Ahah good catch reading and replying about the post with the video game comment in it, I missed that sentence somehow, As far as the gaming thing goes, in my opinion. The shooter fast paced games that require twitch reflexes I would think possibly to an extent could teach the brain expect instant gratification. Games where it is all about shooting up the enemy and do not require a lot of thought to get through, just killing all the enemies along the way could be that way. Also another note to the shooter games, when walking around a level. Sometimes there is slow times in the game where not a lot of action is happening then you come to an area where there is intense action. So the brain could be taught to start thinking that way. For example if nothing exciting or intense is happening the brain is kinda off task per say. But as soon as the intense action hits the brain tunes in 100%. So possibly this short intense bursts of attention to the action can end up mimicking the adhd distractibility. Or the kids who can sit there and play for hours on end could represent the hyperfocus. Leading the person to pseudo add. so it is tough to differentiate.

Thinking back on it. when I played games even world of warcraft. WoW was not always an instant gratification. It did make you think when you were questing. Since you did not know where anything was when starting out so had to read the quest book etc to get clues. It was not here is where you go and have fun with it move onto the next area. When I started losing interest in the game is when I started remembering where things were and it became kinda boring after awhile having made so many characters. I lost interest because there really was no challenge any more. so it can work either way though.

Also a lot of people do get the diagnosis but drawing the line is hard. That is why you gotta find a specialist who has worked with it and has experience with it. I am terrible at organization. I have piles of stuff everywhere. I put a pile somewhere and leave it there. I do not know exactly what it contains but I do have a general idea so I know to look there for a certain among the jumble.

Just like a few weeks ago I went over to my friends house to have his wife help me with my resume. I opened my back pack and took out three folders that had certificates and stuff she said I would need. She looks and says I have to organize them, so I start pulling them out. make a pile move on to a different pile. By the time I started trying to condense them down to one pile. I would pick up a stack start getting it in order. set it down and I would make another pile. It took me like two hours to get it straightened out and finally in one pile. I was so spent after that because I could not keep anything straight while trying to do it. two hours just to get everything into one folder. It was madness. Not to mention the inside of my back pack looked like a bomb went off in it. All through my life it has been that way though, I would just shove stuff in my back pack. I could not keep organized for the life of me. I still can't really keep organized.

I recently just graduated from school for a job I am seeking and man o man when the teachers aide would start handing out paperwork and stuff while the teacher was teaching. I might as well not have even been there. I would miss a lot of the lesson because I was distracted by the aid. then I would get frustrated asking because my classmates were following along and keeping up while receiving paperwork, but i just missed it all and would not really learn what was taught. Adhd seems like a tough beast to tackle because at times so scattered brain, but then there are other times I am so tune and everything is going right. I feel like a champ and can do no wrong until later when either my brain decides to take a vacation or my concentration is snapped. I cannot seem to get it back together.

Not to mention trying to explain things that happen to you throughout a day is hard to do if the person your explaining it to does not have it or has never dealt with a family member who has it. I had also told a couple of my class mates. and they kinda oh yeah sure sort of attitude. like they heard me but realy did not except it. Really kinda sucked. Its like you wanna tell the people who are around you and deal with you . so they understand but most don't so you hold it in and it cause other issues. OK I am gonna go tear my hair out after writing this