i’m going to get tested for adhd in a few months i’ve always had this characteristic ever since school if i can’t understand the “why is this important” or “what is the intuition behind this” then it makes it so much harder to absorb instructions i used to get told off in school for over-complicating things rather than just accept the answer as given i’m now doing a phd and sometimes my supervisor will suggest a specific way of doing something but it really affects my ability to click with it if i can’t see his complete thought process that led him to the idea to try it