• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    Sometimes memories just take some time to process, especially if you’re exhausted. Given a few nights of sleep, I bet this kid will start running the events back through his head more and more, and thinking about bits of it he wants to talk about.

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      15 days ago

      Yeah this is what happens with our kid (who, admittedly, has ADHD so maybe he’s a bit unusual). The first day or week after a cool experience he’s pretty meh about it and won’t volunteer much in the way of thoughts or feelings and then suddenly he’ll realize it was real again and all of a sudden he won’t shut up about how cool it was! Then eventually he settles down into a steady pattern of “hey remember when we did X thing wasn’t that so cool we should do it again” which is my favorite phase because that’s how I know what he really likes that stuck with him. : )

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        15 days ago

        Hey, c’mon now! You can’t be going around saying people with ADHD are unusual. Have you SEEN society lately? Pretty sure everybody has…IS THAT A BUTTERFLY???

        gleefully chases a butterfly at age 41