When someone with ADD receives a stimulus of some sort—an image, a sentence, an idea, a person’s face, a question—he does not immediately put it in its “proper” place. He doesn’t even know where that place is. So, for example, the water bill gets filed with concerns over a fishing trip, and the next thing you know an idea is being generated that has to do with entrepreneurial fishing expeditions. The very uncertainty with which people with ADD react to most stimuli allows for these messages to metamorphose before they solidify in the mind. This tendency to get confused or to confuse things—so
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