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18 Nov 2009 @ 5:04 PM Reply # 26
absentmindedprocrastinator Join Date: Wed 18th Nov 2009
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I've always thought I must be stupid... Later I found out that I'm not stupid however. I am distracted not only by noise, but by my own thoughts. I can be trying to listen to someone and begin thinking that they're clothes are nice, or their shoes are dirty... or that they look like someone else I knew long ago... My mind then will think of the person I knew long ago, and then I'll recall the situation/circumstances in which I knew them... I'll recall the season, perhaps it was winter and I was always bundled up in a coat.... Then I'm thinking of what kind of coat I want to buy.... Meanwhile I'm looking at this individual and they're talking away thinking I'm following them. I can't read with the tv on. I can't sleep with the radio on. I keep listeneng for the next song to come on hoping it is better than the last... etc. I have trouble multitasking..... But, if I can't try to move from one thing to another frequently rather than staying involved in one thing at a time, I get anxious because I feel the need to move on.

My mom used to watch tv and read paperback mystery novels at the same time. I thought she was brilliant. Thats just something I couldn't begin to do. Sometimes I read a paragraph and can't recall what I just read. Sometimes a song gets stuck in my head and I hear the melody over and over so that it drives me nuts. I'm not very hyper, though. I just seem to be easily distracted.

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18 Nov 2009 @ 5:04 PM Reply # 27
absentmindedprocrastinator Join Date: Wed 18th Nov 2009
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noise irritation

I've always thought I must be stupid... Later I found out that I'm not stupid however. I am distracted not only by noise, but by my own thoughts. I can be trying to listen to someone and begin thinking that they're clothes are nice, or their shoes are dirty... or that they look like someone else I knew long ago... My mind then will think of the person I knew long ago, and then I'll recall the situation/circumstances in which I knew them... I'll recall the season, perhaps it was winter and I was always bundled up in a coat.... Then I'm thinking of what kind of coat I want to buy.... Meanwhile I'm looking at this individual and they're talking away thinking I'm following them. I can't read with the tv on. I can't sleep with the radio on. I keep listeneng for the next song to come on hoping it is better than the last... etc. I have trouble multitasking..... But, if I can't try to move from one thing to another frequently rather than staying involved in one thing at a time, I get anxious because I feel the need to move on.

My mom used to watch tv and read paperback mystery novels at the same time. I thought she was brilliant. Thats just something I couldn't begin to do. Sometimes I read a paragraph and can't recall what I just read. Sometimes a song gets stuck in my head and I hear the melody over and over so that it drives me nuts. I'm not very hyper, though. I just seem to be easily distracted.

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