I consider myself a paradoxical character. On the one hand, I am perspicacious and alert when it comes to the topics I love to learn about. Meanwhile, today I called my school's financial aid department and didn't present myself. Instead, I went right away to ask for what I needed to know. After hanging my dad told me I always have to tell whoever I am calling who am I. I know this stuff by heart, but when it comes to executing it, I can commit those kinds of slips.
I could figure out the charges of anti-quarks based on the charges of the quarks that make up normal matter. Protons have 3 quarks of 3 different colors which are red, green and blue (they are not literally colors. They merely are a convenient label). Those three colors make a particle with no color, which is labeled "white". In fact, neutrons also have three quarks, and so do anti-protons. Quarks also come in different "flavors" which are up, down, charmed, strange, top and bottom. An up quark has a charge of 2/3 while down quarks have it of -1/3. Since protons have a positive charge of +1, it means that their quarks are 2 up and one down quark, because 2/3+2/3=4/3-1/3=3/3=1.
When reading the passage about antiquarks, I just figured, quickly, that anti-up quarks had a charge of -2/3 and anti-down of +1/3, so -2/3-2/3=-4/3+1/3=-1. I know that this is rather simple, but what is the issue here is the speed with which I figured out without reading more about it.
Other times I have a hard time figuring out things, specially at the gym. I have a hard time looking for a certain machine because it just doesn't interest me that much. I am dragged there by my dad.
Finding specific clothes for my mom also gives me a hard time, because I find iy tedious to look for it among such a profusion of blouses. But ask me to remember the material from my Human Memory course and I can get a 96 on a test with just having read the book once.
I have a hard time modulating the volume of my voice, and often end up getting weird looks.
I can ask you questions about nature and the universe, but don't expect me to be curious about details of everyday tasks and chores.
It is curious how I can have a very good long term memory, but suck at working memory. I have a hard time following instructions on my biology lab, but get A's on my tests after a cursory reading the hour or night before the test.
I came to the conclusion that I am a "burro genius", just like Victor Villaseñor. He has dyslexia, but I can relate to some of his experiences, and I tend to see ADHD as a learning disability, a mild form of dysexecutive syndrome.
I would like to read your experiences with school and everyday life and how ADHD affects you. If you have a high IQ, have your friends expressed skepticism about your diagnosis because you are smart? It has happened to me.
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