Help me out: An experiment

[timmay29]

*Life story post*

Didn't take this test yet but for what it's worth I too was diagnosed with ADD. They tested the dogchit out of me at John's Hopkins in Baltimore. I was born with a fractured skull. It is entirely verbal, basically I have great difficulty processing more than one spoken direction at a time. This also impacts my reading since I am basically talking to myself, so I often have to read each sentence twice to really suck it in. However, the weird thing is that I've been a telemarketer at 3 different places and was the at or very close to the best one in all of them. Since I am reading a script, all I have to do is concentrate on the delivery of it, and since I've grown up having trouble comprehending what others tell me, I tend to put a huge emphasis on making sure someone understands what I'm saying so that even I can understand myself (make sense?).

Anyhow one supposed plus us ADDer's have is being more empathetic than usual because all our lives we've had to put significantly more effort into comprehending people. So this can obviously be advantagious in poker; you've become better adept at reading people if you've spent so much time and effort finding solutions to understand them better.

The bad side of ADD though is we get bored with something way too easily. I haven't played SNG's in about 2 weeks now, even though I was making more than I am at my job. And speaking of jobs, I've had way too many in my life to count with fingers and toes partly due to this boredom factor. As a soon to be bachelor graduate I'm scared I'll never find a gig that I will truly stick to.

If there's anyone else here with ADD in a similar situation I'd love to hear about it.