Good at multitasking

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Me too. I'm always amazed at people's capacity to multi-task. Occasionally I can go on the Internet and play a game while the T.V is on but that usually becomes too much for me and I must choose one or the other. I can play a couple of songs on a repeating loop playlist while posting on this site or playing sudoku (that's my game right now). That's the extent of my multi-tasking. If I'm reading or writing I need to just focus on that, can't do anything else at the same time and for a long time I was reading 5 to 7 hours a day/night, every day/night. So, I'm not a bad reader with too little practice, I'm an avid reader and I love it (it's not really an obsessive interest any-more but I still love it) and yet it requires all of my attention for some reason. A lot of times I read whole books out-loud to myself to drown out the little noises around me and focus on the words or if I'm writing I sometimes say what I'm thinking/writing out loud. My mum can read and watch T.V at the same time which is amazing to me as is the apparent ability of some of my classmates to listen and take notes while playing a game on their computers or going on facebook. Sometimes I'll see/hear someone beside me close a chat window or facebook and write a note at exactly the right time, when the professor says something important or says "this will be on the exam". They're not drowning out the whole lecture, they're paying just enough attention so they can tune back in when they need to which seems like a super-human ability to me.