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You Might Have ADD...

If your friends/family think you're spacey or hyper

If you can focus intensely without distraction and have time fly by quickly when you're into what you're doing

If you have good ideas for the project, but its hard to organize and prioritize them. So you end up procrastinating and at the last minute get a surge of focused energy that you use to scramble and finish, but end up settling for work less than you're capable

If you operate really well

  • Under pressure
  • In competitive situations
  • At fast-paced games, contests and problem solving
  • When you are totally focused

If you procrastinate certain tasks because

  • It's especially boring, tedious
  • Just starting seems overwhelming
  • You already know you're missing some needed part

If you let the 'little money' get in the way of the 'big money'

If you're into X-Sports, adrenaline surges and driving fast

If you have had more than two motor vehicle accidents

If you routinely "go back" to retrieve what you've forgotten

If you talk rapidly, think rapidly and find your words can't keep up

If you lose your place as you're talking because you were thinking forward for the next related thing to say

If you think "listening" means waiting your turn to speak by planning what you are going to say next

If you interrupt or anticipate your turn in the conversation or finish their sentence

If you have lots of great ideas, but are short on follow thru

If you get distracted with small details rather than focusing on the big picture

If you feel like you're always thinking, planning, second-guessing, dwelling and re-thinking

If you tend to lose your place when you're reading

If you don't like reading because you get bored or distracted

If you bounce your leg for no reason

If time seems really, really, really slow when you're not busy

If you have unfinished projects and no foreseeable time line to finish

If you think random is a virtue