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"I have never finished a thought in my life," one young man lamented. Men and women with ADD have about them an almost palpable intensity that other people respond to with unease and instinctive withdrawal. (...) This sense of being always on the outside looking in, of somehow missing the point, is pervasive.
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compulsive joking, their pressured, rapid-fire speech...
Adults with ADD may be perceived as aloof and arrogant or tiresomely talkative and boorish. Many are recognizable by their compulsive joking, their pressured, rapid-fire speech, by their seemingly random and aimless hopping from one topic to the next and by their inability to express an idea without exhausting the English vocabulary.
Order? Disorder?
What is order? A sense of organization. A consciously planned sequence of activities. Knowing where things are and what have you done and what remains to be done. And what do we call a lack of order? Disorder.
forgetting to remember the future
Underdevelopment best explains another time-related malfunction of the ADD brain, the chronic incapacity to consider the future. (...) It has been aptly said that people with ADD forget to remember the future.
self-regulation
The major of impairments of ADD-the distractibility, the hyperactivity and the poor impulse control--reflect, each in its particular way, a lack of self-regulation. Self-regulation implies that someone can direct attention where she chooses, can control impulses and can be consciously mindful and in charge of what her body is doing.