Visual stimulus

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Do you find it hard to focus/think when there is too much visual stimulus?

well I am easily distracted, so I'd say somewhat

Absolutely!

Flashing lights & moving images (like on a TV screen, or computer monitor) can be extremely disruptive to me. I even hate it when restaurants have a large screen TV somewhere in my line of sight - I just can't seem to tear myself away from the moving pictures.

I get very distracted by visual stimuli- especially the lights in school. Some of them flicker and I just can't concentrate. I sometimes have trouble in math because I sit next to the teacher and she is always using the computer or writing and just generally moving around and that's a bit distracting to me since I am literally 2 feet from her, facing her. I just try to "zone out" the best that I can to deal with it. Of course, zoning out has its problems- like not hearing the fire alarm or the release bell, etc. Haha.

I wouldn't think so but it was a problem with me driving. I'd get distracted and focused that I'd miss the light. I was even distracted as a car was turning in the same lane as me but a truck came rolling out behind me. That was the second wreck I had and now I'm afraid to drive because of these challenges as well as depth perception.

Oh yes.

Yes! So much so I don't know how to post a picture here!

I have my days where I'll be staring at a moving image for hours and I'll forget where I'm at or what I'm doing.

I get distracted if there are two strong stimuli. I can zone in on visual, but if there's sound or something disturbing me physically it's hard to pay attention unless I'm really zoned, in which case I have no clue what's going on except what I'm seeing. If I'm listening to something, it's the same. Once I lock onto a stimuli, it doesn't matter what it is, nothing else exists. It's the boundary areas, when I can't totally lock on to one source, that, for example, buzzing lights in a room will distract from being able to read properly, etc.

Lectures, well, I have a LOT of problems with auditory things, so just wearing the wrong socks will distract me from that, some days!

Not really, except for things like flickering lights. I'm much more easily distracted by auditory stimuli.

oh yes very much, sometimes i wish i can make myself blind temporaliy, i have to close my eyes to even understand whats going on, that goes with hearing too, gotta plug my ears to even understand to even concentrate!

yes. very tiring. i am usign sunglasses inside as well now - to dull things a bit.
it is reducing my stress a bit also.

Yeah, if people are moving around that's enough to distract me.

Actually, come to think of it, that's a lie. I always tried to explain to my mom how sometimes it seems like I'm 'seeing too much', or everything is 'coming at my eyes', and I have to shut my eyes really tight (resulting in a pretty bad eye twitch that I've developed) and press my hands into them.

I just never really considered that to be abnormal.

I am easily distracted. So I dotn have a very good attention span. Which is why tutoring is usually one on one. I can get distracted by anything. I am getting better at getting myself back on topic.

Absolutely.
Of course, I could say this of an excess of any stimulus.
It follows a predictable course:

-concentration becomes difficult
-mistakes begin to occur
-I start to "drift" or "dissociate"
-I lose track of whatever it is I was doing
-I attempt to cease/escape the stimulus

So....
loud parties, busy commercial city-centers, and other places like this can be problematic.

Yet I work at schools, which are often both visual and auditory circuses. Yet somehow I manage to do it without screwing up too much. I think because I have acclimated to the environment. It is predictable. And I can deal with that.