Here's some text for a business card size introduction card to give to multit-track people who struggle to accept mono-tracked people as equals....
Enjoy... Donna Williams
Dear multi-tracker,
I can see you struggle to understand my mono-tracked nature so let me make it simple for you.
Imagine an office block with 5 different offices all doing their thing, answering their phones, sorting their papers, doing their computing. This is what a multi-track brain does.
Now imagine an office block where every time activity started in office 1 and office 2, the lights went off, the computers crashed and the staff forgot what they were doing in office 3, 4 and 5. This is what a mono-tracked brain is like.
It's nothing to do with stupidity, nothing to do with not caring, nothing to do with not trying.
In fact, sometimes, its even a skill and a mono-tracked person can get really into a single track in a way a multi-tracker often couldn't!
But we live in a world of minorities and majorities and I am a minority so all I can do is appeal to your open mindedness, your tolerance, your compasion and your respect for diversity and remind you that your own 'normality' has always been perplexing and foreign to me too.
Regards...