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I will play the concertina and watch TV reading the closed captioning. Or, I may be working on the car, cooking, or other physical activity, and think of something totally unrelated. Things which will occupy my mind both physically and mentally.
In meetings or watching TV, I will often stand instead of sit . . . and play words with friends on the iPhone. When sitting, I will fidget, sometimes noticeably, sometimes not. Sitting in church, I will count the number of pipes on the organ, how they are arrayed, then figure how many octaves they span then I’ll get the hymnal and read the index, or zone out.
I will stay up at night until physically and mentally exhausted, often doing trivial and inane things before going to bed. Then I may wake at 4 or 5 in the morning and my mind takes off “doing laps.”
I believe that hyperactivity doesn’t have to be physical, but can be mental. And that it is physical when younger and becomes mental as one gets older. Different ways to manifest the same syndrome. It’s this hyperactivity whether mental or physical that causes the “attention deficit.”
Thoughts fly by so fast, they never make it to the mouth. Speech is soooo slooow. Those thoughts that do get vocalized come out in sentences that are seldom completed because the mind has left the thought far behind for the next.
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