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Yes - it is. As someone with ADHD and in my mid 30's now, i have wondered the same thing quite often, because a lot of times solutions to complex problems seem extremely easy to me, where people around me are absolutely baffled by me calling a solution very simple and easy.
I started wondering the same thing a few years back and came to the conclusion: Most people don't care. I've had quite a few very recent discussions about various issues about consumers needing to be more educated and able to make decisions on what they buy. Every time i bring this up, i realize that even these simple things are too much for most people.
Coincidentally, I too, have ADHD. Oftentimes, I can envision the general shape of somewhat complex solutions. And either they don't see it as simple, don't understand it, don't understand the point, or can't see it at all. Now sure, sometimes I come up with idiotic ideas that make no sense once I know more. But not always.
I have found it is easy for some of us to get spun up about the sorts of things you mention. Like "omg how can you use Windows 11 with all the ads and whatever". The kind of stuff we rant about on Lemmy. And yeah I think people don't care a lot.
Sometimes it is because they have other more pressing priorities. I've had to learn that well in my infosec career. It is easy for me to fixate on something important to me. But if a person is just trying to get through the day (I mean, let's be honest, I am struggling to do that), raising a kid, paying the bills, and so forth, then they have better things to do than fret about an OS and try to find time to learn Linux or cough up the fortune required to buy a Mac or whatever.
Sometimes they can't seem to forsee the potential consequences. Either they just are incapable--my original point above--or, in some cases, they don't have any practice imagining what bad people could try if they wanted to. Maybe due to ADHD and anxiety I had a lot of practice imagining bad outcomes. (Maybe that's an evolutionary advantage of ADHD lol). I suspect about half my team has ADHD and I think that's common in the industry lol.
Nice to find someone with similar experiences! Helps to know I'm not crazy or at least not crazy alone 🤪
Ha! I know what you mean :D I do too^^
Yeah...there are lot's of things i get spun up :D
Same lessons in Infrastructure (although, i have to admit i'm not trying to get through the day, i've had a lot of help throughout the years to get a grip on my ADHD except some occasional very heavy distractibility and chaotic thoughts)...but i still except some very basic 1+1...sometimes even that is too much asked. I mean, if you can click a damn start menu on Windows, i can expect you to click it on Linux as well, even if the Icon is a little different, it's still only a damn menu! ;)
Personally, i think my Star Trek addiction helped me a lot in those terms, because i always try to imagine the best possible outcome first and then go down the rabbit hole and tell myself "Well, there's still a chance!". Which is also why i try to imagine that in most people, there's still some good left (there are exceptions...Trump and his cronies being some) - but i agree with you, that most people have lost the ability to just "imagine". Personally, i also think that's why the overall state is not that great, because with loosing the ability to imagine things, people also lost the ability to dream. Problem solving, imagining and dreaming are all things that are heavily interconnected and interwoven. I also am of the firm believe, that one advantage of ADHD is that the ability to shape our imagining "as we go", because "we" can flip between numerous possible outcomes pretty damn fast. And so on. Just a little tip: Try to imagine more "good" outcomes as well - just in case ;)
Same :) And no - you are not crazy and you are not crazy alone :D
Interesting about Star Trek as a way to deal with anxiety about bad outcomes :). My Trek love helps me too but more with giving me a nearly imperceptible glimmer of hope for humanity.
(I wasn't sure if I was a true Trekkie but now that I've been catching up on all the post-Voyager shows I guess I must be because I love all of it... I mean I even found things to like about ST V, so... Lol). Anyway ...
But yeah you may be onto something about people either losing the ability---or maybe the will---to dream of something better. Once you get discouraged enough, it is hard to bother dreaming.
If you spend enough time online steeped in endless doomerism, with no talk of action or organization or anything, learned helplessness inevitably sets in. Sort of by definition, you stop dreaming. Which is why my recent Trek binges have been so helpful.
I should add that meds and introspection have helped a lot with the anxiety and imagining the worst outcomes. Now I do it without getting twisted up in knots and it serves me vs the other way around. But I could still stand to imagine good outcomes more often.
Anyway I appreciate the dialog! You're a good egg. :) Hope to run into you again in the Lemmyverse before long.