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Do you use an 'ADHD pillow' at your desk? I can recommend.
Can you elaborate, please? Googling that term has left me a bit confused.
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I have a mobile game idea that is “juggling for blind people”. You would use your phone as the hand to catch and throw balls in the air. All user feedback would be sound (ball going up, then going down) and haptic (catching and throwing the ball). I am just a web dev so I don’t think I have the skills to make it. Just leaving the idea here in case someone wants to build it
The app looks nice and the concept sounds interesting. But this worries me a little bit: "I also needed a distraction" - is it really a good idea to treat our brains this way? Why do we need distractions all the time? Why is boredom so intolerable? Also, you can simply just think about stuff, you don't have to feed your compulsion loop.
I have a mobile game idea that is “juggling for blind people”. You would use your phone as the hand to catch and throw balls in the air. All user feedback would be sound (ball going up, then going down) and haptic (catching and throwing the ball). I am just a web dev so I don’t think I have the skills to make it. Just leaving the idea here in case someone wants to build it
It might be possible to do this as a PWA, using https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Acceleromet...
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I'm certain you didn't mean it this way, but it is ableist to assume that because you don't need distractions that others don't. Some people living with ADHD, intrusive thoughts, autism, etc. actually do sometimes need a distraction.
Or maybe they don't need an abstraction and just think they do because it's easier than the alternative.
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Can you elaborate, please? Googling that term has left me a bit confused.
Cushion! Pardon my French : https://www.amazon.com/adhd-cushion/s?k=adhd+cushion (No affiliation)
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I have ADHD and have a really hard time focusing in Zoom meetings at work unless I have something to do. I keep a fidget spinner by my desk and use it constantly during calls. My brother uses a Rubik's cube for the same reason. This game is basically a digital fidget—it doesn't actually prevent you from being there in the meeting, but it does provide the little bit of background simulation that some people legitimate…
I think there's a yuge market for 3d printed fidgets. I would order a sample array of curious plastic/metal fidgets just to have on my desk or to scratch a literal itch
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Thanks for bringing this up, and I completely agree. Needing a distraction all the time isn't healthy, and I was thinking about this while making the app too. The way I look at it though, we should be intentional with our time, making space for time to do nothing / meditate. However, sometimes when we are stuck in a boring situation, it's less about being meaningfully free and more about feeling stuck with nothing to…
You're basically implying that it is immoral to have ADHD. In many ways ADHD isn't so much a disease as an incompatibility with modern office life. It isn't "healthy" for most people to sit in an office all day, but ADHD-like people, it is a very real struggle. One mitigation is distracting a part of your brain with some activity while doing something else. There is nothing at all wrong with this. You might as well b…
I don't see where the commenter mentioned morality. Where do you see this?
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Thanks for bringing this up, and I completely agree. Needing a distraction all the time isn't healthy, and I was thinking about this while making the app too. The way I look at it though, we should be intentional with our time, making space for time to do nothing / meditate. However, sometimes when we are stuck in a boring situation, it's less about being meaningfully free and more about feeling stuck with nothing to…
You're basically implying that it is immoral to have ADHD. In many ways ADHD isn't so much a disease as an incompatibility with modern office life. It isn't "healthy" for most people to sit in an office all day, but ADHD-like people, it is a very real struggle. One mitigation is distracting a part of your brain with some activity while doing something else. There is nothing at all wrong with this. You might as well b…