Re: can the symptoms get better or worse w/age?

[Anonymous]

I don’t know that it’s gotten worse with age for me. In fact understanding the symptoms has helped me to cope (somewhat) and explaining it has helped those I’m close to that don’t suffer to understand me. Humor does help. I find that I’ve always struggled with procrastination, but as I’ve gotten older the things I procrastinate on are different. Paperwork is just too daunting for me. I hate sitting down and paying my bills so badly that I’ll put it off until some are overdue. (why can’t they all be due on either the 1st or the 15th?) I’ve applied for promotions that I end up not getting mostly because I procrastinated until the last day and so was rushed and didn’t do my best.

I do think some of the hyperfocus abilities I have make me very good at some aspects of my job. The easily distracted helps me be situationally aware and able to move from one task to the next without getting badly off track. Listening to coworkers drone on is torture, but as I’m becoming more aware of why, it’s easier to just ignore the droning, and ask someone who gets to the point better to explain it later. Adding humor to those questions makes my inability to listen a joke without offending the original speaker.

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