I clearly have ADD and not in the cool ADHD, get a prescription for Ritalin way, but in the lack of concentration, can’t string simple words together on a keyboard without COMPLETE silence without it feeling like I am composing a scientific theory on relativity way.
I’m distracted by Maggie and the Ferocious Beast, the hum of my refrigerator, my dog licking up his own puke and the chainsaw that my neighbor is using to chop down a tree.
ADD was not diagnosed when people like me (old) were kids, so mom just thought I was ’sluggish’ and let me sit in front of the television and gain more useless knowledge about The Brady Bunch, Good Times, and The Facts of Life than any one person should be allowed to store in their brain.
My reading comprehension has always sucked. I think it’s fair to say that the last book I read from cover to cover was #16 in the Sweet Valley High Series. It’s shameful, I know. I’m not a reader- not even Twilight!
But lately, my attention span has been scattered more than normal and my sensitivity to sound has been heightened. I’ve wondered lately why trash trucks, buses, and people breathing are so loud.
In an effort to become productive despite my impending insanity (and since, apparently, people in my house won’t stop breathing ), I keep busy. Watching TV.
I actually like Maggie and the ferocious beast…I think I have adult ADD too
My husband thinks it’s odd that I used to TAPE-RECORD Three’s Company and take my tape recorder on long car trips and “listen” to the show. If we come across any of them, I know all the flippin’ words! It will come in handy HOW!? *sigh*
Ok well you have to atleast try Twilight… and things seem louder to me too as I get older… really, my kids are always screaming!!
I can’t have too much sound going on around me, it drives me insane.
It’s not that people with ADD can’t pay attention; it’s that they pay attention to EVERYthing, hence the distractability. I don’t have ADD (that I know of, though I have been accused at times) but I do have the same sensitivity to sound. I hear things that no one else notices, and it drives me crazy.