Okay I'll try to explain my post title the best way I can.
I am looking back at some things I remember finding annoying in grade school. I am looking at the issue I deal with now at 31 years old and seeing the connection or relation these issues have with those annoyances.

I am just going to take a chance here and hope that because ADD people are on this forum, that they will understand what am talking about.

When the teacher would write on the chalk board or draw a circle as part of a diagram or some kind of illustration for teaching purposes. If that circle was not a complete circle (even though I knew it was a circle) if she did not connect the line to where she started drawing it I would get annoyed.

If she was drawing a circle and filled it in with some chalk - if the circle was not completely filled in and i could still see green chalk board background in between the scribble inside it - that would annoy me.

It woud not only annoy me but it would distract me. I would not be able to concentrate on what she was going to explain about the illustration overall because I either wanted to run up there and fill it in for her first. Or just say hey the circle isnt finished or what?

In this present day I get anxious and depressed at times if I am not doing something every day that is makeing any progress towards a certain goal.
I have soo much energy that I want to use up. If I don't use that energy, creative drive - whatever it is on something. I will feel either sad, down worthless, depressed or something of that nature.

In the same way I KNOW it is related in some way to how I would look at the circles not being completed or filled in when intended with all white chalk!

I know I am on to something here - I know it sounds strange. But to someone here it has got to make sense. I hope someone understands this and can share similar experiences.

In this present day I get anxious and depressed at times if I am not doing something every day that is makeing any progress towards a certain goal.
I have soo much energy that I want to use up. If I don't use that energy, creative drive - whatever it is on something. I will feel either sad, down worthless, depressed or something of that nature.

If I do not move about my brain feels like it is swimming in a fog. Motion- activity clarifies, lack of motion / progress muddles. I have been riding in a truck cooped up fro three days now and I feel irritable because of the thousand and one other things that need doing and I could be doing if I wasn't riding half way across the country in a truck.

If she was drawing a circle and filled it in with some chalk - if the circle was not completely filled in and i could still see green chalk board background in between the scribble inside it - that would annoy me.

It would not only annoy me but it would distract me. I would not be able to concentrate on what she was going to explain about the illustration overall because I either wanted to run up there and fill it in for her first. Or just say hey the circle isnt finished or what?

I would notice but unless it was real sloppy I wouldn’t get annoyed, it would distract me some but not throw me completely off. .. . if the circle were drawn lopsided I would tilt my head to one side so it would appear straight to me

I'm like that when it comes to symmetry....things have to be exactly symmetrical otherwise it drives me to distraction. Pictures, carpets, anything that should be straight must be straight. I think some of what you are talking about comes from us constantly thinking we should do better, be better, being so hard on ourselves and having some kind of purpose in life, otherwise you end up feeling useless and no-good. I couldn't explain to anyone why i feel i should have a purpose in life or work towards something when a lot of people are happy just getting home and crashing on the couch for the rest of their lives.

Huh, thats weird,

It used to annoy my animation teacher to no end, because my little class motto was.

"symettry is boreing"

My favorte characters I ever made in that class was because they were un-symetrical, and flawed.

but I do agree about that thing with the un-filled in circle, that used to annoy me, not so much anymore

But when it comes to being a little sloppy, I think it shows character, so I kind of like it.

Movingshadow, I totally identify with your post.