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To: -YYZ-
"Who knows, maybe they should have, because I always did have the attention span of a gnat in school."

I still have the attention span of...Oh, look, a butterfly!!

39 posted on 02/02/2007 10:24:38 AM PST by T.Smith
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To: T.Smith

Hey, I'm the president of the Canadian Association for Adult Attention...Hey, look, what's that shiny thing?

The funny thing about ADD is that sometimes (only rarely) I can actually hyper-focus on one thing to the extent of not noticing what's going on around me. But generally I'm very easily distracted. That's not altogether a negative thing, though, as it also means that I'm very observant of my surroundings. For example, in the last month I've observed sundogs and, 2 nights ago, a ring around the moon, because I'm typically aware of everything going on around me.

I actually thing ADD is just one part of the spectrum of normal human psychologies. One might suppose (assuming they're not a creationist) that there is some evolutionary advantage to the condition, at least in some circumstances - and variation in the genome itself is also now understood to be an evolutionary survival strategy for a species.


45 posted on 02/02/2007 10:32:39 AM PST by -YYZ-
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