Understimulated

There are kids who we think have ADHD, but they are really just electronically overstimulated and interpersonally understimulated. ❋ Unknown (2011)

"There are kids that we think have ADHD, but they are really just electronically overstimulated and interpersonally understimulated." ❋ Unknown (2011)

That earnestness, Dawes admits, coincided with other characteristics: a feeling of being isolated and often understimulated. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Others were understimulated in their cognitive and social development, particularly their faculty of language. ❋ Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2010)

Lack of stress means that your body is understimulated. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Instead, he is compelled to offer up little tidbits that he thinks challenge orthodoxy, and therefore will be of interest on the op-ed page, a motivation that I typically observe in the intellectually understimulated. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I can see now that my brain has been sadly understimulated in recent months. ❋ Superversive (2006)

I found your blog b/c I was understimulated at work and started Googling - I found all sorts of weird stuff. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Carr puts it this way, borrowing from Ralph Waldo Emerson: “The reflexive, baked-in desire to constantly take apart the Times is, I think, the hobgoblin of underemployed and understimulated minds.” ❋ Pressman, Matt (2008)

He spends the first few hours of each workday on the understimulated side of the upside-down U curve. ❋ PhD Lucy Jo Palladino (2007)

They swing you back and forth from over- to understimulated. ❋ PhD Lucy Jo Palladino (2007)

We feel restless, impatient, and understimulated, wishing we could drive at 110 miles per hour all the time. ❋ PhD Lucy Jo Palladino (2007)

As the effects of the caffeine and sugar wear off, he nosedives into an understimulated state after lunch. ❋ PhD Lucy Jo Palladino (2007)

Attention is poor when you are either understimulated or overstimulated. ❋ PhD Lucy Jo Palladino (2007)

"Dakar is the ultimate race in the world," he says, smoking serial cigarettes with the fidgety energy of someone understimulated. ❋ Jennifer Kahn (2007)

But lack of sleep causes Joe to greet each new day on the understimulated side of the curve. ❋ PhD Lucy Jo Palladino (2007)