This troper has ADD but is also a genius, which results in an odd combination of Note}} L and {{Haruhi Suzumiya}}. Her most noticeable lapses are "Ok so what did (math teacher) say again.... OMG I JUST NOTICED YOU'RE AMBIDEXTROUS!"

The next one, in a ROOM FULL OF ADD KIDS

Me: "So, Kyon (name of friend) what is-"

Archnemesis: *comes in 10 minutes late* "A wizard is never late."

Me: "Well (enemy), I'm cooler than Gandalf!"

Kyon: "No you're not! NO ONE is cooler than Gandalf!! Except Edgar Allan Poe. Because he's my ancestor."

This then resulted in an awesome childish argument that lasted ALL DAY until I won (obviously). I am the most stubborn person that ever lived. EVER.

This troper has ADD, and it drives her nuts. She will be doing her homework and get up to get a dictionary. She will then notice her brothers/dogs doing something. Then she'll spend the next 2 hours walking up and down the stairs trying to figure out what the heck she was doing. The the next day in math she'll say, out loud, "oh yeah! I needed a dictionary!" and everyone will stare at her.

This troper is an inversion. She can sit for hours working on one thing and though she may get distracted, she can go right back to doing whatever she was doing before, at about the same level of concentration.

This troper has a friend who recently got distracted by a photo she took on her phone of our other friend's cats being cute. What she should have been paying attention to was the stairs she was walking down. Hello, sprained ankle.

This troper would like to note that ADHD-esque behavior isn't always as funny as this trope implies for the person afflicted. This troper has moderate ADHD. Her doctor prescribed her medicine when she entered Kindergarten. In very little time, this troper lucidly distinguished between her on-medicine persona and off-medicine persona. Off medicine, she felt comfortable and at ease while her body assumed an uncontrollable hyperkinesia all its own; later she would often rue her actions, realizing the disparaging looks, murmurs, and thoughts her erratic behavior garnered. Contrastingly, on medicine, she would maintain total control over her actions, feel uncomfortable in her own skin, and remain quiet and reclusive. However, the medicine and the control would wear off with time. During her frequent bouts of hyperactivity, inattentiveness, and impulsiveness, this troper maintained consciousness of her actions without the ability to reasonably hinder her frenzies. She would notice the looks of disgust or contempt, sit through the lectures and berating, and keep going. But, she didn't want to be the person no one respected or took seriously and everyone mocked, disliked, or ''put up with.'' Sheer irreverence and tenuous patience from others kept her inescapably bound to the extent of her disorder. Each criticism began to pierce and wound her. Still an adolescent, she lacked the mental faculties to reasonably cope with this, eventually descending into self-contempt, depression, and anxiety. She decided to control this disorder by staying perpetually and painfully quiet; it worked, for a while. To this day, she feels vast empathy for others with similar or same afflictions. When said persons - generally adolescents - embark upon hyperactive tirades, often within the confines of their own homes, this troper feels sympathy and leniency where said child's family often feel uncomprehendingly impatient.

This troper, whenever she is distracted while talking, always manages to yell out name-of-distracting-thing in mid-sentence. ALWAYS. On one notable occasion, she completely forgot (like, total mind-blank) what she was talking about because of a seagull.

This troper, a few minutes ago, while talking to her dad about a video editor: "Don't judge a book by its KOOKABURRA!"

Explanation: Was going to say "don't judge a book by its cover," but ended up distracted by a kookaburra that had landed on the roof of the extension of the house that was to be - and soon will be, if Dad ever gets around to it - our new kitchen and bathroom.

This troper has a tendency to go to do something, but then forget what she was going to do. It's annoying.

This troper has ADD, but his mother only believes it's "thinking too much."

So does this one, and her mother once said exactly the same thing. Mother stopped when my diagnosis became unofficially official (I read the criteria and told her that every single one that was attention-related (?) matched.) Now I eat medicin, and I LOVE being able to finish my own thoughts uninterrupted. And to take part in conversation without loosing track of its topic every three seconds; this used to empty the conversation of all emotion to me, 'cause once I had backtracked my thoughts I couldn't recall the feelings linked to it.

This troper's best friend. I never knew how amusing keys were until I met her.

This Troper is now finding himself into... I... '''uhh...''' '''''SATA ANDAGI~!!!'''''

@/{{Coximind}}: This happens to me WILLIAM STOP THAT!!

This troper got distracted while reading this about 10% of this page down....

This Troper was finally diagnosed with this at age 19...well after high school though she knew all along. Sometimes she'd end up supplying some funny yet bad mental imagery on her friends when just randomly thinking out loud. She has been nicknamed "Ruiner of Everything" because of this. There's also the times when she tries to tell stories about what happened and feels like everybody needs to know every single little detail and those little details then end up on diatribes of their own. Only she could be trying to talk about school and then suddenly starting signing "How does food become poo? I'LL TELL YOUU!!!!" among other things. There was another time when she was trying to write a report with her AIM on and then somehow got into a long conversation about StarFox and how Falco is in denial but has a total mancrush on Fox. This doesn't go any further than acknowledgement. Oh and she's been taking meds for a while now and STILL has thoughts like these. In conclusion, I would just like -- HEY LOOK A BIRD!!!

This troper has been known to stop in the middle of posting something to look up a fact, and ending up in a WikiWalk on That Other Wiki, piling up tabs like cordwood, only to end up rediscovering the partially finished posting the next day... by which time the original topic being researched was long forgotten. Teh Intarwebs is a tremendous enabler of ADHD behavior... hmmn, that reminds me, gotta take my meds tonight...

This troper REPEATEDLY gets on many a WikiWalk that winds up so lengthy that the shear quantity of tabs ultimately crashes the browser before all the tabs are viewed, sometimes before even HALF the tabs are viewed.

This troper is happy to find he is not the only one. As it turns out, his computer's maximum is about 500 tabs.

Older Than The Internet: This troper would find himself reading through the encyclopedia instead of researching his project in elementary school. Focused study habits were a foreign concept until college, and even then, rarely used (...he writes from a lab computer in his CIS class....).

This troper has an empty cup sitting on his desk. He has walked into the kitchen with the cup three times, but been distracted or forgot why he was there each time. This is a regular occurrence in said troper's life.

Troper goes to fetch something upstairs, doesn't come back down until 45 minutes later. Because, you know, there's a bookcase on the landing. With ''books''.

This Trooper always had trouble with staying focused on a task like a research paper for a long time, especially when said paper is boring. She usually ends up browsing the Internet and ending up on fanficiton net or TV tropes. It is rather annoying and she has taken to radically turning of the internet.

This troper has failed a standardized test because he filled in the answer sheet with the complete note chart to "Jordan" on Expert in Guitar Hero 2.

That would have been awesome if it worked. Next time try "Free Bird."

This troper and the male members of his family have ADD or ADHD to some extent or another. He's once had a serious family discussion completely derailed by the sentence, "Hey look! A turtle!"

Me too! Except it was LOOK! I JUST SAW THE PROFESSOR FROM BACK TO THE FUTURE! And another time it was "Look! An Arizona license plate!" And another time it... you know what I'm bored of this, I'm gonna go on YouTu...

This troper had a similar situation except the sentence was "Ooh look! A froggie!"

And in this troper's four-member family, all of whom are ADD except her mom, it's, "Look! A squirrel!".

This troper and his friend, in sixth grade, was counting out Merit points, which were basically little yellow things you got for being good, if you got 25 (or, in some cases, 24, 23, or 19), you got ice cream. My friend and I had just finished counting them out, and we walked up to the desk, I started to talk when my friend said, "Hey, look! A MUFFIN!" {{Crowning Moment of Funny}}.

This Tropette was in the middle of asking a question in Science when she looked out the window and saw a kitty. Cue me yelling "KITTY!" and half the class jumping up to look out the window.

On a recent hike, this troper went from ranting about polluting jerks destroying the environment to: "Ooh, daisies!"

This troper and other various members of her family also have ADHD and can say that while most of the time this trope is definitely an exaggeration of real life, at other times it's dead on.

This troper and friends were talking, when someone started a sentence "I never......look, fruit!"(upon seeing a bowl of peaches) Not even she knew where that sentence was going, anyway.

This troper has ADHD, but while he is only moderately more distractable than the norm, without medicine, he's very hyper and completely unable to concentrate on anything for an extended period of time. So when he forgot to take his medicine the day before a test...

This troper has heard rumors of a shirt which says "They say I have A.D.D. but they just don't understand. Oh Look! A chicken!"

I own such a shirt.

This troper was busy playing accompaniment for some one else in high school music class. As there was a long bit with a solo, I got slightly bored and just enough distracted by the lyrics of "99 Red Balloons" that was on the amp next to me to miss my cue by several bars.

This troper once sort of got distracted away from what he was doing. Which was foreplay.

When this troper was diagnosed with ADD, he was too busy looking at the psychiatrist's bookshelf and had to be told again.

This troper was the same, except instead of the bookcase it was a stray cat that randomly walked past the window. Yes I did shout KITTY! why do you ask?

This troper managed to get distracted ''during the testing for my ADHD''. In between tests, I had taken a restroom break. I walked by a stand with some magazines on it. Next thing I know, I am engrossed in an article on somehting or other, and one of the assistants is tapping me on the shoulder becasue I was gone for ten minutes (the magazines were only two doors down from the testing area. Needless to say, they were quite confident in their diagnosis.

I'm now sure I have ADD. I can't stay interested in something unless I'm writing or reading. Especially the Saga of Darren Shan. Talk to me when I'm reading it and I shout the first thing I think of.

Which tends to be things like 'Steve just can't let anything go can he?' In the middle of an English lesson.

This troper's recently diagnosed ADD seems when incredibly obvious in retrospect when considering events such as, while reading one of my textbooks, I suddenly decide to finish one of the stories saved on my computer that I've half finished reading, only to start walking around the room two minutes later while a completely unrelated plot thread runs rampant. Yes, you read that correctly; I become distracted ''from my distractions''.

May have to look into my own situation if getting distracted from distractions qualifies, I regularly start cooking something only to open up a book part way through the process, then switching to the DS after a couple of pages. Typically the food burns.

Or in my case, since I was boiling water, the water disappeared. (Yes by the time I got back to the pot, it all boiled/evaporated.)

I get so distracted from my distractions that I wind up doing what I was originally doing....

This troper is guilty of multi-tabbed surfing, going from Imageboards to Wikis and Let's Plays, then switching to a nice round of tower Defence, pausing mid-way to watch a new episode he just finished, uh, obtaining, then switching back to the net to read and contribute to episode discussions in forums while watching... I'm easily distracted despite my rudimentary Multitask skill.

This troper seems to have maxed out his Multitask skill in exchange for taking a significant hit in Focus stats. At present, windows he has open include two different e-mail addresses, a blog, the lyrics to Weird Al's "Eat It", nine TV Tropes pages, a Youtube video, three more pages from two minor wikis, and a page from Wikipedia itself. Not five minutes ago Facebook was on that list as well. Now, ask what time the schoolwork is usually finished.

This troper is the same way I find myself frequently bored and look at different websites instead of doing my homework, and when I was little I would have a conversation with my family that would sometimes get interrupted with with something like ''look a cat!'' after spotting one out the window.

This troper was unfavorably compared to a magpie by his friends. To the point where anything that gets his attention is dubbed shiny. Half hour after clocking into work and I still don't have 2 minutes worth of writing stuff down done. Time to read TVTropes though.

This troper ("Dialga") has EXTREME issues with self-discipline and schoolwork.

Welcome to my world.

And mine.

This troper would say that's almost a requirement to post on this page in the first place..

This troper definitely always had problems focusing on homework, (and, sometimes, his own writing). It's a miracle that his grades in school were as high as they were. That being said, he's actually somewhat glad he didn't discover TVTropes until after he graduated from college, otherwise, he NEVER would've gotten anything done!

@/AckSed has exactly the same issue... except he discovered, in order, anime on Youtube, webcomics and TV Tropes just after his first year at uni started. It hasn't gone well.

This troper is in high school, and she discovered anime on Youtube, Fanfiction, Series/{{Doctor Who}}, Free Doctor Who, of the stick}} This web comic and then several more and TV Tropes in that order since starting. Her education hasn't gone so well either.

This troper's director once broke off in mid-lecture due to a passing "Doggie!"

This troper's sister was looking for something to watch on television. Upon seeing the title of the Jerry Springer Show, this troper felt compelled to warn her sister against turning it on, but was distracted midsentence by another show's title, leading to the statement "I swear, if you turn Jerry Springer on, I'll... get ripped in 80 days!"

This tro-ooh shiny!

This troper promised himself an hour ago he would stop troping at a set time and do homework. He didn't count on discovering the troper tales section before then...

This troper was diagnosed when he was around 3. He had a hearing exam ("raise your hand when you hear the beep") and was diagnosed as deaf after ignoring the test because there were tadpoles swimming in the aquarium in the room.

This troper ''acts'' like she has some variation on ADD/ADHD -- jumpy, loud, and well, hyperactive, with a propensity to be so distracted by the pretty floating light of ''eyestrain'' that she can't get to sleep, or by pondering passing bumblebees until she crashes her bike into a steep ditch -- but she's just having a hypomanic episode. Sorry. High energy is infinitely preferable to the alternative, which is lethargy and occasionally {{wangst}}. However, my multitasking skills and typing speed are legendary, but rather than doing any actual work in school or in the office, I'm probably drawing smiley faces on my knees...

Ayumu, is that you? "Team Sea Slug!"

This Troper has had her online handle get forcibly renamed to "Shiny" in chatrooms by mods because of her tendency to get distracted by kitties, shiny objects, and everything linkable.

One troper has the lousy habit of opening some 50+ tabs from multiple wikis; forgetting what language he's supposed to use (both on the interwebs and RL, usually midsentence); preparing breakfast twice because he forgot he already done that, then forgetting to eat either of them; walking out on classes after being there for five minutes, and generally having gaps in his memory. Though this may be caused by a sleep disorder he's had for ten years, rather than pure ADD.

This troper opens a new window on the browser every time she sees a page on TV Tropes that looks interesting. This troper has NO IDEA how many she's had open at a time.

This troper constantly loses stuff at home. Pens, keys, cellphone, etc. Then, she finds it in random places.

This troper once derailed a family dinner conversation by making a comment about plates (that was not what the conversation was about)... and then giggling about it for six minutes.

This troper actually stopped in the middle of the PSAT to watch a fly that had landed on her desk. When outside, she has also been known to interrupt friends mid-sentence with "Butterfly!", then chasing said butterfly until she gets tired (which, fortunately for friends, does not take long).

This troper has, during a standardised test, gotten bored and began to write the first chapter of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone from memory onto the desk. This troper maintains that if a fly landed on her desk, she wouldn't just watch it, she would play with it.

This troper has a habit of walking through stores (generally with company) and becoming ''absolutely fascinated'' by things that have nothing to do with what we came for. "This blender is ''awesome''!"

This Troper and her mom are the same way.

This troper can hardly do anything without THINKING about something else. It's very hard to do homework without thinking about something philosophical, TV tropes oriented or anything. It's hard to sleep. It's even hard to write articles. Also, he changes the subject change very often, sometimes more than once in one sentence.

This troper suffers from the same symptoms, with the added fact of usually having upwards of 50 tabs open at once... and using all of them each day. This troper is particularly vulnerable to wiki-tab-stacking, going along an article and control-clicking anything interesting, then repeating with each new interesting article. This has led to the waste of many days just exploring wikis.

Same for this troper, actually... I currently have... *count*... 30 TV Tropes tabs open. I really, ''really'' like TV Tropes... :D

This troper once had a conversation with an (ex)best friend, while they were going to school. It was this incredible discussion about reincarnation and the afterlife, or at least if that was possible. Unfortunately, this troper cannot resist anything cute. Guess what happened when we passed some baby horses. Yeah.

Are you possibly me? Because that sounds exactly... KITTY!!!!

This troper has come to the conclusion that no college student is not guilty of distracted by the shiny. The troper has himself been distracted from an engaging {{Batman}} discussion by the appearance of an ice cream truck. The other half of the conversation promptly lampshaded it.

This troper is talking on irc, doing calculus, reading a story, browsing tvtropes, a forum, ostensibly writing a story... in a maths lesson. Not to mention editing this page.

This troper has been known to get distracted walking across the kitchen, especially if there happens to be a book on the counter. She has fairly frequent "Now what was I doing here again?" moments after walking into a room. She routinely has 7 or 8 tabs open in Firefox, as well as several ebooks. She is currently being distracted from finishing a homework assignment when she has 2 homework assignments due tomorrow.

''Only'' 7 or 8 tabs? This troper currently has 56, not counting the new one he is using to edit this page. That's well down from what he used to have when he used Firefox, since he does most browsing in Chrome's Incognito mode so that a crash gets rid of all the extra tabs (and starts over with about 6). Also, there is IRC (currently connected to two servers).

This troper has the bad habit of randomly doing anything else when it comes to doing school work. Not really an ADD thing, I just di- oh wait, that's right, this was a story of my dad going to Home Depot to buy a doorbell. As law of random states, we ended up leaving with two entire patio sets, among other things. No really.

My dad's done the same thing. He left to go get lightbulbs one day, and I took a nap on the couch with my hearing aid off. I woke up to find we had a brand new Entertainment Center and enough cat toys to choke Nessie with. And a metric shit-ton of lightbulbs :D

This troper has the opposite of this issue; Asperger's syndrome rather than ADD means he is incredibly hard to distract from something, whether that be surfing wikis, videogames, or watching something complex and mechanical. At his previous job, he had to be reminded to stop for lunch most days.

This troper manages to have BOTH - he'll become distracted with something new AND maintain whatever he was doing beforehand, leading him to answer "What's up?" with the perfectly honest "Watching TV, EddieIzzard on Youtube, listening to music, playing Civilization IV, reading a book, surfing TVTropes, and reading OrderOfTheStick and Dr. Mc Ninja. And eating a sandwich."

This Troperess isn't diagnosed with any of those, but seems to have a few syndromes of both: while being very distractable by shiny things and seeing weird things ("Hey, did you know your shirt has little blue stripes at the end of the sleeves? Cool, huh?"), she's also quite obsessive-compulsive about being organised and tidy, leading to a constant "Oh my! I'm wasting time again!... Five more minutes and I get up"; but it has its good sides, because she manages to stop opening new windows with TVTropes when she can't see the windows names and then start reading the open ones.

Also have both and can be quite hard to deal with at times. The hard to distract usually comes up when I'm reading, which has necessitated the use of heavy machinery to get me to the dinner table.

I may have both. Not sure, but I always have at minimum two things going on at once. This way, I get distracted by something, but I can't stay focused on being distracted.

This Troper, who also has been diagnosed with A.S. and ADHD, has on more than one occasion been snapped out of a "trance" because he stopped speaking mid conversation and began staring blankly at the person he was talking to while he began a mental WikiWalk.

Everytime I require a computer to do some schoolwork or such, I inevitably end up going to the sites I spend my free time on, be it message boards or stuff that makes me go on a ArchiveBinge.

This troper was (at long, long last, according to family members and later therapist) formally tested for ADHD after her family doctor saw said troper ramble at a speed not natural to humans while being interviewed by the judges on Canadian Idol. Yes, I had "ooh, the shiny!" so bad I got distracted from the fact I was on national television. *facepalm*.

This troper's brother has this. I'm also guilty of it on my Kaitou days. On my Tantei days, I end up the DeadpanSnarker. This troper has also been known to be reading a fanfiction, then having a brainwave and start writing about tropes. This is occurring right now. Yes, I named my dual sides Tantei (dominant) and Kaitou (subordinant). But I'm neither a Detective or Phantom Thief.

This troper describes TV Tropes as his crack. If he so much as goes to one page while doing homework, watch as 30 minutes of work takes 6 hours to complete.

Seconded. I am so gonna be in trouble if I don't finish my homework by Monday. This "Take Home Final" is 10% of my quarter grade. Must... close... window... (Side note: this Troper seems to actually be ''allergic'' to smokeables like crack and cigarettes. Nuff said.)

This troper was in the middle of a serious conversation about the morals involved in vegetarianism, when she looked over her friends shoulder and immediately exclaimed "Holy shit that tree is crooked!". This has become a running joke among said tropers friends, along with "That house is made out of wood!" immediately followed by hysterical laughter, though that might just be an example of this troper's insanity.

This troper had an astoundingly straight example just recently, while waiting for a football game to start. I completely ignored a person's question by shouting "BALLOON!" and running after a random runaway balloon on the other side of the field. In my defense, it was a bright and colourful balloon!

This is a part of this troper's everyday life. She can't focus on anything for more than fifteen minutes at a time. She can be writing fanfiction and go to TheOtherWiki to quick ref some facts, and then goes on what she likes to call a link safari. She began on looking at Japanese mythical beasts, and ended at [=PeTA=] once.

The first time this troper's auntie took her to the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, she spent an entire concerto staring up at the shiny, shiny chandelier, tilting her head this way and that to make the sparkles move...

The first time this troper found TVtropes, she looked up and realized she had spent five hours following the links. She decided to just finish up the tabs she had up (with just a few tangents) and ended up spending another two hours reading them.

This troper was in English class during his last year of high school. He was doing work when suddenly, across the room, there was a burst of laughter. Turns out, during their semi-serious conversation, one person has stopped what they were saying and said, "BIRD!" after seeing a bird fly by outside the window (pointing and everything).

Another one by this same person. We were in a vo-tech programming class, and he was talking to someone. He saw smoke and a firetruck, exclaimed, "FIRE!" and went to the window, apparently halting the conversation.

"FIRE WAGON!"

During this troper's first week of high school, a teacher was explaining the difference between ADD and ADHD. He had to ask her to repeat the answer, because he wasn't paying attention.

This troper never has less than 40 tabs open in Firefox, and usually has at least one other browser open with a couple of YouTube videos that he'll get around to watching eventually.

This troper isn't sure if she qualifies for ADD or not, but she ends up doing multiple things at the same time. I am actually fairly certain I'm physically incapable of doing just one thing at a time; for example, when I'm watching TV, no matter how much I love the show or how engrossing the movie I'm watching is, I will be on the computer/embroidering/knitting/eating at the same time. I actually clean and do my homework better if I'm watching TV or playing music. I think it's because I'm really smart (no brag, just fact) and my brain is super-active. It also affects this wannabe-writer's stories -- I have about six half-finished novels, over forty partially-finished short stories, five partially-finished television specs, and two partially-finished movie scripts. I've only ever finished fifteen short stories because I'm so damn distractable. It usually goes something like this: Me, sitting at my computer, writing short, realistic noir detective story. Write something about wishing you could turn back time and witness murders. Get excited, start short story about time-traveler who provides the service of going back specifically to see whodunnit. While writing that, come up with a name that reminds me of someone in my current novel, abandon both short stories, and write a chapter or two in current novel, then abandon it to work on a new spec I just had a ''brilliant'' idea for. I think I need Writer Ritalin -- I swear to God, that happens to me all. the. freaking. time., and I'll sometimes get as many as six files going at once. I've got it BAD.

Are you my Alternate Universe twin or something? I also get distracted by my own thoughts and will stop doing schoolwork or whatever for 5 or 10 minutes at a time because my train of thought just went somewhere interesting.

I'm not alone! In fact in just a couple hours I'm going to read a book while trying to write one and watch TV all at the same time. I also constantly curse my muse for giving me random crossovers to write, when I've been working on my ChronoTrigger SelfInsertFic for the past five years. And then there's the sequel... I also have thirteen tabs (two gamefaqs, five tvtropes (used to be more) and five fanfictions) as well as a game, Windows Media Player, and the aforementioned fic's third-to-last chapter.

True to her namesake, this troper seems completely unable to concentrate upon one thing for more than some 3 minutes at a time, and frequently breaks (mid-flow) off her own sentences simply to declare the presence of a small, furry animal or shiny rock. As a child, she once spent a ''two hour'' coach trip utterly enthralled by a ''feather'' she'd picked up before getting into the coach. She also has the tendency to ramble on about utterly pointless and trivial things as the initial point of the conversation fades swift into obscurity. In fact, she was once found herself spending a good quarter-hour of a timed exam distracted by the ''rhythmic ticking of the clock''.

This troper was once mocked by her friends on the bus for randomly interrupting her own sentence because she saw a squirrel outside the window. Ah, those squirrels...

This troper has ADHD, and after discovering this site earlier day, he has spent the bulk of his day (at least five hours) looking up the tropes of his favorite works.

I don't have ADHD, but is still prone to interrupting mid-speech to say something else or general distraction. Examples:

Speaking about not being a complete glutton: "No, really so I don't eat th- CHICKEN." *takes chicken from the offered dish**nom*

While chatting with my grandparents, I accidentally trailed off mid-sentence and stared 'cause a TV ad captured my attention. I had to be snapped back. >.>

Oh, and the fact I can't work without switching activities constantly. Yes, even when watching TV. Which is why I don't watch TV with people anymore. And record/download it.

This troper and his friend both suffer from it. It's bad when were with other friends but together we nearly never finish a point, usually by interrupting the other with a personal anecdote that is remembered thanks to the friend talking. That anecdote is never finished either, by the way.

This troper is slightly ADHD and his train of thought is often derailed, but mostly he uses it when he realizes that his train of thought is so offensive or esoteric that he can't explain it to his friends, because it's better to be a spaz than so disassociated from the world around that you aren't human, amirite?

Once upon a time, about three weeks ago, this troper interrupted a serious conversation about a friend, his girlfriend, and their falling-apart relationship with a badly-timed "Dude, that tree is freaking out." I'm surprised we're still friends, as this happens more often than you'd think.

This troper just CANNOT get to sleep without hearing something in the background. He's fallen asleep while watching AVGN episodes, while watching James Bond movies, you name it. Oh, and he also suffers from the obligatory "must have 100000 tabs open" syndrome also.

This troper is best distracted by pretty sports cars, which she has dubbed "shinies." It's gotten to the point that when she stops in mid-conversation, her best friend asks "Shiny?" She also tends to lose focus in class, writing entire fanfictions in her head all day. And while she tries to fall asleep. She's pretty sure it comes from needing to think to distract herself from a runaway imagination (read: being afraid a T-Rex would appear and eat her as she slept) and fall asleep. It happens even while she takes a test or exam. Even English with picture prompts. On the computer, she often loses track of IM conversations, distracted by none other than this wiki. The wiki has also resulted in much pain for her play character in certain Flash games without pause functions.

This troper's parents and friends have learned not to worry or interrupt when, in the middle of a conversation, he stops talking and stares over their shoulders for a few moments until the car passes.

@/RadioactiveZombie is failing High school because of this. Oh, it's either A) Distraction, or B) Massive writer's block. GODDAMN YOU, FOUR-PAGES ESSAYS!

The signature on my email introduces me as "Attention Deficit Man, Defender of Truth, Justice and [=OooooOOOOOOoooooh=], SHINY!" Although I'm pretty sure I'm just bipolar...

This is the man reason why I'm not a very good writer, despite being able to think up good stories, I usually end up writing something which I think is better than doing the same thing again.

Although not diagnosed with any mental disorder, this troper suffers from this a lot. A recent example is "I disagree, because if you look at the basic rules of psychology as a science you can see that in time -- hey, THAT PIGEON IS WHITE!"

This troper was once talking with a good friend about why he broke up with his girlfriend, when the discussion suddenly changed to how HTML works. In about a half second. And then they started prank-calling a third friend, who joined in the madness. This wasn't, however, due to a disorder of some sort: they merely got drunk in twenty minutes, and lived to regret it an hour later.

This troper has a habit of starting to describe something, then describing something else that will make the first thing ''so much clearer'', which of course is good because it's good to understand things, something that's probably motivated by the fact that in younger days I would say things like "maybe later" (emphasis on maybe) to my brother and when I decided I didn't want to do it after all he'd get all pissy and call me a liar as though "maybe" is some kind of binding promise, which really always pissed me off because it doesn't really motivate me to do anything with him, but see the thing is, even though I go and ramble on so hard, if you just shut up and give me a little time, ''I actually come back to the original point and you understand the whole.'' Gerald began, incidentally, to pee.

''BREATHE'', DAMMIT!

During this troper's science class, the teacher asked everyone, during some fascinating (read: boring) lecture about light and electricity, how many blades were on the fan he had brought to class. It was at this point, that my friend (who had slept through most of the year) shouted as loud as he could, "It's BLUE!" While the fan blades were blue, the answer the teacher wanted was, "three". He later explained that he wasn't thinking, and said the first thing that came to his mind.

This troper can't really drive a car because of this. It doesn't help that the car he has the easiest access to is a Prius, which has an LCD screen that (among other things) animates which engine you're using and your gas consumption. In real-time, of course. So he usually takes the bus.

I - yes, "I", I get sick of reading "This Troper" over and over in here, personal stories are what TroperTales are for, after all. I can understand old ones that were copy-and-pasted off the main page... Ahem. Anyway, I find that a manual transmission helps a lot for staying on task, in case you're looking to trade in on something simpler.

One reason this troper is afraid to drive a car is that no matter what I'm doing, if I see a cat in my peripheral vision, I ''must'' turn my head and say, "Kitty!" Occasionally with preceding, "Oooh!" My entire family goes on completely tangential subject, which means any conversations that actually finish usually take hours, and the "ooh shiny" thing is literal for this trooper. The results of a new wristwatch with multiple shiny faces is yet t- Edit months later: Anyway, he probably planned to finish the post, after the "is yet t-", but assumed he had merely forgotten to hit send. A huge vocabulary combined with [=ADOoohShiny=] also leads to much BuffySpeak. And he forgot the last bit of the edit. Oh, yeah, filling in test bubbles. Much easier not to get sidetracked with the rectangles. Oh, yeah, and the pen-flippy thing. Like the troper below, he has been diagnosed with at least Aspergers, at which point diagnosticians stopped caring.

This troper has Aspergers, not AD(H)D, but often the two can look fairly similar. Mostly because while the conversation is veering in one direction, my brain has headed off somewhere entirely different. "So enrolment is on the 21st of February, but the week before that, you need to talk to the counsellors to make sure your schedule works." "Did you know that they just discovered a White Dwarf that's so hot (nearly two hundred thousand kelvin!) it has photospheric emission spectra in the ultraviolet?" "...Bweh?" (It's true, they did just find one!)

Is it safe to guess, fellow Asperger's, that you are almost completely engrossed in astronomy?

This troper has been diagnosed with both, and she thinks the trope description fits her to a tee. With one exception. I'm not exactly hyper in the traditional sense. I love sleeping in late. But I also can't sit in a chair without fidgeting and even when asleep I flop around constantly. (Making my bed is an exercise in futility.) I also lack any discernible attention span unless I'm really interested in the subject. In that case the rest of the world doesn't exist. My sisters have frequently been sent to peel me out of a book because I couldn't hear Mom yelling that it was supper time. Then there are my appalling grades from elementary school, due in no small part because I spent most of the day spaced out imagining I was exploring primeval forests or slaying dragons. There's also that pile of shiny rocks in the basement that I collected while going on walks and my short lived obsession with empty toilet paper rolls. Not to mention my habit of wandering off because of 'the shiny' when going on shopping trips. My parents wanted to put a leash on me when I was a teenager! Then there's how my sentences can sound like one long word when I'm excited, and how normal sentences tend to start, stop, start over, shift subject... where was I going with all this?

I don't remember writing an entry here, but you sound exactly like me. Except that I haven't been diagnosed with anything.

Who are you and how did you get into my brain? Except my grades in elementary were good cause I went off on the mental tangents while absentmindedly doing my work. I have sadly lost this ability in high school though.

This troper feels like his real species must be from the internet itself, due to the above thread. ADHD, yes, but no Asperger's, as far as he knows.

According to my Asperger's book either 10% or 20% of those diagnosed also have some form of ADD/ADHD, so it is possible to have both.

This troper is actually an example of having both, only discovering she had Asperger's at age 12.

This troper once did a free write back in high school where she had to remember what had happened five minutes ago and write down her thought process as it came to her. What resulted was a very strange, slightly garbled work that covered one full side of a sheet of looseleaf that went from a classmate walking into the classroom to remembering how I fell out of my computer chair and hit the floor to complaining about my the alarm clock my dad made out of his cell phone to nothing to yaoi pairings for Bleach... I still write stuff like that when I do journal entries. Not really sure if it counts, but I thin it does... I wonder what other tropes have troper tales....

4 out of 5 members in this troper's family have been diagnosed with some form ADHD, including the troper himself (who also has Asperger's). The only one without ADHD is the tropers youngest stepsister. His mom, stepdad and middle stepsister have ADHD.

This troper once wanted a piece of apple pie. She was upstairs, the kitchen is downstairs.

Went downstairs, got an empty plate, came upstairs. Remembered she wanted apple pie.

Went back downstairs, got the pie, went upstairs. Realised she had no fork.

Went back downstairs, got fork, went back upstairs... she had left the plate and pie downstairs.

Went back downstairs, got plate with pie, went back upstairs... couldn't find the fork. Went downstairs to look for it, couldn't find it. ... She had for some reason put the fork in the fridge. ::headdesk::

Troper left wondering how she manages to survive day to day.

This troper, though never diagnosed, has everyone she meets convinced she has A.D.D. In fact at a convention she had her friends walk up talking about an A.D.D. shirt she should buy before interrupting them going "check out this A.D.D shirt I got!" Also, I'm impossible to voice chat with as I'm constantly commenting on what I'm seeing on TV... Or getting distracted by this site!

This troper wasted most of a year of university due to AttentionDeficitOohShiny, despite not being ADD. Beginning of the year? Ooh, university library, complete with Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Dawkins books. Later? Dawn of War, Warcraft III, Neverwinter Nights, and competitive Spellforce free-roam against a friend. Towards the end, D&D and webcomics. That was 2008, and there are several family members with meat cleavers to ensure 2009 doesn't follow the same path.

This troper had the perfect idea of an example for this page. Then made the mistake of looking at email for a bit... And now has a shiny new example!

This troper has both the ADHD and Asperger's hyperfocus variants. I can, with sufficient motivation, crank out a large program in less than a day. I also can take weeks at it if I don't have it, simply because of my distractibility (20 Firefox tabs and 10 Pidgin IM tabs currently, as well as several other programs and half a dozen half-completed programming projects).

I was hanging out with my girlfriend in the desert, doing... yeah... and I heard a bird. Totally distracted me, totally confused girlfriend.

This troper has to warn people that should she not respond to verbal prompts, it's nothing personal, she just randomly zones out of 'boring' conversations. Also, should she suddenly stop talking, mumble something inaudibly, or trail off, just ignore the entire preceding sentence because I probably got bored with what I was about to say. Slightly more worrisome, she tends to 'black out' for random periods of time, after which she cannot remember seeing, hearing, or feeling anything, being too caught up in random lines of thought.

This troper had 89 tabs all open at one time, almost all of them from TVTropes and caused by control-clicking anything in sight.

This troper doesn't have ADD, but her sister does. However, the class was once assigned a project that involved looking something up in the encyclopedia (Presidents, I believe). This troper got the C volume, then was looking for Clinton but then spent the rest of the period looking at Clothes and Crime Rates. When she finally put that volume away, she stole her friend's other volume, which was J, and looked at birds for about ten minutes. And this is someone with no diagnosed disorder.

While not actually having ADD, this troper does occasionally have 'random days', in these moments, she goes to the center of the city (this troper lives in London) and does absolutely anything that looks interesting at the time. Often with no regard to personal safety. The day this was written, the troper ended up gatecrashing the mayor of Southwark's Holocaust memorial day tea while having such a day. The cake was delicious.

This troper, who was honestly shocked to find out he didn't have ADD, probably spends at least half of his time in school thinking about... well, nothing. nothing in particular any way. a lot of thoughts go to stuff I want to write but havent gotten around to. Also I can't sit still for more then an hour usually, so when im playing video games or something I have to get up a lot to walk around.

This troper has a mind that goes everywhere, taking on all possibilities, thinking up dozens of new stories a day, hardly ever in one place. She constantly fidgets, flops around in bed so much she actually once woke up to find she had no top sheet or blanket, and although she doesn't go insane for... well, anything, it really says a lot that she was going to skip this page until she took one look... ooh... this looks cool...

Dudes, I think my ADD's stuck in my head, because wherever I go, I think up new stories, I'm thinking about everything, I get distracted by everything, I'm always thinking up every possibility... great for a writer, but not for a paranoid bitch like me, because my mind has a very bad habit of flipping to the dark side...

Jesus Christ, I almost deleted this entire page by mistake...

I should ''really'' be doing my homework. Oh, look, where does that link go ?

This troper ("Raekuul") has EXTREME issues with self-discipline and schoolwork.

This Troper quite frequently interrupts people with an 'OOOH IT'S SOFT', with regard to a scarf, or coat, or handbag, or blanket, or cushion, or... whatever. 'OOH SHINY!' is also fairly common (when it comes to technology, 'SHINY' is the highest possible praise), as are totally random comments - 'WOW HOW AWESOME IS THAT TREE!'. She does not, though, have any known disorder.

This troper has been diagnosed officially with ADD by a psychiatrist after- ...ugh. She went to look at the scenery outside and forgot what she was writing. Anyways, she's had instances (multiple) of just about everything on this page and still somehow has a life. The fact that she spends most of the day screaming and running around in an insane fit of laughter is both irrelevant and... something else. She got distracted again. Ugh.

It's referred to as the Shiny Butterfly Effect in this troper's family, because it's like a puppy chasing butterflies and constantly forgetting the last one in order to go after the newer one. She's known to get distracted by her own thoughts and switch topics mid-sentence with absolutely no reason for it other than her own head. This has led to incidents such as "I love a nice vinaigrette on my salad, but I need to trim the roses". It makes perfect sense! Salad dresses > Salad > Vegetables > Garden > Roses. Right? It also shows up in writing, as she's been known to start a new story, get distracted, and then start a whole new story while still on the first paragraph of the original. The longest chain has been five stories before she was distracted by shoes.

Sometimes people see me looking at the nothing. No, seriously, it's not even shiny, or sparkly. Looking at a wall, for example... Aww, my dogs are so cute and wubble dovey :3

A friend of this Tropette's pretty much IS this trope. In one notable incident, some friends and I were talking about ordering pizza, she gets all excited, then forgets about it. A friend leaves the room, comes back in, saying, "Sausage is okay, right?" and the friend absolutely flips out, and starts yelling, "PIZZZA! I LOVE PIZZA! NO ONE TOLD ME WE WERE ORDERING PIZZA! THIS IS THE BEST!"

The past three days, this Troper hasn't gotten any history notes done (or any studying for the Japanese final, either) because he's been constantly on TV Tropes, stopping only at dinnertime, because I play videogames after dinner. That reminds me, I've been doing Troper Tales the whole evening, and I was supposed to be working on my Roblox place! *clicks "save" then closes window*

This troper, while standing in line with my boyfriend to get something from the concession stand before a movie, paused in mid-sentence on whether or not I was too nice a person, long story, and half yells "Is that sign glowing?!" The sign was, it was a stand up ad for Transformers 2 with the eyes slowly glowing on and off. The line then prompted my boyfriend to remark "You may not be the meanest of people, but you are the most easily distracted."

My girlfriend and I are both the exact same way. It's actually part of what drew us together in the first place, we both find it adorable in the other.

My poor boyfriend has had witness to how many tabs this troper has had open at a time. I've had plus a hundred fifty seven because I kept clicking links that looked interesting, forgetting them, going to close them, reading them again, and completely forgetting the previous task. And now finding more interesting links on other pages and clicking them and...

This Troper was talking to a friend on the phone. She then saw WatchMen on a nearby bookshelf and began to read. 30 pages in, she got up and jumped around, before breaking something with her jumpiness. She then glued the thing back together, before being distracted by the TV on her way to put the glue away. She then decided to check her e-mail, which led to troping... My friends don't really like talking to me on the phone for this reason.

This Troper has Asperger's Syndrome and has a hard time paying attention in school. Basically, I could be one of the smartest kids in class but I can't concentrate. That and I'm a Gamer. Go figure.

This Troper: I found the english version of it on Aarinfan- #QUOTE#Mrs. Roberts: *walks into library* #QUOTE#This Troper: MISS ROBERTS~! Good Morning! : D #QUOTE#Troper's Friend [who she was talking to]: Wow.

Nowhere else has this troper found so many people who are- Hey, I wonder what's on TV?

This troper was having a conversation with her ADHD friend on the bus that went like this: #QUOTE#Friend: "blah blah blah relevant topic blah...OMG LOOK A TRAIN!...blah blah more relevance blah." It was hilarious.

This Tropette sometimes spaces out in the middle of a conversation, because she just remembered something about college or had an idea for the RPG game she plays on the net. And don`t forget the fact that she absolutely hates doing nothing.

This troper has shoplifted at least 3 times, always unintentionally, because he picks something up, gets distracted by other things in the shop, decides not to buy them, forgets the thing in his hand, and just walks out. First time it happened it was with a packet of fish food and he is glad he didn't get caught 'cos seriously, how embarrassing would it be to be caught stealing ''fish food'' of all things? I didn't even realise I'd stolen it until I was halfway home, looked down at what I was holding, and wondered how it'd got there...

This Tropette had just finished scolded her campus ministry group for getting off topic. We then discussed our plans for the end of the year party, when I started talking about fish. I sometimes map my thought process. It usually ends up in YouFailLogicForever territory.

This troper has this happen a lot... unless he's playing VideoGames, in which case not even sex appeal will break his concentration, even on Dance Dance Revolution, where you're going to see it.

Any and all conversations in this troper's dorm, regardless of seriousness, can be derailed with "PUPPY! Oh hai there, puppy..."

This Troper suffers from this, to the point he'll get up and wander off to do something in mid-wikiedit.

A counselor at a camp I once attended made the mistake of bringing a box of kittens to camp one day. That was a fun lunch period, but no one ate, so we had to break again at three to finish lunch because everyone was so hungry. The day after that, I got distracted by a rain gutter, and showed up 15 minutes later soaking wet, along with three other classmates. The best part? The teacher blinked slowly, handed us towels, ''and didn't ask any questions.''

This troper is a bit more subtle, but she ''will'' stop what she's doing to pet nearby puppies/kitties/bunnies/what have you. And then just go back to whatever she was doing like nothing happened.

Sakaki IS THAT YOU OVER THERE!!!? XD

This troper has been diagnosed with ADHD, but so was everyone else in my high school! We got lots of colorful variants. There were those who showed no apparent symptoms, the screamers, the can't-sit-still kids, the "ninjas" (like me, showed no attention problems but were extremely fast for no apparent reason.), the sports nuts, and any combination of those.

This troper's life gets comical when he's left completely alone. Last Saturday evening he stirred from the single-player campaign of Crimson Skies only to notice that his plan to wash up and head to the library was supposed to have happened about six hours ago. He's also currently about three hours late from taking a shower due to sudden fits of pacing, file sorting and pretend knife fights. He's been diagnosed only with Asperger's syndrome so far, but having a streak of ADHD would certainly explain a lot about his horrible memory and issues with understanding speech.

Check, check, check. @/AckSed was going to add his own entry... but it seems to have been done for him.

This troper gets distracted by everything remotely interesting. As well as getting distracted by anything shiny (or interesting clouds or any thoughts that could be translated as gay, for that matter), she generally gets distracted from schoolwork both in and out of class. She once was set up to do her legal assignment, remembered she'd left the assignment sheet in her room, left to get it, and came back with a sandwich instead. The assignment didn't get started that day. (Bizarrely, it was her little brother who was diagnosed with ADHD, and he is much more focused than she is.)

Happens to me a LOT, when things like ''MegaMan'' distract me, and after I get over the fangasm, I'm like "What was I doing again?", but then, something not even remotely related to the subject reminds me, is that weird?

Are you me? No. Really. Are you me? I mean all the way down to Mega Man darnit. This troper could be eating lunch and someone says something that just suddenly makes me blurt off with something totally off the tangent. Case in point, lunch with fellow anime club members ends up with me at some point going on a tangent about ''Pokemon'' with Mega Man themed names.

This troper has a lovely example from back when she was in 6th grade in regards to ADD-whatever with hyperfocus. I've always been a bookworm, and could always ignore the outside world when I started reading, (I've gotten better since then) but my teachers would have to make my wraparound take said books from me so I would pay attention in class. Anyways, one day during an indoor recess, I'd been happily reading away my book, when my wraparound taps my shoulder and tells me we have to get out of the classroom. Thanks to the hyperfocusing on my book, I had no idea why, so, I asked why. Turns out, while some classmates had been decorating the door to our classroom, they had shut the door. Now, this wouldn't be odd... except that, one of my classmates had been messing with the metal door hinges and got '''the end of one of his fingers chopped off in the door'''. I shit you not. The kid was screaming bloody murder, and ''I never noticed.'' To add more to this, my desk was one row away from said door. I don't get this bad at all anymore, but sometimes I wish I did. Also, on a side note, I've gone from having ADD to ADHD to Asperger's disorder, which, if you don't know, is a form of autism. I think those people diagnosing me were on crack themselves.

This troper was in P.E. class doing our weekly run with her two friends, talking a little while we ran. At least, we were until one of the friends skidded to a stop right in the middle of the track, interrupting both the run and the conversation. Her reason? "Hey look! GIANT ANTS!" We were almost unable to finish the lap because we used all our breath laughing hysterically.

When going on walks with her sister, this troper's sentences are often cut off with this sister saying "Lizard!" and pointing to the lizard. She never knew there were so many lizards in her neighborhood until her sister pointed them out every few minutes.

This officially diagnosed troper isn't as bad as some of these examples, but does have a rather bad time with it. For instance, I'm usually very distracted by anim- HEY A BIRD! I'm sorry, what I meant to say was DOGGY! Er... yeah...

This troper has been known to give in-depth dissertations on the role of religious imagery in various media works to a friend, point out a groundhog outside the window mid-sentence, then jump right back to the original disscussion without missing a beat.

I've been diagnosed with ADHD, but I would like to point out that I don't have a short attention span. I have ''no'' attention span. Even when reading something I'm really, really interested in, I often fall victim to TL;DR. I have a difficult time with long conversations, because eventually I want to do something I find more interesting at the moment. Concentrating on only one thing is pretty much impossible for me. It's taken me nearly 10 minutes to write this, because I keep getting distracted. Hey, what's that outside the window?

This troper has it, along with a billion other head case problems but is on no meds. It's funny AND scary to be around me :D Plus, I just don't sleep and I've got OCD and a Slasher smile from hell for a normal smile, which only makes this worse. Plus the fact I've never been able to finish watching anything and frequently forgets what she's saying mid-sentence and- WAIT A SECOND. What's that sound? Oh, that's the computer. What was I saying?

To those with ADD, this troper offers you this warning - stay the hell away from any MMORPG. They are the perfect subject of hyperfocus, and therefore our crack. I spent one summer, almost four months in total, playing Final Fantasy XI every single day for at least 14 hours straight. The scary part was that there were plenty of other people to play with on pretty much the same schedule.

Agreed. This Aspergers troper keeps himself far, faaar away from ''WorldOfWarcraft'' despite my friend's repeated attempts to get me into it, because he doesn't know who he's dealing with here. {{Roguelike}}s were bad enough. Besides, TvTropes has already claimed me.

This troper has ADD without the H. People have to repeat her name multiple times or physically interrupt what she's doing in order to get her to come up for air. And don't ever take a quick "uh-huh" or "nah" as a real answer to any question asked, those are just the sounds that make the interruptions stop.

Whoah, same here! I didn't know that was a symptom or something. A lot of times I'll look up from something like a book and see my mom doing something I don't like. For example, preparing the wrong kind of food. I'll say, "What are you doing, I didn't want that!" Then she'll say, "What are you talking about, you said it was fine!" "...I did? You should really stop listening to me Mom."

This troper was first diagnosed as being emotionally disturbed in kindergarten(!) after what can only be described as an extremely unfortunate accident. Later the diagnosis was described as being simply ADHD and finaly after about 11 years of this diagnosis, and a long struggle through the education system did I finally find the right diagnosis, Asperger Syndrome.

This troper is pretty sure she has ADD. Plus, combined with her extremely short term memory, she re-reads trope tabs on her browser, finding them to be a new and interesting trope she's never heard of before, until a subtle feeling of deja vu kicks in. This is probably the eighth or so time she's read this pa- ooh! related pages!

This troper may or may not have already posted here, but would like to note that she has her desk currently littered with a pair of scissors, a drawing, a GameBoy Advance, ''The Christopher Killer'', a camera, an English essay, a small container of Neosporin, a pair of disposable earplugs, a deflated balloon, and several stuffed animals. This COULD be just her being messy or too lazy to put it away, but the truth is, I'm still using all of it!

This Troper is in a similar position with 7 novels, 10 textbooks, 5 post-it notepads, a total of 103 compact discs from everything to TV series DVD sets, to compilations of lectures and relevant pdf's, 3 usable pens and 16 empty pens... This isn't including the various receipts, half-scribbled drawings and a collection of sunglasses. Stuff relavent to my studies is filed in the various locations of my bed, the floor in front of my window, the floor next to my bed and on top of the box of my folders from my last course, I'm still using all this stuff and its worring when I realize that while rattling this off the top of my head I should be digging out my text book on data communications...

This troper spent her entire educational career feeling like a failure because of her bad grades, and had numerous "interventions" by the school staff which usually amounted to finding something they hadn't tried yet and throwing her at it. She would constantly forget that she had homework, forgot to write down what the homework was, forgot where she put the piece of paper that she had written the assignment on, find the piece of paper when doing something else and shove it in her pocket where it was forgotten, forgot her textbooks, lost her pencils, started working before getting distracted by something, freaking out when she remembered it and staying up the entire night but only being able to write a paragraph or two from sleep deprivation, faked being sick or actually making herself sick so she wouldn't have to go to school, and eventually just got into the habbit of procrastinating everything else in this sentence to try and skip out on the hassle of it. Rinse, Wash, Repeat for more than a decade, and she finally dropped out at the end of the year she should have been graduating. Cue being diagnosed with ADD two months later. This messed her up a bit...

This Troper used to think that carrying a diary (Discworld!) (Checks out "Discworld Diary" on The Other Wiki, comes back) in her bag to write down things to remember in would help. Also she ended up opening the bag up and pondering "Why is this diary in my bag?" for half an hour. There is a rule in her life -- it takes two seconds to lose something and thirty minutes to find it in some blatant place. And she easily Fails A Spot Check (what are you pointing at?) when someone tries to- Ooooh,this pattern on a ceiling looks like A FACE!

Let's face it, a lot of us have one or the other. Hyperfocus is just one of the many reasons TVTropesWillRuinYourLife.

I'll drink to that... do you want anything while I'm up? Maybe some Kool-Aid I'm gonna make some Kool-Aid maybe black cherry flavor I wonder if there are blue cherries or white cherries? I should look that up on Wikipedia...(one hour later at least)...Why am I thirsty?

This Troper has it as well, but feels like he has gotten control over i.. Ooh, ''My Name is Earl'' is on.

This is why this troper keeps getting low blood sugar. Switching to eating only while hungry will do that... and... oh... yeah... I was cooking. Explains why I'm smelling smoke now...

Yeah, you should tend to that fire hey it sounds like a good idea to make one in the pit in my backyard I'm kinda hungry maybe I'll make s'mores just for the hell of it hmmmm do I have marshmallows who ever thought it would be a good idea to put marshmallows and graham crackers together why to they call them graham crackers anyway hmmm it's getting kinda hot in here bright too why is it so hot and why is my house burning

Maybe they can make a trope page about tangential thinking; it certainly happens enough. Maybe not, since we deal with media here and media barely get half the symptoms right. Stupid media. We oughta write letters or something. Start an anti-defamation league. Sue the pants off of some celebrity. Someone pass me the brain bleach, I just imagined a pantsless Tom Cruise cosplayer from NeverBeenKissed jumping on a sofa.

No wait it's not.

Yoink!

This troper (who finds himself easily distracted by lyrics has found J-pop to be good concentration music; the sounds are so alien that the brain often won't even ''try'' to make sense of them.

As someone with ADHD (primarily inattentive) himself, this troper has found classical music is a godsend. Lyrics are mostly nonexistent, or in Latin, or (for opera) so distorted that you can hardly make them out even if they're in English.

This troper (also with ADHD) has discovered that he cannot successfully get serious work done while listening to music, even on medication, due to his tendency to stop working and begin analyzing the music instead. This is true for music without lyrics, and especially true for baroque and classical music.

I don't have ADD, ADHD, or any other disorder. I'm just very easily distracted.

This troper came on here with the intention of adding her own perfect example, but was having fun reading all the other tales, forgot why she had come on, then went to get raisins. She remembered when she saw her hairbrush. The example had nothing to do with hairbrushes.

The example was that she refuses to learn to drive any more after her instructor had to wrench the steering wheel out of her hand and slam on the brakes during a lesson. I'd floored the accelerator and was veering towards a car. The reason? I'd zoned out and was thinking about whether a God of Time and a Goddess of Death would make a good couple, and would he be like the blue guy in WatchMen? What was his name? Dr Manhattan? That movie was a bit graphic. I mean, they shouldn't - wait, what was I doing again?

Congratulations, you've frightened me greatly.

This troper has somewhat of a habit of just randomly saying body parts when bored. His family has completely been immunized to it. #QUOTE#'''Me:''' *out of freaking nowhere, while on the computer* "Penis!" #QUOTE#'''Mom:''' *doesn't even look up from her book behind me* "That's nice, honey."

This troper was diagnosed with ADD about the time she started school and was on pills until fifth grade. Of course, this is kinda subverted in that no one actually ever TOLD her she had ADD until NINTH grade, when it had mostly worn off already and I was doing better in school. Gee, thanks Mom. I'm so happy you told me WHY I had problems paying attention in class, instead of just telling me to try harder and that I could do better. (/sarcasm) Having said that, I will now list things I have done: Yelled "SANDWICH! ...I eated one." In the band room at lunch, done the potato chip thing from Death Note, said "screw this" and goofed around during Computer Skills, slept through the second semester of Science in ninth grade and got a B in the class and an A on the final by copying my friend's answers, walked into walls, done the ninja-airplane run, has switched her cosplay five times in the last three months (severly agrivatting my mom), and at the moment has...three tabs and three windows open, but had about seven tabs earlier. Wow, that's a long po...OOH, A BALLOOOOOOON!

Not me but a few of my friends. My friend even told me the difference: #QUOTE#Friend: ADD is when you go to do your homework and then, "Oh look a butterfly." ADHD is, when you go to do your homework and then, "Oh look a butterfly. I MUST CATCH IT!"

ADD runs in this troper's family; when you put her and her three siblings together, the dialogue gets pretty surreal. Dark side of this trope: This troper spent some unknown amount of time watching a row of ants march by, during her ''SAT exams.'' Also, she's been trying to write this very short entry for the past 25 minutes.

This trooper has ADHD. I have been trying to do homework for a few hours now... OH A PONY!!!! HELLO LITTLE PONY!!! Yeah, I'm still on the meds... PONY!!!!

This troper once lost 10 minutes in a University exam by getting distracted by a noticeboard with some amusing notices whilst on his way to the examination room that was only five feet from the amusing noticeboard.

This troper is a slight subversion of this but mostly plays this straight. While this Troper may not have extreme forms of ADD or ADHD, I cannot stay in one or one topic for too long and I got to move around. I went to a psychiatrist as a kid who diagnosed me as a normal individual; my constant roaming around or playing with object may make you think otherwise.

This troper was told in middle school that she had ADD by her incredibly boring history teacher. She may have been correct (but I'll never tell her; I don't want to give her the satisfaction). Examples:

In kindergarten I apparently fell asleep a lot during class. My teacher went to my parents and asked if I was getting enough sleep, and they asked me why I was falling asleep. I responded with "My teacher's just boring."

In any and all classes in middle and highschool that were basically lectures, all I do is doodle. But everytime I finish a doodle I will look up and copy down all the notes I missed during that doodle. My teachers took away drawings, my parents forbade me from bringing my drawing notebooks to school, but I always found a way. I discovered in one of my highschool math classes that during lecture-days, the teacher would not pay any attention to us at all. So I would sleep. Maybe one or two minutes at a time, wake up, copy down the notes I'd missed, and then doze off again. She never caught on. Now that I'm in college and allowed to use my laptop to take notes in most classes, this is only getting worse.

As for hyperfocus: if I'm doing something and my parents tell me to do something I will often respond with a 'Uh-huh, yeah sure, whatever.' You'd think by now they'd realize that that means I didn't ''really'' hear them. I often will have to go up after I finish what I'm doing and go ask what they had wanted me to do. Often they'll come back and remind me a couple times if what I'm doing takes a long time. Though I think they've given up trying while I'm reading books or playing video-games.

This troper suspected for a ''long'' time that she was ADD, but she and her family had been unable to do anything due to her ADHD (and the 'H' is pretty evident while off-meds), OCD, and ODD little brother. My father is also undiagnosed ADD and generally uses a lot of caffine to get through the day. My lack of diagnosis and confusion about coping skills has wreaked havoc on my education and is most likely jeopardizing my chances of getting into the college I'm aiming for. Meds have helped, but I'm still in the adjustment stage, to the point that I'm being aided by the Prozac Fairy for mood swings that had followed in the late afternoon for my first medication. My examples include:

Spacing out: Continuously having at least ''one'' class throughout middle and high school that I barely scraped by with a 'D' at the end of the trimester/semester/year. Each year, it was something different. A lot of the time, it was math, but she distinctly remembers that it was reading in sixth grade. This year, it's history. I also draw in almost all of my classes to attempt to keep myself focused.

Hyperfocusing: as mentioned above, I also have a tendency to let myself wander the trope pages. I find it much more entertaining than wandering {{That Other Wiki}}. It will also enhance your vocabulary if you decide to remember what you come across and use it in English classes. One of the first signs I noted I've been on here too much is when I used {{Stalker With A Crush}} in a timed write and an essay on {{The Great Gatsby}}.

I also note that the acting company I'm part of tends to be a magnet for ADD/ADHD individuals, to the point that there's a running gag about it. "Oh, look! A chicken!" indeed.

I also use "Oh, look! A chicken!" around my friends. A friend of mine likes to respond with "It's an albino chicken."

And on a somewhat-related note, because of the sheer hilarity of the situation coming from a pretty-certain-she's-ADD six-year-old: "I need a paper towel, I need a paper towel- Ooh, chocolate cake!"

For deliberately invoking and mocking this trope as a method to change subjects or apply {{Rule of Funny}} to prevent boredom, I will also point in a random direction in the middle of a conversation and shout, "Oh, look! A distraction!"

Another friend of mine also likes to jump in on the joke and look the complete opposite direction of where she's pointing while shouting "WHERE!?"

She also notes that her entire section of this page is ADOS in and of itself, having taken almost an entire hour to type it all out when she tends to type incredibly quickly and accurately. *facepalm*

This Troper, to an extent. I have ADD, but it's not too bad. I can usually focus just fine... Unless I see someone drawing or something really pretty or shiny. Or if I'm in the psychology section of the book store. My friend is possibly a better example, though she has autism, not ADD. I recall a time during band practice where she got distracted: "So anyways, I was telling my mom- HEY LOOK A SQUIRREL! =D"

In Iraq, I worked with a female major (slightly higher rank than my own) who would be be distracted any time she saw one of the bomb-sniffing dogs. Any time we would pass one on foot or in a vehicle, she would give it her full attention and start making little noises like, "Who is a good puppy? You're a pretty puppy..." and so on. My remedy was to slap my hands together loudly and say, "Concentrate!" or "Focus!" which was kind of funny at first, but quickly became routine. Most of the time, when we traveled in vehicles with others in the vehicle, we'd carry on business conversations that were pretty important and often included higher-ranking passengers. We'd be in one of these conversations and go through a checkpoint that had a dog and she'd just go right off track, which would lead me to smacking my hands together and yelling, which never failed to amaze our passengers.

This troper has ADHD at a fairly elevated level, and finds it nearly impossible to work on something for more than 20 minutes at a time or follow-through on a plan containing more than two steps. Sure makes it hard to hold a job.

I was once in an argument about my ADD while at a park. My boyfriend said that I never pay attention when he talks. My response? "That's not true, I always give you my foc- LOOK AT THE CUTE DUCKIES!!!" (cue me running after the ducks, giggling)

This troper read this, then went to use the restroom. It was only when she was walking out that a boy walked in. Cue shock and staring to find a row of urinals against a wall. This troper looks like a boy and would have gotten away with it if she hadn't randomly asking said boy about Euler's theorem, Math 1B (the class she is in ten minutes later), and goldfish.

She just asked her teacher about turning in last week's homework (which she forgot) and managed to touch upon his shirt, his office hours, the midterm (which sucked), and other things he has already forgotten about.

This troper can't even focus on her own words. I'm talking about something and either get started on a tangent about osmething unrelated or my train of thought spontaneously and involuntarily makes a sharp turn and I'm left going "and then...and...um...oh, right, and then...wait...what?" I literally do not hear myself when I talk.

Oh, and as a prequel to the above: My internet connection spontaneously combusted just as I was about to add that example, resulting in my losing my multiple tabs I had going. I walked through the living room to get my mom's office to use her computer and got distracted by the piano and wound up trying to play "Grace Kelly" by Mika by ear and then doing the Risky Business thing before remembering I wanted to use the computer for some reason and going into the office. Then another half hour of youtube videos and Tvtroping whilst trying to remember what I was trying to do. OH, yeah! Add an example here. What was the example? Um... cue ten minutes of trying to remember what I'd forgotten as I continued to watch youtube videos on another tab.

And the best part is that the entire time, I was (and am) supposed to be doing geometry homework.

This troper is offically ADHD, as is her mother. Ths leads to... interesting conversations. Like discussions on how the WheelOfTime cover art is filled with midgets, the sexuality of all the Links (consensus: the only straight Link is the second game one (whores!)), and whether or not the Aiel are Scots-Irish, and their disctractability. Also, bananas.

When I was 6, I um... wait... fire when 3... what page am I on?

This troper combines a near-genius IQ with inattentive-type ADD, which explains why someone has to say her name ten times to get her attention. Yay, hyperfocus. Also, she is easily bo- KITTY GET DOWN!!!

This troper was once able to distract his brother from talking to our parents by holding up a 20 next to him. Granted it was his birthday and it had fallen from one of his presents, but still when he saw it he went "Oooh!"

This troper's usual schoolwork routine: get on his computer, preparing to write a paper. Will remember something he saw on TVTropes. Will decide to go check it out. By the time the resulting WikiWalk is finished, it's late at night. There's a good reason who I've gotten good at writing long papers overnight. This is also why I haven't finished a lot of really long video games. Also, when watching TV I need to be doing something else (surfing the net, playing my DS, etc.) I rarely make it through a movie without checking my watch.

This Troper made it partway through the page, and got bored. :) But she's been known to get completely sidetracked in all of her classes and write fanfiction, draw, fantasize, or completely space out and have huge gaps in her memory. And changes the subject every few moments. Thank goodness she's a musician, or she'd never get anything done. Speaking of, I have to go restring my sister's guitar. And - OH GOOD GLORY THE COOKIES ARE BURNING!

The cookies are fine. :) Delicious, too. And I was going to say that whenever I have a stimulant of some sort, usually caffeine or sugar, I can focus. Like, intensely. Too bad I'm not allowed much of either, especially not before school starts in the morning.

This troper, full stop. To the point where I have to take meds in order to concentrate properly. Even then, what I focus on is very much up for grabs and if someone filibusters with a {{Wall Of Text}} or {{Big Words}}, I am ''not'' reading it regardless of relevance to a trope -- which is why I couldn't get through this trope's main page if I tried.

I got bored of reading this page, and made to switch to another of the 25 TvTropes tabs I have open. Then realised what I was doing, hit "edit"... And here I am, three hours later, because while waiting for the edit page to load, I looked at all the other tabs, opened new ones, went to dinner, read some more, then realised I still had a tab open saying "Editing TroperTales"

This troper switches accents constantly, sheerly because she gets bored of using the same one for too long, among other things. She was diagnosed in elementary school.

This Troper has ADD, like all of the above. She gets so distracted by the smallest of things, even things she sees every day that DO NOT CHANGE. Like this dragon figurine on her PC desk! Its looking right at me and I can't help but look at it every so often! GAH!

This troper has a pretty bad case of it, althogh I've gotten better with medication. How bad? The psyciatrist had to repeat his diagnosis because I was distracted by a stray cat who was outside the window. It didn't help that I literally said "Oh look! a kitty!"

This troper ''usually'' avoids this trope, despite going off on tangets that are at least vaguely related to her current conversation. However, I tend to multitask (read: browse DeviantArt or other art sites while talking), and will occasionally break up a potentially serious conversation with a link and the sentence "Oh my god, that's the cutest puppy/kitten/character/amoeba EVER!"

This troper has ADD, but the most amusing anecdote about it I know involves my cousin who also has it. Said cousin was describing his weekend, and the description went thusly:

Thursday: Oh my god, oh my god, huge essay due on Monday! Workworkworkworkwork!

Friday: Oh my god, oh my god, essay due! Workworkworkworkwork!

Saturday: Oh my god, oh my god... ooh, anime!

Sunday: '''OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD...'''

This troperette has a friend with ADHD. We were at a carnival once, and I just wanted to go on a roller-coaster. (I'll call her Kaycee by this point) Kaycee, on the other hand... #QUOTE# Me: Well, that game was fun. Look, I really need to go to the roller coaster... #QUOTE# Kaycee: OMIGOD, GIRL, LOOK! LEAPFROG! COTTON CANDY! #QUOTE# Me: Kay, I have to go on the roller coaster... #QUOTE# Kaycee: Roller coaster? Which one? There's hundreds in the world! I wanna go to Disneyland! #QUOTE# Me: (by now thoroughly freaked) Kaycee, I do require riding the contraption called the roller coaster... #QUOTE# Kaycee: There you go with your big words again! HOUSE OF MIRRORS!

Kaycee is the only girl who can totally defuse my GenreSavvy DeadpanSnarker as well.

If I ever meet this friend, I will have a sniper armed with a Ritalin dart on standby.

This troper believes he may have it. While doing anything at all, I have a tendency to begin elaborating. Example: I spent ''ten minutes'' staring at a cup of hot chocolate and determining what it was made of along with what the cup was made of. Then those elaborations are elaborated to the point where I have five different trains of thought going and get serious headaches.

This {{Kuudere}} troper sat with her friends, all of them trying to study, while three of them were playing pokémon on their cellphones. When a fourth starts leaning over to check the others progress, this troper provides this quote: "Geez you guys, don't be distracted by... SQUIRTLE! *glee*"

This troper was at a movie theater with a girl. She was in the middle of telling me a story, and then a man sat down a couple rows in front of us. She glanced that way then noticed that the guy was bald and exclaimed quite excitedly: "Oooh, shiny!"

People will say I'm not focused. To this, I hastily respond: #QUOTE# Me: I'm sarcastic and not focused. That's my thing! I have the attention span of an ADD goldfish! Ooh, hey, look! Popcorn!

I was diagnosed with ADD as an infant, but my parents are in denial. Even when I've backed it up with research. Anyway, I can't concentrate on more than one conversation at a time without completely losing touch with what's going on, I space out sometimes mid-sentence, and tend to make random observations like "Why are my fingers so long, but then my toes are so short?" in the middle of a conversation. And one time I broke-off mid word to proclaim excitedly what song came on my iTunes[it was Jambi by {{Tool}}]. And then, another time, my boyfriend had to repeat to me three times a story because I kept spacing out after he got past the first sentence. Of course, I've gotten in trouble at school for not paying attention, but most of my teachers don't care so long as I pass the class. Which I do. I'm not hyper, but ... uh...

Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention that I have looked for a fork in the fridge [repeatedly], almost put ice cream in the cabinet, almost put peanut butter in the fridge, and other kitchen-related mix ups. Then I have gone to get food and end up walking straight past the kitchen and to the bathroom or my room. Then there are the numerous times people will say something to me or recount the one time they stole my glasses and I chased them and I honestly CAN'T REMEMBER or didn't hear them because I was focused on something else.

This troper has suspected it for quite some time. Turns out her father did as well...but preferred to just treat his daughter like a complete space case in an attempt to ''bully'' it out of her rather than actually do anything proactive about it. (Gee...''thanks'', Dad!)

This troper has a lovely ADD[=/=]OCD combo going -- for anything up to a month, I will be obsessed [and I mean obsessed] by a subject, only to switch to something else entirely, usually after a mass order. It's both annoying and expensive.

I have ADD (or ADHD predominately inattentive). I will have bouts of hyperfocus sprinkled in with my normal inattentiveness. This can both hinder and help me when writing a paper for school. I will either get so engrossed in the material I'm researching, that when I become inattentive I will continue finding more facts on the same topic, and I get too much information to shove into my paper, or I will get distracted by other topics before the hyperfocus hits and have nothing for my paper. One of my best papers in high school, where I was the most focused when writing it, was about Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. (As a side note, did you know that some medieval treatments for what may have been ADHD included tossing people in cold water, forbidding them to look at pictures of people, and wrapping their head in pig's lungs?)

This plus procrastination plus perfectionism plus inferiority complex = utter unproductiveness.

This troper was diagnosed with ADHD at a very young age. The best part about it? Her MOTHER is a pediatrician who specializes in ADHD and ADD. She also has a little brother diagnosed with severe ADHD. Oh and she is in a lot of smart people classes. It doesn't help when you notice that there's a spider next to you when you're taking the SAT.

This Troper has been diagnosed since the age of 5. My friends all mention that he tends to wander around both physically and mentally and has a habit of doing the same task a few times. But he has managed to figure out ways to at least keep them informed verbally when he's decided to switch topics or do something else by announcing "Segue" and then switching topics.

About a week after I got together with my (now, ex-)boyfriend, we were in my room, on my bed, lying face to face, holding hands and blushing and whispering sweet nonsense to each other. It was all very cute and romantic and there was this feeling of us being the only people in the world... until I happened to look past him and spotted an ice cream truck outside the window. Cue me abruptly sitting up (almost knocking my poor shocked boyfriend off the bed in the process), pointing at the window and excitedly yelling: "ICE CREAM!"

This troper full stop. Her ADHD diagnosis came a few months ago, though it's been obvious for a long time. On the plus side she can run class efficiently at the dojo with a combination of not paying attention and hyper focus. On the downside she can run class efficiently at the dojo with a combination of not paying attention and hyper focus.

This troper, while not diagnosed and likely not a sufferer, is fairly easily distracted and gets bored of things rather quickly. Which is why her grades started falling in middle school; she discovered the internet and the people/things far more interesting than whatever it was she was supposed to be working on. She's usually able to stay on track when temporarily distracted. On another note, a friend of her brother's has actually been diagnosed with ADHD. Troper's brother has said that the friend finds class a little hard, since several teachers don't have the patience or understanding to properly deal with him. He's a smart and creative kid, he just...doesn't focus well in class.

This troper has been noticing herself doing this a lot lately... She's on exam leave at the moment, so she has days of staying at home, 'revising'... except she gets distracted by various internet sites. She regularly forgets to eat when she's lost on the internet.

I will often trail off when talking to people because I either was distracted by something (often my thoughts, which are't always on the same track as what's spilling out of my mouth) or I just forgot what I was talking about. Yes, in the middle of sentences. Recently, I was getting ready to take pictures of my sister for a performance. Then a butterfly flitted past me. I spent at last 5 minutes chasing it and trying to take pictures of ''it'' instead. 'Twas a pretty butterfly. I haven't been diagnosed but my mom thinks I have mild ADD. I...uh...what was I talking about again?

This troper got diagnosed with ADHD ''yesterday''. What the doctor said after about an hour with her? "It's so obvious you have ADHD, I can't see how all your teachers missed it!" Now that she thinks about it, she can get distracted from distractions, and she stays up until 5:00 on the computer without knowing it ... yes, she is most definitely obviously ADHD.

Trickymander here I had ADHD at a young age but I think I have gotten better maybe not though as while I was writing this page, mu Facillitator is asking us to do a project. This is not just one time I had did that and I am still on the pill.

I am off the pill and now am wondering if I should... oh Persona what am I going to do about that story.

This troper has meds. They keep her calm most of the time. However, when they wear off in the evening, the results in WoW can be quite interesting. First, there's her healer. I'll be 3/4 of the way through a dungeon and nobody will have dropped below half-health even once. Then a critter runs by or I see an interesting piece of scenery. The whole group dies. Then there's playing with her (also ADHD) father. We both veer off the roads randomly while the other goes "wait wth tell me before you do that!", with no warning except for the father's occasional "HERB". There have literally been strategies and movement plans interrupted midsentence by "PLANT!" to the point where we are considering "Has ADHD" for our Hordeside guild.

I should be looking for information about th...hit the road Jack, and don't you come back no more, no more... the aura, you know? And this tro...I mean...I have to...what was I saying? Ahem, back to work!

This Troper actually gets distracted by what he's thinking as he's saying something. What comes out are words that have the wrong first syllable because a word later in the sentence had that same syllable somewhere in the middle. His brain works much faster than his mouth.

This Australian troper knew someone from Missouri that suffered this. Talking to her was extremely amusing.

This Troper... OH MY GOD! A SHINY POKéMON!

This troper was diagnosed with ADD at a very young age (she had a family history of it on both sides), and proceeded to suffer through grade school because of all of the self-diagnosed "ADD/[=ADHDs=]" out there. Seriously, people, it's a legitimate condition, not an excuse for your distractability/you being a hyper little fuck. I (ignore sudden change of perspective kthnx) at one point had a very nice teacher who I really liked. Until I heard her say that ADD "didn't count" as a neurological disorder. As much as I would never want to use it as a crutch, there are times when I try to explain to people that the reason I am doodling/knitting/playing with something in my hand is not because I am not paying attention to them abut because I literally cannot pay attention to them right now unless I'm doing something with my hands, and they get offended like I'm trying to make up excuses because I'm a bad kid like that. Quite frustrating.

I feel you. I was diagnosed when I was 7. Since then, I've seen it used as an excuse for parents to load their kids with Ritalin instead of raising them. Whenever I meet someone who claims to have ADD, I always test them. You can usually tell if someone has it within minutes of meeting them.

And how do you test them? Some of us integrate quite well into mainstream neurotypical society.

This troper has ADD and joins the others in getting annoyed (to put it mildly) at such BS.

This troper has no kind of attention disorder ''whatsoever'', and yet she ''still'' pulls off this trope with hilarious regularity. I ''actually say'' "Ooh, X!" in each circumstance, but I've only actually said "Ooh, Shiny!" once, when I was confronted with replicas of Roman coins (they WERE pretty darn shiny). On top of that, I often doodle in my schoolbooks then rub it out so I don't get in trouble. I once collected Blu-Tak and made it into a Pterosaur, and if there's ''anything at all'' around that might distract me, even an open door, I will pause what I'm doing and lose my thread thinking about hypothetical situations. The latter event actually happened while I was writing this.

This troper had to ask the psychologist looking for signs of ADHD to repeat what she had just said; he hadn't been paying attention. Also; it's literally impossible for him to keep his attention on a boring text for more than fifteen seconds. It's the mental equivalent of putting his hand on a warmed-up hotplate.

I have been diagnosed with ''mild'' ADHD. It mostly manifests in my hyperfocusing and inability to concentrate on anything else during said hyperfocusing. And the fact that I have the attention span of a sq-- OH MY GOD! there's an ant on my desk -- and look, WilWheaton just tweeted something funny! What was I talking about again?

There was this one time where this Troper was walking through a mall with her aunt and uncle, and we were arguing about something and I was about to say something, and then we passed by a pet store and whatever I was saying became "PUPPIES!"

This Troper has ADHD (among other things) and has a VERY hard time paying attention, and this site is a HUGE distraction- DAMN YOU TVTROPES I NEED TO WORK ON MY FANFICS!!! Many of my friends suffer from this as well, we make choir class very entertaining.

A member of This Troper's D&D group has ADHD, and tends to get our group seriously discussing ridiculous off-tangents. He also wrote a paper for college where the title was "Attention Deficit Disorder, A- SQUIRREL!"

Im very easily distracted-when trying to do homework on the computer I end up going on other things on the internet, like here or facebook, at school I dont listen as I get distracted by drawing, or reading something in the textbook that isnt relevant to the lesson. When I write I lose interest in the story im writing after a few pages, and I also.......OOOOHHHHH A KITTY!!!!!

Anyone else with ADHD suffers from Anemia as well? I am tired and hyperactive all at the same time. I need sleep but can't because my mind is too hyper. When I lack sleep, I become more hyperactive. Cycle repeats. Also, I have have hypersmell/taste, so I hate the taste of liver. (Liver is a good source of iron, which is what anemic people lack.)

This Troper was explaining this trope to his brother, it went like "Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny is... oh look deers!" I laughed pretty hard when I realized that I did a perfect demonstration of the trope.

This Troper is not diagnosed by any known mental disorder, and yet I can't stay focused long enough to draw a single comic panel. As a result, my brother's webcomic has not gotten off the ground as of yet.

This Troper has been diagnosed with ADHD since he was seven years old, and he has been prescribed VERY heavy doses of Ritalin. He was putting off a writing assignment by writing something else, but got distracted by a long WikiWalk that ended up on this page. This caused him to wonder just how severe his ADHD was, so he took three online quizzes. After scoring "severe" in all of them, he edited the answers to get the highest score possible; just to see what it would say. He then got distracted by his cat, and finally came back here to write this.

This troper would do this when she was younger until she became a good listener to her friends' problems.She acts AD if she finds herself in an awkward situations or being hit on by random guys 'Hey how are you?' 'Hi I'm go...KITTY!'

This troper hasn't been diagnosed, but her psychiatrist is suggesting she get evaluated. Her boifriend has sworn to buy her cat toys, just so she'll have something other than hir feather boas and hair to bat at in the middle of serious conversations. "So, see, I was thinking we could go with the house on-do you mind? Do I need to buy you cat toys?"

While going to get bread today: "Now, how many loafs of bread will two dollars bu-- OHMYGOD WHAT WAS THAT IS THAT A TOAD WE NEVER GET TOADS HERE HOLYCRAP IT'S NOT HOPPING AWAY FROM ME MUST PICK IT UPPPPPP." I ended up bringing the toad into the convienience store and showing the cashier.

This troper manages to distract one of his friends simply by saying "Gundam".

Same thing for This Troper. Justified because what he's saying is Game.

Yeah. ADHD is a bitch!

Seriously. I can barely read a page unless the topic is something I geek out about.

I took a geology course over May term that was basically a three-week-long road trip up into Canada then down to Martha's Vineyard. During our stop in Toronto, the hostel at which we were staying offered a bar hop, and about half of us went, including the professor. He cut out early, and since I hadn't slept much the night before, I headed back with him. On the way, we discussed geology (shocking, I know), and we happened to pass by a fabric store with an amazing gown in the window. I was in the middle of a sentence when I noticed it, said "Ooo, shiny", and jumped back into the sentence exactly where I'd left off without breaking the flow of my speech at all. My professor was much amused.

In the midst of searching through a local Blockbuster with a friend... #QUOTE#Troper's Friend: So we're looking for a multi-player OH LOOK, Trigun!

This troper was once talking with a friend at school, walking down the hall, and stopped talking and walking to say "Look, a pencil!" I'm also well known with my friend to be incredibly distract by cute things. I've inturrupted serious conversations at a park to say "Oh my god A SQUIRREL!"

This Troper was at the mall today, singing the RedDwarf theme, and saw a Christmas tree. He had just sung the ''I'm all alone'' part, when he saw it. Without breaking tune, he added ''Christmas tree!''

This troper used to be diagnosed with ADD, and has no idea why they changed the diagnosis because '''EVERYTHING DISTRACTS ME'''. My mom's attempts to separate me from stuff like music and books and games and other gadgets have never worked because even if I'm in a featureless room with nothing but an essay to write five hours later I'm taking a nice leisurely Brain Walk (in which I start thinking about lots of things from dotted rhythms to Japanese kanji to Anglo-Saxons) with ''nothing done''. I still don't know how to work with this since no one has actually worked with me on it.

This troper has never been diagnosed with ADD or ADHD, but has been thought to have it by her friends and classmates. Her mother and grandmother seem to think she has it, as they often told her when she was little to "act normal" or else the school would think something was wrong with her and put her in Special Ed (which they regarded as a bad thing). To this day, this troper doesn't know whether she has ADD/ADHD or not, but if she does, it would explain a lot of things, especially why she often spaces out, can't seem to be still and is distracted by every little thing.

This tropette or it might just be the creativity/bi polar ism/madness.

This troper is captivated by moving images, aka anything that is going in the TV. IF the TV is running and you try to talk with the troper there is a 75% chance this troper will instead look at the TV and completely faze out and be unable to remember anything he is told. And still nod and answer to everything that is said! Just unable to remember it all.

This troper was diagnosed with ADHD in college, but for paperwork reasons had to be rediagnosed in a rather grueling battery of tests involving Rorschach blots and trickily colored words. And has been known to sit in his therapist's office talking and looking out the window at a tree that at one point had a gap in it vaguely resembling Wisconsin... which he actually pointed out to the therapist almost completely at random.

This troper has ADHD. She's been known to open up to fifteen different websites at a time and many, many tabs. Her last ten minutes has been spent writing, browsing TV Tropes, making coffee, wandering around the living room, jumping on the bed, eating chips, and at one point she sat down next to her sister intending to ask what she was doing but instead reached across and grabbed her Elmo doll. And the last sentence on the page is "...amazing black hair, I can see a bir". She tends to stop in the middle of words even when she's talking, and in the last hour, has spawned sentences like, "Ohh, is that a zamboni?" "I love me some coffee," "OVERLARGE CANARY!" Yeah.

I think I win on the Lotta Tabs Syndrome. I particularly remember at one point having 300+ tabs of Tv Tropes on window, and on another one having 200+ tabs of fanfiction, not including my window to GaiaOnline and a few Youtube clips that I'd planned to go back to. I also have that problem with conversations where I tail off in the story with ANOTHER story that gives a better explanation for the first story. Also consistently start talking about random things. (To everyone else anyway. In my mind how I got to the topic makes sense.) I'll see something that reminds me of something else and talk about it. Usually no one else can make the connection. And I have the Squirrel issue too. I haven't been diagnosed with anything though.

This Troper has been diagnosed with ADD for years now. Though she do not scream out as most do, she tends to space off at a whim. More than once she has been distracted by beads on the ground. Then she picks them up and secretly hoards them. She has around 90 at the time of this edit.

A literal quote from this Troper: *sees someone painted "STOP" on the ground when there's a clear stop sign* "...Really? They really feel the need to tell us to stop twice? We know when to stop, already. I mean, how easily distracted do they think we-OOOOOH LOOK A SQUIRREL!!...What was I talking about??"

This is not always a fun trope. This Troper has been on heavy medication most of his life just so that he can have a job at the moment where at his best he's just considered forgetful.

Sadly, this ADD troper is this(and really, really much, at that), leading to a lot of StopBeingStereotypical reactions from other people with ADD/ADHD. ---

This troper often forgets things ten seconds after they happen. While this troper does not have ADD or ADHD, they find it difficult to focus on mundane things for a very long time, thus preferring a work schedule with lots of shiny to keep preoccupied. Speaking of which, did you know that the most commonly used fonts in today's society are variants of the Helvetica font? ...sorry.

This troper zigzags the trope depending on the...I'm gonna go play some games now.

I was recently diagnosed with predominantly inattentive ADHD (and my doctor is also hinting at the possibility of Asperger's). Like most of you, not only will I have 62139508996 Firefox tabs open EVERY BROWSING SESSION (most of which are TVTropes pages), but I've been known to stare at animated [=GIFs=] for THIRTY MINUTES at a time. There have been plenty of times where I will just abandon what I was doing to start on something else, and then abandon that. My brain never shuts off. It jumps from one inappropriate and irrelevant thought to the next. I can't even hold conversations for my brain wandering off. And yeah, my grades were absolutely HORRIBLE. Even in classes I was good in, like French in high school and Japanese at university, I would space out (random thoughts, following a bug crawling on the window or the ceiling, etc). I'll put things someplace and almost instantly forget where I put them, even if they're in PLAIN SIGHT. I can't tell you how many times I've looked over a book I was trying to find that was RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME. Then there are the reports of me just up and walking out of class in kindergarten and first grade...that would certainly explain a lot (I don't remember it, but my mom has the records to prove it). And I drag my feet ALL. THE. TIME. In fact, I'm supposed to be finishing this job application. Instead I'm here. It took me an hour just to type all this. That's pretty pitif-YO! SAY! NATSU GA!

This tropette is always pulling something up in one tab, changing to another while it loads, and then coming back to the changed tab 15 minutes later wondering what she was doing with it.

Tim in this troper's class

This tropette does this a lot, especially where cats are involved. In one memorable instance, she was talking to her father, a fellow Cloudcuckoolander about how weird it is when he just says something out of the blue. Cue her cat coming into the room and this tropette dissolving into "KITTYKITTYKITTY!"

This troper was about to drink from a carton of chocolate milk, but noticed a loose string on her bracelet and twisted her wrist to get a better look. Cue a puddle of milk on the table and extremely amused friends. I've also been known to drop everything at the sight of my cat (reactions range from "kitty!" to getting up and chasing her to the other end of the house so I can pet her).

I'm not quite sure whether I have ADD or not, but it seems that TV Tropes automatically induces this-- Hey, what's that WikiWord?

This troper has, in the last hour and a half, gone from checking email to checking up on her online group to joining a game of Nutsy Bolts to adding multiple personalities to the game to going back to the online group to checking on her online creature eggs to checking on TVTropes to checking on her eggs to looking on this page to remembering that she was supposed to be editing her novel... no, she doesn't have ADHD, but sometimes...

If this troper mentions the belief that he has ADHD to his parents, his parents would claim that I didn't have AD(H)D. I'd tell him that I am concurrently studing WWI history and typing up this in this TroperTales page...and thinking about how I might be ADHD.

If someone mentions ADHD, tell them I prefer ADD--oh those D's--they're tingling!

While walking home from school with a friend, this tropette was telling said friend how much she is hyperactitive. My friend wasn't paying attention so I said, "You have Attention Deficit--ooh, hot guy!" My friend immediantly perked up and was like "where?". I said I didn't know what she was talking about.

When this troper was talking to her father about something important I said, "So the thing is on January--LOOK AT THE MOON!" There was a daymoon that day, and the moon was full. I like the moon.

This troper doesn't quite have full-blown ADD, but is close. There's a reason he has so many {{YKTTW}}s that never get launched...

It took this troper two weeks to post this, because she accidently clicked on another tab and drifted on. And now she forgot what she was doing before she started writing this... But this is probably more important so it's all good!

At the mall with a friend, Me: If we cut through the parking lot to Target we'll have fewer distractions *spots a piece of jewelry some-one left in the perfumes* Ooh shiny!

ThisTroper has a very short att

O i c whut u did that!

One of my college professors was easily distracted and often forgot about what he was teaching because he was often more interested in the subjects his students talked about and we often had to remind him.

This troper knows many people who do this when caught in a lie. I guess this crosses over with BadLiar.

This troper has been told that he may have ADHDPI. The PI stands for predominately inattentive. So he does have ADHD, he just doesn't jump aroudn and do random things... At least when no one's home...

My friend has remarked that I always seem to be high after lunch. She is constantly jumpy and has No Inside Voice. On a different note, has anyone seen my sparkly penguin?

This perfectly describes this troper. No matter how much you ''try'' to avert my attention after spotting a distraction, I'll be shooting off in the oppposite direction towards the thing, or trying so hard not to do so, by avoiding eye contact alltogether.

While trying to find someone a few years ago, this troper's entire family was completely distracted by none other than a black squirrel running along the trees. "Oh mah gawd! It's black! Not red!" Nowadays, if my sister says "Look! It's a bird!" while I'm driving I will instinctively look, and I always remind her not to do that. It's the worst with crows because I'm so facinated by their behaviour.

This troper was only diagnosed with ADHD at 19 (fourteen years of private school'll do that to you). She was (and still is) easily distracted by cats and most cat-sized things.

This troper doesn't have (diagnosed) ADD or ADHD, but if something doen't grab his attention in 30 seconds, he'll move onto something else. He also blanks out easily and often spouts the sentence, "I'm sorry, what?" This troper also has a rather circuitous thought process; often times someone will mention one idea and he'll talk about something completely different because that idea reminds him of another idea which in turn reminds him of something else...wait, does that really have anything to do with the subject at hand?

I don't have any type of attention disorder, but I will totally be transfixed by shiny objects. At lunch, I place myself so that I can't see the sun's reflections on cars, so I'll actually pay attention to my friends.

MANY a times this troper has had a variation of this trope, where he would be thinking about grabbing something and take it up (or down) stairs to put it away, go up or down the stairs, then reverse direction because he completely forgot to grab the item he originally had the mindset to grab in the first place!

This troper also falls victim to this, as she will think about grabing something from a room but forgets what she's going to grab once she makes it there.

This troper once went on a rant about nuclear proliferation, only to interrupt herself mid-word with "Ooh! Marshmallows!".

This troper is actually the older sibling of an ADD-inflicted brother. I'm fine with reminding him what we were just talking about, letting him know that he's forgotten to do assignments that are due the next day and the fact he claims to have told me things he hasn't (because he got distracted in conversation). Its the 'running up the stairs to barge into my bedroom and loudly quoting whatever funny thing he just saw on TV before he forgets to' that I can't take - because it averages to occurring every seven minutes on Saturday.

This troper, who does have ADHD, falls under this all too often in her life. Even on her meds she is easily distracted, and will stop talking mid-sentence upon noticing something. The best example has to be when fluffy looking seed things were floating in the sky one day and she began chasing after them in the middle of a conversation, completely forgetting about said person she was talking to. She also will get distracted from doing something on the internet by something else, resulting in multiple open tabs. In fact, she is currently being distracted from uploading art to {{DeviantArt}} just to edit this pa-HEY LOOK, THERE'S A HOMESTUCK VIDEO IN MY YOUTUBE SUBSCRIPTIONS!

This troper doesn't have ADD/ADHD, but during lunch her friends were telling a story about a really fluffy cat they saw and were joking that it had reached 'critical mass.' She didn't get the joke so when she went to Biology class she spent a good deal of time trying to figure it out. While in class her teacher started talking about cadavers, but this troper misheard and though the teacher said kadaivers, which made her think of Macgyver, which somehow made her understand what her friends meant about the cat so she burst out laughing in class.

This Tropette's male friend has this. Sometimes he spaces out mid-''word'', leaving me to snap him out of it, and remind him what we're talking about.