ADHD is the perfect mindset for a nomadic society. Stay to long at the same place (and risk ravaging its ressources)? No problem, you'll get bored before that happens and seek a new place!

Sedantarity and land owning is a problem to nomadic people everywhere 😁 Of course this is no longer valid in an overcrowded world like ours.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 8 months ago (3 children)

And it's bad because they're "chores" who "need to be done". In a different structure which recognised the needs of ADHD people those chores would never have been assigned to you in the first place.

[–] Nefara@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don't think dishes and laundry are a socio-economic problem unless you're implying all ADHD people should always be able to afford household help and assistance. Plenty of people with disabilities and challenges have to deal with chores as a function of being alive, including ADHD people. It's a part of existence that your clothes will need washing, trash will need to be taken out, and I agree that not doing them is a bad thing. The timetable, the consequences of inaction, the associated stress, all of that can be variable and that is where flexibility should be given, but ffs ADHD people should and need to do chores too.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Yes, I think adhd people who can't do housechores should have assistance for it, and in turn they would provide what they can to society. If that is not possible because "they can't afford it" then the system that requires monetary compensation is at fault.

There's plenty of people who like doing chores and don't like doing what adhd people are doing. These two groups can collaborate.

[–] NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don’t disagree with you, but I don’t see that happening for a while.

It’s hard enough to get people to say that people deserve to have food, water, and shelter.

Although this does sound like a great “Be the change you want to see in the world.” thing!

You could start a Facebook group or something in your town, make it like a co-op thing!

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It's why I say it's a socioeconomic problem and not a personal problem.

Also my hands are quite full in the mutual aid department, 😁

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 4 points 8 months ago

Would I hate an ideal world where people with bad ADHD have people to cook and clean for them? No, but it's not social injustice; just life. It's a personal problem in the same way losing an arm is a personal problem; to an extent society has a responsibility to help you cope with it, but it still sucks to lose an arm.

[–] Murdoc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if it comes from the whole 'nuclear family' concept from the '50s. Just the idea that each person, plus a partner and offspring, must be self-sufficient, living on their own little kingdom in the 'burbs. I often think about how if we took human differences and ability to specialize to apply to living conditions, and not just your job (which we aren't that great at either, but better), then we might be using bigger groups of people with more sophisticated living arrangements. But is that all just hypothetical, or do people actually live like that anywhere in the world or history?

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yes that's very close to the truth I believe. Humans and their ancestor species lived in such mixed societies for hundreds of thousands if not millions of years before they invented farming as hono sapiens . It's our natural way to organize.