Well, we have fought all day long and it's been the day from hell. He feels overwhelmed by too many things to do, yet criticized when I suggest that he focus on only one thing at a time (rather than concurrently work on 4 separate projects, finishing none).

Right now, I am sitting with him in our office. We reached an agreement that he will apply to 3 schools, even if he isn't 100% positive that he wants to attend them. He agreed that it can't hurt to get the ball rolling. However, he's been sitting here for the last hour, either getting distracted by thinking of other things he could research on the internet, or out of frustration pounding on the keyboard, rolling his eyes, and getting agitated. I just watched him try to create a userid for a university website. It clearly said that he needed an 8 character userid and he just wasn't absorbing that requirement, so he kept typing in the same userid over and over and pretty much lost his temper that it wasn't working. Mind you, my husband is, IMO, just shy of being a genius -- I'm in the top 2% of IQs, and he is way, WAY smarter than I am. Yet he's practically throwing a temper tantrum because he can't understand how to fill out an online application.

Right now, he's pissed off because they want to know his father's contact info, but as his dad disappeared more than 17 years ago, he doesn't know what to put there. And he doesn't remember his high school address, so he's making a huge mess going through our file cabinets.

Is it ADD? I don't know. Our T would say it is. I just know that it is painful to watch him flounder like this. It would have taken me all of 10 minutes to get done what he's been trying to do for the last hour.