Funmurphys: the Blog

My Dark Secret

I'm always hearing about people with ADD - Attention Deficit Disorder. I never hear about my problem, ASD - Attention Surplus Disorder. My profession, engineering, is chock full of people just like me who can't defocus if our lives depended on it. The absent minded professor isn't absent minded, he too has a bad case of ASD and just has all of his attention focused on the one problem he finds interesting. My wife has learned that I won't remember even talking to her if she talks while I'm looking at a computer screen (or TV). I have plenty of attention, it's just all placed on one thing. So if you're wondering why I don't communicate with you anymore, it's not that I've forgotten or don't care, it's because I'm so wrapped up in something else it's as if you don't exist.