I have ADD
Attention deficit disorder.

And not the hyperactive kind. The kind where despite being the night before A deadline I have been known to spend about 2 hours just doing nothing. Not work. Not TV. Not Internet. Nothing, just sitting at my desk looking at stuff.

During my last deadline I realised that there is the image of Madonna and child on the back of my bathroom door - that took up a good half an hour of what my friends refer to as "one of my stares"
It took me the best part of a year at Uni for me to get officially 'diagnosed' - partly due to the fact that I just never phoned learning support to make an appointment to get the results.

The uni gave me loads of stuff like a laptop and 25% extra time in exams - because what I really need is an excuse to tell myself I don't need to go to the library because I can look at online journals, and making a 3 hour exam last 3hours and 45 minutes is just what a person who cant hold concentration for more that about 30 minutes really needs.

Better than a smack in the mouth I suppose.
(ecilA Alice...has nothing to do, Tue 18 Nov 2008, 11:36, 6 replies)

this is me.. in a nutshell
is this actually classed as a form of ADD? Been like this since I was a kid, everyone just thinks I'm "Bright but Lazy", my frustration comes in that I REALLY do want to be one of these motivated types... but just get distracted by... well, anything and nothing

*Hunts for anti-add drugs in spambox*
(ShavenLunatic says touch your nose!, Tue 18 Nov 2008, 11:45, closed)

I'm also supposed
to take those fishy oil capsules to help with my memory and concentration and they worked really well. Until I lost the bottle and just never got round to looking for it.
(ecilA Alice...has nothing to do, Tue 18 Nov 2008, 11:48, closed)

and i bet..
i bet you, right now, are 100% motivated towards looking for it the SECOND you get home... until you actually get home.. then you'll put it off until after dinner.. then you will have to finish watching a program on TV you don't even enjoy, then you may need to check if there have been any replies to your qotw entry, then you'd best check your email.... ad infinitum

next morning.. aah crap, i 'forgot' to look for my pill bottle

:)

such is my life
(ShavenLunatic says touch your nose!, Tue 18 Nov 2008, 12:35, closed)

I'm dyspraxic
so my 2 unis gave me gifts and extra time too. Marvelous.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Tue 18 Nov 2008, 12:35, closed)

I thought I had ADD once
but then I just thought about something else.
(w4I4q1O1 was hard at work on, Tue 18 Nov 2008, 13:11, closed)

"Knock knock!"
"Who's there?"
"A kid with ADD!"
"A kid with ADD who?"
"...wanna go to the park?!"
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Tue 18 Nov 2008, 14:08, closed)