occasionally listen in.
If I try to force myself to actually focus, that just ends up being a couple of hours wasted being miserable.
And yeah, I have ADHD.
| Yeah, same. I just cannot force myself onto anything, even stuff that I generally really like to do/learn new things about, without constantly unconsciously switching onto something else.
| ADHD gang, unite!
| Stop using social media.
| It takes practice. Put the internet down for 5 minutes, then 10, then 15, et cetera. Eventually you'll build up a pattern in your brain.
Or take ADHD meds and see if those work.
| I usually have to have some background noise. Once I learned how to balance that properly (enough to keep me engaged, not enough to distract me - the specifics depend on the day and subject) it became much easier. Still a pain tho.
(Also hi fellow ADHD gang)
| I didn't study once throughout high school and college, and I mostly had a B average.
I recently had to actually study for the first time to pass a certification exam for work; it was rough, but it made me realize I could have probably gotten straight A's if I'd studied in school. Not that grades matter in the end.
| I'm 21 and still in the last year of highschool despite aways trying to fully understand every bit of information I get, so to each their own I guess.
| Same. Where's autism gang at? Like, how is it even possible to focus on studying so long without your mind being filled with thoughts of tasty crayons? It doesn't make sense. It's kind of unfair. Even now that I've become a dropout I have yet to get a job because my job applications are written with crayons and always have a couple paragraphs about crayons.
Sometimes I wish I could just, stop being a crayon muncher.
| >>753498
wat??
I'm autistic but I have no idea what you're talking about.
I failed at studying many times before I got diagnosed with inattentive ADHD(formerly known as ADD) and the medication makes all the difference in the world. Now I feel rested after 7-8 hours of sleep, can focus on studying and work and don't close in on myself in social situations.
| If you have a suspicion and if you live in a country where you can get diagnosed without bankrupting yourself, I strongly suggest you talk to a doctor. It's not like you have anything to lose by seeing one. You'll learn more about how your mind operates even if you end up undiagnosed and that's dope AF.
| >>753524
It's a joke. It's a stereotype that autistic kids love crayons and also eat them. So I jokingly used "obsession with crayons" as a metaphor for how autism makes your brain obsess over things and loose focus.
I probably did try eating crayons as a kid though.
| Maybe I have ADHD cause I relate hard to OP. Can only manage 10 mins of textbook time. Sometimes fall asleep after 5 minutes. Tests are really hard to focus on. So my studying time need to have more factors like going to a coffee shop, discussing the topic with friends, watching related videos
| Don't know anything about adhd ppl say around here, but it's been really hard for me to focus on studying as well, especially the last year
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| How do ppl even do that? I barely can spend 10 minutes giving a fuck about studying.
And not in the "pomodoro technique" way of having little breaks in between. I legit just can't look at a book that long