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Originally Posted by hawthoerne
If say, you have the TV on and someone is talking to you at the same time, do you feel overwhelmed trying to process it all? My mom attributes it to her ADHD Inattentive type and i'm starting to get the same way.. i have ADHD Combined type, but i dunno if its an asperger's thing for me... Just now i was watching the news, my dad was talking, and my boyfriend was on the phone talking all at the same time and i was about ready to explode!!!  |
This is a classic ADD symptom. Our poor executive function is responsible. We hear Everything and the net result is we hear Nothing. With un-medicated ADD we can only process a couple of channels of information at a time and quickly get overloaded with more sound sources bombarding us. Our brains spin fast trying to hear everything, but it is not easy for ADDer's. I noticed great improvement in this area after starting my Adderall treatment. I could sit in a noisy restaurant and actually hear and understand the person talking to me
The other classic ADD character is the "Telephone Tyrant"
(Guilty as charged here)
In the old days I had a hard enough time talking to someone on the phone and staying with the conversation. When someone walked up to me while I was on the phone and said something to me because they knew who I was talking to and wanted to relay something I'd get So P.ssed Off...
Why???
Because when two people were talking to me at the same time the net result of what I heard was "Nothing", now I'm trying to pretend that I'm still following the phone conversation, which I fail at badly, then they think I'm not interested, "What a jerk I am" and so on...
Yep... I totally know what you are saying
