[jdjdnndn]

Never have I ever read such a pile of bull.

Of cause everybody prefers the new and shiny but not executing on what's important is simply lazyness and lack of will.

The cherry on top is the comparison of the impossibly of teaching advanced machine learning to someone of average IQ -- clearly indicating that they assume to be of higher IQ since they have grasped that topic.

OP seems to be a low performer thinking of himself as high performer held back by circumstances and not themselves

[ivewonyoung]

> Of cause everybody prefers the new and shiny but not executing on what's important is simply lazyness and lack of will.

Then explain why do mice that were modified to have similar deficits in neurotransmitters exhibit the exact same "lazyness and lack of will".

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-024-02893-0

In normal people, dopamine and norepinephrine are released in certain parts of the brain while performing routine and administrative tasks and also anticipation. In people with ADHD, it doesn't happen properly. If a (cruel and unethical) experiment was performed on you where your dopamine signaling was lowered, you'd understand this in a jiffy.

[binoct]

Your comment comes off uninformed and rather nasty. Do you also think that people with depression are just lazy as well?

I highly recommend taking at least a little time to read up on our current (highly limited) understanding of brain science.

I do agree the use of “average” IQ as a disqualifier for understanding ML is pretty rotten though.

[Disruptive_Dave]

May I suggest not downvoting this into oblivion? We need to shine a light on this type of thinking, as it is representative of many others towards ADHDers (including many ADHDers themselves...). I have this wrestling match internally on the daily - "Am I being lazy right now or suffering from ADHD? Can I power through with determination and grit, or soften my approach and do an end-around using tactics learned in therapy?" Magnify that x1000000.

We've all encountered (in person or online) self-diagnosers, and even worse, those who make ADHD their entire personality, and calls for the world to change itself to make life easier for others. If that's your most frequent engagement with ADHD, I get how you could have OP's type of response.