willwill30
05-15-09, 09:42 PM
Hi everyone this is my first post here. I am a 30 year old male who has always had a hard time concentrating. All throughout school I was a really bad daydreamer, when I was supposed to be doing my work I would be thinking about something that happened the past week or even the past year, sometimes I would even get caught drawing pictures in my notebook. My teachers in school always told my Mom that I was a very smart kid, I just wasn't motivated enough:rolleyes:. As long as I am interested in something I can learn it very quickly, but if I'm not interested it is impossible for me to learn about it. I am a very well read person, but if a book doesn't have plenty of pictures to keep my brain stimulated I will wander off and not even finish it. Same with movies, if I don't get interested in the first 15 minutes, I'll get up and not even watch the rest of the movie. I'm not a hyper person at all, in fact I'm shy and very "laid back", so I know I don't have ADHD. Sometimes when I go into large buildings (like Wal-Mart) around lots of people I also feel dizzy, kinda like my brain is overloaded.
Many times I also feel spaced out, if someone is talking to me and it's not something very interesting I will tune them out and pretend to listen while thinking about something else. I also seem to get stuck on things that I'm interested in. I will study something to death for about 6 months and then I'm done with it and move onto something else, but it has to be something that interests me at that moment.
When I got out of high school I went straight to a factory job. I have never had a problem at my job because I work with my hands and it's very repetitive, I can daydream and still do my work. It bothering me now because I would like to go to school but I'm afraid to because I'm scared I'll be "spaced out" and end up failing. Do I sound like I could have ADD? It's getting depressing.:(
Many times I also feel spaced out, if someone is talking to me and it's not something very interesting I will tune them out and pretend to listen while thinking about something else. I also seem to get stuck on things that I'm interested in. I will study something to death for about 6 months and then I'm done with it and move onto something else, but it has to be something that interests me at that moment.
When I got out of high school I went straight to a factory job. I have never had a problem at my job because I work with my hands and it's very repetitive, I can daydream and still do my work. It bothering me now because I would like to go to school but I'm afraid to because I'm scared I'll be "spaced out" and end up failing. Do I sound like I could have ADD? It's getting depressing.:(