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I do that, too, and I don't have ADD. I procrastinate all the time, and then I work well under pressure. Always have been that way.
I just get distracted easily.
Same here. My dad was the same way and I don't think he had ADD either--couldn't tell that either of my folks did but I see it in other relatives. But, my dad was the master procrastinator and he was an EE prof. I don't know that there's any way to fix this--some people say there is, but I'll get around to reading that book later, lol.
Interestingly, that is the one "symptom" of ADD that meds can't seem to fix at all. Meds might make us more organized and help us focus better and do better in social situations, but everyone I've talked to personally and on ADD forums has said that procrastination is still a huge problem and for the reasons you mentioned--we need the mental stimulation of working against a deadline. I've waited till the nth hour to write a paper and still have gotten an A on it, but how much better it would have been and how much prouder I'd have been if I'd actually taken my time with it! Yep, I'm procrastinating on doing taxes right now! And I don't even think they'll be that difficult.
I don't have any listening problems. I have hearing problems. I have nerve damage in both ears, my right more profoundly than the left. It's progressive, eventually I'll be completely deaf at least in my right ear, if not both. After 40 years of worsened hearing, I finally broke down and got hearing aids around 2 years ago. Huge help, I can hear things more crisply now. But I'm so used to not hearing, that the crispness is irritating so I usually don't wear them except to watch TV
What is interesting about ADD is the tendency to procrastinate, and then really get it together at crunch time. I have been amazed at what I can whip out in an hour, and wonder why I could have accomplished if I had really been able to focus...
Quoted for truth. My trigger to stop procrastinating is hormonal. I'll leave the house undusted, unvacuumed, unswept - and then PMS rears its ugly head and I go on a cleaning rampage for 2 hours and BOOM - house is CLEAN.
Quoted for truth. My trigger to stop procrastinating is hormonal. I'll leave the house undusted, unvacuumed, unswept - and then PMS rears its ugly head and I go on a cleaning rampage for 2 hours and BOOM - house is CLEAN.
Yeah, same here but only if it's an angry PMS, since I swing between angry ones and depressed ones. So, house clean every other month, lol.
I never have a "cleaning rampage". I dwadle, procrastinate, really hate boring tasks like cleaning and organizing. I lack that skill. But, I now live my life to that "disability". Have less stuff, and never let things get dirty.
I never have a "cleaning rampage". I dwadle, procrastinate, really hate boring tasks like cleaning and organizing. I lack that skill. But, I now live my life to that "disability". Have less stuff, and never let things get dirty.
Well that's smart, and you've figured out a set of techniques for living with it. I've got to say though that I do like cleaning stuff sometimes, but it's only fun if it's dirty. The thing that's amusing to me is that I probably enjoy housework more than people who are good at it, but I always get distracted about halfway through and start to do something else. Like with the way I procrastinate, there's always something to do--maybe that's why I do it--so there will always be something on the backburner that I should be doing. But! if I hadn't been procrastinating all week I could have spent my day hiking on this pretty pretty day--instead I stayed home and cleaned some and organized paperwork and did taxes. Lightbulb moment!
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