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One of these days, I really ought to go talk to a Qualified Medical Professional about the whole ADD thing.
It is, I think, a fairly familiar story. Difficulty paying attention but bright enough to get good grades anyway, not so hyperactive as to annoy teachers, and thus ADD coped with haphazardly until old enough to look up symptoms when no longer under parental insurance plan. Yadda yadda. But as I have some reasonable form of health insurance right now, I should probably actually go address this. Caffeine and multi-tasking can only go so far to help me cope when crunches hit, and I've learned enough about proper study skills as a "returning student" to realize just how poor mine used to be. And just how much attention is required to study properly these days.
Of course, I'm writing about this now as an expression of frustration on not being able to focus on studying for my Greek final tomorrow. Which would be less of a problem if I'd been doing this sort of not-quite-studying for a week, like I planned, but a nasty cold has seriously reduced my ability to focus from its already pathetic levels.
(You want "has difficulty focusing"? I can't play video games I deeply enjoy, with lots of exciting action that requires concentration at regular intervals, unless I can window them on my computer, or pause them on the console, for regular breaks to read a few pages of a book or chat to someone or check forums or get a snack or...well. Let's just say the dragons of Skyrim are usually two-pause battles for me.)
In sadly related news, I've gotten a fair amount of writing done lately, but mostly out of avoiding the studying I should be doing.
My brain is very tired. I'm looking forward to the end of the semester. Which comes at 10pm tomorrow, when my last final is done. Now, if only I could get through this Antiphon review one more time, and move on to Lysias...
It is, I think, a fairly familiar story. Difficulty paying attention but bright enough to get good grades anyway, not so hyperactive as to annoy teachers, and thus ADD coped with haphazardly until old enough to look up symptoms when no longer under parental insurance plan. Yadda yadda. But as I have some reasonable form of health insurance right now, I should probably actually go address this. Caffeine and multi-tasking can only go so far to help me cope when crunches hit, and I've learned enough about proper study skills as a "returning student" to realize just how poor mine used to be. And just how much attention is required to study properly these days.
Of course, I'm writing about this now as an expression of frustration on not being able to focus on studying for my Greek final tomorrow. Which would be less of a problem if I'd been doing this sort of not-quite-studying for a week, like I planned, but a nasty cold has seriously reduced my ability to focus from its already pathetic levels.
(You want "has difficulty focusing"? I can't play video games I deeply enjoy, with lots of exciting action that requires concentration at regular intervals, unless I can window them on my computer, or pause them on the console, for regular breaks to read a few pages of a book or chat to someone or check forums or get a snack or...well. Let's just say the dragons of Skyrim are usually two-pause battles for me.)
In sadly related news, I've gotten a fair amount of writing done lately, but mostly out of avoiding the studying I should be doing.
My brain is very tired. I'm looking forward to the end of the semester. Which comes at 10pm tomorrow, when my last final is done. Now, if only I could get through this Antiphon review one more time, and move on to Lysias...
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I don't know if my testing was unusually long. I had an interview with the therapist, and then did a bunch of quantifiable tests. It wasn't all to test attention specifically; some of it was testing memory and verbal, numeric, etc. abilities, but I think they wanted that information as context for the results of the attention test.
Now that I'm thinking about it, I actually had testing on two different days. The first day I think I was tested for about two hours, then in between the therapist analyzed the results, and then on a later day I did more tests (chosen either because they depended on the results of the previous tests, or because they could be analyzed quickly) and then reviewed the results with the therapist. I found it all interesting, but surprisingly tiring.