ADD/ADHD Poll

[af2012]

Interestingly enough, I can do small assignments ahead of time and prefer that option, but the current program I'm in won't release discussion questions until the week they're due. They don't want students working ahead. For large projects or papers, I just cannot start them early. Many times I will write two 12-15 page term papers on the same day because I take two courses at a time. Oddly, I tend to get my highest grades when I do my papers at the last minute. When I first started the program, I had the concentration to start some papers early and those got Bs while most of my other papers have gotten As.

Now that I will be getting decent health insurance at my new job, I'll try to make the effort to go back for a referral. A diagnosis for sleep apnea would be important, but with ADD, not so much. I have no interest in taking any of the ADD medications.

I am the same way. I've always worked under the last minute mentality. It's not that I can't do the work early, I just can't get focused enough unless I have a deadline that is immovable and immediately in front of my face. Oddly enough I don't get panicked about starting a long paper the day before it's due, and every paper I've done this way I have also gotten an A on. Go figure. I don't do multiple revisions either, I go back over what I've written once and then let it fly. But that's just me.

For the record, I have one child diagnosed with autism, another with Asperger's and I definitely see the Asperger's tendancies in myself as well.

Amy