How many of you read the whole post before hitting the reply or close botton? :)

I have to admit, I read a person's post but if there is something that grabs me, I will stop reading and reply immediately... I do read the whole thing after I post though... so don't be too mad at me ;) I have to admit when I get a thought in my head I have to post!

What about a poll choice for those of us (or the one of me!) that'll read through a whole post, then go back and re-read certain parts many times while I'm composing my reply (and often get logged off because I've been "inactive" for too long....)?

Or would that actually already fall under one of those choices and I just don't see it? (typical of me!)

I usually read the whole post, but if there is a huge thread with 20+ replies or people posting entire pages of writing, I will skim and skip ahead.

What I often find myself doing is skipping ahead to compose PART of my reply and then going back to finish reading before composing the next part, etc.

Back to this reading thing! Sorry guys, but sometimes I have a hard time reading posts - even if I want to! UGH!

I will read entire posts if it is the first post in a thread....

I like short posts with short paragraphs

I will ususally read an entire post if paragraphs are short even if post itself is long.....ESPECIALLY if subject is interesting.......What makes me a little batty are unusally long posts with paragraphs that are also unusally long...

Yes I will start a reply before I have completed reading a post...and then go back and finish the post -- because I get worred that my "answer" to the post doesn't really -- answer the post:D

Ok whats the subject/

I'm kidding...I have ocpd so I have this need to begin at the beginning but ADHD and BP takes over and I start skipping spots or areas that dont seem to pertain to my mood at the moment.

Mood? Read what I'm in the MOOD for? and don't read what I'm NOT in the mood for? Hmmmm...what a great concept....:)

Spot on, all of you (ie what ALL of you say applies to me too), though unlike Kassie I would rarely actually submit a post if I hadn't fully read the 'relevant' posts (I quite often write an impulsive reply or part-reply, but I won't send it till I've checked - and quite often scrap the whole thing at this stage.

Funny that whole combination of impulsive and compulsive elements, careless one minute, perfectionist the next, whose special logic and dynamics only an ADDer would understand (intuitively) (I imagine).

Originally posted by Jonathan


Funny that whole combination of impulsive and compulsive elements, careless one minute, perfectionist the next, whose special logic and dynamics only an ADDer would understand (intuitively) (I imagine).


BINGO!! Careless one minute, perfectionist the next....SO true....is this the "all or none" or extremist thing many ADD'ers have OR is the perfectionist trying to "undo" or simply "fix" what the impulsive/careless part of me did.....

Quite frankly my impulsive/carelessness behaviors scare the heck out of me sometimes....that fear is what I believe drives my perfectionism......hmmmm.....if only I could find a happy medium....

A Happy Medium............her name is Shirly and she is on the Courage the Cowardly Dog show regularly

:D:D.....never heard of that show.....:) When is it on?

Hey, this interesting to me. I really can relate to everyones replies. Gave me a feeling of oneness among you ADDer's

I like the posts that are broken down into paraghaphs with aline between each paragraph

I find them easer to read and comprehend

Originally posted by joanrdtobe



BINGO!! Careless one minute, perfectionist the next....SO true....is this the "all or none" or extremist thing many ADD'ers have OR is the perfectionist trying to "undo" or simply "fix" what the impulsive/careless part of me did.....

Quite frankly my impulsive/carelessness behaviors scare the heck out of me sometimes....that fear is what I believe drives my perfectionism......hmmmm.....if only I could find a happy medium....

Ditto! :)

hmm..Now this was one that was hard for me to answer. I read the whole post if it is interesting to me at the time. I skim some post if it's moderately interesting. And if I'm just not real interested in all of it, but want to have my 2 cents added. I will usually only respond to parts of it.

Oh Geesh there goes my ADD, OCD battles again..lol Part of me thinks I need to read the post front to back and back to front to be sure I grasped everything and then the ADD kicks in and i say oh to heck with it..just put your 2 cents in and move on to something else already..:D

I usually read most of the post but I dont read it in order, I skip around. Just like when Im reading books, I'll read the first part then skip to the end, go back somewhere in the middle, read a lil more of the begining etc. When I was in first grade my mom hated that I read like that. We had these giant textbooks (or at least I did..) I was the top reader in my class so I was reading books that belonged to the middle school. I was always skipping around the book, never reading anything in order. But I always got good scores on the comprehension tests so my teacher didn't worry to much about the skipping around :D

I'll read all the posts; but have been known to start a reply...and completely forget what was on the previous page, and therefore completely lose the plot.

On the other hand...I have been known to write the odd long post here and there.

I do get confused when the topic changes..and I want to respond to the original question...Am I being rude by going back to the original topic?

Sleepz

Originally posted by sleepzalot


I do get confused when the topic changes..and I want to respond to the original question...Am I being rude by going back to the original topic?

Sleepz

In my opinion, no.....I mean there's nothing rude about wanting to respond to the original topic of a thread....after it has been abandoned for awhile in favor of tangeants....Right?

I actually do it myself quite frequently.....

Not rude at all..... thats what we ADDers do... start off on one topic move on to a million others then when we get a thought on the original topic we go back to it.

..... Wait now Im wondering, is it rude to go OFF topic?????

hmmmmmmmmmmm.............. well on other message boards people might get annoyed but since this is an ADD message board its just the norm and no one cares right???? At least I hope not cuz I go off topic all the time... and here I am doing it again.. I gotta go take my puppy for a jog lol adios amigos

whats all this about, ive skipped to the bottom,
and i slightly remember something about reading posts

I would like to "see" someone diagnosed OCD on top of ADHD.

I have some "learned" behavoirs that have taken me 46 years to aquire. When i leave a room at a Dr.s Office or client, I literally leave and go back in to check where I was sitting, and wha i passed, to make sure that I didn't leave anything.

before that, when I get ready to go, i check for everything i think i should have. When i stand i do it again.

I don't think this is OCD because:
1) it is learned
2) i frequently find something I would otherwise have left behind
3) When i don't, I frequently end up leaving something behind that is VERY inconvenient to recover, and very important to do so.

I have this ADHD "magic show" I put on for myself where I make things disappear while standing still or sitting at a desk. i finally learned NOT to get up and move around or farther away to look for stuff i've lost!

If I'm going to have such a bad short term memory, I'd better have MORE reaquisition behaviors than the average bear, just to break even.

I'd call myself OCD when I do what has already been done without evidence that unreliability itself requires a habit of rechecks, to prevent the natural consequences of unreliability.

I never throw a deadbolt seven times in a row (clearly OCD?), though if I forget whether I'm locking or unlocking, or which way is which, i may do it more than once.

Other's impressions? Do you have that magic show too?

Fantastic post, David!

I did a quick test for that thread on 'other conditions', and came out 'High' for OCD (I wrote a post but managed to lose it twice, so gave up), which made me wonder, but I think you have largely clarified this for me! I do sometimes get 'over-systematic', doing something with a kind of thoroughness which is compulsive, anxious and unnecessary - this is pretty OCD I think - but it has a lot to do with struggling against the side of me which would rather not bother at all (ie not do the actual task in hand), and avoiding the uncomfortable decision about where to draw the line - and, I suppose, turning the boring task into my own game, which seems pretty ADD after all.


I've been there (ha ha - that makes it sounds like a rarity!) with the losing something while quickly putting it down to check your pockets to see whether you've got it thing.

It's even worse than losing something you put down somewhere about ten minutes ago after you came in the door, because there you can often retrace your steps and catch it at the second or third iteration (I've got quite good at having 'clever intuitions' about where I would have put something - trying to think or simply remember sadly don't help).

When you lose something 'instantly', you run the risk of getting into a rapidly widening 'feedback loop', as you start looking in places only because you already looked there before. I have also learned the trick of trying to get a grip on myself as early as possible and confining the search to where I have been up to that point - have to make a real point of saying almost out loud (and definitely without moving) at this moment what the limits are.

quote by wheel1975
I have this ADHD "magic show" I put on for myself where I make things disappear while standing still or sitting at a desk. i finally learned NOT to get up and move around or farther away to look for stuff i've lost!

quote by Jonathan
I've been there (ha ha - that makes it sounds like a rarity!) with the losing something while quickly putting it down to check your pockets to see whether you've got it thing.

It's even worse than losing something you put down somewhere about ten minutes ago after you came in the door, because there you can often retrace your steps and catch it at the second or third iteration (I've got quite good at having 'clever intuitions' about where I would have put something - trying to think or simply remember sadly don't help).

When you lose something 'instantly', you run the risk of getting into a rapidly widening 'feedback loop', as you start looking in places only because you already looked there before. I have also learned the trick of trying to get a grip on myself as early as possible and confining the search to where I have been up to that point - have to make a real point of saying almost out loud (and definitely without moving) at this moment what the limits are.

This is soooo me, guys! I've had to train myself to put keys in a SPECIFIC pocket in my purse immediately after EVERY time I leave my car...I've grown to know myself so much that if I don't put "it" in my bag right then (whenever I'm thinking about it or have it in my hands), then whatever "it" is will not be there when I need it.

There was a time in my pre-dx life when I lived on the third floor of an apt. complex. Daily I would get down to my Explorer (drive a Mustang now), start it, and then stop the car to go back up 3 flights of stairs to be SURE I locked the door, turned off lights, etc. DROVE ME NUTS! Or, I guess I was already nuts, huh? :D

I have, at different times, trained myself not to check, and trained myself to check. What is important is that you concentrate when checking (easier said than done; it's boring after all) - otherwise you have to go back again or drive away (or whatever) as uncertain as you were before.

Moi aussi. Consistency is not my forte. :) But I give myself an 'A' for effort! :)

Why try to be what consitutionally we are not?

Old poll on Long Posts

I do make an effort to read the whole post, but I usually latch onto whatever part of it I find particularly compelling, and might skim the rest not quite as thoroughly. Unless I'm in hyperfocus mode, my response will just address the part of the post that really made an impression on me. I trust the rest of you to point out any errors in logic I make by doing that. :D

I like the posts that are broken down into paraghaphs with aline between each paragraph

I find them easer to read and comprehend
I second this:) It makes for ease of reading, but I do read entire posts before I respond. I also check and recheck as I am responding.

I don't respond if someone has already posted what I already agree with, but do respond if I think I have something to offer.

I try to posts that have no replies and the person is asking for help. My help may be nothing other than an ear.

So yes, I read all the post. ;)

I can only say that when a post is super loooong and not broken into itty-bitty pieces, I won't get through it. I skip around and get confused, and then tired, and then give up.

I try to make an effort to respond in the format that helps me, namely, be concise, but sometimes my enthusiasm runs away with me! :eek:

For me i only read the first post started by that person who posted.. *hope it don't sound confusing*. Then i read a little of second post by someone, then i skipped to the last post to read it. And i post if i have got an idea. It also depends if i have the time to read, if not sometimes i post straight after reading the first post, so might have repeated informations someone already mentioned.. ohoh
:) hey the hamster is out to play..