text: a person who mentaly multi tasks, diagnosed as such. how can they survive in a normal thinking world? few people truly multi task, most switch between tasks. those who really multi task have difficulty surviving in a single task world. people think they are retarded or worse. if asked to say the alphabet, they would say "a" then "z". most people will say "a-b-c--all the way to z". some true multi task people have had their children taken by the state because no one understands them or how their brain works. where can one find documentation to assist with understanding. if, when asked to recite the alphabet, one says "a" followed by "z" and then stops, that person has not multi-tasked because the task has not been completed regardless of sequencing issues.  multi-tasking only occurs when the given task is executed to completion.  either your example is flawed or the assumption of multi-tasking is flawed.  in computing, multi-tasking requires a minimum of 3 processes: two processes that share the assigned work and one that supervises the functional tasks to insure that they are performed in sequence (and sequencing does matter) and monitors for completion of tasks a and b.  these processes can be assigned to three different cpus.  while the human brain does have multiple parts, i have not heard of cognition occuring separately in the parts.  is it possible to think two distinctly different thoughts simultaneously?  my inclination is to say no, the subject is merely jumping from one thought to another and back rapidly - not truly multi-tasking.  can you cite the basis and origin(s) of the multi-tasking diagnosis?  would very much like to follow up on this interesting line of thought.