Parafly
01-26-07, 02:39 PM
Well, I think I have the signs of ADD pretty strongly. I am making an appointment to talk to a psychologist about it next week sometime.
Background - I am 26, male, have always had the symptoms.
One thing though is that I am very organized, and I always finish what I start. Well, mostly always. Some things take longer (for example, 7 months to finish the parent albums from my wedding last summer). Also, I am relatively accomplished. I have a good job as a project manager. I maintained a 3.6 in school, I have a bachelor's and a master's degree.
Despite all that, I think I could do better - at home and at work. People are constantly calling my name to get my attention - Nick - Nick NICK!!! "oh, huh?"
I can't pay attention for more than a minute if something is boring to me - I will literally be in conversations with people and tune out, even in a two-way conversation. My wife says I don't relaly pay much attention when she talks. I can't sit still. I am constanlty fidgeting, clicking a mouse. When I was younger, I would get into trouble constantly for not paying attention, or for not doing what I was supposed to be doing.
On the flip side, things I am interested in I do very well in. I get very focused... I feel like I always have something on my mind in the front. For example, last summer I couldn't stop thinking about mountain biking for three weeks. I spent all this money fixing my old bike, I was reading about it online, I went riding a few times. Then I almost forgot about it again. It moved onto something else... does that make senes?
I consider myself succesful but I really have such a hard time focusing on work. I constantly am clicking around the web. Luckily I work quickly so I can do my work in 1/2 the time so it looks like I am busy..
My brain is like a million miles a second. I will pour a cup of coffee, then forget to put cream or suger in it because I remember I have to change the TP roll. An hour later, I will find my cup of coffee cold on the counter, and say, whoops! Or, I will start to empty the dishwasher, then remember I have clothes in the dryer, and come back fifteen minutes later and say oh yah I was supposed to do that.
What do youthink? Does it sound like ADD? uhgh
Background - I am 26, male, have always had the symptoms.
One thing though is that I am very organized, and I always finish what I start. Well, mostly always. Some things take longer (for example, 7 months to finish the parent albums from my wedding last summer). Also, I am relatively accomplished. I have a good job as a project manager. I maintained a 3.6 in school, I have a bachelor's and a master's degree.
Despite all that, I think I could do better - at home and at work. People are constantly calling my name to get my attention - Nick - Nick NICK!!! "oh, huh?"
I can't pay attention for more than a minute if something is boring to me - I will literally be in conversations with people and tune out, even in a two-way conversation. My wife says I don't relaly pay much attention when she talks. I can't sit still. I am constanlty fidgeting, clicking a mouse. When I was younger, I would get into trouble constantly for not paying attention, or for not doing what I was supposed to be doing.
On the flip side, things I am interested in I do very well in. I get very focused... I feel like I always have something on my mind in the front. For example, last summer I couldn't stop thinking about mountain biking for three weeks. I spent all this money fixing my old bike, I was reading about it online, I went riding a few times. Then I almost forgot about it again. It moved onto something else... does that make senes?
I consider myself succesful but I really have such a hard time focusing on work. I constantly am clicking around the web. Luckily I work quickly so I can do my work in 1/2 the time so it looks like I am busy..
My brain is like a million miles a second. I will pour a cup of coffee, then forget to put cream or suger in it because I remember I have to change the TP roll. An hour later, I will find my cup of coffee cold on the counter, and say, whoops! Or, I will start to empty the dishwasher, then remember I have clothes in the dryer, and come back fifteen minutes later and say oh yah I was supposed to do that.
What do youthink? Does it sound like ADD? uhgh