Talk:Hyperfocus

Rename page?

Should this page be renamed "Special abilities in ADHD"?

Perhaps there should be a page on special abilities associated with psychiatric disorders, including Autistic savant, hyper-imagination (listed in Bipolar_disorder) -- see List of people believed to have been affected by bipolar disorder; the Perfectionism (psychology) of obsessive-compulsive disorder. A closely related topic is Evolutionary psychology but the two topics should be kept separate to avoid confusion and unnecessary controversy.

As some one that has had a life long problem with ADHD, nothing about it is a "special abilities" or some want to call it "super power" I would trade any "super power"/"special abilities" to be normal in this respect. I probably should note a time it was bad for me, at work I was working on a coding issue, I was so focus, I did not pay attention to the person that needed my attention "shouting" in my ear till she had to grab my shoulder and yank me back into the "real world".

"According to the dictionary"

According to which dictionary? I'm reworking this

misleading image

gross oversimplification, pop culture

This image represents gross oversimplification of brain hemisphericity. This kind of image should not be used.

Removal of editorial-style images

Two out of the three images in this article are weirdly nonspecific editorial-style images which seem out of place in an encyclopedia. The "adhd letters over papers" is like something from a listicle or business presentation — it is meaningless and adds nothing to the article. The brain lateralisation image is (as mentioned above) absurdly caricatured at best, and shouldn't be used as illustrative in an article which isn't about "criticisms of brain lateralisation theory". The first image is very vague too, but at least is vaguely illustrative of a concept mentioned in the article. I have removed the two editorial images, and I think the article is improved for it (but still needs a lot of work, as also mentioned above). 78.145.33.129 (talk) 13:12, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

Hyperfocus vs. hyperfixation

As noted by me previously at Talk:Special interest (autism), there is a redirect called "Hyperfixation", which redirects here, and a source for this article explains the delineation between the two, IIRC. We should thus work towards also clarifying this in the text. BlockArranger (talk) 15:25, 13 July 2025 (UTC)

Are flow and hyperfocus essentially the same thing?

(See also the relevant section of the talk page for the other article.)

The way the distinction is described in the the lead, the difference seems to be in the connotation(s), not the essential definitions. If that is indeed the case, does that warrant merging the two articles, per WP:BADFORK? ZFT (talk) 05:17, 24 August 2026 (UTC)