Has anyone though about ADD this way?

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I've been thinking about this a lot and I've come to a certain conclusion about concentration. Let's say people with no ADD are pretty much focused for 80% at all times(80% in general not 80% of the time) . It means they can get a lot of stuff done in a normal amount of time and not be extremely tired. People with ADD are usually 0% focused if nothing around them is happening, when something happens, for example you play a high action videogame, you take a drive, you start talking to people. You go into hyperfocus and you're focused for 100%(20>% more than people with no ADD), which means you can focus really good but you also get tired very fast cause you focus so much. If for some reason the action around you stops, you take a steady nosedive back to 0% and when something happens again or someone talks to you, you can't focus well on what they say anymore. So
1. you focus really hard and get tired really fast or you can't focus at all.
2. you jump from no focus to high focus and back in short bursts. You talk for someone for 5 minutes(focus goes up), you stop talking(focus goes down), you talk again(focus goes up), you stop talking(focus goes down). So it's hard to maintain a steady amount of focus, it either goes up or it goes down.

Does anyone understand what I mean and could someone give me more insight in this?

Focus is not regulated. When we have a small window of focus, let's say 25%, we use it all up at once. One of the reasons why is that the frontal lobes is under active, we have very poor regulation of many systems governed there.

Hyperfocus is not really 100% focus because we still miss things and don't slow ourselves down to actually plan things. It's all-at-once focus much like the way autistic and some people with ADHD experience sensory stimuli without filtering out the extraneous stuff. It becomes too much too soon.

I don't think it's the environment that decides what our focus would be like. Perhaps maybe it feels that way if you are predominately hyperactive but personally stimuli doesn't make me focus unless I'm capable of that focus. I'm either under aroused or too hyper to focus or have a very small window of focus.

I actually found yesterday an interesting article on ADHD and not being bale to forget things by suppression as non-ADHD people. I may share it when I have time.

ADHD for the most part is about a dysfunction in the brain than a constant need for stimulus or action.

I see a lot of similarity between aspergers interests and add hyper focus. All I'll say is that in neither case does is there a great deal of conscious control, so this focus cannot be applied at will on to any task. Just think if we could

The message to aspies and adders is to always try to follow your interests as if you can incorporate it into your career, then you could do very well indeed.

Jason

Not being able to forget things by suppression must = the not being able to "compartmentalize" (painful emotions, etc.) that I am told most people naturally do.