BS. I've had this mess all my life. Its like you mind doesn't hold on to it tracks for long. If school classes only lasted 15 minutes, I could have been a Rhodes Scholar. I've tried every discipline you can think of. If the subject matter isn't bang 'em up my mind goes out in left field somewhere. It like some one has a TV remote control pointed at you and they keep changing the channels. Its a bitch.
It may not be a disease in the clinical sense but is it a condition to be reckoned with.
That is exactly how a friend described it to me some years ago.........
So? That happened to me all the time in school...it's called being bored as hell with the subject at hand...still happens to me as an adult.
[BS. I've had this mess all my life.]
I totally sympathize and agree. I'm right there with you. I have ADD too. The problem with me is that I hyperfocus on one thing. Whatever I focus on I will know it backwards and forwards. If it is a subject I'm interested in I will have read about 20 books on it at least. But meanwhile I forget to pay my bills, return phonecalls or do paperwork at my job. I could go on and on, but I will stop there.
I'm no expert on this matter. I believe that some folks have problems learning different things or lots of things. I'm also quite sure that too many boys acting like boys are labeled with ADHD and drugged. In the past, some kids took the academic track, and others learned a trade as an apprentice. Now, all are forced into the same crucible of schooling for 12 years.