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Spokane_Girl

04 Jun 2009, 3:13 pm

I'm lost, just when going to web pages become an ADHD trait?

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04 Jun 2009, 3:23 pm

I have accidentally downloaded spam/adware from this site. It's not as clean as we might hope, in that respect. No doubt IT is going to block off all "unkown" or non-business sites in order to protect the companies system. If they don't say anything about it to you, I wouldn't think too much about it, I would just accept that work isn't the time to visit everyone here.

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04 Jun 2009, 3:41 pm

Spokane_Girl wrote:

I'm lost, just when going to web pages become an ADHD trait?

It's a common ADHD thing to switch between activities and to get distracted by the ones that seem more interesting. If you work is on a computer and you have multiple windows open, you can easily end up toggling between, say, your e-mail, a spreadsheet, Twitter, Facebook, WP, some Web site where you are supposed to order stuff for work, a report you're writing, etc. And you'll get stuck doing what's more pleasant instead of working.

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04 Jun 2009, 3:49 pm

Alphabetania wrote:

I do this all the time without the ADHD. I fill out web-based forms all day and the servers are slow. I get bored waiting for the pages to refresh, so I keep something else up to work on or read while my forms are saving.

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Spokane_Girl

04 Jun 2009, 3:59 pm

Alphabetania wrote:

Spokane_Girl wrote:

I'm lost, just when going to web pages become an ADHD trait?

Ah I see, I do the same thing when I am supposed to be doing something online like lets say looking for places for my wedding and instead I end up doing things I like doing. But I don't have ADHD.

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04 Jun 2009, 4:18 pm

navigate though google and look for "hide my ass" they will not see which sites u have visited :wink:

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04 Jun 2009, 5:50 pm

Spokane_Girl wrote:

Ah I see, I do the same thing when I am supposed to be doing something online like lets say looking for places for my wedding and instead I end up doing things I like doing. But I don't have ADHD.

The difference is that you probably manage to focus on the main activity. With ADHD the relative importance of the various activities get all muddled if the ADHD gets really bad. :compress:

I need to multi-task sometimes in order to function effectively, but this "medicine" of multi-tasking can become a destructive drug as well.

Hyperfocus

is the flip side of the ADHD coin -- being able to concentrate extremely well (better than normal people) on certain activities. I went onto medication for ADHD when it became so bad that I lost my ability to hyperfocus. That was pretty distressing. :bounce:

I was always very good at certain tasks (e.g writing long documents, such as reports or proposals) and I had become useless at everything. :shrug:

Even now I am not quite back to what I was yet. It has been a tough few months.

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04 Jun 2009, 6:13 pm

One place where I did a data entry temp assignment had most Internet sites blocked because it was a records storage company, and that location stored medical records. In that case, it was a security issue since those records had things like Social Security numbers and other information that could lead to identity theft if a Trojan horse, spyware, virus, or other nasty Internet thing was allowed to get into the system.

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04 Jun 2009, 6:25 pm

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Alphabetania wrote:

Spokane_Girl wrote:

Ah I see, I do the same thing when I am supposed to be doing something online like lets say looking for places for my wedding and instead I end up doing things I like doing. But I don't have ADHD.

The difference is that you probably manage to focus on the main activity. With ADHD the relative importance of the various activities get all muddled if the ADHD gets really bad. :compress:

I need to multi-task sometimes in order to function effectively, but this "medicine" of multi-tasking can become a destructive drug as well.

Hyperfocus

I was always very good at certain tasks (e.g writing long documents, such as reports or proposals) and I had become useless at everything. :shrug:

Even now I am not quite back to what I was yet. It has been a tough few months.

alphabetania, this is very interesting to me. and relevant. thank you for posting.
can you suggest any websites that actually discuss in detail the issues of living with ADHD. you seem to be outlining problems i have. I have been dx'ed with AS and also told i probably have ADHD. I get distracted but multi-tasking is a nightmare and then i get meltdowns throughout the day. I have had periods where i have also lost the ability to blissfully hyperfocus (my favourite state.) losing that, was akin to death on legs.
any suggestions re information?

I wish you would start a thread on your experiences with AS and ADHD. I think you could help a lot of us with your insights.

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04 Jun 2009, 7:04 pm

Going online at work is proven to be a good stress reliever and helps productivity...

*click*

Maybe the ones not online are just playing Solitare though... :lol: