THE ASPIE NEUROSCIENTIST

Attention excess disorder

The opposite of attention deficit disorder

If attention is the capacity to select what amongst all competing current mental events which one becomes and remains the focus of your cognitive resources, then attention deficit is the difficulty to resist the pull of whatever speaks loudest - and attention excess is the opposite difficulty of letting go of your internal focus in favor of that external, loud one.

No, this is not a standard diagnosis - but it should be

There is no such thing as Attention Excess Disorder in the DSM-V, the current version of the manual used to diagnose health issues in a manner that physicians all over the world can understand each other. Attention disorders are traditionally recognized

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    • What is attention?
    • Attention excess disorder
    • Attention stories
  • Being bullied
  • Being held
  • Empathy
  • Facial recognition
  • Gluten intolerance
  • I'm not a sociopath, thank you
  • Inadvertent rudeness
  • Language
  • Let me see you talk
  • Manipulative skills
  • Mental visualization
  • Music
  • Oh science...
  • Panic attacks
  • Pattern finding
  • Sensory hypersensitivity
  • Social skills, or lack thereof
  • Spatial (un)awareness
  • Special interests
  • Stimming
  • Was that sarcasm?
  • You can't insult me
  • Dysfunctional days
  • Home
  • A day in an Aspie neuroscientist's mind
  • On how I found myself on the spectrum
  • Anxiety
  • Asperger or autism spectrum?
  • Attention
    • What is attention?
    • Attention excess disorder
    • Attention stories
  • Being bullied
  • Being held
  • Empathy
  • Facial recognition
  • Gluten intolerance
  • I'm not a sociopath, thank you
  • Inadvertent rudeness
  • Language
  • Let me see you talk
  • Manipulative skills
  • Mental visualization
  • Music
  • Oh science...
  • Panic attacks
  • Pattern finding
  • Sensory hypersensitivity
  • Social skills, or lack thereof
  • Spatial (un)awareness
  • Special interests
  • Stimming
  • Was that sarcasm?
  • You can't insult me
  • Dysfunctional days