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I really like what Barclay is saying. It makes sense to me and it is helping me get rid of the baggage I’ve been carrying around. I feel like he is saying, ‘This is not your fault. This is a brain problem’. That’s all.
I don’t really understand what perseveration means though. Is it about persevering? To persevere at a difficult task is surely a good thing? Is it about severing? To be disjointed from the rest of what is going on? Is it about persevering when one should have stopped and moved on to something else?
I can focus on things I’m really interested in – but it doesn’t happen when I want it to – sometimes it just does and sometimes it just doesn’t. At the moment, I have several other things I should be focusing on but I’m researching ADHD every chance I get, at the cost of everything else I should be doing.
Is that perseverance? If so, what does it mean exactly? Is it hyperfocus? What’s the difference####/
The accent confuses me though – persevere here is pronounced per-si-veer, with the stress on the first and last syllables. He says perSEVERance, which sounds more like the emphasis is on severing. I’m confused and probably obsessing slightly!
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