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[quote=Anonymous][quote]And you still get distracted and cruise the net when you should be finishing up a presentation for work! - says the ADD inattentive type woman. As someone with ADD, and with two kids with ADD, I agree with the concern that the accommodations will never stop. And unless you're going to work for the feds, I'm really not sure how accommodating most workplaces will be to ADD/ADA. I hear "jokes" in the workplace all the time about ADD, I guess I hide it well, but it's very hard. My husband bears the brunt of it![/quote]

There are people with ADD who have this problem, but there are all kinds of people who have issues with surfing the web and not being productive.  Maybe they're depressed, maybe they're lazy, maybe they hate their job.  Not everyone with ADD/ADHD can't get this under control, and honestly one great thing about ADD/ADHD is if you can channel the hyperfocus stage, it can be very powerful for powering through work (in college, if I could get myself in the zone, I could study for hours...the hard part was getting there--as another adult with ADHD).  Everyone has their things to deal with.  I think the biggest thing is that when in the workplace do you need to sit down and take a timed test for an hour without getting up, and not being able to look up anything you don't remember?  The skills involved in that have NEVER come up in my professional career.[/quote]

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