I don’t know, but I certainly am distractible. I also don’t know if I’ve always been this way. I noticed my massive procrastination tendencies back in high school and my wandering mind while reading in college, but I don’t remember feeling so distractible until I started working at desk jobs toward the end of college. The Internet was always an easy click away. That’s why I work on my projects in my car so often. There are far fewer distractions there than practically anywhere else.<\/p>\n
Part of me wishes I hadn’t been so quiet, well-behaved, and smart as a child. It might’ve motivated my parents to get me tested for something. As it is, I suspect myself of having a few low-grade conditions, but they haven’t even motivated me to get tested.<\/p>\n
I definitely don’t have the hyperactive part of ADHD, just the attention deficit, so there’s a lot I can’t identify with in descriptions of people with the condition. I don’t have meltdowns, for example. But I don’t think I really hyperfocus either, though I can focus for long periods in the right (troublingly rare) circumstances. And I rarely lose things or forget obligations. I do, however, get a lot of ideas, and I have poor follow-through on my personal projects, though that’s more from distraction by other ideas and less from avoiding boring work.<\/p>\n
I wrestle with my distractability daily. I wonder about ADHD occasionally. What brought on these reflections this time was finding How to ADHD<\/a>\u2019s YouTube channel via Twitter on Wednesday. She creates entertaining and helpful videos on managing ADHD in yourself or your child. I decided that even if I don’t have it, I can benefit from some of the ADHD advice people give. So the next day I searched YouTube and listened to some videos of techniques for focusing with ADHD (at work, of course). I actually got a decent amount done that day.<\/p>\n This has all prompted me to post on the wiki some reflections on focus<\/a> I’ve collected. The article is in a rather blobby, meandering form right now, since I wrote it by basically journaling over a period of time. I’ll probably be rewriting and adding to it in the future.<\/p>\n Also, happy Holy Saturday<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I don’t know, but I certainly am distractible. I also don’t know if I’ve always been this way. I noticed my massive procrastination tendencies back in high school and my wandering mind while reading in college, but I don’t remember … Continue reading