Clinically speaking, a child with ADHD will invariably become inattentive and hyperactive in an overstimulating environment. Similarly, they will also become inattentive and hyperactive in a low-key, seemingly non-stimulating environment. One might ask why I'm writing this or even care about ADHD since I do not have children of my own. This is true, I do not have children of my own, nor have I had to face the challenge of working with a child with ADHD. I do however, live in Provo UT. The single LDS Mecca if you will. Provo, I have a new diagnosis for you. I am diagnosing all of Provo with Dating ADHD. With roughly 33,000 students each for BYU and UVU, we can cut out approximately a third of those for married people, or students over the age of 35. That still leaves us with around 44,000 eligible young single adults. This is very scientific obviously. This array of people brings about a type of dating overstimulation that basically creates an inattentive and hyperactive dating pool of people. It creates the "well there's something out there better so I'm not going to commit to this one" syndrome. Everyone is always looking for the next best thing. And why not, when there's 44,000 other single hot people to choose from. So what can be done about this strange phenomenon? Well, that is the real question now isn't it. It's one that we all plague ourselves with every day. It's one that our leaders plead with us to rectify, except how can we? Well, to calm a child down with ADHD, you remove them from the overstimulating environment. Well that won't do now will it. None of us are willing nor able to move out of Provo. This is where we work, where we go to school. Do we hole up in our rooms refusing to interact with anyone of the opposite sex. Obviously that is not the answer either. Here's my answer to this strange conundrum. I have no clue. I'd say follow the counsel of our leaders and stop hanging out. Go out on dates. Here's the problem. I like hanging out with guys. I'm not really sure how you get to know someone without hanging out with them. It's a catch-22 I'd say. I do have to agree with our leaders though and say boys, what the heck are you doing? Seriously, most of you have the attention span of a gnat. I blame your dating ADHD. It's not really your fault. There are too many of us gorgeous women out there for you to make any kind of committment to just one of us. Right? That's crap! How about this? Ask a girl out every once in a while. Don't hang out with an entire apartment to see which one you like the most. We're not stupid and we pick up on those sort of things and quite frankly we don't appreciate it. We don't like feeling like we are competing with the women we live with. It's not healthy. We don't put you and your boys all in a ring and say go at it and the best one gets me as a prize. That's what you're doing to us. Man up. Ask us girls out. I promise we won't expect a Tiffany's ring after the first date. I promise we won't fall in love with you right away. Give us a little more credit than that and realize that most of us are not crazy. We promise to give you the benefit of the doubt if you'll do the same for us.
So let's do away with this dating ADHD and all agree to go out on dates and just be normal people.
