• @[email protected]
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    883 months ago

    “Highway Hypnosis” is a well documented phenomenon. Your body is essentially autopiloting the drive. It most commonly happens when you’re driving a route you’re familiar with, like a commute.

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      23 months ago

      Always happens to me on highways and makes me a safer driver. I keep speed limits and distances better and drive more defensively.

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      3 months ago

      This happens to me while on my ebike sometimes and always gets me into the most dangerous close calls

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        23 months ago

        This may be true but people with ADHD are significantly more likely to have car accidents. This is a well studied and documented phenomenon. Just because it happens to others doesn’t mean it isn’t a serious ADHD risk.

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          213 months ago

          Yeah, I get the feeling that some people with an ADHD diagnosis (or self-diagnosis) try to explain everything as a symptom of ADHD. Creates a lot of noise in this community, unfortunately.