Anybody ever talk about 1 topic and then skip to another and switch between the 2 or more multiple topics without really losing pace or understanding? Apparently I've a bad habit of doing this to people and they lose total understanding of whats going on.

It tends to happen a lot with certain words bringing up certain memories or experiences which jump out and then become the "new" conversation. I wish I could give an accurate example but it just happens when it happens.

yea my phone conversations with my dad can be hilarious, one topic turns in to multiple topics sometimes linked or totally random, some fade quick and others go on. Then theres moments of silience when we've talked about everything and when we are just about to hang up we go back to the original topic and it starts again, sometimes with the same topics.

Oh, ALL THE TIME!!! People at work are now able to keep up with me because I do it so much! Sometimes my family gets annoyed because they just don't get it.

Anybody ever talk about 1 topic and then skip to another and switch between the 2 or more multiple topics without really losing pace or understanding? Apparently I've a bad habit of doing this to people and they lose total understanding of whats going on.

It tends to happen a lot with certain words bringing up certain memories or experiences which jump out and then become the "new" conversation. I wish I could give an accurate example but it just happens when it happens.

I think this is more fundamental to the way I think than ADD related. I'm like this to a degree, irrespective of any medication. However, on medication, it comes out as the purposeful act that it is intended to be (not necessarily purposefully "switching the topic" in some terminology, but simply this associative thought process, which is advantageous in certain situations).

I know exactly what you mean. I will even ask questions, answer them myself, then off to the next subject. Or mentioning a name sets me off on a new topic. Very confusing for the listener I'm sure.

hehe i find i do it more with my a.d.d friends than my non-a.d.d friends.. my mom does the same thing so my dad has just learned to go with it.. he knows that he can't follow the thought process and he's given up. hehe. I had someone tonight tell me that I was more fun to talk to off meds because the conversation never died! My dad likes to say that we never met a silence we couldn't fill

When I'm around a group of people I especially do this. I have a conversation with each of them. Heheh.

all the time.

All the time. Love chatting to other people I suspect of having ADD, we can go up to about 5 random unrelated topics at the same time without losing track of any. People dont like being around me sometimes when I am in one of those moods and im chatting to another ADDer, they cant keep up.

I have the same issue, these are the three examples I could find regarding this type of thing, online


Tangentiality (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tangentiality&action=edit) - Replying to questions in an oblique, tangential or irrelevant manner. e.g:
Q: "What city are you from?"
A: "Well, that's a hard question. I'm from Iowa. I really don't know where my relatives came from, so I don't know if I'm Irish or French."



Distractible speech (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Distractible_speech&action=edit) - During mid speech, the subject is changed in response to a stimulus. e.g. "Then I left San Francisco and moved to... where did you get that tie?"

Derailment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derailment) / Loose Association (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Loose_Association&action=edit) (Knight's move thinking (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_psychiatry#Knight.27s_Move_Thinking))- Ideas slip off the track on to another which is obliquely related or unrelated. e.g. "The next day when I'd be going out you know, I took control, like uh, I put bleach on my hair in California."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_disorder

Only all the time! Luckily my mom and my best friend can keep up with my multiple trains of thought.