'It’s pretty hard to explain, but the bottom line is I am focusing so hard it drains my energy. When I come out of a focus like that I can feel the gates open and thoughts barrel into my brain at a million miles an hour. Hyperfocus blocks out my thoughts.'
A normal person’s brain is like a commuter driving to work in the morning very civilly and respectfully. He drives the same route and arrives one or two minutes early. Then there is my brain.
I like analogies , so here is another one: My brain is like a 10 terabyte hard drive with an extremely fast processor, which means that I’m thinking about one thing and then eight seconds I’m thinking about something completely different. Like a super-fast computer, I can have countless applications open, running at top speed all the time, and I never slow down – until I crash.
It all adds up. I’m afraid to do things wrong. So when my mom asks me, “What do you want to talk about?” I say, “I don’t know,” because I don’t want to say something that will make her judge me. Now, I’m not saying my mom judges me. It’s just that my brain is so used to being in trouble that it doesn’t want to mess up again.. In class, I do angel hands, play with my fingers, shake around, make faces, pick up anything and do anything with it, etc.
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