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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 do.

In this kind of a senario, Tik! would be a better option and less stimulating than something like instagram for example, since although your mind is busy, it's not overstimulating your brain with information.

Just my thoughts on the topic, please let me know if you agree or have anything to add on :)

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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 be saying writing with your left hand is unhealthy and recommending exercises to force yourself to write with the "correct" hand.

> You're basically implying that it is immoral to have ADHD.

I don't see where the commenter mentioned morality. Where do you see this?

Thx, yes I was just responding in context to the original comment

Please learn to read people's words more charitably, and maybe to act a little less weird. I have ADHD as well and think that the incessant need for distractions is a decidedly unhealthy part of the malfunction.

It is very strange for you to be suggesting someone interpret others more charitably and tell them to be less weird in the same sentence.

Making the mental jump from "Needing a distraction all the time isn't healthy" to "You're basically implying that it is immoral to have ADHD" is both very strange and massively uncharitable. It is entirely accurate to describe your comment as both.

Thx, yes I just wanted to say that I understood the original comment's pov, nothing else..

I didn't mean it like that. I was just responding in context to the original comment, which was about how people nowadays tend to distract themselves aimlessly all the time and stimulate their brain instead of taking time to let their brain be free.

It is not immoral in the slightest for anyone, and especially if you have ADHD. In fact if this is something someone could use to help with their ADHD that would be incredible. I was just saying that I get where the original comment is coming from as well.

Hope this clears things up!

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