ADHD memes

We call it parsing. You might have heard everything but your brain wasn't done with parsing.

Hm?

Tbh, is because I was probably thinking of something else and needed a second to remember what you just said.

Usually goes something like, "Huh? Oh, blah blah"

Nope, uno reverse card on this one.

People who think its weird to 1) express shock at a question and then 2) formulate an answer after they mulled it over a bit?

That isn't weird at all.

What is weird is being incredulous at this phenomenon.

It implies at least one of a few things:

That you think anyone who says 'huh?' is indicating that they didn't understand the literal words and meaning of question as spoken... not that they did understand it literally, but are expressing surprise that that question was asked, or any other possible thing that could be conveyed by 'huh?', maybe disgust, maybe horror, maybe annoyance, maybe nearly anything, etc.

That not having an instant response to any concievable question is abnormal.

Those things could imply that the person who thinks this way is impulsive, not inclined to deliberate or consider potential outcomes before acting/speaking, and/or also overconfident about their ability to understand language and expressions.

Also could imply they have a tendency toward totalizing, not being precise, not considering nuance or context.

IE, a person who genuienly holds this belief is more likely to be offended by their own / innocent misunderstandings, and is more likely to act rapidly, without hesitation, as well as potentially in a more severe way.

... like a psychopath.

Uno!

EDIT:

Sorry, I had to expand this a bit as I went... you know, because I thought about it more.

As a person with ADHD, who does this frequently, I can attest that it is more of a processing delay coupled with an autonomous communication thread than psychopathy.

By the time my cortex processed the input, the verbal center already responded thinking there was incomplete input. I figure the problem is mostly due to ADHD.

I just hate when you genuinely miss the first few words and they only repeat the last part.

Mghdn tjrinc hrjdk Cookie, did you?

Huh?

Did you?

Did I what?

Eat my cookie?

One cool reason for this is that auditory input lasts longer in your mind than visual. I don't know if we've tested touch, smell, or taste, but maybe someone else has those research articles ready.

Vision lasts for something under a second. You can test by flashing a grid of numbers, say 5x5, up on a screen for a very brief period of time, and then cue the subject to recall a specific line after a period of time. There are too many numbers to instantly memorize, too many (more than the 7 +/-2 limit we typically see) to rehearse to remember all of them, and the subject doesn't know which line to rehearse anyway, so they can't repeat all the numbers to 'win.' I remember that the time until decay was something like a second. Up to that point, a subject could repeat all the numbers in a line if cued.

Auditory was tested in a similar manner, but I can't quite remember the details. Maybe something like a high/medium/low voice, and then being cued? Anyway, time for decay for the sensory input was something like 4-8 seconds. Most people have probably had an experience where they were working on a task, a coworker or roommate came up and asked them what they wanted for lunch, and the reply was, "hang on a second, let me finish this," they finish the (very brief) task, turn to the other person and say, "what did you say?" while screwing up their face in memory and then answer the question without it being repeated.

As an interesting aside, chimpanzees have amazing visual recall from brief cues. I remember videos of them being able to memorize a sequence of 20+ squares to press on a grid after the correct sequence had been flashed up for a split second.

When I worked at RadioShack (late 00's), I would get so tunnelvisioned doing things like planograms or putting away orders, and not really reacting when people talk to me...and I would do this constantly.

My manager at the time referred to it as "buffering", and I don't think there's a better term for it.

What about people who say

"You'll never guess what happened at work today?"

So you respond with

"What?"

Then they repeat the question

correction people who say huh when you are 𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 a question and then cut you off by saying "oh I know" are psychopaths. Of course you know dumbass I just told you, if you actually knew why did you ask

Huh? I mean, damn, lots of comments are wild. Just let people breathe a bit. Sometimes I'm also only realizing one or two things after I started talking. Sometimes even mid-sentence. And also, maybe for some people "huh" is just an instinctive reaction they burp out randomly. Also I go with the "what's huh after all" comment. Maybe they just abstracted the meaning of it in those simple letters. Maybe "huh" means a world to them

The correlation with psychopathy is a bit unclear to me here.

That sounds an awful lot like projection the first person is doing.

So many types of people you can insult and you choose people who think?

Between my ADHD and my hearing being shot from going to so many raves when I was younger, have some patience plz.

Fuck you, Shoresy!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_processing_disorder

I’m not following this at all

The worst is schroedinger’s auditory buffer. (Heisenbuffer?)

If you give me a second to parse what you said, I can reply just fine. If you ask “are you listening?” in an aggravated tone, the buffer gets discarded instantly.

And this is completely orthogonal to whether I was trying to pay attention to your words, cuz I basically can’t process your words directly as you speak anyway.

So I might have an easier time continuing the conversation if I’m mildly distracted instead of constantly overwriting the perfectly understandable stuff from 5 seconds ago with the white noise that I’m hearing in the immediate present.

Think of the "Huh?" as a "hold on let me just process first"

ohh you absolute idiot, if you paid attention in science class you would know that light travels faster than sound: we see your mouth moving but don't hear anything first so we say "huh" but at that point enough time has passed for the sound to reach our ears, therefore we can answer without need for repetition.

Hey, it's not my fault you interrupted my train of thought when I am half an hour deep on a topic/problem.

Takes a second to actually parse what you said.