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one of my theories on an origin of adhd is there are long-timescale embodied cycles and adhd is lack of intimacy / coregulation / attachment with those. personal example: phones are so quick and immediate. meanwhile, plants grow at plant speed. fruit trees take decades
when my attention is organized so relationships like those with fruit trees are meaningful to me - I am far less adhd. those long nature timescales “keep time” for me and give me a sense of persistent perspective over time
for context about how - yes, external cognition and co-regulation with our environment *is* a thing - and I have a lot of it with, the earth. nature. this has been good for me https://t.co/tkmMjH47s2
"My favorite metaphor is the spider and its web. So, extended cognition researchers have been showing - there's new research every day pretty much - that a spider's cognition is not limited to its brain or its body. A spider's cognition extends into its web.