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	sparkysrevenge 2010-01-18 01:28 am UTC (link)
	If I'm unmedicated, it's just one more distraction to see a cellphone pop out and hear the tickatap tickatap. Of course, I had to take tests in a special room due to noise, so I'm not the average person. I'm a very sensitive auditory learner who just so happens to have ADD. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

blue_penguin
2010-01-18 09:10 am UTC (link)

Yeah, it's more or less the same for me. I always hated being in classes where people were... doing stuff they shouldn't be doing (texting, goofing around on computers, talking to their friends, eating or chewing gum, listening to music with the volume high enough that I could hear it, and so on and so forth), not because I was some kind of super-goody-two-shoes, but because it made it that much harder for me to focus.

(And obviously I am a special snowflake and the world ought to cater to my needs, so!)

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lyssa
2010-01-19 03:24 am UTC (link)

I also have a lot of issues with tons of peripheral movement and slight sounds myself, though not the ADD. I find it really irritating and distracting unless I'm really, really into taking notes/testing or the person is out of my field of attention.

And yes, it's really, really obvious to me when someone is texting, or playing on their laptop, or one of the other "~silent~" things they do that isn't paying attention in class or daydreaming.

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