Ah, here's a good one for you guys to look at.
Ok, so I have come to realize that I had ADD as a child but didn't really relized it until now when the bad symptoms hit me hard. Now, I'm trying to figure out if there are external factors that may have contributed the acceleration of my bad symptoms. Another word, why didn't I have the symptoms I have now back when I was a kid?
I was wondering maybe if modern technologies that allows us as people to multi-task more than ever has somehow flip a switch in our brain and push us more to ADD. After all, our brains are really not designed to multi-task like computers and certainly don't do well in it.
Think about it, when you're online, you multi-task like crazy (IM, music, d/l, emails, working...among others.
Maybe somehow over the years this has built up and my brain couldn't take it no more and just WHAM...ADD at the full speed?
I find this interesting because I never really noticed as a child I never multi-task myself to death but just lack of concentration. Or, are they the same?
nothappy38499.8523842593I think technology is evolving faster than humans can adapt. I think we ADHD’ers have an advantage in this regard. I prefer multitasking-though usually it doesn’t get tangible results like doing one thing and doing it well. But I like the ideas I get from the tangents I go off on and it’s much easier to develop these bizzaro ideas when I’ve got a lot of stuff going on.
For me the drudgery of being a ‘responsible’ adult (paying bills, keeping a job, finding clean clothes) has become unmanageable (hence the recent trial of stimulant meds). As a child I could get away with poor follow through, thus the ADHD symptoms were manageable.
About 1 month ago, there was a post on this forum about inventions created by ADHD’ers (Post it notes was one). My favorite invention is the internet and hyperlinks. I love getting online to look up the weather, and next thing you know I reading about ‘tin whiskers’ and ‘bistable circuits.’
So, in conclusion (ha ha sorry for the long-ish and seemingly unrelated info), modern technologies sort of caters to ADHD minds—it makes it easier for me to do the things my brain wants to do. It may exacerbate some of the issues I have, but that’s outweighed by the advantages of technology and modern life. Also, I’m defiantly hyper. I understand that some people (ADD as opposed to ADHD) can get overwhelmed by lots of stimuli. If what I’m doing isn’t super important, I prefer the TV on, 20 tabs open on my browser, and 6 windows on my computer open and alt-tabbing through them all. At work or when paying bills, I can’t do that.