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  • Programming is hard and requires you to think in a different way than how we think most of the time.

    This is the hardest part, learning to think in algorithm. You can learn that with most languages, once you know it it’s much easier to learn another programming language.

    Start with some simple tutorials, only use ChatGPT to help you understand some concepts or pieces of code, not to write the code. You can’t really learn shit if you’re not forcing your brain to think that way.

    It takes time, like weeks to start to become kinda comfortable with basic programming. Start with conditional structures (if, else), loops (while, for) variables and functions. That should already allow you to create some fairly complex programs.

    If I may, I would heavily suggest you to try to learn C, as it’s a much lower level programming language that has almost no hidden logic, where python comes with a whole lot of integrated features that make it hard to really learn and understand what’s really happening.

    Good luck! 👍







  • nyoooom@lemmy.worldtoADHD@lemmy.worldADHD or just bad habits?
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    9 months ago

    Yeah I get your point of view, I’m diagnosed for ADHD and my psychiatrist told me I might be asperger, and after looking into it both those things basically explain everything I do, and I’m understanding more of my behavior almost everyday since.

    I also think it’s not necessarily bad to wear it as a badge, as it can be a big part of who you are (just like many other minorities which are very vocal about it) and it normalizes the fact of talking about it and shows what autistic people might look like, which can be far from the stereotype.

    I hope you can find the answers you’re looking for, whether it’s in those topics or something completely different, it just feels great when you finally understand why you’re a bit weird and discover that the way others think is just so far from how you think, it’s a good tool and very validating :)

    EDIT: just to add on AuDHD, over the years we are discovering that there is a huge overlap between Autism and ADHD, but the symptoms of those conditions can mask each other which leads to a late or no diagnosis. On my end I can really see how ADHD makes me comfortable to start talking to a stranger while they don’t see that I’m doing a lot of the interaction in “manual” mode, very self consciously. On the other hand, autism makes me enjoy being calm and chilling which hides the hyperactivity… It’s… interesting. There are much less resources on that but the few ones I found really really match my experience.



  • The "bad habits" are caused by ADHD which gives low motivation

    Also some of the stuff here looks like ASD (such as not liking going with too many people, overstimulation, wanting to live in the country)

    Based on your description the ADHD part is basically without a doubt, you can look up autism resources on YouTube, there are quite a few interesting channels