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1) Are you left-handed or ambidextrous?-
No, but I'm left footed and right handed.
2) Do you have a family history of drug or alcohol abuse, depression, or manic-depressive illness? -
NO
3) Are you moody? -
Yes
4) Were you considered an underachiever in school? Now?
NO to both
5) Do you have trouble getting started on things?-
yes. Tend to keep up the research and then do the project when deadline is close.
6) Do you drum your fingers a lot, tap your feet, fidget, or pace? -
Yes
7) When you read, do you find that you often have to reread a paragraph or an entire page because you are daydreaming?-
no
8) Do you tune out or space out a lot?-
no. depends what you mean by a lot.
9) Do you have a hard time relaxing?-
Yes
10) Are you excessively impatient? -
yes
11) Do you find that you undertake many projects simultaneously so that your life often resembles a juggler who's got six more balls in the air than he can handle? -
Yes. but it comes with the territory.
12) Are you impulsive?-
NO
13) Are you easily distracted? -
yes
14) Even if you are easily distracted, do you find that there are times when your power of concentration is laser- beam intense?-
YES
15) Do you procrastinate chronically? -
Yes
16) Do you often get excited by projects and then not follow through? -
No
17) More than most people, do you feel that it is hard for you to make yourself understood? -
NO
18) Is your memory so porous that if you go from one room to the next to get something, by the time you get to the next room you've sometimes forgotten what you were looking for? -
NO
19) Do you smoke cigarettes? -
NO
20) Do you drink too much? -
Yes
21) If you have ever tried cocaine, did you find that it helped you focus and calmed you down, rather than making you high? -
Never tried, never will.
22) Do you change the radio station in your car frequently?-
NO. It's always on the same station. My wackenfrassen son changes it all the time when he borrows the car. Happily I can remember the station number.
23) Do you wear out your TV remote control switch by changing stations frequently?-
Yes. Watching N American TV. It's a must.
24) Do you feel driven, as if an engine inside you won't slow down?-
No, not any more.
25) As a kid, were you called words like, "a daydreamer," "lazy," "a spaceshot," "impulsive," "disruptive," or just plain "bad"?-
NO
26) In intimate relationships is your inability to linger over conversations an impediment?-
Yes, I think.
27) Are you always on the go, even when you don't really want to be?-
No
28) More than most people, do you hate waiting in line?-
YES
29) Are you constitutionally incapable of reading the directions first? -
No
30) Do you have a hair-trigger temper?
no
31) Are you constantly having to sit on yourself to keep from blurting out the wrong thing? -
NO, I don't have Tourette's.
32) Do you like to gamble? -
NO
33) Do you feel like exploding inside when someone has trouble getting to the point?-
yes
34) Were you hyperactive as a child? -
NO
35) Are you drawn to situations of high intensity? -
YES
36) Do you often try to do the hard things rather than what comes easily to you? -
Dificult to answer this one. There are lots of hard things I have to face.
37) Are you particularly intuitive? -
I think so.
38) Do you often find yourself involved in a situation without having planned it at all? -
Don't we all?
39) Would you rather have your teeth drilled by a dentist than make or follow a list? -
Hell NO
40) Do you chronically resolve to organize your life better only to find that you're always on the brink of chaos? -
yes
41) Do you often find that you have an itch you cannot scratch, an appetite for something "more" and you're not sure what it is? -
yes
42) Would you describe yourself as hypersexual?-
No I, heterosexual. I avoid hype.
43) One man who turned out to have adult ADD presented with this unusual triad of symptoms: cocaine abuse, frequent reading of pornography, and an addiction to crossword puzzles. Can you understand him, even if you do not have those symptoms? -
yes. I wouldn't like to meet him, though.
44) Would you consider yourself an addictive personality?-
no
45) Are you more flirtatious than you really mean to be?
No
46) Did you grow up in a chaotic, boundariless family? -
No
47) Do you find it hard to be alone?-
no
48) Do you often counter depressive moods by some sort of potentially harmful compulsive behavior such as overworking, overspending, overdrinking, or overeating? -
yes
49) Do you have dyslexia? -
NO
50) Do you have a family history of ADD or hyperactivity?-
NO
51) Do you have a really hard time tolerating frustration?-
yes
52) Are you restless without "action" in your life?-
no
53) Do you have a hard time reading a book all the way through? -
NO
54) Do you regularly break rules or minor laws rather than put up with the frustration of obeying them? -
No
55) Are you beset by irrational worries?-
NO they're all rational
56) Do you frequently make letter or number reversals?-
NO
57) Have you been the driver and at fault in more than four car accidents? -
NO
58) Do you handle money erratically?-
yes
59) Are you a gung-ho, go-for-it sort of person?-
no
60) Do you find that structure and routine are both rare in your life and soothing when you find them?-
No
61) Have you been divorced more than once? -
NO
62) Do you struggle to maintain self-esteem?-
no
63) Do you have poor hand-eye coordination?-
NO
64) As a kid, were you a bit of a klutz at sports? -
NO
65) Have you changed jobs a lot?-
Same profession. Different roles. Keeps me fresh and interested.
66) Are you a maverick?-
no
67) Are memos virtually impossible for you to read or write? -
yes
68) Do you find it almost impossible to keep an updated address book, phone book, or Rolodex?-
yes
69) Are you the life of the party one day and hang-dog the next?-
yes
70) Given an unexpected chunk of free time, do you often find that you don't use it well or get depressed during it?-
yes
71) Are you more creative or imaginative than most people?-
no
72) Is paying attention or staying tuned in a chronic problem for you? -
Only in committee meetings
73) Do you work best in short spurts?-
Yes
74) Do you let the bank balance your checkbook?-
No
75) Are you usually eager to try something new? -
yes as long as it has nothing to do with heights. Bungee jumping is definitely out.
76) Do you find you often get depressed after a success?-
no
77) Do you hunger after myths and other organizing stories?-
No
78) Do you feel you fail to live up to your potential?-
yes sometimes
79) Are you particularly restless? -
no
80) Were you a daydreamer in class?-
no
81) Were you ever the class clown?-
NO
82) Have you ever been described as "needy" or even "insatiable"? -
NO
83) Do you have trouble accurately assessing the impact you have on others?-
yes
84) Do you tend to approach problems intuitively?-
yes
85) When you get lost, do you tend to "feel" your way along rather than refer to a map? -
no
86) Do you often get distracted during sex, even though you like it?-
No
87) Were you adopted?-
NO
88) Do you have many allergies?-
NO
89) Did you have frequent ear infections as a child?-
NO
90) Are you much more effective when you are your own boss?-
YES
91) Are you smarter than you've been able to demonstrate? -
No
92) Are you particularly insecure?-
no
93) Do you have trouble keeping secrets?-
NO
94) Do you often forget what you're going to say just as you're about to say it?-
no
95) Do you love to travel? -
YES
96) Are you claustrophobic?-
No
97) Have you ever wondered if you're crazy? -
NO
98) Do you get the gist of things very quickly?-
YES
99) Do you laugh a lot? -
Not enough
100) Did you have trouble paying attention long enough to read this entire questionnaire? -
Well I got a little bored halfway through then I thought about what if I were to decide to do it after I erased this effort and I had to go through all those questions I'd previously answered again. So I thought sod it finish the bugger off.
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