maybe it's one of the ways for some of the people; i dunno. i'm not add so i don't know how much of a factor boredom is and i wouldn't presume to assume. but in any case i wouldn't go leaping from that to a single-track statement for everyone in the same bucket. it's a complex picture and this whole neurology thing is a pretty new toy to our species.

what you describe in yourself, incidentally, doesn't seem to me like it necessarily matches your own classification - understand i'm not picking nits, i'm just interested. do you only get the energy spikes when you're bored? or do you get the energy spikes all by themselves, and then the difficulty with focus is a side-effect of them? as an example for contrast, i get the wrangy feeling when i'm bored, but believe me. just working off the energy of being so irritated doesn't make the boring thing look interesting, or even more bearable.

i find that kind of funny. some of the things adults find a bit odd in my own kid can be traced back to the fact that he's not really given to processing in tv-type style.