Every day brings and increasing number of people to the realization that they have this dread disease. The victims of this new acronym are easy to spot. They are the ones who actually like waiting. They are the people who can stare at a leaf in wonderment for hours. These people often haven’t known boredom for years.
The tragedy here is that often sufferers of ASD are so busy staring at the wonders of creation in rapt attention, they don’t have time to do the things that we Americans take for granted as the things which make us alive. ASD sufferers frequently have no interest in television — niehter the commercials nor the stuff that happens when the commercials aren’t on. ASD sufferers are often dificient in that componant of our psyche that encouarges us to go to the mall and exercise our purchasing power. Finally, ASD sufferers lack the motivation that non-ASD people take for granted. While most ASD sufferes can still hold down a job, they seldom experience the rush of anger that the rest of us feel when being cut off on the road. ASD sufferers would rather spend some time contemplating possible reasons why the person who cut them off did so.
ASD sufferers are rarely hyper.
Won’t you help the victims of this scourge of a disease? Every day, more and more of them lapse into happy lives of patience and contentment. This lifestyle threatens our national economy, our mass media industry and our hyper-kinetic national psyche. Please, give now to develop ways to get ASD sufferers back into the excitement-boredom cycle that the rest of us take for granted.
BBC
Feb 03 2004
02:45 am
Attention Surplus Disorder (ASD) isn’t pretty.
Every day brings and increasing number of people to the realization that they have this dread disease. The victims of this new acronym are easy to spot. They are the ones who actually like waiting. They are the people who can stare at a leaf in wonderment for hours. These people often haven’t known boredom for years.
The tragedy here is that often sufferers of ASD are so busy staring at the wonders of creation in rapt attention, they don’t have time to do the things that we Americans take for granted as the things which make us alive. ASD sufferers frequently have no interest in television — niehter the commercials nor the stuff that happens when the commercials aren’t on. ASD sufferers are often dificient in that componant of our psyche that encouarges us to go to the mall and exercise our purchasing power. Finally, ASD sufferers lack the motivation that non-ASD people take for granted. While most ASD sufferes can still hold down a job, they seldom experience the rush of anger that the rest of us feel when being cut off on the road. ASD sufferers would rather spend some time contemplating possible reasons why the person who cut them off did so.
ASD sufferers are rarely hyper.
Won’t you help the victims of this scourge of a disease? Every day, more and more of them lapse into happy lives of patience and contentment. This lifestyle threatens our national economy, our mass media industry and our hyper-kinetic national psyche. Please, give now to develop ways to get ASD sufferers back into the excitement-boredom cycle that the rest of us take for granted.