Being an ADD/ADHD youth worker #10: ADD people are incorrectly viewed as multi-taskers

We “multi-task” the same way as single core computers. Which is to say, not at all.

• What single core computers and people do is do task-switching.
• Most people do task-switching slowly, people with ADD task-switch rapidly and computers in an instant.
• Task-switch in this fashion makes us very efficient when we are not overloaded.
• However, as the time slices devoted to a particular task get shorter and farther between, any particular task can become too slow – like overloaded computers.
• There has to be a balance achieved for efficiency
• So we have to have a limited number of distractions at a time