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	<description>Isaac Schlueter on Web Development</description>
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		<title>By: Isaac</title>
		<link>http://foohack.com/2007/10/adhd-and-web-development/#comment-463</link>
		<dc:creator>Isaac</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well said.  Thanks :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well said.  Thanks <img src='http://foohack.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /></p>
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		<title>By: CYWONG</title>
		<link>http://foohack.com/2007/10/adhd-and-web-development/#comment-461</link>
		<dc:creator>CYWONG</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am a developer too. I am IC Design Engineer. I like your thinking and comments. ADHD should not consider as disorder but instead it should consider as behaviour that characteris a person. Yes, you are right that ADHD doesn't consider a serious illness. Human tend to worry and concern when they know their children or themselves have serious ADHD problem. Most of the people don't understand why there is ADHD but they know that it is consider an illness. 

Brain is the creation of god to let us to think. Ourselves need to control the function of brain. Everyone is not born to have the same brain. Different people have different ability to think. The problem in nowadays world is most of the people like to follow the trend of norm. We should not follow the norm without thinking twice. Even though it is acceptable for norms. We need to ask our brain. Are we also need to follow the same trend did by norms.

Since my childhood, I already hate to read book. The problem is I hate words. Words is not art. Human brain don't like word. Human brain like graphic. I don't understand why someone can write a novel for thousand page without a single photo. Even though I hate words, but I like to learn. Am I born in the wrong planet with the knowledge that full of word. For me, a difficultly of an subjet is based on the number of words they have. Most of the time, I did bad in language subject but did very well in science and math subject. It was really tricky. Is it because i have ADHD that make me impatient on reading? No, The problem is my brain don't like words. My brain no keen to capture words but instead it like visual. The only way i can learn is to convert the words to graphic presentation. Then only i can capture the ideas of it. I also don't understand how people can remember the whole book that full of words. 

Now, I did not ADHD is a burden for me but I should be always comfort of what I do and satisfaction in self. We should always ask ourselves. 

Do I like what I am doing now?
Do I feel stress to do it?
Do I capable to do it?
.....................

Our brain can tell us what we need. Satisfaction in self is more important. If you think you can't work in this ways, then always find another alternatives. No matter how, nothing can be right and wrong. It is always depend on how you think.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am a developer too. I am IC Design Engineer. I like your thinking and comments. ADHD should not consider as disorder but instead it should consider as behaviour that characteris a person. Yes, you are right that ADHD doesn&#8217;t consider a serious illness. Human tend to worry and concern when they know their children or themselves have serious ADHD problem. Most of the people don&#8217;t understand why there is ADHD but they know that it is consider an illness. </p>
<p>Brain is the creation of god to let us to think. Ourselves need to control the function of brain. Everyone is not born to have the same brain. Different people have different ability to think. The problem in nowadays world is most of the people like to follow the trend of norm. We should not follow the norm without thinking twice. Even though it is acceptable for norms. We need to ask our brain. Are we also need to follow the same trend did by norms.</p>
<p>Since my childhood, I already hate to read book. The problem is I hate words. Words is not art. Human brain don&#8217;t like word. Human brain like graphic. I don&#8217;t understand why someone can write a novel for thousand page without a single photo. Even though I hate words, but I like to learn. Am I born in the wrong planet with the knowledge that full of word. For me, a difficultly of an subjet is based on the number of words they have. Most of the time, I did bad in language subject but did very well in science and math subject. It was really tricky. Is it because i have ADHD that make me impatient on reading? No, The problem is my brain don&#8217;t like words. My brain no keen to capture words but instead it like visual. The only way i can learn is to convert the words to graphic presentation. Then only i can capture the ideas of it. I also don&#8217;t understand how people can remember the whole book that full of words. </p>
<p>Now, I did not ADHD is a burden for me but I should be always comfort of what I do and satisfaction in self. We should always ask ourselves. </p>
<p>Do I like what I am doing now?<br />
Do I feel stress to do it?<br />
Do I capable to do it?<br />
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<p>Our brain can tell us what we need. Satisfaction in self is more important. If you think you can&#8217;t work in this ways, then always find another alternatives. No matter how, nothing can be right and wrong. It is always depend on how you think.</p>
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		<title>By: Dave Gregory</title>
		<link>http://foohack.com/2007/10/adhd-and-web-development/#comment-425</link>
		<dc:creator>Dave Gregory</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great Post!   
Funny Enough.. I wasn't diagnosed until in college..  but it explained alot and still does.  Your post was one of those..   "Oh, That's why I do that!" kind of write-ups for me.  :D

&lt;blockquote&gt;“High functioning,” with respect to ADHD, is just a euphemism for “found something you like doing that happens to pay well.” &lt;/blockquote&gt;

Totally agreed, nobody in college understood how I could fall asleep in so many classes, yet spend all night writing code.  Including myself.  Now I have a clearer understanding...  Thanks!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great Post!<br />
Funny Enough.. I wasn&#8217;t diagnosed until in college..  but it explained alot and still does.  Your post was one of those..   &#8220;Oh, That&#8217;s why I do that!&#8221; kind of write-ups for me.  <img src='http://foohack.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<blockquote><p>“High functioning,” with respect to ADHD, is just a euphemism for “found something you like doing that happens to pay well.” </p></blockquote>
<p>Totally agreed, nobody in college understood how I could fall asleep in so many classes, yet spend all night writing code.  Including myself.  Now I have a clearer understanding&#8230;  Thanks!</p>
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		<title>By: Foo Hack &#187; Required reading for web developers: The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand</title>
		<link>http://foohack.com/2007/10/adhd-and-web-development/#comment-129</link>
		<dc:creator>Foo Hack &#187; Required reading for web developers: The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] The work is its own reward. That’s why so many webdevs were doing this before they started getting a paycheck for it. It attracts the kind of people who are passionate and crazy about it. Code monkeys ultimately have no place in web development. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] The work is its own reward. That’s why so many webdevs were doing this before they started getting a paycheck for it. It attracts the kind of people who are passionate and crazy about it. Code monkeys ultimately have no place in web development. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Isaac</title>
		<link>http://foohack.com/2007/10/adhd-and-web-development/#comment-120</link>
		<dc:creator>Isaac</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Geoff
Ha!  I think that tactic might have worked at my high school, but maybe not.  Too bad I never really tried it in earnest.  I did start a philosophy club my senior year that garnered some concern from the administration because one of our meetings was on the topic of religion, and our posters that week had some religious symbols on them.  (A cross, a pentacle, and the star and moon of Islam around a question mark, &lt;abbr title="If I Remember Correctly"&gt;IIRC&lt;/abbr&gt;.)

A few of the more slack-jawed mouth-breathing students complained to the principal that someone posted "satanic" signs in the hallway, and that they were offended.  He was concerned that a school-sponsored club really can't be religious in nature, or else it's a state/church issue.  I told the principal that our group wasn't religious, but just that we were going to be discussing religion in general.  They let it go, but told me to "be careful."  When confronted by one of the complaining students, I suggested that she come to the meeting.  She didn't.

Too bad, really.  A little more goading, and I could have had my own Wikipedia page or something.

@Tom
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it.  It helps to take Joel Spolsky's advice on the matter, and &lt;a href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000339.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;always keep firing&lt;/a&gt;.

Writing a blog about your field helps, too, because when you slack off, you can tell your inner task master that you're working, kinda. ;)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Geoff<br />
Ha!  I think that tactic might have worked at my high school, but maybe not.  Too bad I never really tried it in earnest.  I did start a philosophy club my senior year that garnered some concern from the administration because one of our meetings was on the topic of religion, and our posters that week had some religious symbols on them.  (A cross, a pentacle, and the star and moon of Islam around a question mark, <abbr title="If I Remember Correctly">IIRC</abbr>.)</p>
<p>A few of the more slack-jawed mouth-breathing students complained to the principal that someone posted &#8220;satanic&#8221; signs in the hallway, and that they were offended.  He was concerned that a school-sponsored club really can&#8217;t be religious in nature, or else it&#8217;s a state/church issue.  I told the principal that our group wasn&#8217;t religious, but just that we were going to be discussing religion in general.  They let it go, but told me to &#8220;be careful.&#8221;  When confronted by one of the complaining students, I suggested that she come to the meeting.  She didn&#8217;t.</p>
<p>Too bad, really.  A little more goading, and I could have had my own Wikipedia page or something.</p>
<p>@Tom<br />
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it.  It helps to take Joel Spolsky&#8217;s advice on the matter, and <a href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000339.html" rel="nofollow" class="external">always keep firing</a>.</p>
<p>Writing a blog about your field helps, too, because when you slack off, you can tell your inner task master that you&#8217;re working, kinda. <img src='http://foohack.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /></p>
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