This implies that neurotypicals manage to remember all that stuff by simply not being conscious most of the time. If you have no train of thought, it can’t be derailed. While I would like to remember things better, the idea of giving up my finite gift of consciousness for much of my life is horrifying. I already spend 8 hours a day comatose. To extend that period of comatose mind-death into the time taken up by every mundane daily task is frightening.
Perhaps the disease of ADHD is simply an excess of consciousness. Perhaps people with ADHD are so disabled because they spend all of their limited time in the coil of life actually living, which is to say thinking. If so, then the thought of giving up my “disorder” in exchange for the morbid zombie-march of the sleeping neurotypicals is not an appealing one.
This implies that neurotypicals manage to remember all that stuff by simply not being conscious most of the time. If you have no train of thought, it can’t be derailed. While I would like to remember things better, the idea of giving up my finite gift of consciousness for much of my life is horrifying. I already spend 8 hours a day comatose. To extend that period of comatose mind-death into the time taken up by every mundane daily task is frightening.
Perhaps the disease of ADHD is simply an excess of consciousness. Perhaps people with ADHD are so disabled because they spend all of their limited time in the coil of life actually living, which is to say thinking. If so, then the thought of giving up my “disorder” in exchange for the morbid zombie-march of the sleeping neurotypicals is not an appealing one.