What is your attention span like?

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I seem to have the attention span of a rock. I can't stay focused on hardly anything, and it sucks. I have trouble reading, because I will get distracted very easily and then have to start reading the paragraph or sentence all over again. Oh, and don't get me started on driving. I can't do it... I scare myself and feel like I'm going to crash because of my lack of attention to where I'm going. So as a result I don't drive much, in fact I avoid it as much as possible.

So what is everyone else's attention span like? Are you like me?

Yeah I have inattentive add. I rather just daydream. If I read anything I might jump
into a daydream and loose my place and it might take me a long time to even find the
last sentence I read. I rarely give any thing in the real world my full attention. I'm
trying to do something about it. I started fish oil which many say helps some ,but so far after about a month I say its not. I remember when I was writing a c++ program
to do an image conversion and display it. I would go from having no idea to do something feeling dumb then in a few minutes solving the problem and then feeling
smart. Then the process repeats over and over. Im talking going from wanting to eat
a bullet and 5 minutes later feeling great! Thats insane I can not do that any more.
I want to take an anti-ADD drug but the effective ones are not just sold on the net they require a rx and alot of $$$ to doctors.

Yeah I have ADHD on top of AS and have gone through periods in life where it depends on what I'm doing how much attention I have. Also I spent most of my life till I got diagnosed with ADHD this year (got dx'd with AS last year), unmedicated and ended up very disorganized, it's hard to get organized and get attention to some things.

If I'm interested: infinite

If I'm not interested: three seconds

Terrible.

I never read any posts longer than a small pragraph, or posts not split up into small paragraphs.

It is hard me to concentrate in reading, learning or remembering. When I try to concentrate I think about something other.

I have a pretty good attention span.

My attention span varies. If i'm interested in something it will take up my attention and focus for hours (sometimes days) but i will quite happily flick tv programs over with each add break, i tend two or more tv programs at once. I seem to need to be doing or thinking about something all the time. I hate not to be occupied, so if i'm siiting there with nothing to do, that's when my attention will start wondering. I rarely am anywhere without a book to read or something like that. If i have nothing to focus on i get really stressed.

Varies. I can stay focused for hours and hours on something (6... 10...) if it's interesting. And barely at all if it isn't. Mind you I also go out of my way to not pay attention to things sometimes

There are so many distractions I need to avoid. Truth be told I could probably work a lot more effectively if every few minutes I didn't have something come along and distract me, totally derailing my train of thought.

When I program, I'm frequently holding many thoughts at once. I need to concentrate heavily to have them all going. Writting notes helps a bit, but when something disrupts my focus it might be very hard to get back whatever brilliant thought I was having. I can get really deep in thought when I'm programming. And this is also when I work best.

I cant do stuff when its boring.

It's only good when I keep myself disciplined.

It should be noted that I did about 5 things while writing this message.

I can dedicate an entire day to a single task (often forgetting to eat) if it's interesting.


If I don't find it interesting, I sometimes begin losing focus within minutes.

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