I was diagnosed with adhd because I like, lose my car in parking lots and dropped out of high-school. Yesterday, a gen Z kid told me his adhd was so bad that sometimes when he checks for oncoming cars he forgets if there was a car or not.
Our brains are not working the same way. I don't think Gen Z understands how slow the internet used to be. Like, back in the bulletin board days, every website was like chapo.chat on a very slow day. There were no upvotes and posts would stay at the top for days or years on end.
YouTube was basically other people's home videos in the early days.
I cannot stress how weird, fast moving, and endless tiktok is and what that's doing to people's brains. Like, most people used to be able to sit down and read books. Now they're a minority.
I wasn't alive 30+ years ago to experience it myself, but it does really feel like you're right. I think I might know more people my age who are barely functional due to mental health issues than not... and from working in a high school a bit recently I don't think gen Z is much better off. Maybe it's self-selecting but I don't know a lot of people who struggle that much to cope from older generations.
I am yeah, and evidently I was wrong, but mostly as an underestimation of how many people read even now, since everything I can find with a quick search indicates most Americans actually still read
Okay I'm gonna get real old for a second.
I was diagnosed with adhd because I like, lose my car in parking lots and dropped out of high-school. Yesterday, a gen Z kid told me his adhd was so bad that sometimes when he checks for oncoming cars he forgets if there was a car or not.
Our brains are not working the same way. I don't think Gen Z understands how slow the internet used to be. Like, back in the bulletin board days, every website was like chapo.chat on a very slow day. There were no upvotes and posts would stay at the top for days or years on end.
YouTube was basically other people's home videos in the early days.
I cannot stress how weird, fast moving, and endless tiktok is and what that's doing to people's brains. Like, most people used to be able to sit down and read books. Now they're a minority.
It's not just the camera.
I wasn't alive 30+ years ago to experience it myself, but it does really feel like you're right. I think I might know more people my age who are barely functional due to mental health issues than not... and from working in a high school a bit recently I don't think gen Z is much better off. Maybe it's self-selecting but I don't know a lot of people who struggle that much to cope from older generations.
I'd like to see the numbers on this, because I don't get the impression that most people really read books even then
omg you really are young if you don't realize how popular books used to be.
I am yeah, and evidently I was wrong, but mostly as an underestimation of how many people read even now, since everything I can find with a quick search indicates most Americans actually still read