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ADHD people hyperfocus on unrelated tasks instead of their actual work

This is a two-panel relatable meme. The top text states 'ADHD people working on anything other than the thing they should be working on'. The first panel shows a man inside a Walmart store, intently organizing a very messy, disorganized circular candy bin full of assorted candies. The second panel shows the same man standing back and smiling proudly at the camera, with the candy bin now perfectly sorted and arranged by candy type, color, and category. The joke highlights the common ADHD experience of hyperfocusing intensely on trivial, unimportant, or unrelated tasks instead of the priority work one is actually supposed to complete, emphasized by the original meme title noting the man is not even employed at the store.
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ADHD people working on anything other than the thing they should be working on

Overview

This is a two-panel relatable meme. The top text states 'ADHD people working on anything other than the thing they should be working on'. The first panel shows a man inside a Walmart store, intently organizing a very messy, disorganized circular candy bin full of assorted candies. The second panel shows the same man standing back and smiling proudly at the camera, with the candy bin now perfectly sorted and arranged by candy type, color, and category. The joke highlights the common ADHD experience of hyperfocusing intensely on trivial, unimportant, or unrelated tasks instead of the priority work one is actually supposed to complete, emphasized by the original meme title noting the man is not even employed at the store.

Origin notes

This meme originates from the Reddit Meme subreddit, shared as an RSS feed entry with the original title 'Not even employed here'. It uses a pre-existing viral photograph of a regular Walmart shopper who spontaneously organized a store candy bin for no reason, with added relatable text captioning targeted at people with ADHD to create the meme.

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