I'm the same way with the reading thing. Sometimes I'll be so concentrated on it that I won't hear anything that anyone says to me and other times, I can't concentrate on the words because the TV is going or someone's talking near me, etc. I also have bipolar disorder on-top of my A.D.D. and on rare occasions, if my concentration is broken while I was very interested in what I was reading or doing, I have a large mood swing into a fit of anger. It's scary sometimes.YTBlastgirl wrote:ADD is a terrible reality of mine. No one quite understands why I pick up on some things and zone out on others. My brain just can't work that way. It's really messed up and not that I get distracted by shiny things but more like if I'm reading I can't hear anything that's going on, or when I'm trying to read all I can do is hear everything that is going on. Depends on where my mind is trying to focus and it gets ridiculous. You must have had it easy in school, I had the principal follow me around asking me if I was doing ok in my classes and checking in with me. That was embarrassing, but it's not something I'd advertise all over YouTube as if it were a cool thing. It's not, it's an actual flaw that hurts you in situations most people don't realize. I always get annoyed when people say they have A.D.D. and do not. Sorry for the rant, just.. that one gets my goat.TheAmberFiles wrote:I've been diagnosed with A.D.D. since my mid-teen years. It kind of bugs me now to see kids pretend they have ADD just as an excuse to be random and obnoxious ("ooo a shiny object, what was I saying? I like squirrels!"). It's a seriously frustrating mental condition to have, I'll be talking about something and I see something out of the corner of my eye that distracts me and it makes me completely forget what I was talking about and I'll just be sitting there, staring blankly while I try to remember what I was saying.
I'm from a small town so, most of the people that went to my schools all grew up with each other, maybe that's why no one really got bullied.