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Simple questions work best. If you make them too complex some folks lose focus and will often give an answer to the least important part of the question.and ignore the point of it. Why?

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Posted - August 7, 2016

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  • 44583

    Uh...Rosie. Not to sound like a jerk but read some of your own questions. I have ADD.

      August 7, 2016 5:18 AM MDT
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  • 6988

     Yes. That is me. Sorry, but my brain is simple acting, but jammed with info. I am too slow for the Jeopardy game show. 

      August 7, 2016 5:23 AM MDT
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  • 113301

    I know honey and I apologize to you for it. I am  on Answermug who I am in my real life. I think the same way and use the same words and my brain is already too full of questions. If I broke every question apart into one question each think of the extra questions that would be? My mind is jumbled up with so much stuff fighting to get out I cheat and piggyback things in multi-compound questions. I have friends apologize to  me for not answering my questions. They tell me they are "too hard". I apologize back to them as I have to you. I just don't know how else to ask them. I will try to do better. Why not call me out on it from time to time? Maybe you can be my reminderer? What could it hurt? Thank you for your honest answer Ele! I appreciate you! :)

      August 7, 2016 7:41 AM MDT
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  • 113301

    No. It isn't your fault bh. It's just that I piggyback questions to get more of them out of my brain faster rather than ask each one individually. Maybe I'm just lazy. I will try to do better. Thank you for your reply! :)

      August 7, 2016 7:42 AM MDT
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  • 5808
    Sometimes focus is lost because there are too many parts to the question. Each part is another question going in a different direction with a shifting focus.
      August 7, 2016 1:58 PM MDT
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  • 46117

    Give us one and I'll let you know. Give us a simple one. 

    I think clarity and brevity speak volumes of the questioner. 

    I'm just saying.

    I am just as guilty.

      August 7, 2016 2:05 PM MDT
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  • 113301

    Mea culpa, I will try to do better Baba. Thank you for your reply and Happy Monday! :)

      August 8, 2016 3:39 AM MDT
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  • 113301

    It's something  I have never struggled with Sharonna. It is stream-of-conscious question asking and I have never tried to contain it or reconfigure it. But I have an Answermug friend who reminds me that he has  ADD and it makes it more difficult for him to focus on what I'm getting at. So I have asked him to be my reminderer and call me out on it when I do it. My brain is full of questions that I combine to get rid of more of them at a time. It works for me but it doesn't work for everyone. They do the best they can. I always thought I did too but I know I can do better. It will just take some to figure how I can change my MO and not go bonkers from all the questions that will stack up in my brain. Thank you for your reply! :)

      August 8, 2016 3:42 AM MDT
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