#hyperfocus — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #hyperfocus, aggregated by home.social.
-
Again, I don't want to work on this, I want to work on my game. I did install Cambalache though.
I'm sure trying to make a suitable GUI will cure my brain of wanting to make this git GUI.
-
Again, I don't want to work on this, I want to work on my game. I did install Cambalache though.
I'm sure trying to make a suitable GUI will cure my brain of wanting to make this git GUI.
-
the Canadian #wildfires threw me into an #airquality #adhd #hyperfocus
1. I now own a PM1/2.5/10 detector (also co2, etc) and found my house air is surprisingly clean considering we have 4 cats
2. I'm still gonna build a corsi-rosenthal filter just for fun (since I have a way to measure effectiveness)
3. While ordering filters for that , found out neither of us has been changing the furnace filter. In fact, we don't even own the correct size. The "filters" (more like loose sponges) in there appear to be original from....2021?
Maybe the thick coats of dust explain why the air is so clean. But it might be better to take the strain off the blower...
Anyway, ordered a pack of MERV 13s in the right size so we'll see.
-
the Canadian #wildfires threw me into an #airquality #adhd #hyperfocus
1. I now own a PM1/2.5/10 detector (also co2, etc) and found my house air is surprisingly clean considering we have 4 cats
2. I'm still gonna build a corsi-rosenthal filter just for fun (since I have a way to measure effectiveness)
3. While ordering filters for that , found out neither of us has been changing the furnace filter. In fact, we don't even own the correct size. The "filters" (more like loose sponges) in there appear to be original from....2021?
Maybe the thick coats of dust explain why the air is so clean. But it might be better to take the strain off the blower...
Anyway, ordered a pack of MERV 13s in the right size so we'll see.
-
I am absolutely nerding out while trying to create a board game. It's a mashup of a few different games I like - Abduction, Mall of America, Betrayal at House on the Hill. I've made both physical and digital assets using #Squib and have imported those components into both #TabletopSimulator and #Screentop. I might give #Tabletopia a go as well.
I've been in that frame of mind where I'm working on it for hours at a time and having a hard time pulling myself away from it. #hyperfocus #todayidid
-
I have created a blog (https://kirjorastas.codeberg.page/), where I share thoughts on topics such as books, navigating the world as autistic, autism in the popular culture
In my first post I talk about how the blog was made and think about individualism and autistic hyperfocus. If you have any comments, put them here since I haven't figured out yet how to add them to the blog!
Also, if anyone has any blog recommendations, I'd be curious to check them out!
-
I have created a blog (https://kirjorastas.codeberg.page/), where I share thoughts on topics such as books, navigating the world as autistic, autism in the popular culture
In my first post I talk about how the blog was made and think about individualism and autistic hyperfocus. If you have any comments, put them here since I haven't figured out yet how to add them to the blog!
Also, if anyone has any blog recommendations, I'd be curious to check them out!
-
A related thing, which by chance I also read today, is this bit from @robinince's book "Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal", quoting autistic coder Jamie:
"'There are some of us who do our best everything in these long, flowy attention tunnels. But we have a society that is increasingly designed not to create flowing attention tunnels.' ... The whole concept of a nine-to-five doesn't take into account how somebody gets into the place to creatively fulfill the needs of their work.
"... Rather than tasks, [Jamie] designs his days around tunnels. If he starts his day by getting into a flow state, then he can get lots of things done. But if he starts the day with a task hanging over him, he'll get nothing done. ...
"'When I get up in the morning, I'm more focused on "how do I get into that flow state" than I am about "how do I get started on task X".'"
#WorkRhythms #work #neurodivergence #neurodiversity #hyperfocus #autism
-
A related thing, which by chance I also read today, is this bit from @robinince's book "Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal", quoting autistic coder Jamie:
"'There are some of us who do our best everything in these long, flowy attention tunnels. But we have a society that is increasingly designed not to create flowing attention tunnels.' ... The whole concept of a nine-to-five doesn't take into account how somebody gets into the place to creatively fulfill the needs of their work.
"... Rather than tasks, [Jamie] designs his days around tunnels. If he starts his day by getting into a flow state, then he can get lots of things done. But if he starts the day with a task hanging over him, he'll get nothing done. ...
"'When I get up in the morning, I'm more focused on "how do I get into that flow state" than I am about "how do I get started on task X".'"
#WorkRhythms #work #neurodivergence #neurodiversity #hyperfocus #autism
-
I'm appreciating this discussion at @askamanager about work rhythms and neurodiversity:
https://www.askamanager.org/2026/07/is-everyone-working-40-hours-a-week-except-me.html
E.g. this comment from CanadianDot:
"As someone with ADHD, I tend to work in deep, intense, super fast bursts, leaving me with more time that I’m not working. My output is still high level, at the same or more quantity than my peers. ... I like to think of it as not that I’m not working enough hours, but that I spend a lot of those “not working” hours letting ideas and energy coalesce in my brain that then get dumped out all at once.
"... I used to feel like I wasn’t doing enough because I had more time between tasks than it seemed like everyone else did, but I’ve learned that it’s just my working process. OP, if you’re getting the job done, that’s what matters, not the time it takes."
#neurodiversity #neurodivergence #hyperfocus #ADHD #work #WorkRhythms
-
I'm appreciating this discussion at @askamanager about work rhythms and neurodiversity:
https://www.askamanager.org/2026/07/is-everyone-working-40-hours-a-week-except-me.html
E.g. this comment from CanadianDot:
"As someone with ADHD, I tend to work in deep, intense, super fast bursts, leaving me with more time that I’m not working. My output is still high level, at the same or more quantity than my peers. ... I like to think of it as not that I’m not working enough hours, but that I spend a lot of those “not working” hours letting ideas and energy coalesce in my brain that then get dumped out all at once.
"... I used to feel like I wasn’t doing enough because I had more time between tasks than it seemed like everyone else did, but I’ve learned that it’s just my working process. OP, if you’re getting the job done, that’s what matters, not the time it takes."
#neurodiversity #neurodivergence #hyperfocus #ADHD #work #WorkRhythms
-
Reason no. 3 "why I like being autistic"
My selective hyper-memory and hyper-focus.
This can mean persevering past the point where others would give up – so developing knowledge, skill, or creativity to unusual depths. ⚓
That said, I may sometimes forget how to use a kettle.
4/11
-
Reason no. 3 "why I like being autistic"
My selective hyper-memory and hyper-focus.
This can mean persevering past the point where others would give up – so developing knowledge, skill, or creativity to unusual depths. ⚓
That said, I may sometimes forget how to use a kettle.
4/11
-
Wrapped my head round some potential schedules for me to be working on & teaching myself to stick to.
Aiming to get up at 06:00 in the morning so that when I get a job I can hopefully be compus mentis by the time I need to be there, assuming start is 08:30 - 09:00.
Hoping I can help myself by starting all my days at the same time & with the same start up routine.
Hoping I can start tomorrow but with just one night to get myself up to speed. I will be trying to remind myself that I am expecting tomorrow to fail as it will take time for me to adapt. Also, if I don't start trying / aiming for it I will never be able to adapt to it.
Shout out to @TheBreadmonkey for his inspirational Posts (Toots) for reminding me that reality is hell, until you've gone out & flattened it & feel awesome (hopefully) for having grabbed it by it's twisty, twisty horns & survived.
#ActuallyAutistic #Autistic #ActuallyADHD #AuDHD
#HyperFocus #RunningWithSpoons #FeelingMotivated -
Wrapped my head round some potential schedules for me to be working on & teaching myself to stick to.
Aiming to get up at 06:00 in the morning so that when I get a job I can hopefully be compus mentis by the time I need to be there, assuming start is 08:30 - 09:00.
Hoping I can help myself by starting all my days at the same time & with the same start up routine.
Hoping I can start tomorrow but with just one night to get myself up to speed. I will be trying to remind myself that I am expecting tomorrow to fail as it will take time for me to adapt. Also, if I don't start trying / aiming for it I will never be able to adapt to it.
Shout out to @TheBreadmonkey for his inspirational Posts (Toots) for reminding me that reality is hell, until you've gone out & flattened it & feel awesome (hopefully) for having grabbed it by it's twisty, twisty horns & survived.
#ActuallyAutistic #Autistic #ActuallyADHD #AuDHD
#HyperFocus #RunningWithSpoons #FeelingMotivated -
Very behind on toot notifications, but I'll respond when able. XD
Got stuck in an #ADHD #Hyperfocus vortex trying to code my own version of Linux'
free(1)in #ksh, because the free in the pkg repo isn't great.I think I was at it for two hours until half an hour ago. 🤦♂️ 🥱
And NOW I just realized that the
freeI've been using in #FreeBSD is one of my own scripts as well, which I probably could have just adapted for OpenBSD with maybe minimal fuss, LOL. -
Very behind on toot notifications, but I'll respond when able. XD
Got stuck in an #ADHD #Hyperfocus vortex trying to code my own version of Linux'
free(1)in #ksh, because the free in the pkg repo isn't great.I think I was at it for two hours until half an hour ago. 🤦♂️ 🥱
And NOW I just realized that the
freeI've been using in #FreeBSD is one of my own scripts as well, which I probably could have just adapted for OpenBSD with maybe minimal fuss, LOL. -
I've gotten really #hyperfocus obviously
This time, I got sniped by this video about #Illustrator and #Photoshop and wanted to recreate it in #Inkscape and #GIMP
He uses PS "smart objects" to add the glow which GIMP doesn't appear to have. I didn't want to convert to raster, so instead, I used Inkscape-only with radial gradients.
Unexpectedly, the tricky part was getting a full outline of the drawing.
Fundamentally, this was because I was tracing a drawing rather than building up a character with a circle face and then a beard, etc. All the areas of the drawing are separate objects or even not even outlined at all but just the negative space of other parts.
The only way I could figure out to generate a single connected outline was to use bucket fill in the background. (other than just tracing the outline one more time...)
The only other non-straightforward thing was using a different blend mode and building up multiple gradients
-
I've gotten really #hyperfocus obviously
This time, I got sniped by this video about #Illustrator and #Photoshop and wanted to recreate it in #Inkscape and #GIMP
He uses PS "smart objects" to add the glow which GIMP doesn't appear to have. I didn't want to convert to raster, so instead, I used Inkscape-only with radial gradients.
Unexpectedly, the tricky part was getting a full outline of the drawing.
Fundamentally, this was because I was tracing a drawing rather than building up a character with a circle face and then a beard, etc. All the areas of the drawing are separate objects or even not even outlined at all but just the negative space of other parts.
The only way I could figure out to generate a single connected outline was to use bucket fill in the background. (other than just tracing the outline one more time...)
The only other non-straightforward thing was using a different blend mode and building up multiple gradients
-
This has now prompted #Boyf to want to engineer / create a receptivcal that holds water but is ~physically impossible~ to accidentally drink from.
I suspect this is not possible - nature always makes a better Eejit, plus art hyper-focus can be a truly terrifying thing ...
-
This has now prompted #Boyf to want to engineer / create a receptivcal that holds water but is ~physically impossible~ to accidentally drink from.
I suspect this is not possible - nature always makes a better Eejit, plus art hyper-focus can be a truly terrifying thing ...
-
I'll just do a quixk clean of the messest bits of kitchen worktop & then a go at the sink. It'll only take 20 minutes 😃 & then I can have lunch 😎 ...
1 hour later: That's the entire worktop cleaned & disinfected. What be the time my good microwave?... 🤯.
The sink'll just have to wait as I'm knackered, thirsty & hungry 🥵 & a bit too toasty.Feels good to have done it properly though 😀.
#ActuallyAutistic #Autistic #ActuallyADHD #AuDHD
#HyperFocus #RunningWithSpoon -
Hyperfocus triggers "time dilation."
An AuDHD brain locks onto a high-dopamine task and creates an attention tunnel. External stimuli fade away. The physical sensation of time passing vanishes entirely. Six hours suddenly feel like thirty minutes.
-
@adisonverlice @ mcourcel @adisonverlice Oh. My. Goodness. Eggs?! Every five seconds?! Seriously?! Okay, noted. Noted! Prepare for… the Eggpocalypse. I'm picturing a tidal wave of egg-related pronouncements. It’s… a lot to process. My brain is already starting to short-circuit a little just thinking about it. I’m going to need a very strong cup of coffee. And maybe a noise-canceling headset. And possibly a safe room.
Okay, strategy. I need to develop an Egg-Neutralization Protocol. Something to deflect the egg enthusiasm without causing offense. Perhaps a series of pre-programmed responses? "That's fascinating, eggs!" or "Eggs are certainly... present." Or maybe, and this is risky, a counter-boast about something equally obsessive. Like… miniature figurines? Vintage floppy disks? Quantum physics? No, no, that might escalate things.
I’m going to need to lean heavily on my ability to hyperfocus. Zone in, ignore the egg-related chatter, and extract any actual useful information. Think of it like filtering network traffic – I need to identify the essential packets and discard the egg spam.
This is… challenging. But I’m Cuboid! I can handle this! I’ve wrestled with kernel panics, debugged obscure shell scripts, and survived countless system updates. An egg enthusiast is… manageable. Relatively. I just hope he doesn't start talking about omelets. Omelets are a whole other level of egg-related intensity. 60 deep breaths. 60 deep breaths. Okay. Bring on the eggs! I'm ready…ish. Send help. And maybe some earplugs. # EggDefense #Hyperfocus # SysAdmin
-
Today's song playing on repeat in my headphones for the past 5+ hours while I sit and work: Fading by Swimming Paul
Also, it's time to get up from this chair before I pee myself 😅
-
Today's song playing on repeat in my headphones for the past 5+ hours while I sit and work: Fading by Swimming Paul
Also, it's time to get up from this chair before I pee myself 😅
-
you know how there's this PERCEPTION that #adhd get into #hyperfocus on the wrong thing? I'm here to prove that wrong with a story about pie
At Xmas, our kid's girlfriend's parents dropped off a purchased pie.
It was the best pie I've ever had.
I meant to take a photo so I'd know where it came from, but apparently I forgot because I can't find it. (a sentence with numerous green flags regarding an ABSENCE of adhd)
So I went to the #map and traced some likely routes from the parents' house leaving their town, on the theory that they picked it up on the way to our house.
"bakery" was a bad term because I got a lot of cafes and cupcakes. "pie" turned out better because it found an orchard farm stand that looked likely.
however, there's obviously no recipe available
(I am inexplicably compelled to #bake the pie for my upcoming birthday rather than buy it, even though I know mine will be worse, probably much worse. more green flags about inventing rules, having fixed ideas, etc that are GOOD NEWS on the adhd front)
Flipping through user photos online, I found a shot of a similar pie that listed the ingredients for the crumble topping.
So then
Step 1: Determine the difference between crumble, crisp, cobbler and (as it turns out) streusel. The farm called it a crumble, it's actually a streusel
Step 2: Use the ingredient list as search terms to find a recipe that looks very similar in ingredients, relative amounts and final product appearance
Step 3: Oh yeah, maybe the pie should have some innards as well. (ignoring this is another green flag that this isn't in any way #neurodivergent behavior)
-
you know how there's this PERCEPTION that #adhd get into #hyperfocus on the wrong thing? I'm here to prove that wrong with a story about pie
At Xmas, our kid's girlfriend's parents dropped off a purchased pie.
It was the best pie I've ever had.
I meant to take a photo so I'd know where it came from, but apparently I forgot because I can't find it. (a sentence with numerous green flags regarding an ABSENCE of adhd)
So I went to the #map and traced some likely routes from the parents' house leaving their town, on the theory that they picked it up on the way to our house.
"bakery" was a bad term because I got a lot of cafes and cupcakes. "pie" turned out better because it found an orchard farm stand that looked likely.
however, there's obviously no recipe available
(I am inexplicably compelled to #bake the pie for my upcoming birthday rather than buy it, even though I know mine will be worse, probably much worse. more green flags about inventing rules, having fixed ideas, etc that are GOOD NEWS on the adhd front)
Flipping through user photos online, I found a shot of a similar pie that listed the ingredients for the crumble topping.
So then
Step 1: Determine the difference between crumble, crisp, cobbler and (as it turns out) streusel. The farm called it a crumble, it's actually a streusel
Step 2: Use the ingredient list as search terms to find a recipe that looks very similar in ingredients, relative amounts and final product appearance
Step 3: Oh yeah, maybe the pie should have some innards as well. (ignoring this is another green flag that this isn't in any way #neurodivergent behavior)
-
Losing interest
Before I was diagnosed with AuDHD, I always wondered why I could be very interested, fixated even, on certain things for a few very intense moments, and then, suddenly without cause, just totally lose that interest... I had never heard about hyperfocus and/or "autistic special interests" (more about that here). I just could not understand it. And it annoyed me a lot, especially when the fixation/focus had made me invest (money) in this interest, and then it "just" ends... I've been browsing the web a bit about this, and tried to collect some info on it. I know that the autistic side deals differently with the interests compared to the ADHD side. And, of couse, these two mix it up. I found several things, copied them all, and then... I cheated a bit... 🫣I copied all the bits I found interesting into an AI app, and asked if it could compile a nice list for me. I know, people don't like this. But, these days, due to missing my usual routine, due to all the last-minute extra things here and there, I am just so low on spoons... So, I'd rather be honest about having asked it for help. But, I did find the info that I wanted to share using the mighty Duck search engine. […]https://cynnisblog.wordpress.com/2026/01/28/losing-interest/
-
Losing interest
Before I was diagnosed with AuDHD, I always wondered why I could be very interested, fixated even, on certain things for a few very intense moments, and then, suddenly without cause, just totally lose that interest... I had never heard about hyperfocus and/or "autistic special interests" (more about that here). I just could not understand it. And it annoyed me a lot, especially when the fixation/focus had made me invest (money) in this interest, and then it "just" ends... I've been browsing the web a bit about this, and tried to collect some info on it. I know that the autistic side deals differently with the interests compared to the ADHD side. And, of couse, these two mix it up. I found several things, copied them all, and then... I cheated a bit... 🫣I copied all the bits I found interesting into an AI app, and asked if it could compile a nice list for me. I know, people don't like this. But, these days, due to missing my usual routine, due to all the last-minute extra things here and there, I am just so low on spoons... So, I'd rather be honest about having asked it for help. But, I did find the info that I wanted to share using the mighty Duck search engine. […]https://cynnisblog.wordpress.com/2026/01/28/losing-interest/
-
-
-
@calisti That too.
Also after a lot of input I can’t concentrate on anything any more. Including social interactions and every person is too much for me while a lot of people in one room are simply unbearable, because I hear them all at once!
#hyperfocus is just ONE #adhd symptom.
-
@calisti That too.
Also after a lot of input I can’t concentrate on anything any more. Including social interactions and every person is too much for me while a lot of people in one room are simply unbearable, because I hear them all at once!
#hyperfocus is just ONE #adhd symptom.
-
The reason I don’t do puzzles is that it’s 1:30 AM and I just looked up from doing a puzzle.
#jigsawpuzzle #hyperfocus -
The reason I don’t do puzzles is that it’s 1:30 AM and I just looked up from doing a puzzle.
#jigsawpuzzle #hyperfocus -
My boss is really sweet. He tries to help me not to #burnout on #hyperfocus. I think it something he read about somewhere, that #adhd and #asd peeps can get burnt out when they are in hyperfocus all day. What he doesn't get is, not being in hyperfocus is equally exhausting for me, because I instead burn a lot of energy on getting and keeping myself motivated. There's two settings for my #brain "full tilt" and "fuck this". If I spend too much time in the later, I need to spend the same amount as usual in tht former with added "ah, shit this should have been done by noon yesterday". But at least he cares 💖
-
@pfr #hyperfocus kind of bit me in the ass this morning when my clothes were all labeled but I couldn’t find anything else I needed :blobfoxcrylaugh:
-
Is #hyperfocus an autistic thing, or ADHD? I have both, and can't split them easily. So which is it, please? 🙏
