They made us stand for hours on end during national service. I consider it a form of adhd torture.
oo I have an answer of sorts! Humans are endurance predators, not ambush ones. We’re meant to be moving often for hunts, standing still for long periods of time isn’t what our body’s good at.
I feel like a lot of modern society does whatever it can to ignore the fact that we’re animals too
Motion is lotion?
Everyone gets arthritic enough to figure it out eventually. Anyone who doesn’t understand is still young enough that getting a decent night’s sleep fixes all aches and pains.
Is that also related to ADHD? Mind blown, because that is one of my defining weaknesses, and always has been!
Whenever I’m hiking I despise when the person in front of me forces me to stop because then I can feel all my aches and tiredness. I can only imagine what it would feel like to actually be disabled.
I tried to explain this to my wife. I can walk for long periods with no issue. But shopping? Amusement Parks? That shit is not walking, its trudging and it plays completely different with my energy levels.
100% agree! Walking slow in a crowded place is the worst, the word trudging describes it so well.
Shout-out to all those retail/service employees that are demanded to stand in a 4x6 chairless box like some 90’s RPG NPC, and then are yelled at for “leaning.”
I swear that experience compressed my height by more than a few inches…And you better believe I practiced my martial arts kicks on the sales floor when the manager was out. Lol
The major destination outdoors chain I worked at had stools we could bring out for cashiers, but only if there was a documented medical necessity. They were actively hostile towards employee comfort.
My favorite though was when they turned off the AC (it was controlled from corporate) when it was 100 degrees outside to save on the electric bill. Customers stopped shopping because it was miserable, and without the AC running the whole place got super humid and over a million dollar’s worth of guns rusted.
But the facilities team at corporate was able to say they saved a few thousand in electric bills.
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Dear everyone,
Fuck standing. Standing sucks, It’d rather walk or aimlessly pace around as well
Kind regards,
Neurotypical able-bodied person that stumbled into this thread from the frontpage.I’m fully able-bodied, but I can understand that.
When I first started to work in a factory, standing for 8 hours and not being used to it, it was painful. Walking was a lot easier.
Mine arent at all sporty.
They do it for shit & giggles.
I swear to god, I need to get myself checked. Every now again I see a meme so specific that I question myself.
I saw so many that I went and got checked and I was initiated into the club lmao
My mother always used to tell me to sit the hell down because pacing made her uneasy, like there was something that needed to be done that she wasn’t doing, lmao.
I always thought it was my clubbed feet.
Not from ADHD but my knees will allow me 10-15 minutes of standing still until righty decides it’s sit or move time or you get the knife treatment. I can walk and move around for hours with no issues. There was a push for standing desks at work and that just sounds like torture for me.
Standing desks are often accompanied by little stepping platforms or a !(balance thing](https://ergonomictrends.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/wobble-balance-boards-reviews.jpg)
Oh for real? I just got one and I never thought to get these types of things. I’ve heard of anti-fatigue mats, but what are these things called (just so I can look them up)?
I never “stand” at my standing desk, I’m always moving. Ngl, I thought the whole point of these desks was that standing for too long is uncomfortable, so you naturally move around more, take more breaks, and go for stretches.
So for the fancy version of stepping, I like this one, but a standard exercise board can also work. For the balance boards, I never purchased one but I remember someone recommending this brand. ymmv
The worst thing of all is walking too slow.
On a pain scale:
- 10 - walking slow
- 9 - driving slow
- 7 - standing still
- 6 - sitting there and doing nothing
- 3 - walking fast
- 2 - sitting with phone
- 0 - driving fast, sit while actually doing something
Similiar, however I absolutely love walking fast. Hell, I am always trying to top my speed.
Except at work. Cuz then things get done too fast and I land at 10 on the scale. :(
