Just how "AD/HD" am I? | ADHD Information

I would say I am maybe 100% marinated in ADHD..with a random few super-coping days mixed in.

I can handle the list with 1 item..just not 2 items.

Reizende38475.0955787037Man, I used to be a super duper chronic list maniac. Then I realized I just used 20 minutes making pointless lists I would loose. I do still write things down at work...and sometimes post-it notes...but the little games in my head work better, for me anyway...but my roommate is not AD/HD at all and she makes a MILLION lists...I think it just makes things less stressful for people...so even if a list only accomplishes a sense of relaxation...by all means...go for it! [QUOTE=Reizende]

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LOL Reizende, that's very possibly the best description of feeling adhd that I've heard in a long time- to be marinated in it. You're very creative, I love it! Recently, I went to the store for one item written on a list. Not only did I lose the list, forget what I went for and return with unrelated junk once, I did it FIVE TIMES!!!!

It can often take me several trips to pick up one item, its so bad for me- that's WITH lists. Its frustrating because often I feel like I'm swimming upstream all the time. I know exactly where you're coming from.

The most success I've had is with either taking a list on an 8 1/2 x 11" sheet of paper, or writing it on my hand. One of these days we're going to discover that ink causes skin cancer and my left hand will rot off. I can't count how many times I've had to buy ONE item, and not bothered to write it down because, jeez, if I can't remember ONE lousy item, I have bigger problems than ADD.

Well, usually I end up wandering every aisle going through mental lists in my head trying to remember WTF it was I wanted to buy.

Seems soooo sillly to make a list for ONE item, but damn, you gotta do what you gotta do.
I make tons of lists. I spend so much time making the lists and doubting the importance of some items on the list that I never accomplish anything on the list.

I even schedule things on the lists...4-7 work on this, 7-7:10 relax eat oreos.
I realize I have no oreos and that a break is important. So I have to readjust the times on my list to fit in 12 - 1230 shop for oreos.

My final list is a case study in severely warped prioritization. The amounts of time designated for each activity shows severely impaired ability to alot the right amount of time to complete goals.

CRAZY BRAINS MAKE CRAZY LISTS!!!DONT BE A VICTIM OF COMPULSIVE LISTMAKING!!
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I asked myselt that question yesterday.

I had to go ONE store to pick up a list of 4 items.

I had a serious heart to heart talk with myself.

I decided not to write a list, I mean surely, I was not SO ADD that I could not remember 4 items. I mean, if it was 5 or 6 items, maybe, but 4 items? NAH! I could remember that! I could manage without a list. No problem, peace of cake!!

Well, some how, some way, don't ask me how, cuz I don't know what happenned, I came home with only 2 out of the 4 items on my list! along with a bunch of other crap that was NOT ON my list, that I didn't need.

I guess that answers my question.

lol sonya, I do that ALL the time! I never bother making lists....hate doing it but know i should since i am extremely forgetful! I think I can go into the grocery store and remember the few items I need but once I'm there I get distracted by other things and forget why I really made the trip to the store and then later on, I have to go back. It is such a pain! I totally know where you're coming from! yeah I also buy things i didnt need while I'm there and what is important I forget! doesn't that figure? must be our ADD causing us to get distracted and forgetful super fast like that.

[QUOTE=GarbagePailKid] I make tons of lists. I spend so much time making the lists and doubting the importance of some items on the list that I never accomplish anything on the list.

I even schedule things on the lists...4-7 work on this, 7-7:10 relax eat oreos.
I realize I have no oreos and that a break is important. So I have to readjust the times on my list to fit in 12 - 1230 shop for oreos.

My final list is a case study in severely warped prioritization. The amounts of time designated for each activity shows severely impaired ability to alot the right amount of time to complete goals.

CRAZY BRAINS MAKE CRAZY LISTS!!!DONT BE A VICTIM OF COMPULSIVE LISTMAKING!!
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oh my gosh, I'm you! I wish I could stop with the lists but I know that my life would be way more chaotic without them. I waste so much time on them, and then don't use most of them anyway because they're unrealistic.

I do HAVE to have them if I'm going to get anything done, especially errands or things to buy. I bought a pack of neon notepads and I keep a few in/on my desk and at least one in my backpack so I can make lists of important things when I think of them and the bright color helps me to find them and look at them when I do because I respond to color. I've tried the writing on the hand thing, but I'll wash my hands or sweat and it's gone and I don't remember what was there.

When I only have a few thing to buy I don't write it on a piece of paper cus I know I will lose it before I get to the store. What I do and I know this is so third grade of me but I actually write it on my arm. Again only if it is a short list but that way not only do I not lose the list if I forget to go to the store there is a good chance I will eventually look at my arm and remember.

Lol i'm such a dork

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I asked myselt that question yesterday.

I had to go ONE store to pick up a list of 4 items.

I had a serious heart to heart talk with myself.

I guess that answers my question.

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Hi Sonya,

Well, I did that just yesterday and it was basically the same situation BUT I forgot to do my little coping skill for that (for the short list of items).

Here's what I do when I know I need up to six things at the store and this helps me but might be useless to others. (Six is really pushing it too)

I count on my fingers how many things I know I need at the store. When I get there, if I didn't write it down, I get there and I get what I know I needed, which is only about one or two things, but then I know I counted six fingers, so I go over in my head for a few moments and then I start remembering..."Ok, .....uuuuuuhhhhh.........duuuuuuuuhhhh....OH YES! Can't forget toothpaste...ok, that's the third things...uuuuuuhhh...got only three more fingers to go....uuuuuuuuuuhhh...hmmmmm, OH, look at that on the shelf. That's a cool thing!...woops, ok, where was I?...oh, yeah, counting on my fingers....ok, Oh yes, deodorant (can't forget that one and be a stinker).....juice....ok, oh, bread....six fingers, six things."

And let's not forget when we've gotten something that needs to be refrigerated that sometimes we set down those things and then forget to put them in the frig...at least I have a few times....Nothing like some curddled, spoiled warm milk on a hot summer day

(Back to the store!! for thankfully that ONE thing of replacement Milk or soy milk.)goldenmoment38480.2297222222PS, my little system doesn't always work but it has more then not. Sometimes I simply forget I was counting on my fingers and grab a couple of things and go for the check out line....I'm special

[QUOTE=MafiaKiddo] When I only have a few thing to buy I don't write it on a piece of
paper cus I know I will lose it before I get to the store. What I do
and I know this is so third grade of me but I actually write it on my
arm. Again only if it is a short list but that way not only do I
not lose the list if I forget to go to the store there is a good chance
I will eventually look at my arm and remember.

Lol i'm such a dork

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That's a GREAT IDEA!! goldenmoment38480.2914583333

[QUOTE=MafiaKiddo]When I only have a few thing to buy I don't write it on a piece of paper cus I know I will lose it before I get to the store. What I do and I know this is so third grade of me but I actually write it on my arm. Again only if it is a short list but that way not only do I not lose the list if I forget to go to the store there is a good chance I will eventually look at my arm and remember.

Lol i'm such a dork
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TOO FUNNY!!

I can't remember how many times I've done the SAME damn thing!

Of course with ADD, there isn't much I *do* remember.

But I know it's a large number. Like EVERY time!

One time I wrote the list on my palms because it was

summer, (short sleves) and I didn't want to look like a NUT

having bad penmanship all over my arm(s). It would have

worked but for the fact that I have a habbit of washing

my hands before leaving the house, (For some odd

reason, I NEVER forget to do that.) so my shopping

list went down the drain.........Literally!

Peace, Mark

I am pretty sure I can remember four items I would need to get. However, beyond that, I would definitely need a list. When I go to the store, I take my time and I also focus on the necessities. Since I do not consume junk food anymore, I don't worry about those distractors.... I have less to shop for since I consume less of that stuff.... My mental list is rather standard. I can tell you though about 5 months ago my memory was so bad I could forget something that happened five minutes ago, but that was partially because my digestion system was really messed up and it affected my concentration....