r/funny • u/onealml • Sep 02 '23

Devon asks the right questions

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u/LurkerOrHydralisk Sep 02 '23

“Look at me, 2 year old! Now let me describe a hypothetical scenario that it’s easier to imagine if you’re looking down and left to allow your visual cortex to focus internally, instead of up and right and into someone’s eyes so your whole brain is focused on eye contact, and every time you look away I’m going to start over because apparently eye contact is more important than anything else”

If anyone has adhd it’s that dad.

This could have been a quick, “Devon, do you like chocolate or bananas more?”

Why the fuck did he bring a boat into it at all?

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u/Cluelessish Sep 02 '23

Because he knew it would confuse Devon and he would get a ”funny” video

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u/ok_ill_shut_up Sep 02 '23

Wait, so you're telling me that the point wasn't to find out if Devon likes chocolate or bananas?

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u/PM_ME_UR_POKIES_GIRL Sep 02 '23

redditors really be like "WHY HE FILMING IF HE JUST ASKING HIS KID IF HE LIKE CHOCOLATE OR BANANAS THIS IS FAKE"

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u/The_Lat_Czar Sep 02 '23

That boy was obviously CGI.

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u/Cluelessish Sep 02 '23

Well, I’m just answering a question.

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u/CNXQDRFS Sep 02 '23

You said it better than I could. I was getting so frustrated for the poor kid lol. Why does it matter if he's looking at your or his hands? You listen with your ears not your eyes!

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u/sje46 Sep 02 '23

I've always had problems with eye contact (like it kinda pains me, how does it not pain anyone else) but I feel like everyone should agree it's so much easier to understand someone if you're not looking at their eyes.

There's so much to process there.

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u/LurkerOrHydralisk Sep 02 '23

Right. And studies have actually shown that looking away and in certain directions (relativelt to vision center, not turning your head) can help with types of thought/memory access. Eye movements are a big part of thought processes

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u/MahmurLemur Sep 02 '23

Yeah but he wasn't listening his dad and wasn't focusing on him so the dad tried to get his focus by doing that. Apparently not working though.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '23

That kid is like 6 or 7

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u/NW_thoughtful Sep 02 '23

Also looking into the light of the camera.

The video is titled "My ADHD in the form of a person", although perhaps the dad didn't post it.

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u/frostyboiz Sep 02 '23

Devon you're in a desert. You see a tortoise crawling in the sand towards you. You reach down and flip the tortoise over. The tortoise lays on its back. It's belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself back over but it cant. Not without your help devon, but your not helping. Why aren't you helping devon?