Just ruled out international diplomat  

 

As a career option. 

I don't know if it's because I'm ADD or what and the things I say piss people (mostly women) off but as a general rule, Women don't like me. I get along great with men but women....

Back story.  I'm friends with a guy from Ireland that is here in the South and will probably be moving here. He's married, I'm married, we're friends. We email, sometimes in flirty innuendos but that is it.  He has been the one that really takes it over the top, literally asking for a shag, etc.  My answer has been to deflect with humor but always NO!

His French wife got into his email and chats. Uh-Oh!  I looked over things I had said and sent, nothing.  She sends an email to me. "Youre just a bitch. I sow your emails to ****. his wife" --- her misspellings not mine.  

Damn!  I just asked when he was headed back to Europe. 

Looks like someone has some 'splainin to do.   And it looks like that is the end of the friendship.  Too bad, I was looking forward to meeting her. 

Yikes! A little misdirected anger there?

I'm with you about not getting along with women so well, though.  I think women tend to misinterpret things when we miss some of the little social cues, whereas men don't think anything of it. 

I have one lifelong female friend and two "sorta" close female friends.  Most of my friends are men.  They are strange, fascinating and funny creatures!  At parties I will tend to gravitate towards the guys' corner, as most of the women are talking about kids, shopping, remodeling, Oprah, etc.   I guess that's normal but it seems mind-numbingly boring to me!  My husband and I were buddies before we realized we were crazy about each other, and now I'm married to my best friend.

I do feel awkward in conversations with other women, and I agree with jaderock that it might have something to do with our (ADHD-ers) missing social cues.  Do women notice this more than men?  I wonder too.





At parties I will tend to gravitate towards the guys' corner, as most of the women are talking about kids, shopping, remodeling, Oprah, etc.   I guess that's normal but it seems mind-numbingly boring to me! 

I am with you on that.  I will always find myself talking to the men because they're getting in these great arguments about politics, talking about, in my case, flying, business, music, playing music, etc.  The best purse, shoes (what are blahniks anyway), outfit, melodrama, is NOT that interesting.  Don't get me wrong, clothes can be fun as long as they are of the cotton/not scratchy/not hot/not tight/ comfortable variety.     I have kids and I worry, play, love them and all but after you've discussed how to get them to eat, ("Eat your spaghetti or go hungry"), and gotten them house-trained, they aren't that interesting until they can carry on a conversation about something relevant; politics, music, nature, etc.   I would never win any mother-of-the-year awards.

 

"I do feel awkward in conversations with other women, and I agree with jaderock that it might have something to do with our (ADHD-ers) missing social cues.  Do women notice this more than men?  I wonder too."

What? Sorry I missed my cue.     Are you saying that other women (non-adders) notice that we (adders) miss our social cues, or that ADD women miss our social cues more than men do.  Or is it that men are just more obvious in their communications.  In other words, men don't talk in subtleties/inneuendo/back-handed compliments.  They just tell you that you have on an ugly-a** shirt and then laugh at you for buying it.  (You really have to love men for that.) 

I was telling another couple of friends (male and female) about the whole international incident.  I said that I felt like I ought to get a tshirt made, very feminine, but have the words "Don't hate me because I'm beautiful, hate me because your husband wants to date me." delicately embroidered around the neckline.   So far, I've got orders for about 20 of them.  Now, if I just had the attention to actually do it.

 


 

 


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