In Phenomena a character says that both main characters have this. It's said to be a strength. The author has it himself, and has said that he finds it really hard to focus on writing at times. Many people actually think these fictional classrooms resemble something close to the reality. Any teacher with more than a day of experience can assure you this is hardly the case. The good news is that there are ways to limit the distractions in both traditional and virtual classrooms so students are able to focus more of their attention on learning.

We settled in and I added taking care of my Mother who was deep into dementia from many small strokes, living alone, and needed much care. I was deeply depressed from no longer teaching at a university and going through menopause. My temporary job at Ohio State had ended. I got married and took on the raising of 5 kids who didn’t want a step mom. Didn’t help that my son. Stephen, aka Big Steve, had no interest in having siblings. (The family stuff would eventually work itself out in loving ways.) The Kender race in the Dragonlance setting embodies this trope. They even have a racial ability to "Detect Shiny".Hammy in Over the Hedge behaves in a hyper, caffeinated manner and exhibits Hollywood's definition of ADD. A plot point relies on giving caffeine to th— SQUIRREL!! In Worm, Kid Win is constantly leaving his projects half-done thanks to this. It's notably portrayed as a serious frustration for him, on top of his many other stresses. In Constable Frozen's photo edit Go Away Anna , Anna breaks down the door of Elsa's ice palace, only to be distracted by her pizza. We all see students in television shows and movies sitting in neat little rows, listening attentively to the teacher, and answering questions. But somehow, the directors always fail to capture the huge distractions teachers deal with on a daily basis.

PeanutButterGamer shows shades of this during the Hardcore series or other Let's Plays. In his Super Mario 64 LP on the DS, he mentions in his first video wanting to explain why he's playing on the DS and not the Virtual Console 64 version. He forgets it during that video and has to focus multiple times to recall he hasn't explained yet in the second video. In one livestream, he mentions that both viewers and friends have suggested he may have ADHD, but hasn't really bothered to get a professional opinion on it. David suffers from this problem while trying to study at the beginning of The Magic Map. Not because he has ADHD, but because his geography book is so boring that it’s legitimately more fun to watch two ants carrying a twig.Studies have shown that young children ages 4 to 9 have an attention spanof only 8-27 minutes, ages 10-13 of only 20-39 minutes, and ages 14-18 of only 28-54 minutes. And since children in the United States attend school anywhere between 6-7 hourseach day, it’s only logical that they get continuously distracted. Distracted learning isn’t effective.

In The League of Peoples 'Verse, the entire Cashling species suffer from this: always bored, easily distracted, and unable to focus their attention on anything for very long. In Fire Engine By Mistake, a fire engine driving through the countryside is such a novelty that sheep stop nibbling, cows stop chewing, and horses stop dusting each other with their tails. Joey Pigza, the title character from his series of books has ADHD and a central point of the series is his ongoing struggle to think before he acts and learn to calm down. By the end of the first book, he changes his medication and then a central element in the second book is his newfound ability to calm down and think.If creating fascinating lesson plans and delivering them to a highly engaged group of kids was what teaching was really like, teaching would be a whole lot easier than it actually is.

While not a commentary on ADHD, there was a strip from The Far Side showing a group of warriors storming a castle, running across the moat bridge while one guy points to the water and exclaims "Ooh, goldfish, everyone, goldfish!" Gary Larson stated that he's fond of that one because "that's me on the bridge." In Do You Have a Short Attention Span?, Matt says that he doesn't have a short attention span, and immediately gets distracted by a bird. The hardest part of teaching isn’t designing lesson plans, making calls home, or even the never-ending grading that has to be done. Completing preparation before class only to have an activity fail because so many of the students in class were distracted is commonplace. This is actually accurate in the case of Sigvald the Magnificent, who at random times during the battle will actually become so distracted by how awesome and shiny his armour is that he will stop fighting and demand that his henchmen polish it and tell him how wonderful he is. Green Lantern has Larfleeze, a.k.a. Agent Orange. His greed makes him distracted to almost anything, making his scenes hilarious. In fact, he says that shiny things are his weakness.Whether it’s a classmate throwing paper balls, another making random loud noises, or the temptation of a cell phone within hand’s reach, students encounter distraction after distraction in class while teachers struggle to focus their attention on the materials. The distract spell (3.5th Edition, Spell Compendium) can give this condition to several foes, making them fascinated by everything around them for a short moment. It inflicts serious penalties on skills such as Concentration, Spot, Listen and Search, and makes them unable to act as much as normal since they can get distracted even mid-combat. Garfield was grateful for the trope when a dog that was chasing him suddenly decided to chase the mailman instead. The dog then decided to chase a squirrel instead of the mailman. Maria Kanellis once lost a match because she was too busy posing for pictures being taken by the troops in Iraq to notice her tag team partner Candice Michelle needed a break against Trish Stratus and was trying to tag out.