Hyper H#LL | ADHD Information

OK this forum is for adult related issues and how they affect adults at home, in relationships & workplace right?

Back at work after a week off for fall break. This is incrediably difficult. I am a Special Ed para in an elementary school. Today during 4th grade math I missed 2 out of 4 on the "Target Math" Meanwhile, the 9 year old Learning Disabled student "I'm helping" got them right. Man - I hate math! The classroom teacher gave me a timer so I would know when to get off the computer. I offered to take some of the severe students to PE so I could run! I'd like to keep running. I did get caught running in the hall and was told to slow down. Cr*p . Feel soooooo hyper, bout to crawl out of my skin -

This has been the only job I have been able to keep. Fired from the last 4 or 5 because I couldn't stay where I was suppose to be.

I am 49 years old going on 10

I hate math 2.

I love kids! And they know me like nobody - I still am a big kid.

Besides - I might have a chance at getting high marks in Art there - maybe even pass it? Nobody fails kindergarten right? right?

Kids are prescious - even more so when you can't make 'em. Not sad - just introspective tonight. have all things in focus tonight. Life is too damn short.

Glen
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barb,

cna we nix my leters. tomorow
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dont' nok what

really thiough im sobering up?
yes beter.

CG, I deleted your letters as soon as I replied to them. I don't like to keep things like that around. Besides, they would have filled my in box!

Gads, I just had a brain storm! When I find the right juan, I should rename it!

So close to 3:30 now might as well wait for tomorrow. Nothing accomplised today. Gotta run!

THink Ill anser myself slow dowwwwwwwwn Glenda - yourrrrrrre goinggj to fastttt

Thanks imeedeed that.

Boy - you put the "H" back in adult ADHD!! Most here seem to be more inattentive than hyper but that's cool. Good to stay energized - I wasn't until on meds - now I'm more fit than at 18 - and showing up the young whippersnappers at work every day!

I know it's hard to keep jobs - especially when not on meds. I have lost more jobs than most people will ever get! Getting a job - a breeze! Keeping it - wow that's tough.

Math and English? The only two I could do! No homework usually. Social studies, art, history, econonmics? AAARRRRGGGGHHH!!! Man- if they wanted me to do something out of class (don't they all?) then I'd fail. Never did my homework once in 12 years. I squeaked by most classes because I do ok on tests. Mostly instinct - some of it I had no clue if it was right or not.

Now - I HATE tests don't get me wrong! I had to become A+ certified for my technician jobs way back. They give 4 hours to do a group of them - but I got to my testing place and freaked out. Totally anxiety attacked. I sat in front of a computer giving the tests - and did all of them in half an hour. I could not get out fast enough! Passed all of the tests no problem - but if I wasn't familiar with them? Who knows.

Maybe you should get up super early before work and run - run until you poop out? Just a thought - maybe exerting until you deplete all that energy might help? Have no clue - just typing thoughts.

We're all here for ya!

Wasn't sure WHAT I wanted - after all I was 18, stupid and majorly ADHD!!

I knew that the local economy where I was (central British Columbia) was all about either tourism or logging. No friggin way could I do "you want fries with that?" so it was that or take up white water rafting. Ugh.

I did work at a lumber mill for about 2 shifts once. I didn't have steel toe boots but I went there anyway and got caught. I hated it anyway - I think it was my way to self-destruct. I hate the smell of cut wood so I think that it would have sucked personally.

[QUOTE=Countrygirl]Feel a bit calmer now. Went to art with Kindergarten. More my speed. ( no pun intended) No I am going to get a good workout at the gym tonight thou! thanks Exercise in the mornings - good idea. How did I get stuck back in a classroom?[/QUOTE]

LOL - yeah it's funny how our vocation seems to pick us at times. I think there might be a work fairy that has a wicked cruel sense of humor.

I started at 18 wanting to get into the logging industry. It sounded like honest work - and less people to get pissed off at me.

I applied at the local college for help paying for the courses in forestry - and instead they convinced me to get into computers! All because I mentioned it was a hobby in high school. It left me feeling confused but hey - they paid for me to get a degree (it was the 80s money flowed down the streets then kids).

I tried for 20 years to break free. But it was like that bad Pacino line "I keep trying to get out - and they drag me back in!!" Now I've been out almost 4 years - but I watch carefully for that damn fairy - I'll shoot the thing if it gets near me.

Hey - maybe that's where I should be - kindergarten!! I missed it the first time - they never had it where I lived. I'll try fingerpainting!

I bet I could ace naptime and my ABCs.

I don't know why it never occurred to me before! Sign me up!

Thanks Glen, needed a laugh,

logging - you wanted to be like a lumberjack?

[QUOTE=Countrygirl]Still looking through my files. Which juan is the juan? [/QUOTE]

There's a major amount of jokes there waiting to be born. The way I pronounce it - wan wan wan too - wan' to what? - my mind is officially boggled by the choices I could make. wan' for to why? ah bad jokes - punz are us

Still looking through my files. Which juan is the juan?

Getting drunk - I can't either support or nay it as I don't drink anymore. Can't stomach it my system is all shot and it never was my favorite thing to do. The gym - sounds like a plan!

The smell of wood is fine - as long as it's not 24/7. In British Columbia - there's just wood wood wood! The lumber mill was right across the river from where I lived, and the smell of ash and sap and green cut wood becomes kind of monotonous after the first - oh say 10 years! But you are right in small doses it's a nice smell.

Wow - I have got to get me a woman! The mental pic of a sweaty woman from the gym, 2 sheets to the wind from the wine.. well .. it's a bit too much for this bachelor!! LOL man I have to get out more

I like the smell of wood - burning in a fireplace with a nice glass of wine.

Hey, hows this for a plan - work out like a mad woman at the gym then get drunk?

Now the team leader wants me to copy all the work I did before break a week ago. Can you tell me why I would name every file Juan? Juan1, Juan2 - Now I can't find anything.

Come on 3:30!

Feel a bit calmer now. Went to art with Kindergarten. More my speed. ( no pun intended) No I am going to get a good workout at the gym tonight thou! thanks Exercise in the mornings - good idea. How did I get stuck back in a classroom?a Paul Bunyan wannabe? ...Only in Canada.

[QUOTE=barb]

I have applied for jobs in the past, and when they asked me what there was about me that I would consider a negative, I tell them outright not to hire me unless they can promise me I can keep busy. I hate standing around with nothing to do. If I take more than a short break, I don't want to get moving again so I just keep busy.

I have never been refused a job because of that negative trait!

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thnik you barb, glen told em voka not the answr. i think

I have never been refused a job because of that negative trait!

[QUOTE=GlenW]

Hey - maybe that's where I should be - kindergarten!! I missed it the first time - they never had it where I lived. I'll try fingerpainting!

I bet I could ace naptime and my ABCs.

I don't know why it never occurred to me before! Sign me up!

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I think you are on the right track Glen!! I get to see kindergarteners for an hour everyday.. There's enough energy in that room to tire out all but the most SEVERE adder

I love it!! People think I'm nuts !!

Sherry

Countrygirl:

I think that you might have stumbled onto an alternative without even realizing it...what about teaching PE?!?!?!?!? This would definitely suit you...you could run in every class you teach

Master Mind [QUOTE=Master Mind]Countrygirl:

I think that you might have stumbled onto an alternative without even realizing it...what about teaching PE?!?!?!?!? This would definitely suit you...you could run in every class you teach

Master Mind[/QUOTE]
hmm, I'll think that over. not a bad idea