Though I wouldn’t properly count myself as a ‘nerd’, this weblog entry on Nerd Attention Deficiency Disorder (via MeriBlog) struck a chord with me. I often have a dozen tabs open in my web browser, and thrive on having tons of information being thrown at me, skipping from one to the other and picking through them as I please. In fact, without this hose of information I would be quite lost, as I wouldn’t be able to devote my attention to anything without the promise of other stuff to follow. As the author puts it:

[My mother] commented, “How can you focus on anything with all this stuff going on?” I responded, “Mom, I can’t focus without all this noise.”

My job, luckily, involves several projects, each with lots of widely-varying aspects so my short attention span is not a problem, as I can switch from one project or piece of code to another, and juggle multiple ideas and thoughts at once. So, yes, I probably do “suffer” from NADD, I suppose, though “suffer” is totally the wrong word as actually, I quite enjoy it.

(An example of NADDish behaviour is a b3ta post I knocked up in my lunchbreak, as a response to this week’s challenge)