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Why ADHD Brains Go Over-Bored

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Restlessness. Agitation. Paralysis. Misery. When a boring situation – like a mind-numbing lecture or an interminable grade-school jazz band performance – is inescapable, it can feel like an intolerable burden for ADHD brains.

Or, as YouTube celebrity Penn Holderness succinctly put it in a recent ADDitude webinar on thriving with ADHD, “Boredom is torture.

It’s borture.”It comes as no surprise that kids and adults with ADHD, who crave stimulation, get bored more easily and more frequently than do their neurotypical counterparts.

And the lengths to which some people will go in order to feel something, anything, is shocking.Literally.Researchers at the University of Virginia and Harvard University conducted a series of experiments that asked participants to sit alone in a laboratory and then fill out surveys about the experience.

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