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A comment on Ask HN: What should I try to do while still in college?.

Re:Ask HN: What should I try to do while still in college? by alaskamiller on Sunday June 22, 2008 @08:43PM (#224537)
What's your ADHD symptoms like?

I remember a period of my life where I would have to spend hours on a single page of a book because I wasn't able to retain anything. I should have went to the doctors about it.

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Re:Ask HN: What should I try to do while still in college? by neodude on Sunday June 22, 2008 @08:47PM (#224542)
Fleeting thoughts, constantly. Spending a lot of time bringing myself back from mini-tangents inside the brain; in mid-sentence, distracted by thought/sight/sound/smell and hence lost train of thought (dozens of time a day).

I seem to do reading fine, but retain very little from the reading, in comparison with classmates. I've mostly been taking math-y classes (cs, math, phys). Physics was very difficult. Writing essays is even more difficult - this is the source of most of my academic troubles.

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