Compare normal vs ADHD brain

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[elabuelokraken]

I've always wanted an Orange Crush brain. It's good to know I already have one.

[just_plut]

Anyone else setting alarms and your brain going "oh it's just a part of your daily routine so you can ignore it now" just me? Ok

[isaacnoel]

Ok but like I'm pretty smart. The issue I had was I didn't have to try in school. I hardly paid attention and could pass all the classes, all the while tapping and vocal ticking and fidgeting constantly, I drove my class mates nuts. but then I had to do actual work in high school and I had the hardest time with doing the work for marks, I could answer the questions but that wasn't enough anymore. I struggled until like grade 10, and then I had a friend die. And I didn't get to finish school.

[nidiashalabi]

Yes. It’s possible not have ADHD AND be a brilliant person. Just ask Einstein, Walt Disney, Simone Biles, etc… it’s called being twice exceptional or multi exceptional. This might even make it more difficult to get a diagnosis as you may seem “very mature” or “too smart” for the outside world to recognize your struggles with a brain with ADHD. In fact, often times people with ADHD tend to excel at things many others are simply average (sports, music, computer science, socio-emotional intelligence, STEM work, etc)…

[Septara]

Damn, I have adhd yet I’m still the most advanced and mature kid in my class...

[alphafert]

This isn't very helpful & can come across as misleading. I was diagnosed ADD at 7 & although I will admit I was not as advanced in some areas of study there was other areas I was quite a bit ahead of my neuro-typical classmates. I was always tardy, disorganized & lacked direct focus but had to correct teachers/helped teach some classes.

There is also info today that indicates average brains aren't fully developed till around 25.

[Ganondorf]

When I was in school yet, I could leave all of my homework (math, science, essays, projects) for the morning of and I'd get it all done in 40 minutes. I have ADHD and that actually make me learn and get my tasks done way faster and with more efficiency than the normal human brain.

It's not a curse. ADHD is a super power that people act like is a negative disorder when in reality, it is what makes a leader and unstoppable force in the work place.

The ADHD brain is superior in every way to the normal brain.

[elizabethmunoz]

After seeing some of the comments, I felt it could be helpful to explain... because there are some really ignorant comments... and not only should neurotypicals be informed, Neurodivergents, who deal with enough bias as it is, need to know that’s not true.

What this info graphic doesn’t give context for/explain is that:
1) Development isn’t always gainful.
Exp:Aging as a point in development, is a ‘decline.’

Development has periods that are more like the waning than waxing moon.

2) The change in color represents how our brains phase out of a specific period in pediatric neurodevelopment—that phase being the point in our lives where our minds have the highest level of neuroplasticity.
That period lasts longer and takes longer to phase out of in the ADHD brain.
While it is appears as a “delay, ” it is, potentially, highly beneficial and advantageous.
It’s that psychosocial structures and expectations are scaffolded around neurotypical development...


This info graphic would /
likely does feed into a lot of confirmation bias and ableism.
It would have been good if this came with a brief explanation.

[gabrielsmusic]

What they try to show is that ADHDers are delayed in their development but catch up to a similar stage, which i found true for myself i was always 0, 5 year behind in my executive functioning When i turned 16 i would perform like a 15, 5 but a half year later i had the maturity of a 16 years old so it have been from the other ages too so many catch up in their behaviour and functioning but get much more exhausted after doing the same things due to the difference in our brain.

[Dragonfruits_]

Are they showing the rate of maturity? Would make sense if ADHD really was an advantage for hunter gathered marking them more flexible or adaptable in changing environments

[thorandug]

Got it the Korean brain fills with blue liquid faster than the adhd brain fills with orange liquid

[elizabethmunoz]

The period where the child’s brain has high neuroplasticity lasts longer in ADHD brains.

[eye]

So our brains develop much slower than non affected brains?

[Priscillababy]

So the purple Chinese brains develop faster than the orange ADHD brains ?

[markdeffebach]

Differences in progression of color in two graphics of brains, one evidently understands Korean and the other English.... Or perhaps we see that purple mold grows faster than orange mold on pecan halves 🤔🤯

[noname-dpgn]

The video shows the difference in the maturation of different regions of the brain of people with adhd vs people without adhd. The adhd brains tend to mature slightly later than the non adhd brain and that is the point the video is trying to make.

[tradersmentality]

What kind of comparison is this? Looks like my brain took a big shit.

[husseinkassam]

So it technically is your brain is delayed

[Zero]

Did anyone else get ADHD because their brain suddenly decided “I don’t wanna anymore I just wanna think”?

[jasminflower]

I don't get this. Explain it to me please.