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I get sidetracked very easily.
What I did next was so impulsive and dangerous I should've been named ADHD poster child of the year.
a cocktail of characteristics that I found addictive,
I have career ADD, he says. I have career dissatisfaction. Even as a young kid, I'd have that. I'd get really passionate about something and then I'd realize, 'I don't want to do that!
My brother has ADD, which is weird because he drives a Ford Focus. I told my brother that joke but he didn't laugh because he got distracted by my shoe strings.
Intemperance is a dangerous companion. It throws many people off their guard, betrays them to a great many indecencies, to ruinous passions, to disadvantages in fortune; makes them discover secrets, drive foolish bargains, engage in play, and often to stagger from the tavern to the stews.
If you listen to the songs I write, they are the most ADHD songs ever. They have five hooks in one and it all happens in three minutes.
Adorkable is a freeform, loose-knit, organic network of like-minded souls who might get pushed to the ground for the way we think and the way we look and because we're not afraid of who we are, but my God we're looking up at the stars.
My doctor told me i had Attention Deficit Disorder. He said, 'ADD is a complex disorder, blah, blah, blah,' I didn't pay attention to the rest.
I'm a demoniac; I am madness maddened
Genius - the pursuit of madness.
Cleverness is a disease.
I have late onset ADHD. I take on too much and end up spinning plates, but it's entertaining, and it helps you make quick connections if you're a comedian, if you have a brain that can dance around too much.
When I achieved the European record for reciting pi in 2004, this captured the imagination of Professor Simon Baron-Cohen in Cambridge, and he finally diagnosed me with Asperger's that year.
Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
I just remembered that I'm absent minded ... wait, I mean I lost my mind, I can't find it.
lethargic meliorist;
Addie was the greatest joy of Celia's life. Not a burden. Not a tragedy. A gift. A gift that God had perhaps insisted on giving her even when, in fear, she'd asked for the opposite.
When you have ADHD your home reflects our thought. disorganized and in disoray. And like with a disorganized house. you can only appologize for your disorganized brian so many time before it becomes exhausting.
malady of reverie.
To whom the wilie Adder, blithe and glad.
When I get busy, I get stupid.
Your writings and head are disordered and mixed up, so that it is exceedingly annoying to read and difficult to remember what you write.
I'm very ADD when it comes to working out. I have to keep it interesting for myself or it just gets quite monotonous.
There is no genius free from some tincture of madness
The disease. Amor deliria nervosa. You can't catch it from me. I'm safe." Alex told me that very same thing, once. I push the memories of him away, willing them deep into the darkness. "And
Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast.
I'm ADD and psychic. I know things ahead of time but lose track of which is which.
One of the great pleasures of having children is spending one-on-one time with them. Sadly, I could do that for only a few minutes at a time. I'd never say that ADD/ADHD is a gift or a blessing. And if someone says it is a gift, I'd love to return it.
Nothing like ADHD and a good fight to the death to make time fly
I am an addictive personality.
Who'd have thought an Aiel could bloody read?
His was an illness that besets the intellectual: the indefatigable will to mastery. Chronic and incurable, it afflicts those who lust after a world that makes sense.
The stupidity of one brain multiplied by twelve.
High Magic's Aid)
One universally common trait in ultra successful people (including the ones with ADHD!) is the ability to consistently take action in a specific direction. This has three components: 1) Direction 2) SMART goals 3) Consistency
It's nothing to be ashamed of and that there are even beneficial traits associated with the condition. Most importantly, acknowledge yourself for who you are and if you're struggling with anything resembling ADD get professionally diagnosed.
Safe word is Pickle
Habit: A shackle for the free.
Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else.
My mom insisted on saying such things, even though almost no one understood what she meant. My Dad sometimes called her Addlebrain because she read so many books.
When life gives you melons, you might be dyslexic.
I know I have an eccentric, obsessive-compulsive side.
You got amphetamine eyes.
We have to stop, this is insane. I literally cannot handle anymore. I think I've lost brain function. I can actually feel myself becoming stupid"
...
"Not possible. Let's test it. What's two times two?"
"Orange?
Chronic multitaskers "are suckers for irrelevancy," says Stanford communications professor Clifford Nass. "Everything distracts them." They can't ignore things, can't remember as well, and have weaker self-control.
Ashenden was in the habit of asserting that he was never bored. It was one of his notions that only such persons were as had no resources in themselves and it was but the stupid that depended on the outside world for their amusement.
[Giulia Lazzari]
Concentration Attention Multitasking Boredom Procrastination
Every great genius has an admixture of madness.
I can't add. I don't understand basic science. Or anything else. But I can read anything. I've always been able to, and I've always liked to. Even if I didn't understand it, I liked to.
Our intelligence is imperfect, surely, and newly arisen; the ease with which it can be sweet-talked, overwhelmed, or subverted by other hardwired propensities - sometimes themselves disguised as the cool light of reason - is worrisome.
It is practically an axiom in psychiatry that precocious intellect combined with physical weakness can give rise to many unpleasant character traits - avarice, delusions of grandeur , and obsessive masturbation, to name just a few.
Methamphetamine is so Flowers for Algernon: All that super-human cerebral ability fades to limited physical activities like stapling carpet scraps to the wall or masturbation antics worthy of The Guinness Book of World Records.
I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.
I'm kind of ADD. So I try to do one thing at a time. Otherwise, I would be sort of scattered and won't be 100% where I need to be for certain things.
So what brings you to this killing pickle?
Distracted from distraction by distraction
This disease of curiosity.
Intelligent people while impulsive, worth less than one stone on the path
My plans often went awry. Much like my thoughts. Hold the phones. Maybe Saan had ADD, too. It would explain a lot.
Wiv difficulty 'an injinuity. Jest bein' smart, like.
Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.
I am totally convinced my guardian angel is an addict because I can't find my Adderall and she is not talking.
Wit, after all, is the unfailing symptom of intelligence.
My life used to be boring. A damnation here, a curse there, with an occasional blight or two to break routine. Now I have Aisling ... She's better than reality TV, Internet porn sites, and the trashloids all put together.' - Jim
Never let the brain idle. 'An idle mind is the devil's workshop.' And the devil's name is Alzheimer's.
Disordered house, disordered mind, disordered life,
I used to drum on the table at school. I think a handful of my school reports say that they thought I might have some kind of ADD because I was making sounds. I was far from being an ADD child. I was actually quite quiet and well-behaved. But I used to drum on things.
Get off me, you lard-ass, halitosis, flea-infested horror-movie reject! (Alexion)
I think everybody should have dyslexia and A.D.D.
drunk right now, Amfortas suspected, or high on amphetamine,
But she's a nice lass."
"Addolgar, she poisoned you."
"But she didn't kill me. That's what's important.
Mental indolence is one of the commonest of human traits
Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.
Sometimes the most consequential moments in my life originate from a state of completely witless human auto-pilot.
What's up?" I asked.
You tell me," he said. "You were the one about ready to start making out with Adrian."
It was an experiment," I said. "It was part of my therapy."
What the hell kind of therapy are you in?
I have Asperger's; what's your excuse?
- Ben Sheldon
In loquaciousness lay insanity.
There is ecstasy in paying attention.
My mind is led astray by every faint rustle.
They say ya additude determines ya laditude...
ADHD is not about knowing what to do,
but about doing what one knows.
Moodling is daydreaming, letting your mind wander, losing track of time, and, in the most severe cases...doing nothing" -Dill
Avant-gardism is an addiction that can be appeased only by a revolution in permanence.
There are no fools so troublesome as those that have wit.
My insanity begged for a distraction. (Eric)
Intellectual effort for its own sake, they call eccentricity.
Substances that can give a shot in the arm to the mesolimbic dopamine system have self-reinforcing effects, and users will rob stores and mug elderly people to continue obtaining these specific molecular shapes. These chemicals, working their magic at scales one thousand
A reading appetite is quirky, singular, and essential
The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.
I've always had an addictive nature.
Some thoughts have glue on them.----Smilla
Artificial intellegance is no match for natural stupidity
There came a time in everyone's life when they realized that in spite of how hard they'd been running from themselves, everywhere they went, there they were: Addictions and compulsions were nothing but marching bands of distraction, masking truths that were unpleasant, but ultimately undeniable.
My laziness is really profound. I'm really interested in where it comes from - it almost feels chemical. And we've all got ADD now, short attention span and all that.
Confound it, it's foolish, Tom
Dyslexia is the affliction of a frozen genius.
Within obsession lies madness and genius
Eroticize intelligence.
Madness is witlessness's.