Comments | disorientation: This is what ADD / ADHD is. So read it if you think it's fake stuff.

disorientation

This is what ADD / ADHD is. So read it if you think it's fake stuff.

May 12, 2005 16:29

To begin, there's ADD and ADHD. Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Judging by the name, it's obviously the "Hyperactivity" part that is the difference. There may be something deeper, but this is all I know. My guess is that the hyperactivity part applies to people who have short attention spans and are ( Read more... )

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I know huh? thewhitedrummer May 14 2005, 05:14:09 UTC

Yeah man, ADD/ADHD sucks. By the way I think by writing it like this: AD/HD it stands for both, but I am not sure. The video game thing, you can spend hours on that right? That is because you are able to focus on that when you are playing. This is called a hyper-focus. It usually occures on something that someone enjoys that is not as physical as other things. You may have noticed that if you procrastinate on some big project or something, that night when you work on it, you will be able to get more of it done than before. This is because you are in a state of hyper-focus ( ... )

Re: I know huh? disorientation May 15 2005, 22:24:08 UTC

I'll need to talk to you more on this topic, it's clear that you have done your homework on it : )

I'll be back in a month, I believe

r_raskolnikov May 14 2005, 07:51:05 UTC

Hey...Thank you for going ahead to write about all this. It's pretty informative and I think it's important that people should know this.

I guess I lied when I said I probably wouldn't be able to get on livejournal.

disorientation May 15 2005, 22:25:50 UTC

I think it's that, "I'm just going to take a peek" feeling for LiveJournal that sort of leads one to read three pages of ranting.