The idea’s been floated numerous times, but usually in a joking manner. It was brought up again today, also in a joking manner, but there was a *tinge* of relation to real life this time.
So I’m at josh/deeps/ankur/nick’s place tonight, and i’m going over notes/studying. I’m talking to Josh (who’s in two of my classes) and I’m freaking out because the notes I’m taking for the two classes i’m taking with him are clearly not going to fit in the sections i’ve alloted for them in my three subject notebook. first off, the professors in all my classes are spewing notes the way niagara pours water. facts, dates, names pour onto my pages… and they are filling the notebook fast.
anyway, I’m mad because I want my notes to be nice and neat in my notebook, and I can’t do it because 1) I’ve missed a couple of days of class, which throws everything off because I don’t know how much space to leave for notes, 2) I don’t have room to do put all my notes for one class in that one section of the notebook anyway. AUGH!
I’m sitting there freaking out about these notes, about getting a new notebook, about resisting getting a new notebook, and finally Josh says, in his humorous disaffected college student subversive kind of manner, “Man, do you have A.D.D. or something? You’re freaking out. You’re acting just like my sister, and she has A.D.D.”
“Wha?” I say, amused.
“Yeah, she freaks out over every little detail. Like it takes for forever to start doing something because everything has to be just right.”
And he goes on talking about stuff his sister does, and with each trait he says, a little checkmark goes off in my head. What exactly is this A.D.D. business anyway? Me? A.D.D.? I’m skeptical, but my interest is piqued.
So, does anyone know anything about Attention Deficit Syndrome? I am curious…