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My husband still has ADD. He's 69 and as long as he can remember the thoughts threw around his mind so fast it was hard not to be distracted. No such diagnosis back then, so his grades reflected his passion. He liked history and arithmetic, so he was willing to do those at home to study. He hated his English teacher. (who told him he'd fail at the beginning of the year), so it wasn't worth taking the time at home to study, and he failed 10th grade a couple of times simply because there was only one 10th grade English teacher. He quit school and joined the Navy. He also helps me with grammar rules.
I've lived with the evidence of that back in the days before home computers. He likes studying the Word, but he sees a word, has to go research that word, then that catches him on something else, and eventually he gets through it all to understand that one passage. BUT we had a study room back then with a loveseat, coffee table and wall-to-wall bookcases. He'd study for four hours and when he was done, there was a spot cleared on the loveseat that told where he sat. The rest was covered with 2-4 layers of big heavy books. (Strong's Concordance is big. Add Englishman's something-another, Lexicons, Bible Picture Words, and tons of others and it gets messy.) The coffee table was solid with a shelf under it and two cupboards on either side of the second shelf. The thing was so covered with books -- up, down, in and out -- that books fell to the side of it. He was surrounded by four feet of books, 2-4 books high, most opened, and all because he wanted to study the Bible.
That is the visual on ADD. He learned to adapt with it, so doesn't take meds, but that's only because he truly likes to learn.
I've lived with the evidence of that back in the days before home computers. He likes studying the Word, but he sees a word, has to go research that word, then that catches him on something else, and eventually he gets through it all to understand that one passage. BUT we had a study room back then with a loveseat, coffee table and wall-to-wall bookcases. He'd study for four hours and when he was done, there was a spot cleared on the loveseat that told where he sat. The rest was covered with 2-4 layers of big heavy books. (Strong's Concordance is big. Add Englishman's something-another, Lexicons, Bible Picture Words, and tons of others and it gets messy.) The coffee table was solid with a shelf under it and two cupboards on either side of the second shelf. The thing was so covered with books -- up, down, in and out -- that books fell to the side of it. He was surrounded by four feet of books, 2-4 books high, most opened, and all because he wanted to study the Bible.
That is the visual on ADD. He learned to adapt with it, so doesn't take meds, but that's only because he truly likes to learn.
