As someone with #ADHD who's Extremely Online™, Twitter is specifically like a drug for me. It specifically feeds my dopamine deficits.

It occurs to me that a reason why so many folks #onhere find ADHD content relatable,

Is that twitter might artificially select for ADHD folks.
Just like how #ADHD folks are overrepresented in, say, Computer Science.

Because it's an environment that plays to our strengths and feeds our specific hungers. It's a problem-solving, results-driven career where you don't need to read social cues and are allowed to be weird.
So of course the social media sight which:

1) Requires short bursts of information
2) Alerts us when a conversation is ongoing
3) Gives us those good good dopamine hits with simple interactions
4) Rapid-fires interesting things at us

Is sifting the #ADHD folks outta the genpop.
You know how, when you see the solution to a problem, you immediately recognize it? You knew what shape it was going to be, so as soon as you have the solution idea, it just clicks?

Y'all it just clicked for me.

If I want to find #ADHD folks online, I'll come to Twitter.
*All the crabs in the bucket look at each other*

Wow! It's weird! We all like the same flavor bait!
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