Though I was diagnosed after college, when I look at that time period retrospectively, I can see that my symptoms became more pronounced when I went off to school.
One of my (and many other folks successfully coping with ADHD) non-medicinal strategies for dealing with my ADHD is rigid external structure: routines, prods from friends and family, lists, etc. This was true even before I realized I had ADHD. Going from high school (living with my parents, with a daily class routine) to college (living in a dorm, with a non-routinized schedule), blew that external structure away.
Obviously, this is similar to the reason you see a drop in grades for any number of freshmen, but the effects of an unstructured life, for me, were different than any stories I've heard about this phenomenon. I often became 'foggy' and unable to focus or concentrate; this was the first time in my life that I had experienced severe bouts of 'mental static', where I quite literally could not complete a thought for hours at a time. I was unable to adapt to the new environment quickly enough.
Had I not begun fairly violent self-medication (around 3 grams of caffeine a day, which is, um, a lot) I might have been diagnosed.
But why would Motorola want to license from Nokia when they have already invested a great deal of money in embedded linux (through the purchase of Embedix), and sell development products (which, I guess, technically also came from the purchase of Lineo...) for it?
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Though I was diagnosed after college, when I look at that time period retrospectively, I can see that my symptoms became more pronounced when I went off to school.
One of my (and many other folks successfully coping with ADHD) non-medicinal strategies for dealing with my ADHD is rigid external structure: routines, prods from friends and family, lists, etc. This was true even before I realized I had ADHD. Going from high school (living with my parents, with a daily class routine) to college (living in a dorm, with a non-routinized schedule), blew that external structure away.
Obviously, this is similar to the reason you see a drop in grades for any number of freshmen, but the effects of an unstructured life, for me, were different than any stories I've heard about this phenomenon. I often became 'foggy' and unable to focus or concentrate; this was the first time in my life that I had experienced severe bouts of 'mental static', where I quite literally could not complete a thought for hours at a time. I was unable to adapt to the new environment quickly enough.
Had I not begun fairly violent self-medication (around 3 grams of caffeine a day, which is, um, a lot) I might have been diagnosed.
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But why would Motorola want to license from Nokia when they have already invested a great deal of money in embedded linux (through the purchase of Embedix), and sell development products (which, I guess, technically also came from the purchase of Lineo...) for it?
you can move on to everything else by David
Foster Wallace.
I'd add _House of Leaves_ (Mark Z. Danielewski)
to the pool if you get along well with Infinite
Jest.