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BRAIN WAVES
Wanna Know What Having ADHD Feels Like? Here’s An Analogy For You.
Disclaimer: I’ve only ever had this one brain, so I can’t REALLY say how others’ brains feel.
NOTE: I have since begun taking medication to help with my ADHD symptoms. This describes what it felt like without that.
A “Normal Brain”, As I Imagine It To Be
Take a moment and picture a swimming pool. You know, the kind you’d expect to see at a hotel — long enough to swim laps and with a depth of 8 feet or so at its deepest point.
Now throw a billiard ball (I almost said pool ball but thought that would be confusing, given the pool) into the water.
Ripples, right?
Throw another one in, anywhere you’d like. Then another. And one more. The ripples are now meeting each other…colliding. But not very strongly, since there is so much space between the balls’ impact points.
The billiard balls have sunk (I assume…I haven’t tried this) to the bottom. You could fit so many balls in there, as the pool is quite large. The balls wouldn’t even touch each other or be terribly noticeable.
