“I always feel as if describing how I feel and think about myself is too complicated—it’s as if I can hear the whole conversation in advance, and I know all of the twists and turns it will take before they happen, so why bother? The effort just isn’t worth it.” It was not that he couldn’t think it through. He certainly could do that. It was bearing with the tension of explaining himself that so upset him. The tension of constructing an explanation, from A to B to C to D, apparently so simple a task, irritates many people with ADD. While they can hold the information in mind, they do not have
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