• mocheeze@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Can I ask how old he is? I was doing that when I was like 5 or 6. But I was born in the '80s so I had a parent that could teach me and let me figure out the rest as it came. Also helped we had color-coded RCA jacks and I could reach magazines and manuals by the time s-video was common enough.

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      1 day ago

      14 or 15. He has really bad ADHD, even his distractions get cut off by other distractions until he is overwhelmed and then just incapable of the effort of figuring out why the DP he is trying to plug into an HDMI slot is “too small”.

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        Ah. Well, we had those types too back in the day. Hopefully he gets the help he needs. If not then there’s still a chance his motivation will overcome his diagnosis, but I’m not a childhood ADHD expert. I only work with adults for their meds and such.