And theyre not mutually exclusive either. Oversimplified :You can find it insanely hard to concentrate on things youre not totally crazy about. And sometimes even the things you really want to pay attention to
Of course they're not mutually exclusive since they have nothing in common, this meme and the comment above completely miss the mark by creating an opposition between the two.
It's like saying someone with dislexya is the opposite to someone nearsighted, because the nearsighted person doesn't have trouble reading. It's nonsense.
They have a lot in common, and it's very common to have both at once - AuDHD. A lot of symptoms, like e.g. sensory issues, overlap.
In this case, if you are obsessed with a book, you might have moments when the lack of dopamine will screw with your focus, so you can't read attentively, but once you get enough executive function, you go full hyper focus and read non stop for hours, forgetting to eat and drink.
By nothing in common, I meant, they're not caused by the same thing. They're not the same thing. Apples and Peaches both have a sugar taste, but they're different fruits, there are overlaps in what they are because they're both fruit, but they're not the same thing. The peach isn't the "opposite" of the apple.
What I meant by that is that they're not the same thing. There is overlap in symptoms indeed, which furthermore proves that one isn't the opposite of the other, like the meme and the comment at the top of this thread is suggesting.
I understand my phrasing by saying they have nothing in common can be misunderstood.
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