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I often have to stop mid sentence, tell people I'm already at the end of my paragraph, and have to back up several missed points.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Bullcrap - that's not how aircraft or aerial weaponry works.

When the F-11 in question was struck by it's own cannon rounds it was moving about double the speed of those cannon shells because the velocity of the cannon shells had decayed to about 400mph - a speed even a late-WW2 fighter could easily achieve.

The Grumman F-11 is not even an especially fast aircraft by late-50s standard. The MiG-19 was introduced almost at the same time as the F-11, and it was already significantly faster.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 months ago

So... Basically exactly how ADHD works.

We forget that a bullet was ever fired

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I've heard the analogy of "a Ferrari engine, but with the brakes and turning power off a bicycle".

If I'm on a straightaway, we're golden. Just don't ask me to change course partway through or stop to explain anything. I'll end up just hitting a wall.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

I like that analogy. I was never diagnosed, but I think I have it, (specifically, the inattentive subtype) and grew to cope with it.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's actually a really apt analogy, it's like running at a cheetah's pace everywhere except sometimes you trip over your own feet. I can't count the number of times as a kid I would start daydreaming or get impatient when people are talking to me because I already figured out what their point was 20 seconds ago

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The hard part was learn (and I'm still learning) to not interrupt them (because it's rude). But yeah, feels like I'm speedrunning conversations sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

I have the 'oh fuck I better say this before I forget, or entirely distracted by their other points' interruption thing.

[–] xenspidey 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It's more complex than that

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

I think this is specifically what the meme is getting at, lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If we treated every subject with the full nuance it deserves, all memes would have to be at least six panels long...

That is the opposite of memes.

Memes are the art of removing as much context as possible while still being relevant.

[–] xenspidey 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I didn't realize that was the point of this "meme", although I wouldn't consider that a meme. That has a statement that is technically correct but, on the surface is misleading. If that's the point, then i apologize.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If you consider a 'meme' to be one particular flavor of internet humor, then whether it is or not is based on the community hosting it really.

In the more useful context of the word, any transmissible content that can convey ideas and behaviors beyond its context is considered a meme. Just, you know, modern day usage and all.

[–] xenspidey 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah that is one of those words that has evolved in meaning it seems.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

At work, we have a student who I'm suspecting has ADD, and I've been experimenting with different talking speeds, to see when her brain would be too bored and start multi-tasking, and when I was just explaining too fast for her to grasp it.

When I told her about my experiments, she said that the way her brain works, is that she just loads the whole sentence into RAM and then at the end of the sentence, she actually 'listens' to it and makes sense of it.
I had noticed that when she doesn't get something, she'll show no reaction until after the end of the sentence, when she'll suddenly go "What?".

And yeah, just what the heck...

I'm guessing, her brain has always been in this hyper-distraction state, and she just developed massive RAM + processing speed, so she could still get the gist of what people say, without needing to actively listen.
I have no idea what I can actually do for her with this info, but it is fascinating nonetheless.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The worst is when you do this, and the act of saying "What?" Ends up knocking the stuck process loose and the sentence comes through just as they start to repeat it.

'What?"

"OH, I said tha"

"Ah, got it."

Good analogy though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Oh yeah, damn, she does that, too. That makes a lot of sense now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Our brains aren't really faster, they're just worse at organizing the process so we skip right to the end

YMMV

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It is own bullet

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

If it was meme, this typo would annoy me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

It is own bullet

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Ouch!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Neurotypical is just a point on a scale. There is no such thing as a neurotypical human.