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The ADD Post
Sep. 28th, 2020 08:03 amI have ADD.
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In the long term, this doesn’t really affect anything. For example, although I can’t sit down and read one book for an entire hour, I can sit down for an hour and read ten books, and I can do this every day until all the books are read. As a result, I read more books than anyone I know (for real), usually with good retention and recall. A problem only arises if you give me a book and expect me to have read the whole thing by tomorrow – in which case I would say that’s your problem, not mine. In other words, the “problem” is often the arbitrary framework for a task, not my ability to handle it. To be blunt, the way I work only becomes a “disability” if someone deliberately goes out of their way to make it so by refusing to accommodate it.
This becomes tricky, however, when I have to set a task for myself.
Specifically, how the fuck am I supposed to write a novel.
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In the long term, this doesn’t really affect anything. For example, although I can’t sit down and read one book for an entire hour, I can sit down for an hour and read ten books, and I can do this every day until all the books are read. As a result, I read more books than anyone I know (for real), usually with good retention and recall. A problem only arises if you give me a book and expect me to have read the whole thing by tomorrow – in which case I would say that’s your problem, not mine. In other words, the “problem” is often the arbitrary framework for a task, not my ability to handle it. To be blunt, the way I work only becomes a “disability” if someone deliberately goes out of their way to make it so by refusing to accommodate it.
This becomes tricky, however, when I have to set a task for myself.
Specifically, how the fuck am I supposed to write a novel.
