The Spinning Wheel of Attention represents what I think is a more correct example of how ADD works. As folks like Ned Hallowell remind us, the problem isn't a deficit of attention, it's the fact that we aren't fully in control of where that attention is going next.

This new way of talking about ADHD helps answer folks who wonder "why can you pay attention to the things you're interested in but not to the things that bore you?" The answer is: that's not exactly how it works. I've found myself in hyperfocus more than once on a task that was ancillary to the one I began. It's the experience of spending two hours reading a controversial interpretation of the Bhagavad Gita when I started out looking for a recording of George Harrison's first sitar lesson.

The other thing it did, in terms of the performance, was model the frustration I/we/folks with ADD feel knowing we have 100 things we want to do but only time for 1 or 2. In an ideal performance, we might spin the wheel 3 or 4 times, leaving the audience wondering what the rest of the bits might be like. This feeling of having more unfinished than finished bits is what we live with every day.

Number	Associated Bit
1	Orientation for new Students at the Institute for the Understanding of Neurotypicals
2	I'm ready for anything
3	unassigned
4	stand up routine part 1
5	Rejected bits: “if you ..., you might have ADHD”
6	unassigned
7	unassigned
8	unassigned
9	unassigned
10	Rejected bits: frustration
11	stand up routine part 2
12	unassigned
13	unassigned
14	Wonder Drug
15	unassigned
16	Lines that didn't fit - part 1
17	unassigned
18	unassigned