• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    I literally had to ban myself from TV Tropes for life.

    Not gonna link it since I’m pretty sure that doing so in a community like this one counts as a war crime 😄

    • anton2492@lemmy.nzEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      Oh god, TVTropes is like fucking crack cocaine for my brain, I’m like a wet sponge after those endless rabbitholes. I have had the most difficult time explaining to others what it’s about, but I’m quite content for it to be my own little getaway.

      • psycho_driver@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        Hmm this sounds like reading about old wrestlers on the lives they led on Wikipedia for me. I’ve spent hours upon hours doing that, and I don’t know why. I haven’t watched wrasslin in 35 years.

  • elucubra@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    I’m old. Before internet, I would read the encyclopedia for fun, and spend hours in the library.

  • TDCN@feddit.dkEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    … And also have the ability to skim internet content really really fast for all relevant information i need somehow without actually reading any of it.

    • bizarroland@fedia.io
      1·
      3 months ago

      It’s kind of crazy that so many people don’t know how to skim a page.

      I’ve met far too many people that have to read the entire page in order to find the one section they need. It’s infuriating.

  • Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    ADHD is basically the only reason I’m able to work in the area I do, I have absolutely no formal training in it other than what I taught myself while procrastinating.

  • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    My trivia team has two weaponised autists. I’m one of them. I brought the second one in. We’re only allowed to play together once a month. Loool

  • Delphia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    This is why I’m such a good car nerd. Ive built dozens of high performance cars with tools, ive built THOUSANDS using google.

    At the moment Im spreadsheet building a new drag car. Before I buy a single part I know if its going to go together the way I plan, what all the major parts are going to cost and what jobs Ill have to send out and what they will cost. The weights and measurements of most parts and what kind of end quarter mile results it will put me in the ballpark of.

      • Delphia@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        The sad thing is that as cars get more complicated, google is getting thousands of times worse and old forums and photobucket accounts get deleted its becoming very hard to do these days.

        Also its kind of horrifying how fast all the parts prices add up, nothing takes the shine off the terrible (awesome) idea you have like realising you will spend $20k and take 2 years to lose a race to a $10k used car.

  • littleblue✨@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    3 months ago

    I usually go with “ADHD + THC makes me a fuckin’ X-Man of facts”, and I’m leveraging that power toward a career focusing on it. ✊🏽