Originally posted by Iwan2bsolid2
excellent post TNT- very informative. Mabey I do have ADD. Is there treatment for that? Now that I think about what you said about loosing interest in things that don't interest me, I have a hard time holding a conversation with people cause I start thinking about other things.
Last year, there were a couple of fairly extensive threads on ADD here on the board. You can find them by doing a search on "Attention Deficit Disorder" (including the quotation marks).

As it turns out, there are quite a few ADD'ers on the board (including me). Incidentally, if I had to sit through college classes that didn't interest me, I never would have made it through. Fortunately, I was able to include alternative methods, and ended up with three accredited degrees in less than six years. (Some will understand how I did it - the term for it is hyperfocus, and it can be mastered by ADD'ers.)

You can get a quick background on adult ADD at this link. Yes, there is a medical treatment - usually Ritalin or Adderall - although I admit that I'm not in the pro-medication crowd when it comes to adult ADD. (There is quite a bit of division between the pro-med and anti-med crowds, with a wide diversity of opinion.)