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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Merkuri" data-source="post: 3087890" data-attributes="member: 41321">It was actually a coworker.  She was trying to test a bug I'd reported in the software and needed to ask a question.  She'd been told it was a very important bug... apparently "important" means she can sit there and try to talk to me repeatedly while I was obviously helping a customer on the phone.  I think my answer to her question was, "I wrote that in the bug report!" which frustrated me even more.  I honestly don't remember what the question was, but I knew she had all the pieces of the answer she needed, she just hadn't burned enough brain cells to put them together.I remember reading that people who multitask usually get less done because of a thing called "context switching".  It takes your brain a while to switch to a different project.  This isn't something unique to ADD sufferers, though they may be hit harder by it.  Imagine that your brain is an office.  What you're working on at the moment is represented by a bunch of papers lying on your desk.  Other things in your memory are stashed away in filing cabinets.  When you switch from one project to another, you gather up all of the papers on your desk, file them away, and search through the filing cabinets for the new project, which you then put on your desk.  To switch back to the first project, you have to do the same thing again.  The act of clearing off your desk and searching through the files is called "context switching".  This can take a while to do, and if you context switch often enough you can lose serious time working compared to if you had worked on one project to completion, then pulled out another one.And some people don't have a problem talking on the phone while someone is speaking to them.  They probably will not be able to have two conversations at once, but they will be able to drown out one person and concentrate on the other.  I find it hard to speak when the TV is on.  No matter how hard I try, sometimes I find my attention slipping away from the conversation to the TV.  This is something that very well may be ADD-related.  If you are too easily distracted you won't be able to follow any of the conversations going on around you, where most people would be able to ignore all but one of them.</blockquote>

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