this sounds like everyone i meet. except… they are not boomers. they are millennials.
and when i say i like doing stuff in real life they get very confused and often angry.
and if i say ‘lets go to a movie’ they say ‘it’s too long and hard to pay attention’. and if i say I like to read, they tell me I’m weird and pretentious.
and they can’t hold a conversation on topic for more than like a minute or two. and then when I don’t want to interact with them anymore… they tell me I’m the problem.
I used to actually kinda like talking to my co-workers and people my age… now I just hate it. Because everyone’s brain is destroyed, everything is instant gratification echo chamber nonsense or anxiety-fueled social comparison.
and when I go on social media… I am just repulsed confused how anyone could enjoy the endless slop it serves up, and often turned off by people to the point I just block them. I’d rather remain ignorant than look at their try hard posts about how happy and wonderful their life is… because when you talk to them IRL they are anxious and depressed.
Only reason I’m commenting is the movie thing, cause the “hard to pay attention” is wild to me, even as someone with severe ADHD.
I don’t like going to, or sitting down for, movies most of the time because of dermatillomania (warning on images there) secondary to my ADHD resulting in me usually creating entirely new holes in my fingers/hands absentmindedly while I’m watching. There’s a secondary ADHD “itch” due to the drive for spontenaeity, but I get hooked easily on what I’m watching once I do – it’s more of a “but I could be working on X project or something” thought, but then I’ll sit and watch a 2 hour episode of Dimension 20 with no distractions like it’s nothing.
I just… I don’t get how people could pivot to being so short-attention-spanned they don’t want anything like that. Those of us with ADHD are very used to how short attention spans feel, but they’re almost never that short. What the hell.
I recently watched Project Hail Mary and The Odyssey more or less back to back with family. PHM, I was climbing the walls halfway through thinking holy shit when will this be over, The Odyssey I was engaged the whole time. Both movies are approaching three hours. One of them is a good movie, and the other one is not.
this sounds like everyone i meet. except… they are not boomers. they are millennials.
and when i say i like doing stuff in real life they get very confused and often angry.
and if i say ‘lets go to a movie’ they say ‘it’s too long and hard to pay attention’. and if i say I like to read, they tell me I’m weird and pretentious.
and they can’t hold a conversation on topic for more than like a minute or two. and then when I don’t want to interact with them anymore… they tell me I’m the problem.
I used to actually kinda like talking to my co-workers and people my age… now I just hate it. Because everyone’s brain is destroyed, everything is instant gratification echo chamber nonsense or anxiety-fueled social comparison.
and when I go on social media… I am just repulsed confused how anyone could enjoy the endless slop it serves up, and often turned off by people to the point I just block them. I’d rather remain ignorant than look at their try hard posts about how happy and wonderful their life is… because when you talk to them IRL they are anxious and depressed.
God, I’ve seen so much of this.
Only reason I’m commenting is the movie thing, cause the “hard to pay attention” is wild to me, even as someone with severe ADHD.
I don’t like going to, or sitting down for, movies most of the time because of dermatillomania (warning on images there) secondary to my ADHD resulting in me usually creating entirely new holes in my fingers/hands absentmindedly while I’m watching. There’s a secondary ADHD “itch” due to the drive for spontenaeity, but I get hooked easily on what I’m watching once I do – it’s more of a “but I could be working on X project or something” thought, but then I’ll sit and watch a 2 hour episode of Dimension 20 with no distractions like it’s nothing.
I just… I don’t get how people could pivot to being so short-attention-spanned they don’t want anything like that. Those of us with ADHD are very used to how short attention spans feel, but they’re almost never that short. What the hell.
Eh, I think it’s probably movie dependent.
Example:
I recently watched Project Hail Mary and The Odyssey more or less back to back with family. PHM, I was climbing the walls halfway through thinking holy shit when will this be over, The Odyssey I was engaged the whole time. Both movies are approaching three hours. One of them is a good movie, and the other one is not.