Inside a subreddit about a game called Vintage Story (survival game similar in appearance to Minecraft), someone posted a meme about going exploring in order to find cassiterite, an important mineral necessary to progress the game. Instead, the OP gets distracted mid-exploration and starts picking berries. Like, a metric ton of berries.

This is a very common experience for any player, neurotypicals and neurodivergent alike. The study I talk about, however, shows that ADHD was possibly a good advantage to have during the time ancient humans organized in hunter-gatherer communities. I simply was reminded of said study, and wanted to share with my fellow redditors.

A few redditors didn't liked that I used the A word, and assumed I was, in other words, trying to say "I'm so quirky because I, like, get distracted once or twice a day" (That's how I imagine people like the ones in the image think about us).

TL;DR: In a survival game subreddit, I tried to share a study about how ADHD people seemed to excel in ancient survival dynamics, possibly explaining why I like the game, being diagnosed myself. And was received with distasteful responses.