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So, am I the only one as insane as this? I have figured out I probably spend most of the time in class doing random drawings, which is evident by taking a look at my notebooks (even those from high school times) there's a lot of notes about the lecture, but they are combined with a lot of random geometric shapes and things like that....

I don't really take notes. My method is more = drawing circles in my notebook as I listen to lectures to help me absorb and remember information. I draw a lot of other random geometric shapes as well, but circles seem to dominate.

Big time doodeler here. I especially liked drawing faces on the margins. I think half the problem was that my teacher would assign reading that I would do and then spend the next class reading the same thing back to us No wonder some kids don't learn to read. I even had professors in college do that and I was paying a lot of money for those classes. "Hey teachers, it's not story hour and I CAN read. How about spending our time talking about what we read instead of just rereading it"

I used to get detention after detention for drawing in the margins of my note books (not my texts) when I was in elementary school. My mother didn't care, she used to say "well, it is HER book". The teachers didn't connect the fact that although I was drawing while they were talking, I was *also* getting higher marks than those who weren't doodling and appeared to be participating. I also remember getting in trouble for doodling on my desk top in grade 4. This was in pencil, it was erasable. The teacher decided to teach me a lesson, gave me detention and my big punishment was to go around and clean all desks of "grafitti" with an eraser. My biggest question was at the time, if it was such a big crime, then why was I the only one being made an example of? Some kids used pen, others managed to carve things into the desk tops. Knowing me at that time, I probably drew a flower or a snoopy. Certainly, the crime of the century! The teacher only did this once to me anyway - he wasn't counting on me enjoying looking at what the other students had written or drawn. It was like a big art gallery exhibit, He gave up and let me go home. I doodled quite a bit when I was a child on regular art paper - I found it very relaxing.

I still draw randomly all the time. You're probably a natural artist and you need to keep drawing and learning to draw better. You can make a career out of it, if you follow it far enough.

When I was in elementary school and the teacher read a book, I would always ask if I could draw while she was reading. Some teachers let me, others wouldn't.

In junior high, I'd always doodle Naruto characters on blank pieces of paper if there was down time in class. (Naruto was my big obsession in junior high)

usually draw shapes when on the phone, in classes I write stories

I did that stuff all the time. I would always draw random squiggles or patterns and stuff like that. It was my outlet, since I have a difficult time working conceptually as an artist. Also, lectures can get really boring!

I struggled to pay attention/concentrate at school when I was a kid. As an adult I find that I can 'hear' what a lecturer is saying, if I engage another part of my brain in some sort of other activity - in this case drawing. It sounds crazy - I can hear/concentrate better if I draw - but it works. I've told some of my art teachers this - that I'm not meaning to be rude or anything by drawing all the time, its just that I can't understand or hear what you're saying unless I draw.....

I think it's because it enables the part of my mind that usually wanders, in a repetitive or motor task, and allows it to consciously shut off, so then my 'listening' part has all my conscious attention.