Do you ever feel like you're overwhelmed with information? People with ASD or chronic depression often struggle to manage simple daily tasks that end up being too much to handle.
How can daily life be so hard? As tasks grow, there are more decisions to make, figuring out which ones to attend to requires more thought and energy then they have but keep striving to the point of failure.
The depressed person can't get out of bed to do simple tasks because they just don't have the energy. The person with ADHD can be overwhelmed with options, stimulation, and data.
It's hard to understand how a seemingly normal adult can't function or takes a long time to get things done. It's easy, what's the problem? Your arm isn't broken, you manage to dress and talk alright, why do you need help?
Because your asking a desk calculator to land a spaceship. That's what happened with Apollo 11. As they approached the landing, an alarm went off that Buzz Aldrin had to repeatedly shut down. Turns out it was the on board computer saying "I'm overwhelmed and about to crash." It took two skilled pilots to land the craft safely. Sometimes we all need help.
The skills to do certain tasks don't always translate to others. I know a brilliant physicist who can't figure out how to program a phone message system. I have good basic mechanical skills but I'm immediately frustrated working on a bike.
Idiot- savant used to mean people like the character in "Rainman." It was dropped for being insensitive but it's kind of accurate. Some abilities are heightened while others simply aren't there. Everyone has good/ bad ability but some are more challenged than the others because of the inability to compensate.
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