Why StumpWM is good for me as an Autistic Adult with ADHD
being audhd, i can tend to struggle with diverting attention away from something as well as keeping focus on something at the same time.
sound confusing? good…me too.
half of my brain desperately wants me to finish a task, whereas the other wants me to take-on 14 other tasks simultaneously. this makes doing anything productive for an extended period of time absolutely grueling.
i find treating mouse (rat) focus and real (keyboard) focus as completely different types of focus in the ratpoison-style binds of stumpwm really refreshing, for this reason.
i can have my terminal window active in “real” focus, while scrolling/clicking with the rat is just fine on my firefox window right next to it.
and if i want to move real (keyboard) focus? i stay on the keyboard and move it with keybinds.
no manual overhead in what i have to do. its like having my two brains work together, yet independently from eachother in a sorta of parallel harmony.
yes its much more manual, but i feel it genuinely helps me keep mentally organized.
i have to consciously move my brain to the next task like my brain already does. now i can split my productivity down into what actually matters: the emacs sly repl. (jk, its usually an eMail client or my browser)
my wm of choice lets me think linearly, and gives me the time to transition when i want to. it doesn’t give me any helping hands in transitioning focus, and i really love how direct my input is when using it. its like driving a well tuned LADA with manual transmission and a dial carburetor and i fucking love it.
