Asbjorn emailed me late last night to tell me that 35% of his traffic comes from Twitter (well he typed titter, but I know what he meant and am far too mature - yeah right! - to make a joke about that).
But as a pragmatist, I would be happier knowing the ins and outs of HOW this happens before I plunge in.
He then said "Anyway, never mind, do as you like, which you always do anyway ;-)"
Oops, yes I'm very naughty. Usually because I think I know best. I need to learn to trust people know better than me. To be honest, having to figure out most things in life on my own has made me have little faith in others, so it's gonna be a hard habit to break, but it's all part of growing. I should trust Ed and Asbjorn as they are living proof that the system works.
It's much easier to be in this learning situation from the confines of my flat than in a classroom. I always end up get frustrated and upset when I don't understand something, and of course if you have people around you, you can quickly fall out with them. If there's no-one around you, you are blessed with TIME to compose yourself and calm down.
I'm praying I can manage to do the 30DCIII this year, but if I don't I'm determined to try my hardest. And this year I have vowed to carry on with it until I have made a success of it, and not give up like previous years.
Showing posts with label Attention Defecit Disorder. Show all posts
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Sunday, July 29, 2007
Friday, July 27, 2007
55. "We Thought You Were Clever!"
I was discussing my dyspraxia on the phone with my Dad the other day (I was only diagnosed in 2005), and he shreiked "You're not dyspraxic! - Dyspraxia is a muscle wasting disease!"
Eh?
I told him he must have got mixed up and that actually Dyspraxia is poor hand eye co-ordination, to name but one symptom. He then passed me to his wife Carol who was adamant that I was wrong because she has relatives that have been officially diagnosed as having "Severe Dyspraxia" and they have serious difficulty moving.
So I later looked the word up, and found that severe dyspraxia is quite different from the type I have.
In the second paragraph on this site: http://www.daa.colsal.org.uk/ it says
"There are two types of dyspraxia, which are quite different: Developmental dyspraxia and acquired dyspraxia. Developmental dyspraxia is when someone is born with dyspraxia. And acquired dyspraxia can be caused by a stroke or head injury and causes much more severe disabilities. This website is about the former type of dyspraxia, which includes difficulties with co-ordination, spatial awareness, perception, language and short term memory.
Developmental dyspraxia affects between ten to Seven percent of the population and up to thre percent in varying degrees of severity. Many adults remain undiagnosed and can be lost in the mental health, prison and probationary services."
It seems we were all a bit wrong and a bit right! Carol's relatives do have severe dyspraxia, but they have difficulty with motor function, but not muscle wasting.
The reason I had brought the subject up was because I was telling Dad how I remember him spending hours with me every weekend, trying to help me learn to ride a bike. But to no avail. I still had to have stabilisers attached until I was seven.
Whe there was the mixup as to the definition of dyspraxia, I told him my difficulties, and he said he remembers how all my school teachers told my parents I was always staring out of the window.
So I said yes, that's a classic symptom, but he told me that when he asked me why I stared out of the window, I had told him and my mother that I was bored and that I already knew everything that was being taught.
I do remember thinking that a lot, but I also had difficulty concentrating, but as I 'drifted off' at such times, I was unable to record these occurrences. I simply forgot about them. But informing my parents that I 'knew it all' made them think I was clever!
And in some ways, I belive I did excell in some areas that other kids did not, but I still had an awful lot of difficulty that just went unnoticed or confused with laziness, or clumsiness.
Well I feel quite clever today actually because I fixed a high speed USB card into my PC despite the person who built having put a motherboard that didn't quite fit the ports. As they were out by about 5mm, I took off the metal frame around the card, and slotted it into place but to keep it held up securely, I sawed slots in two cut lollypop sticks to hold up the card. The lolly sticks have blue tac at the bottom.
Well, it was either that or buy a new computer, and I plan to upgrade completely next year anyway. And I was quite pleased about one of my other ADHD traits; my OCD for hoarding things! I saved the lolly sticks from my craft classes years ago!
Eh?
I told him he must have got mixed up and that actually Dyspraxia is poor hand eye co-ordination, to name but one symptom. He then passed me to his wife Carol who was adamant that I was wrong because she has relatives that have been officially diagnosed as having "Severe Dyspraxia" and they have serious difficulty moving.
So I later looked the word up, and found that severe dyspraxia is quite different from the type I have.
In the second paragraph on this site: http://www.daa.colsal.org.uk/ it says
"There are two types of dyspraxia, which are quite different: Developmental dyspraxia and acquired dyspraxia. Developmental dyspraxia is when someone is born with dyspraxia. And acquired dyspraxia can be caused by a stroke or head injury and causes much more severe disabilities. This website is about the former type of dyspraxia, which includes difficulties with co-ordination, spatial awareness, perception, language and short term memory.
Developmental dyspraxia affects between ten to Seven percent of the population and up to thre percent in varying degrees of severity. Many adults remain undiagnosed and can be lost in the mental health, prison and probationary services."
It seems we were all a bit wrong and a bit right! Carol's relatives do have severe dyspraxia, but they have difficulty with motor function, but not muscle wasting.
The reason I had brought the subject up was because I was telling Dad how I remember him spending hours with me every weekend, trying to help me learn to ride a bike. But to no avail. I still had to have stabilisers attached until I was seven.
Whe there was the mixup as to the definition of dyspraxia, I told him my difficulties, and he said he remembers how all my school teachers told my parents I was always staring out of the window.
So I said yes, that's a classic symptom, but he told me that when he asked me why I stared out of the window, I had told him and my mother that I was bored and that I already knew everything that was being taught.
I do remember thinking that a lot, but I also had difficulty concentrating, but as I 'drifted off' at such times, I was unable to record these occurrences. I simply forgot about them. But informing my parents that I 'knew it all' made them think I was clever!
And in some ways, I belive I did excell in some areas that other kids did not, but I still had an awful lot of difficulty that just went unnoticed or confused with laziness, or clumsiness.
Well I feel quite clever today actually because I fixed a high speed USB card into my PC despite the person who built having put a motherboard that didn't quite fit the ports. As they were out by about 5mm, I took off the metal frame around the card, and slotted it into place but to keep it held up securely, I sawed slots in two cut lollypop sticks to hold up the card. The lolly sticks have blue tac at the bottom.
Well, it was either that or buy a new computer, and I plan to upgrade completely next year anyway. And I was quite pleased about one of my other ADHD traits; my OCD for hoarding things! I saved the lolly sticks from my craft classes years ago!
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
53. Backlog
Now that I’ve committed to keep an Internet Marketing diary, I’ve gone and disappeared for a week. I know, I know – it reminds me of my friend’s blog: ‘How To Get Things Done’, which he set up seven months ago, and has yet to post on it!
I am still in the process of creating an effective timetable, and as I have a considerable backlog of stuff to get out of the way (not including my day job), I will need to incorporate it into the timetable.
I was going to try to get the backlog cleared before starting anything on IM but then I would never start.
The backlogs include scanning thousands of old prints and negatives, selling old equipment on Ebay, Filing; a whole 4 drawer filing cabinet needs seriously updating, and putting in order.
I’ve been blogging away every day on my niches, but until I’m earning any money I can’t afford to outsource the blogging.
Other people just copy and paste stuff into blogs and it takes only seconds, but I write or rewrite every post, and it takes at least half an hour, after I’ve swiped a photo, then found who to credit for it.
It’s Thursday tomorrow, which means Ebay Listing Day. Someone told me to always have 10 day listings starting on Thursdays or Fridays, so I can include two weekends. These have always been most fruitful for me too.
So today I have been photographing my old photo equipment, and a few other goodies ready to put up tomorrow.
I am still in the process of creating an effective timetable, and as I have a considerable backlog of stuff to get out of the way (not including my day job), I will need to incorporate it into the timetable.
I was going to try to get the backlog cleared before starting anything on IM but then I would never start.
The backlogs include scanning thousands of old prints and negatives, selling old equipment on Ebay, Filing; a whole 4 drawer filing cabinet needs seriously updating, and putting in order.
I’ve been blogging away every day on my niches, but until I’m earning any money I can’t afford to outsource the blogging.
Other people just copy and paste stuff into blogs and it takes only seconds, but I write or rewrite every post, and it takes at least half an hour, after I’ve swiped a photo, then found who to credit for it.
It’s Thursday tomorrow, which means Ebay Listing Day. Someone told me to always have 10 day listings starting on Thursdays or Fridays, so I can include two weekends. These have always been most fruitful for me too.
So today I have been photographing my old photo equipment, and a few other goodies ready to put up tomorrow.
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
52. Accountability
I’ve recently been slacking in my online work, and can’t seem to stay motivated. But I think I may have the answer. I’ve got another blog on healthy eating, and as well as offering tips and recipes I had the idea of using it as a food diary, so that I have to account for everything I eat every day.
And it’s working!
I’ve only been on it three days, and so far I’ve stuck to this healthy food. I could lie, but that would defeat the object, and since I’ve been doing it, I’ve already noticed that I no longer have food cravings, and low blood sugar, so I’d be stupid to give it up.
Well the amount of work and what type of work I’m doing is not getting documented, so if it works for food, it should work for work!
What I need is a timetable of regular tasks. I made one up, but it had too much stuff on it. I was expecting too much of myself, and nothing got done.
I tried to do six hours Internet Marketing a day, as well as reading, filing, diary, blogging, learning Dreamweaver. It was simply impossible to do everything. All of the books were self help books too, so they were workbooks that required a lot more concentration than a fiction book.
My brain’s ok doing stuff it’s used to but as all learning involves the cerebellum, and mine is under-developed, I struggle a lot with learning new stuff.
As my shrink says, that much concentration for someone like me who cannot focus, is like trying to do a 10 mile run when you’re not fit enough to run round the block. She says the brain is similar; it can be trained to focus, but you have to build it up gradually.
So now I’ll create a more realistic timetable, and that involves only two hours Internet Marketing a day. It’ll be a lot more computer time altogether, but just two hours IM to begin with.
And it’s working!
I’ve only been on it three days, and so far I’ve stuck to this healthy food. I could lie, but that would defeat the object, and since I’ve been doing it, I’ve already noticed that I no longer have food cravings, and low blood sugar, so I’d be stupid to give it up.
Well the amount of work and what type of work I’m doing is not getting documented, so if it works for food, it should work for work!
What I need is a timetable of regular tasks. I made one up, but it had too much stuff on it. I was expecting too much of myself, and nothing got done.
I tried to do six hours Internet Marketing a day, as well as reading, filing, diary, blogging, learning Dreamweaver. It was simply impossible to do everything. All of the books were self help books too, so they were workbooks that required a lot more concentration than a fiction book.
My brain’s ok doing stuff it’s used to but as all learning involves the cerebellum, and mine is under-developed, I struggle a lot with learning new stuff.
As my shrink says, that much concentration for someone like me who cannot focus, is like trying to do a 10 mile run when you’re not fit enough to run round the block. She says the brain is similar; it can be trained to focus, but you have to build it up gradually.
So now I’ll create a more realistic timetable, and that involves only two hours Internet Marketing a day. It’ll be a lot more computer time altogether, but just two hours IM to begin with.
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