Published on 12, July, 2020
My work colleague is ASC+ADHD, impulsive, hyperactive and inattentive, full set. After 6 weeks working together, while we do not see each other a lot (it is more like 1h daily, he is about to finish and I start my shift), I came to conclusion, that if he gets any help and advice how to deal with it is not working very well. Other workmates have no understanding how big difficulty that is, and they make it more difficult for him, even comparing him to me to imply that he is not trying. How fair is to compare someone in his first job to someone who has worked for 20 years in many places? That makes me feel guilty, even though I know I am not, and angry. It is his first job, and I wouldn’t like to see him broken already, he is nice and shy and mini smiles a lot, he even found a girlfriend recently, his life has only just begun.
I did a lot of reading online, and I couldn’t find anything that would actually explain what happens during what they called ‘’losing attention’’, lots of official propaganda, that is trying to put a sticker on a person only.
I came up with a hypothetical situation, that or something like that probably happened to each of us. I am trying to figure out what was your chain of thought during that situation:
During classes at school and your favourite subject:
Trigger
What you are doing
Interruption
What you are trying to do
Teacher speaking to class
Your focus is on what teacher is saying
You are trying to focus on teacher,
You noticed a bird outside the window
Your focus switches to the bird
Teacher asks you to pay attention to the classes
You are trying to focus back on the teacher feeling slightly guilty
Classmate sitting at the next bench giggles
Your focus switches to the classmate
Teacher asks classmate what was so funny?
You are not trying to focus back on a teacher thinking you are the reason of giggles
Classmate answer that nothing, you notice your laces untied
Your focus goes to your laces
Teacher says let’s continue the lesson
You missed what teacher said trying to tie your laces
Someone else moved their chair scraping the floor
You immediately think about covering your ears, the sound makes your skin goosebump
You cover your ears
Every thought about paying attention to lesson forgotten, you are thinking about escaping
Teacher asks you if you would like to go to the toilet (to give you the reason to leave and relax)
Your only thought is to run
You trip over laces you haven’t finished tying
Trying to get up to continue escape
Question two is how do you feel about multitasking? Could it be possible for you to switch attention between two things you are trying to focus on?
Thank you
it is very helpful
unable to focus on one task, often because it is just to boring
switching tasks often enough is possible if you concentrate
Multitasking is very miuch like it, except you keep switching between two unfinished tasks (or more), very much like computer seemiingly performing two operations at the same time.
I can tell you why you think it drained more energy out of you, our brain eats more sugar when doing it, it is not an energy efficient method and not very time efficient at first as well, it requires a lot of practise.
But sugar demand is tremendous, when I was doing my experiments, after 1,5h my blood sugar was so low I had to eat something.sweet and body is supposed to store 24h supply of sugar. that is how I got hooked up on eating sweets, I would buy at ALDI 10 packs of 6 Racers, that is ALDI Snickers daily, one evening I had 54 Racers lol, except that I was eating like normal, other meals regularly.
Now you've done it ... I used to get Racers but went of the nuts in them, I moved over to Jive - Aldis' false Twix. Went from 1 a day to 1 a week haha.
I stopped experiments and I sm off them. Though i eat packet of Romeos per week and 2 or 3 of aldi magnum