"Begin right and it will be easy. Continue easy and it will be right." --Chuang Tzu

Please don't take this as belittling the affliction, but I think we all as humans, particularly present company, suffer under ADD. It is the catch all diagnosis for everyone that falls through the holes of other disorders. This isn't entirely a bad thing. If we can get some growth out of recognizing and then tempering our more self-destructive tendencies, then hooray for us.

Therefore, I have come to the conclusion that I can better myself with a study of ADD. I've got to tell you, I've encountered some compelling information and eye-opening strategies in the first book that I am reading on the subject. 100 pages in and I have dog-eared 50 of them.

All of the following statements apply to me. This will be a living list as I get through more chapters.

1. The ADD mind "needs Intensely Compelling Motivations to grab their Dysregulated Selective Attention".
   This is the root of my problems. I can be intensely interested in tasks for a short turn, but it doesn't take much time before I experience what the book terms "Paralysis of Will". I don't want to do it anymore so I have zero willpower to motivate action.
2. The ADD mind "tend to process information at a mind-boggling pace and burn out just as quickly."
   Me to a T.
3. "The ADDer can be very touchy about being touched"..Some "don't like living with animals because pets don't have respect for their physical boundaries."
   Who does that sound like?
4. In addition to our physical comfort zone, we often feel our emotional space is encroached upon.
5. More to come as reading continues...