{ "comments": [ { "author": "norabellemichelle", "author_id": "7477808952324883498", "id": "7690656032124568351", "is_creator": false, "is_pinned": false, "likes": 4359, "parent_id": "root", "replies": [], "text": "Is this why I have so much trouble picking out the most important information in a textbook chapter? It all seems important to me and I feel like I need to know it all to understand any of it.", "timestamp": 1790620422 }, { "author": "sean_0203", "author_id": "6658797360007315461", "id": "7690920651910644482", "is_creator": false, "is_pinned": false, "likes": 308, "parent_id": "root", "replies": [], "text": "Is that why I need to absolutely know EVERY detail about something before I can grasp the concept? 🤔", "timestamp": 1790682051 }, { "author": "melebar", "author_id": "6622452497272373254", "id": "7691063990856499999", "is_creator": false, "is_pinned": false, "likes": 17, "parent_id": "root", "replies": [], "text": "Audhd here and....that made zero sense to me. You spoke in a circular fashion and still no point that made the least bit of sense. Especially the Coke analogy.", "timestamp": 1790715420 }, { "author": "user1277629350967", "author_id": "7457964675931423790", "id": "7690681480855864078", "is_creator": false, "is_pinned": false, "likes": 1428, "parent_id": "root", "replies": [], "text": "starting a new job for me is hard because I can never grasp the full picture of what my position does or what the overall working of the business is/needs. I have to learn all the little tasks and details first and then I start to understand what the role is/what it does for the place and how the place really functions. most people could probably grasp the function immediately", "timestamp": 1790626378 }, { "author": "azralorne", "author_id": "6682923854712062981", "id": "7690572194862990093", "is_creator": false, "is_pinned": false, "likes": 366, "parent_id": "root", "replies": [], "text": "just the description of the class breaking down the advertisement taking that many repeats of the instructions to understand makes me twitchy 😭 how is it so hard for them to understand to just describe what you see?? It was the literal question you were asking!", "timestamp": 1790600983 }, { "author": "tropic_nic", "author_id": "7432794870107571246", "id": "7691182459220935455", "is_creator": false, "is_pinned": false, "likes": 129, "parent_id": "root", "replies": [], "text": "This is why I sucked at algebra in high school. My teacher just taught us to memorize formulas and I told her I have to understand WHY this number goes here or I'm never going to understand any of this!", "timestamp": 1790743031 }, { "author": "d1pdab_", "author_id": "7059814070099035142", "id": "7690553852573876994", "is_creator": false, "is_pinned": false, "likes": 1789, "parent_id": "root", "replies": [], "text": "Oh this is why I’m less tired on foreign travel than NT friends. My experience is basically the same as any other day but with lower expectations, for once no one expects me to know all the rules and things", "timestamp": 1790596657 }, { "author": "ksreverie", "author_id": "7068696845360612398", "id": "7693393860815635213", "is_creator": false, "is_pinned": false, "likes": 1, "parent_id": "root", "replies": [], "text": "How exactly do you help adults with autism?", "timestamp": 1791257912 }, { "author": "ldnjordan", "author_id": "6730346674881217542", "id": "7690773959490437890", "is_creator": false, "is_pinned": false, "likes": 38, "parent_id": "root", "replies": [], "text": "As an audhd person do you know how rapidly I lose interest in a video once you start the “hi my name is x and im a super duper expert with a hundred years experience”", "timestamp": 1790647991 }, { "author": "the.spite.store", "author_id": "7216205707111416875", "id": "7691326437631296270", "is_creator": false, "is_pinned": false, "likes": 61, "parent_id": "root", "replies": [], "text": "Pro tip for neurodivergent kids…I used to read my school text book chapters backwards. The summary will tell you what is important. I even took tests backwards. It’s helpful Fl", "timestamp": 1790776582 }, { "author": "mngless.usrn", "author_id": "6879570134932489222", "id": "7690648038637749006", "is_creator": false, "is_pinned": false, "likes": 36, "parent_id": "root", "replies": [], "text": "this is how math and engineering stuff has always been for me. id always need to rederive everything in class until I actually understood why we're doing like higher level things we were doing, which made sitting in lectures that go by really fast unbearable cus im not smart enough to do it that fast usually. this lowkey explains really well also why I'm interested in computer architecture.", "timestamp": 1790618588 }, { "author": "whatabout_lastnight", "author_id": "7263892004115285035", "id": "7690669349749048077", "is_creator": false, "is_pinned": false, "likes": 4, "parent_id": "root", "replies": [], "text": "I view magazines from back to front.", "timestamp": 1790623554 }, { "author": "boop_master_bubba", "author_id": "6821380941408355334", "id": "7690584684339036959", "is_creator": false, "is_pinned": false, "likes": 917, "parent_id": "root", "replies": [], "text": "yes but i still don't get how top down thinking works, bc how can you understand anything without understanding what its parts are and how they fit together?", "timestamp": 1790603847 }, { "author": "yeshuafawkes", "author_id": "6656916362458136581", "id": "7692773736520811277", "is_creator": false, "is_pinned": false, "likes": 2, "parent_id": "root", "replies": [], "text": "I see you have books for autism and adhd. Anything about AuDHD?", "timestamp": 1791113601 }, { "author": "luxbiggestfan", "author_id": "7250341678115505179", "id": "7691789808397583136", "is_creator": false, "is_pinned": false, "likes": 141, "parent_id": "root", "replies": [], "text": "this is also why i can't write an outline for an essay first. how am i supposed to know what my conclusion is if i haven't absorbed and processed all of the information yet? i have to dig into the sources first, otherwise i'd just be making shit up", "timestamp": 1790884384 }, { "author": "starlightseabright", "author_id": "7589448625047323703", "id": "7690642356115325709", "is_creator": false, "is_pinned": false, "likes": 2, "parent_id": "root", "replies": [], "text": "This doesn’t make sense to me. It’s like getting an answer but doing no research to verify the conclusion.", "timestamp": 1790617299 }, { "author": "tiredmumma1029", "author_id": "6877007272142046214", "id": "7690861513507078920", "is_creator": false, "is_pinned": false, "likes": 2, "parent_id": "root", "replies": [], "text": "The second you started giving examples of the answers they gave you I was shaking my head and saying “he’s asking for the content, NOT the emotion, the answer’s probably someone smiling and a glass of Coke or something.” AuDHDer here 🤣", "timestamp": 1790668254 }, { "author": "easysqueeeezy", "author_id": "7406410777365693472", "id": "7690566871271506721", "is_creator": false, "is_pinned": false, "likes": 1055, "parent_id": "root", "replies": [], "text": "Oooooh 🤯 I've been told that I'm bad at explaining things. I've noticed that to understand something, I need many, many details. Otherwise I can't see the big picture. So that's how I explain things: with too many details. I don't have a diagnosis, but apparently you just helped me understand how I see the world in contrast to others 🙂 Thank you!", "timestamp": 1790599655 }, { "author": "yelyahrb", "author_id": "7395085834154525738", "id": "7692033682593825550", "is_creator": false, "is_pinned": false, "likes": 3, "parent_id": "root", "replies": [], "text": "I always felt in college I wanted to read the textbooks backwards because I can't add to what we've already learned. I need to see it all then break it down in order to understand", "timestamp": 1790941292 }, { "author": "noxiousnoxthewriter", "author_id": "7518263476142523447", "id": "7690911246594097933", "is_creator": false, "is_pinned": false, "likes": 1, "parent_id": "root", "replies": [], "text": "Are you taking clients? I’m Audhd and my therapists says I need an ADHD coach. I struggle with severe depression. I can’t maintain normal hours I gave tricks sleeping and my mind is a mess, making it impossible to maintain a job. So need help.", "timestamp": 1790679917 }, { "author": "auspicious_stone312", "author_id": "6800493260042486789", "id": "7690666539925898014", "is_creator": false, "is_pinned": false, "likes": 1, "parent_id": "root", "replies": [], "text": "I am now even more confused. How is not being able to differentiate the image from the message the example of top-down thinking? IS THE FIRST LAYER NOT THE TOP?? 😆 is the message the forest or the trees?", "timestamp": 1790622867 }, { "author": "razzberry_lemonade", "author_id": "6928574530065024005", "id": "7690600205272892174", "is_creator": false, "is_pinned": false, "likes": 8144, "parent_id": "root", "replies": [], "text": "The way i describe it as is non autistic people see a sink full of dishes as just one task that needs to be complete, where as autistic people see each individual dish as its own task and that’s how our life views differ", "timestamp": 1790607502 }, { "author": "waterdawg49", "author_id": "6862794019799827462", "id": "7692181554630312717", "is_creator": false, "is_pinned": false, "likes": 6, "parent_id": "root", "replies": [], "text": "I have ADHD. I cannot finish this video… Scrolling in 3 2", "timestamp": 1790975612 }, { "author": "tch2rn", "author_id": "2118066", "id": "7690566961978147598", "is_creator": false, "is_pinned": false, "likes": 175, "parent_id": "root", "replies": [], "text": "RN here - I need to deep dive a chart to give a proper report on a patient before they go into the OR. I can’t just check the basic boxes without understanding why it is that way.", "timestamp": 1790599728 }, { "author": "wsdscgsxde", "author_id": "7651494784234210336", "id": "7690611404961432353", "is_creator": false, "is_pinned": false, "likes": 222, "parent_id": "root", "replies": [], "text": "Try to think of situations like a science experiment. You don’t start with data, you start with a hypothesis and then refine it as data comes in. The hypothesis is the top down processing.", "timestamp": 1790610026 }, { "author": "jonsi11s", "author_id": "6960037558702375942", "id": "7690653499562099487", "is_creator": false, "is_pinned": false, "likes": 17, "parent_id": "root", "replies": [], "text": "How does one take a picture of \"Coke makes you happy\"?? That makes absolutely no sense to me. From that description, I can see someone inferring that Coke makes the woman in the picture happy, but how can you assume the same properties will transfer? That makes no sense to me.\n.\nThen again, I'm probably sutistic.", "timestamp": 1790619847 }, { "author": "magzterz", "author_id": "6736786665463890950", "id": "7692660663411327775", "is_creator": false, "is_pinned": false, "likes": 10, "parent_id": "root", "replies": [], "text": "This why “what’s ur favorite movie, what’s ur fav___.” Is so hard 😭 too much to analyze", "timestamp": 1791087157 }, { "author": "jennirocket", "author_id": "7548410030090404886", "id": "7696788767965774624", "is_creator": false, "is_pinned": false, "likes": 1, "parent_id": "root", "replies": [], "text": "This…explains so much why I struggled with the easy stuff in Uni and school but was locked in for the difficult questions that required you to over analyse the question. That was always SO frustrating because it was supposed to be “gifted” points on a homework or test and I struggled to get them. I could never fathom that the simplest possible answer is the correct one. 😭", "timestamp": 1792048333 }, { "author": "_kara_757", "author_id": "6953057009650779141", "id": "7690767500535169806", "is_creator": false, "is_pinned": false, "likes": 28, "parent_id": "root", "replies": [], "text": "I don't even feel like talking anymore because people just want the point of the story but my brain HAS to give EVERY. SINGLE. DETAIL! I see their impatience but my brain won't let me stop talking 😭", "timestamp": 1790646382 }, { "author": "trinity.hagan8", "author_id": "7572612109487653943", "id": "7690958742549234445", "is_creator": false, "is_pinned": false, "likes": 2, "parent_id": "root", "replies": [], "text": "Can this relate in the literal sense to art? I’ve never been able to explain to people how I draw realism I always say I can just see the details up close and I understand how I need to draw them to create the whole picture.", "timestamp": 1790690935 }, { "author": "mr_kruchten", "author_id": "6988676764545598469", "id": "7690623767563305759", "is_creator": false, "is_pinned": false, "likes": 4, "parent_id": "root", "replies": [], "text": "I had to do a similar thing to the advertisement analysis in a college English 102 course. We had to analyse a print ad from a magazine or a newspaper. And I chose the image below. Originally I found a single page version of this image that was cropped and I pointed out to my professor that, having never heard of the brand before, that it came off as just an ad of a woman sitting on a bed. My professor argue how I could infer that she was on a bed so I found the full image that had a clear background. My professor and my classmates all saw the bracelets and the brand name first. Once I found the full image from the full ad they finally understood what I was seeing.", "timestamp": 1790612929 }, { "author": "j.temp1", "author_id": "6871795922159305733", "id": "7690941839054537486", "is_creator": false, "is_pinned": false, "likes": 3, "parent_id": "root", "replies": [], "text": "when you show a neurotypical a meme that has text in it or below it and you see them look at it and realize they just kind of looked at it without reading the text. But when we look at it the first thing we do is read the text then take in the image.", "timestamp": 1790687024 }, { "author": "_lillian_angel_", "author_id": "7237581632320177158", "id": "7695662185670492950", "is_creator": false, "is_pinned": false, "likes": 4, "parent_id": "root", "replies": [], "text": "Ohhh, so that’s why I suck at highlighting paragraphs in dance theory. Whenever we study a new professional work in class and we have to highlight the choreographer interview and the fact file, me and the five other girls in my class get told “highlight all the important bits”. BUT ITS ALL FUCKING IMPORTANT! How do I know what information here is and isn’t important if it has all been given to me as something that is important to know?? How do I know what is meant to be the special meaningful information?? So I just end up highlighting everything except connective words and phrases.", "timestamp": 1791786035 }, { "author": "subtlebarbarian", "author_id": "7142060364518687750", "id": "7697614942922441495", "is_creator": false, "is_pinned": false, "likes": 2, "parent_id": "root", "replies": [], "text": "I had to understand quantum mechanics to understand introductory astrophysics.", "timestamp": 1792240681 }, { "author": "pstpstcasper", "author_id": "6572637941222293510", "id": "7690578334073291533", "is_creator": false, "is_pinned": false, "likes": 51, "parent_id": "root", "replies": [], "text": "I’m autistic and I’ve always been told I “cant see the forest for the trees” and now I know it’s my bottom up processing 😅", "timestamp": 1790602385 }, { "author": "_derek.d_", "author_id": "6703262575453619205", "id": "7690756795006092046", "is_creator": false, "is_pinned": false, "likes": 19, "parent_id": "root", "replies": [], "text": "This is what pisses me off about my job. They always say “you don’t need to know this” or “this part isn’t important”. WRONG, it’s important to me and it helps me understand.", "timestamp": 1790643891 }, { "author": "alovecraftedhome", "author_id": "6946371396864214021", "id": "7690590654691738381", "is_creator": false, "is_pinned": false, "likes": 15, "parent_id": "root", "replies": [], "text": "Is this why I’m good at project management and finding innovative solutions to connect all the systems at work 🤔", "timestamp": 1790605230 }, { "author": "doc_martens1", "author_id": "6840053574597477382", "id": "7693357835027874574", "is_creator": false, "is_pinned": false, "likes": 5, "parent_id": "root", "replies": [], "text": "Writing an essay is the equivalent of writing 1000 tiny bullshits and it’s just terrifying to start.", "timestamp": 1791249485 }, { "author": "missbecxx", "author_id": "7084914046466016262", "id": "7697422169512690433", "is_creator": false, "is_pinned": false, "likes": 0, "parent_id": "root", "replies": [], "text": "It just clicked why I have so much trouble understanding what people are talking about in meetings at work.. 😳", "timestamp": 1792195775 }, { "author": "cookiesforyou09", "author_id": "7057460177751098374", "id": "7696043864855479073", "is_creator": false, "is_pinned": false, "likes": 6, "parent_id": "root", "replies": [], "text": "maybe that's why ads don't make a lot of sense to me 😂", "timestamp": 1791874893 }, { "author": "bluerockaussies", "author_id": "6816450167143842821", "id": "7690595438529299214", "is_creator": false, "is_pinned": false, "likes": 9, "parent_id": "root", "replies": [], "text": "This is also why seemingly simple tasks can trigger ExecDysfunction. Because it’s actually a bunch of small things you get have to happen in order to even start that small task.", "timestamp": 1790606328 }, { "author": "awesomiii", "author_id": "6794592352004883458", "id": "7694144018543952653", "is_creator": false, "is_pinned": false, "likes": 3, "parent_id": "root", "replies": [], "text": "i think this is why im always seen as “argumentative” bc if any one little thing that’s supposed to make up the whole does not make sense to me, i will question it. and omg i ask so many questions and i guess it sounds like im looking to argue? but im not :(", "timestamp": 1791432534 }, { "author": "3d_opa", "author_id": "7056202391963960325", "id": "7690813382879265549", "is_creator": false, "is_pinned": false, "likes": 48, "parent_id": "root", "replies": [], "text": "I'm a writer and also AUDHD. This could explain why I have such a problem fleshing out a story. I can't see the end because I don't have all the pieces yet.", "timestamp": 1790657103 }, { "author": "bewareoftheleopard", "author_id": "6974373201553277958", "id": "7690895659700847382", "is_creator": false, "is_pinned": false, "likes": 4, "parent_id": "root", "replies": [], "text": "Remember being asked by someone “How are you so good at analysing and finding where issues are?” And I replied that it’s because that was how I masked my whole life. I consciously had to analyse every interaction for meaning and learn and follow the rules no one taught you because not doing so had strong negative social consequences. So you develop good problem solving skills. They said “that sounds exhausting” I simply replied “yes”", "timestamp": 1790676250 }, { "author": "interactorator", "author_id": "6858308992469763078", "id": "7690555706361774870", "is_creator": false, "is_pinned": false, "likes": 200, "parent_id": "root", "replies": [], "text": "so now i understand why I've always been so good at art analysis, and why others don't understand the process intuitively", "timestamp": 1790597078 }, { "author": "teyonthings", "author_id": "6992634309707039750", "id": "7691001921906688790", "is_creator": false, "is_pinned": false, "likes": 2, "parent_id": "root", "replies": [], "text": "how can I use this to get rich and run away.", "timestamp": 1790700961 } ], "content_id": "7690551521368345886", "content_url": "https://www.tiktok.com/@better_sol/video/7690551521368345886", "extracted_at": "2026-10-19T19:52:54.986001215+00:00", "extraction_method": "api", "limit_applied": 1000, "limited": false, "platform": "tiktok", "stats": { "extracted_comments": 46, "max_depth": 0, "top_level_comments": 46, "total_comments": 46 } }