Posted by 2sense on April 12, 2002, at 13:48:27
In reply to ADHD vs Hypomania » 2sense, posted by IsoM on April 11, 2002, at 19:13:57
Ismo --
First sorry I spelled your name wrong in my last long post. It has been a long crummy day and I do really want to read this post and respond because from what you are describing I just don't have the hypomania, just the AD/HD. Even the description either Ron or John gave of pressured speech, I don't have that either. I just talk fast. When I taught college I told my students I was from NJ and talked fast (this was in CO). I gave out my notes, wrote on the chalk board and invited them to raise their hand or let me know if I had gone over something to fast (and if they didn't want to do it in front of the whole class -- email me or slip a note under my door -- being too shy can be a real problem for a bright student who doesn't grasp an initial concept that grows). Being in computer science at the research stage I was a systems person and also taught a lot of data structures as well as theory and architecture. One well known data structure is the stack (like the plates in a cafeteria on the spring-thing) -- all the grad students and profs talked in a stack-like way (and collectively they were all ages, genders, etc.) -- going from one subject triggered by discussion of another, but always returning to the original topic to finish it. It was like a top down approach to talkiing and thinking/processing. Not everyone thinks that way and that's no problem, not everyone does anything the same exact way -- I make adjustments and am a perpetual student -- I want to learn everything I can about anything -- I wonder if that is a disorder :-) Thanks for writing back and I'll give it a good read because you had a lot of good info I've wondered about for awhile.
Sue
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