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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 540371" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>As an ADHDer myself... I'm going to defend the diagnosis and do a myth-bust:</p><p></p><p>ADHD is NOT " a deficient capacity to concentrate". It isn't really "attention deficit".</p><p>The real problem is difficulty (not inability) to MANAGE attention.</p><p></p><p>Which means us ADHDers can be anywhere on the spectrum of attention, at any point in time, and to a more extreme edge than "average" people.</p><p>From... </p><p>- spaced-out "not there" inattention (because we're paying attention to <em>something else</em> that happens to have caught our attention... not because we're "not paying attention"),</p><p>- to the normal give-and-take, up-and-down attention that "average people have",</p><p>- to "hyper-focus", which seems to be a gift that ADHDers have in abundance, and few other people have except for those with extreme talent in a specific area (a professional musician can get this when performing, or writing music; an athlete can get this in a game situation, etc.). Time stops. Everything is going in slow motion (in terms of the ADHDer having time to think it all through, be detailed, etc.) and at high speed (i.e. can be 2x or 3x faster than the average person with skill in this area can produce). Extreme productivity - but it comes in bursts, cannot be sustained, and can only be called up on command if it's for an "item of attention" that falls into our personal attention curve. I'm that way writing code... and NOT at all that way writing documentation!</p><p></p><p>The problem comes from trying to operate in a world where most people are "average". Because... the ADHDer will be absent when they should be present, and flying high when maybe they should be less intense... often at odds with the world around them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 540371, member: 11791"] As an ADHDer myself... I'm going to defend the diagnosis and do a myth-bust: ADHD is NOT " a deficient capacity to concentrate". It isn't really "attention deficit". The real problem is difficulty (not inability) to MANAGE attention. Which means us ADHDers can be anywhere on the spectrum of attention, at any point in time, and to a more extreme edge than "average" people. From... - spaced-out "not there" inattention (because we're paying attention to [I]something else[/I] that happens to have caught our attention... not because we're "not paying attention"), - to the normal give-and-take, up-and-down attention that "average people have", - to "hyper-focus", which seems to be a gift that ADHDers have in abundance, and few other people have except for those with extreme talent in a specific area (a professional musician can get this when performing, or writing music; an athlete can get this in a game situation, etc.). Time stops. Everything is going in slow motion (in terms of the ADHDer having time to think it all through, be detailed, etc.) and at high speed (i.e. can be 2x or 3x faster than the average person with skill in this area can produce). Extreme productivity - but it comes in bursts, cannot be sustained, and can only be called up on command if it's for an "item of attention" that falls into our personal attention curve. I'm that way writing code... and NOT at all that way writing documentation! The problem comes from trying to operate in a world where most people are "average". Because... the ADHDer will be absent when they should be present, and flying high when maybe they should be less intense... often at odds with the world around them. [/QUOTE]
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