Is an aversion/boredom with TV dramas and soaps an ADD thing or a bloke thing ?
I say this because when my ADD remits, with a cold/fever - suddenly drama becomes very interesting .... as does anything with a good STORY.
At school, I did well in English Language without effort - but was unutterably USELESS in Eng. Literature ... which was the only exam which I completely failed - with "UNCLASSIFIABLE", worse than an 'F'.
I used to sit through pages of meaningless dialogue read out loud from some or other venerated author, bored out out of my mind.
Likewise the audio-tape plays that were played in class - were COMPLETELY meaningless to me.
I suspect the disinterest in drama is an ADD thing, but it's prolly worsened by being a bloke.
Addled

"Unclassifiable?" That's kinda harsh! ;) I enjoy a good read ... used to be a voracious reader when I was younger ... but I have trouble with TV dramas and soaps too. I have limited focusing ability, and am usually not interested in spending the time on story lines that are boring and/or downbeat. Sometimes I do enjoy movies with intricate, well-thought-out story lines, but I have to be able to watch them without a lot of distractions (read: CHILDREN) around me! :D As my life has gotten more complex, my tolerance for sitting and watching TV has all but disappeared...

Actually, I regard that "U" as a badge of ADD-honour.
I remember sitting idle in the exam, having absolutely no clue whatsoever what the questions were asking about or referring to.
Hilarious, because to me it wasn't a failure - since I didn't regard it as a test of intellectual capability, so much as social ability.
But in language subjects and those I found interesting, I often topped the class - so I never felt bad about what I regarded as a "hobby" subject.

Hmmm....I find that I do better if I'm tested on Analysis and the bigger picture rather than small details of who said what, when events happen etc, when it comes to Lit and History.

Linear versus non-linear.
Random access would be good for the things we read on a regular basis, as well as for TV that just plods along. I'd like to be a "rearranger" of things I watch and music I listen to, too.

I was a Soaps person for decades, but got ridiculed out of it over time. I still sneak a peek sometimes, but the only way for Attention Deficit tribe members to do well with dramas is (in my mind) to tape them and fast forward through most of the "inaction" until something interesting shows up.

I used to read a lot but it gets harder and harder to read anything lengthy and challenging on paper any more. Now the internet . . . .that's another thing.

How about you?

Well, I used to love "Alias", but now I find myself rolling my eyes way too much at the soap opera-y-ness of it. There were way too many episodes where hardly anything happened, no one got shot, no car chases, etc., and all anyone did was yap on and on about "I love you but you're married now", "I'm really her father" etc.

And I haven't watched a soap opera in a long time, but isn't that pensive (or constipated, whatever) look on vaughn's face taught in Soap Opera Acting Class 101?

I'm afraid I won't be watching it anymore, which ticks me off since I'd really like to see the moment when Vaughn discovers his wife's a double agent. But knowing how these things go, that could take months, and the show's already annoying me, so I have a girlfriend with instructions to keep me updated and save the tape so I can see that moment.

I don't have an aversion to just soaps and drama; I have an aversion to all television. I can't watch television at all. I don't know if it is the ADD in me or if it is just me. All my roommates do is watch TV when they get home from work. I never turn the TV on. On the other hand, I do have the ability to sit and surf the net for several hours a day.