# ADD. Serious discussion. **URL:** \ **Category:** Shift518 Off Topic\ **Created:** [January 21, 2011, 10:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/add-serious-discussion/256547 "2011-01-21T10:01:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 34
**Author:** ![Singh1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba8739/32.png) [@Singh1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Singh1)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2011, 12:40am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/add-serious-discussion/256547/34 "2011-01-22T00:40:19Z")
> [@Buffalo Bills 2007 Season Discussion](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/buffalo-bills-2007-season-discussion/35063/590): > > Now that I’ve said this is a serious thread it will no doubt go down in shambles, however I have some questions and I’m not sure why I’m posting this here, but I might as well. > > I’ll start back in the day. Apparently when I was young, 5ish, my physician suggested to my mother that I might have ADD. She brushed it off, I was never put on meds or anything, and away I went. My whole life I’ve thought ADD was bullshit, just people relying on meds for laziness/lack of motivation/etc. > > As I was sitting in class last night, taking notes, I just couldn’t shake the feeling that I could not absorb anything this dude was saying. I was processing it, writing it down, and figuring to myself I’d go over my notes and it might make better sense. I ask questions when I’m confused, and for the most part with a good explanation I can make sense of it, but I feel like I just can not retain information well. If you asked me to explain what I learned last night I just couldn’t. > > No, I wasn’t high, I know my reputation on here and I haven’t been smoking hardly at all lately. By choice. > > So I took one of those BS ADD quizzes online, scored 55, which is ‘moderate’, but wtf good is that? I don’t buy into ADD, but think there might be something wrong? But at the same time I can’t help but think I’m just fucking straight up LAZY so my mind bounces between what answers on that test I would give depending on which direction I’m going with at that point in time. If that makes sense. Essentially I’m answering questions either from the perspective that I just think that way because I’m lazy, or that I think I might have ADD. Therefore I consider the quiz utterly useless. > > I have no problem focusing on tasks that I like to do. Working on my car, playing video games, etc. I have no issue saying ‘fuck yeah’ to doing something fun like that, but the second I’m given a task, or know I have to do something important, all I can think about is what I’d rather be doing, which makes me think I just lack discipline and am just a lazy piece of shit. > > What I ask of you, Shift, is am I just a lazy piece of shit? Could there be something more to it? How do you go about finding out for sure? Do I just walk into my physician’s office and be like “yo negra I don’t like doing work at work or school but I like playing video games, give me some drugs that will make me wanna do werk”? > > So Shift518, do your worst, and try to make sense of that nonsensical explanation/question, serious replies are appreciated, asshole replies will get edited at my will because I’m cool like that. well benny you definitely dont have ADD since you were able to make a post that big and stay completely serious so thats it! have fun with your life > [@TW: DSM partout](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/tw-dsm-partout/38903/28): > > That’s exactly what I do when I have a task, but it still doesn’t help that I genuinely feel scattered when doing the task. > > for example, I do a bunch of reports for work every month, I have roughly 300 or so to do, each takes me between 45 seconds to a few minutes, so it’s not a ton of work, but every time I’m doing it I’ll do maybe 3 or 4, and then dick around on the internet for 10 minutes, then do some more, etc. > > I don’t have a problem completing the tasks, but I’m never truly FOCUSED on the tasks I have to do. I’m always thinking about what I’m going to do AFTER I’m done with the BS. - 1 for me, i have this exact problem… for me doing technical shit like programming or other small tasks… I do the same shit as you… i’ll do a few and then completely dick off like just take a huge break or surf shift/gom for a while just long enough to blow off the work all together… what does this do to me? costs me thousands of dollars… per month let me know what you find out benny because if I find out my laziness isnt laziness and its actually ADD or some shit ill be pissed and on meds straight away, i’de pay millions to get rid of my laziness the rest of you can laugh all you want, I dont feel too ashamed because i rather take my laziness problem with all of my pluses any day versus the other way around… not lazy but just plain average and dumb --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/add-serious-discussion/256547)._