--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 
> On Mar 28, 2006, at 1:42 PM, shempmcgurk wrote:
> 
> > I don't mean this as either a joke or a put-down, but I always
> > thought that MMY may be someone with ADHD.  After all, he has a
> > propensity for going from one exciting scheme to another and then
> > forgetting the old scheme that he spent all his time and attention
> > cultivating.  He has a very focused and intense attention span and
> > yet once a project or idea loses his interest he quickly abandons 
it.
> 
> I don't think that would be ADHD on that scale of time. Since he 
can  
> clearly talk focussed for hours upon hours on the minutiae of ONE  
> topic and all the ramifications, I'd say he's pretty darn 
focussed.  
> Close attention to details is one of the things that people with 
ADHD  
> cannot do reliably--and they can't organize complicated situations  
> easily. He seems the opposite of ADHD to me.
>

OCD and ADHD are not mutually exclusive. Its a question of how 
focused you can be about things that are only moderately (or less) 
important to you.





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