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   From: njmarsh@gmail.com   
      
   Thomas Prufer  wrote   
   >   
   > As to attention span: A pediatrician once told us that all the diagnoses   
   > withstanding, she'd yet to see a child with ADD diagnosed who had problems   
   > concentrating on a video game for astoundingly long amounts of time.   
      
   That's pretty classic. The attentional deficit in ADD is more about   
   attention regulation, rather than not having any. Over absorption points to   
   a problem with prioritization of stimuli in much the same way as   
   distraction, it's a not uncommon characteristic of people with ADD, and   
   things that offer massive amounts of sensory stimuli and/or novelty are   
   very likely to evoke this behaviour.   
      
      
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