Studying when someone is talking to you...or in groups.

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Does anyone here have trouble studying when in a group or when someone insists on talking to you about non study related stuff?

It is driving me up the wall as the trying to make conversation is taking so much of my processing power that there is virtually nothing left for what I am trying to study and it is just not going in! I have to keep rereading paragraphs because people keep nattering in my ear about completely irrelevant stuff that has absolutely no relationship to what I am trying to learn. There are times in my life I wish I lived on a Desert Island with no other living humans around! I can cope with animals they don't talk so much are less distracting!

I would have trouble studying in any circumstances. But yeah I have trouble focusing or working on a task when someone is talking to me. It's like the "talking" part of my brain is separated from the "thinking/doing" part. So I can do one or the other but not both. I can't listen to people talk while I'm busy doing something. It boggles my mind that people think they can talk to me while I'm working.

I can study at a library, but not Denny's.