Are you at all able to follow a linear train of thought...

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unmedicated?

You wouldn't believe how hard it was for me to type that sentence.

The only "medication" l use is coffee but l've been drinking it for so many years that l guess l didn't realized how bad my diagnosed ADHD/weirdness/whatever really is.

Operating without it for a few hours today.

Anyway, now l remember how l used to have this issue when l was younger, do you do this:


You go to read something, or even LOOK at something-it reminds you of something else. You space out for a second and can't really move your head xD

Or when you try to read, you can't really keep words from all over the page coming together and "linking up" forming phrases that don't make any sense. And again, you freeze up and you can't move your head? Or even walk.

Just curious, l am truly grateful to live in a time where coffee is easily and widely accessible. When it kicks in it's like "blinders" go up and l can make direct connections without getting stuck and temporarily paralyzed.

y = mx + b

EXPECIALLY wrote:

If something isn't interesting it's impossible to follow it... if it's part of an obsession I can follow a linear train of thought on it for days.

Only if I'm hyper focused, and that's getting harder to do as I get older.

I'm also a highly "associative thinker," which means my brain naturally jumps from connection to connection.

The world is not linear it is a log world

So x = 10^(log10(a)-log10(b))

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Diagnosed under the DSM5 rules with autism spectrum disorder, under DSM4 psychologist said would have been AS (299.80) but I suspect that I am somewhere between 299.80 and 299.00 (Autism) under DSM4.

Sometimes I have this trouble with concentration when reading - a sentence or word can remind me of something, so I think about that, then something connected to that. Sometimes I can take hours reading the same page.

1 + 2 = 3

Apparently

Another self-medicating caffeine-addicted ADD'er here.

I have to actually talk while moving my mouth (IOW, I don't have to make a sound, but my lips do have to move) in order to follow a linear train of thought and I can't do it for very long.

It was only a couple of years ago that I realized that everybody's brain was not like having a tv that played all the channels at once.

I often have tangential or circumstantial speech and I know it is because of this. If I am not focusing very hard--actually, if I haven't already planned out what I was going to say--I will inevitably go off on a tangent. When I remember what my original point was supposed to be, I will circle back to it, but when I don't, I usually just trail off when I realize I no longer know why I am talking about what I am talking about. It leads to some pretty interesting social interactions, and at least once a day--no exaggeration-- I have to ask my conversational partner if they know what point I am trying to make. Or if they can tell me what, exactly, I am talking about. As a public speaker, it can be rather embarrassing which is why I am so incredibly scripted in front of a group.

Nope, not at all! It drives me crazy. My brain jumps from one subject to the next literally within split seconds. I can't sleep because of this either