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Bozo,
I wouldn't be surprised if I were adult ADD too.
See, with folks our age, or thereabouts, the schools didn't have the knowledge or the resources to deal with all of the issues kids have. So, kids dropped out at a very high rate. Most did well, once they got a job that they could use their hands and liked doing. Some, sadly, did not. They fell, at a higher rate than the normal population, into drug and alcohol abuse.
I'm willing to bet, just from my knowledge of ADD and ADHD, that many of our members here at SR suffer from one of those two ailments, and have never been treated.
The reason I think I could be ADD is due to my very high distractability. I have to sit in front for services or classes, else, I'm too distracted to know what's going on.
When taking classes, I have to stop @ every 20 minutes to take a break from studying. Even then, during that 20 minutes, I have to constantly remind myself that I WANT to learn whatever it is. (Hard to do when I'm forced to take some BS class I really couldn't care less about!)
At home, say, I'm housecleaning. I start doing something, and then, start three other things before I've finished the first. It's really annoying.
Paying the bills is troublesome. I get hung up reading nonsense mail, or let it pile up to a mountain on my desk, (the condition it's at now.)
I struggle to get my students' work corrected in a timely fashion.
So, yea, I'm definately attention deficit. If I'm at the disorder state, well, that's only a matter of extent. So, to me, it's irrelevent. I have to learn to deal with the hand I've been dealt with. I have to learn to focus my attention when I need to. It ain't easy, but, it can be done --even when I don't want to.
Hope this helps....
Shalom!
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