ADHD - The other side.
I have heard that the number of kids being diagnosed with ADHD has been increasing. Now I'm no scientist, (perhaps of the severely agitated kind but no other) but I'm not sure if It's the kids.
Throw yourself back in time. Imagine sitting in a chair. Thick oak stretches out to the horizon, littered with paper. Friends live four miles away at the least. This is your world. Books your only escape. Think of the focus and commitment towards your imagined realities. Dictionaries become tomes of meaning, able to unlock hundreds of thousands of worlds.
But while you were reading this blog, your cell phone buzzes and plays the "Dean scream" to notify you of an incoming text. (Dean's Scream) Notifications in the lower right corner of your LCD screen alert you to the new messages in all your chat applications. The televisions low hum, drowned by the constant bombardment of advertisements and terrible programming.
Why would you spend the time to peer through your imagination into a book when a video game can simply show you a world. Social networking lets you live as if you were with other people. Television lets you live in an exciting world filled with attractive people.
Perhaps we aren't more ADHD, but the environments we put ourselves in are coated in distractions. Random shit has gotten way more interesting in the past twenty years.
Throw yourself back in time. Imagine sitting in a chair. Thick oak stretches out to the horizon, littered with paper. Friends live four miles away at the least. This is your world. Books your only escape. Think of the focus and commitment towards your imagined realities. Dictionaries become tomes of meaning, able to unlock hundreds of thousands of worlds.
But while you were reading this blog, your cell phone buzzes and plays the "Dean scream" to notify you of an incoming text. (Dean's Scream) Notifications in the lower right corner of your LCD screen alert you to the new messages in all your chat applications. The televisions low hum, drowned by the constant bombardment of advertisements and terrible programming.
Why would you spend the time to peer through your imagination into a book when a video game can simply show you a world. Social networking lets you live as if you were with other people. Television lets you live in an exciting world filled with attractive people.
Perhaps we aren't more ADHD, but the environments we put ourselves in are coated in distractions. Random shit has gotten way more interesting in the past twenty years.
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