The Attention Deficit Disorder or ADD Experience

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Dr. Don Blackerby of Success Skills, Inc. of Oklahoma describes the internal experience of a student who struggles with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). He examines how they view the world and the struggles the encounter. Attention Deficit Disorder is a serious issue affecting our schools, and Success Skills teaches new ways to teach students and to help them to achieve success.

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Education

Tags:

• Attention Deficit Disorder
• ADD
• ADHD
• Kids struggling in school

[HaleHaridwald]

This is how I feel right now when trying to apply for a job. My mind is thinking about so many other things, and literally I talk to myself in my head, even as I'm typing this. I'll get writing, while thinking, then I'll just give up and try to sort my thoughts out but I can't do it because there are so many.

[Iskate4pandas]

that blew my mind

[marcomercadojr]

I dunno... Older generation put labels a lot to the newer generation... We can look things in this way: We are now in a century where everything is FAST... the remote controls, mobile phones, the internet etc, cartoons are presented in a fast paced way, .... everything is fast... thus kids easily adapt to this fast changing world... Probably, the world is moving so fast, thus, the older, slow-paced generation see and finds it too fast...

[blackerbyr]

Also, the demand is not from the required school work. It is much deeper. It is the innate desire to make sense of all the slides feeling as if a story is being written that will determine your future experience of life on one level or another. So, you are constantly reviewing the slides, so to speak. Or trying to connect the dots and make sense of them. By innate, I mean that all humans make sense of their existence by interpreting the information fed to the mind through the senses.

[vivaburritos]

Perfectly described. Might add that alot of us have sound going on along with all those "slides". Taking in what someone is saying to you over the din one's own uncontrollable recollections of lyrics, music, things that were said moments or years ago is so hard. And my responses always come out disjointed or narcissistic sounding because I can't cut through these involuntary chaotic and random collections of thoughts that never dissipate.