Behold My ADD Maelstrom!

"This obsession is the essence of my attention deficit disorder, and the focus is always either on the most recent thing to come into my periphery or something that has become a central habitual component that is like a broken-record impulse that occurs approximately as often as sex - every seven seconds, or maybe it's every seven nanoseconds, depending on whom you ask."

"I've spoken a little bit around the country on the connection between ADD and creativity, and on teaching to multiple intelligences (since I believe ADD is tied into Howard Gardner's multiple intelligences theory, in a certain sense, de facto). ADD holds within it powerful gifts, but for me, it is a focus-regulation disorder and not really an attention deficit. ( Focus-regulation disorder is not a diagnosis or a disorder.)"

Instincts and impulses drive immediate urges to act, creating a persistent temptation to jump at the starting gun and pursue the newest stimulus. Attention alternates between transient peripheral events and recurrent habitual impulses that recur constantly. The condition contains powerful creative gifts but functions primarily as a focus-regulation disorder rather than an attention deficit, with attention directed elsewhere instead of absent. The label 'attention deficit' is misleading and stigmatizing; 'focus-regulation' or 'perspective regulation' better describe the pattern. The brain’s frontal lobes become overwhelmed in these episodes, producing chaotic shifts in focus and perspective.

Read at Psychology Today