I'm participating in my first class in 13 years and it's my first ever online/zoom course.

It hasn't started yet and it's already an experience.

While sitting at a computer, the zoom instructor said we need pen and paper.

Ok, sure. *opens Notepad*

The course is on the "myth" of multitasking. This slide is...a thing.

After telling us to turn off our phones, the instructors phone rang! lololololol

Oh lord, it's a rickroll in 2020. Didn't expect this.

I'm not joking.

There's some sort of irony to me being knee deep in social media while taking a class telling me that multitasking is bad.

Good lord, if I could, I would leave this course.

Draw your own conclusions from this slide.

They did this thing where you were supposed to read an email and listen to a speaker at the same time and really, it's not how I would do that. I would skim the email then listen to the speaker and then go back to the email when it was relevant.

They keep inserting music to make points, but they don't know how it's mixed, so the music drowns out the instructor. FUN. LOUD MUSIC.

Oh here we go.

Spoilers.

Oh thank god. A 10 minute break.

They posted a bunch of pictures of my feelings during this course.

They just said cat vids are sand in this analogy. I'm upset.

This course feels like it set out with a conclusion in mind and found every resource that agreed with it. Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but it feels like a checklist of books that say multitasking is bad. Which might be the right conclusion, just feels super one-sided.

There are also a lot of things in this course that come from a super privileged position of assuming the student isn't someone with ADHD. All of these things sound like simple steps, but they are incredibly difficult for someone like me.

"Just write it down" is literally the most offered "help" to me that I just...can't...do. Maybe I'll do it once or twice, but my brain eventually just throws that idea out the window and I never do it again. Very frustrating.

Listening to some of these people talk about how they keep their tasks in order sounds like they also have ADHD, but don't know it. They've tried to keep things sorted and inevitably it slips away from them. Sounds like a wall they've run into a lot of times.

I'm not saying this is the end-all be-all authority on ADHD, but this book opened my eyes a lot and helped me understand what was going on in my head. I highly recommend it if you think you have ADHD or just want to know more about how it works. https://www.amazon.com/Driven-Distraction-Revised-Recognizing-Attention/dp/0307743152

Anyway. This thread started fun and now I feel inferior to everyone and I'm just going to grit through the rest of this course as required by my job. Be safe out there.