You know your ADD is really bad when... | ADHD Information
... when you get an A in the class that only had one assignment (which you were able to magically throw together the night before it was due and get 100%) and an F in the class that had 12 assignments (of which you completed 3). ....When you wait till December 23 to make a list, and then start Christmas shopping at 6 pm and forget the list at work lol!!![QUOTE=kalstolyn]... when you get an A in the class that only had one assignment (which you were able to magically throw together the night before it was due and get 100%) and an F in the class that had 12 assignments (of which you completed 3). [/QUOTE]
I'm new here, just now (after 37 years) realizing that my ADD I have joked about since the mid 80's is not only very real, but the likely reason I have had so many struggles in life.
I can relate to your post. Typically, I would have completed the first 3 of the 12 assignments, received A's on all of them, and then stopped going to class. And yeah, if the class required one paper I might have a shot, even if I didn't start it until the night before.
I guess I should have known my ADD was bad when I once followed up a 4.0 gpa semester with a 0.0 gpa semester.
I know I have a few stories...but I can't seem to remember them
Like putting your spouses phone on the charger before you go to work (because you lost your charger like a month ago and needed to charge your phone), and telling him you did. Come to find out you unplugged your own phone and plugged it back in, turned on his phone and went to work. Realizing that you don't have the right one (an hour later) you have to drive all the way back home and almost do it again....ahhh the life...
You know your ADD when your wife asks you to give your son his medicine and you accidentaly take it yourself. That was a rough day on 27ml of Concerta when not use to it.You know you have ADD when SpongeBob is your favorite TV show.[QUOTE=Wordwoman]You know your ADD is really bad when you think, "Gosh, I'm hungry,
what's to eat?" -- and then, the microwave dings and you are pleasantly
surprised to find you have already made your lunch.[/QUOTE]
OMG, I do that at least twice a week!
I've gotten good about my after-work routine -
1. Place keys in the bin (took a while but I've finally locked that one down)
2. Put dinner in the microwave (I cook for the week on Sunday, makes me less likely to forget to eat dinner)
3. Change out of the grubby work clothes
4. Do end-of-day paperwork
Hmmm, I really should go scrounge something for dinner, not sure what I'm in the mood for... eh, in a few minutes...
<ding - microwave goes off>
Oh, cool, guess that solves that! ;)
This happened 2 days ago...
I go to the DMV feeling proud that I remembered all the documents I need (I live by checklists), realize I only brought plastic - no cash, no checks. Plastic is the only form of payment they will not accept.
Frustrated, I start out of the building and try the door. It doesn't open. I try again. Still doesn't open. I look around to see if maybe I have to be buzzed out or something, nope. I try AGAIN. Then someone says, in a very kind voice, "Sir, you have to PUSH the door, not PULL". I face-palm and open the door then practically sprint back to the truck.
I'm going back next week but I think I'll go to a different office. I'm not sure I can handle the embarassment.
[QUOTE=Davidornado]
You know your ADHD is really bad when...
you've had 22 jobs in your life, and been fired from 24 of them...
and my wife says "you'll never learn! nothing has changed!" but
You know your ADHD is really bad when...
It's not b/c you keep making the same mistake, or much less make it twice, you just keep coming up with new ones....
[/QUOTE]Been there, done that. I start off great then fade b/c its just not as interesting as it was.
My new job is a keeper, I think. Now I'm in a job where I work alone from a company truck. I set my own schedule (within reason) and don't have anyone looking over my shoulder.
The beauty of this is that when I have my ADHD moments, there's usually nobody around to notice. If it takes me 3 trips back to the truck to remember one tool, so be it. When I drive in circles because I didn't notice the GPS telling me to turn, nobody notices.
My only problem is that when I set new goals in my reviews with my boss for things like how to drum up more business to build the territory, the ideas rarely make it implementation because I forget about that amazingly brilliant new lead source, I even wrote it down, see! And wow, another one too, this is gonna be great! Ummmmm, what was it again? And where did I put my notepad?
To stay on topic -
You know you have ADHD when -
... you lose a tool you badly need for work so you go buy a new one.
A week later you lose that one as well, and buy another.
A few days later, you return to a previous jobsite and find the first tool you lost - on a client's roof (and you had no reason to take the tool onto the roof in the first place).
A few days later, you find the 2nd one you lost. You now have THREE.
True story and it has happened more than once. I now keep a tool cabinet in my apartment for the extras, but still sometimes manage to forget to check that cabinet when I lose something.
You know you have ADHD when...
... you realize Robot Chicken on Cartoon Network is the BEST show EVER 'cause its only 15 minutes long and most sketches don't last more than 3-4 minutes. One of my friends calls it "ADD TV".
I actually did something I've joked about ALMOST doing for years:
I washed my face with my glasses on. I mean wet my hands, soaped them up and pulled them up to my face and BAM, all over my glasses. Didn't really realize it til my hands hit my glasses and it just shocked the hell out of me.
Proud moment.
hahaha! How many times have I got in the shower with my specs on! heheh! Then I take them off, put them on the side and go to work without them on! [QUOTE=Lee74]I actually did something I've joked about ALMOST doing for years:
I washed my face with my glasses on. I mean wet my hands, soaped them up and pulled them up to my face and BAM, all over my glasses. Didn't really realize it til my hands hit my glasses and it just shocked the hell out of me.
Proud moment.
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Not play one-up here but try this -
One of the things I do in my job is remove honeybee hives from people's homes.
I've lost track of he number of times I've reached to scratch an itch, wipe something off my glasses, etc when my hands were covered in honey.
Honey does not come off glasses easily or quickly. ;)
i know i have ADD because my checkbook is a mess...again for the bazillionth time.
and 
and 
kjl269139753.8646527778You know you have ADHD when...
you feel like saying "OK, Im going to do some jumping jacks I'll be right back" when attempting to study for more than 3 minutes.
You know your ADHD is really bad...
...when you remember to call someone back you told you'd call back when they call you back...
You know your ADHD is bad when you've been squirming around in your chair reading this thread for so long that the chair breaks out from under you (because you haven't gotten around to tightening that loose bolt) and when you pick the chair up, cursing at it the whole time, you discover the required screwdriver sitting right underneath the chair, indicating that you had actually intended to tighten the stupid thing at some point. And you also discover three half empty water bottles as well as a book that you started, but never finished, reading.
Is there a place around here for introductions? I've been reading this thread and can't decide whether to laugh or cry at seeing so many echoes of my own reality...
when youre supposed to be somewhere but cant remember why as if going there has no priority.u no u r adhd whn u du smthg adhd like
[QUOTE=Karen103]....When you wait till December 23 to make a list, and then start Christmas shopping at 6 pm and forget the list at work lol!!![/QUOTE]
Ha
I didn't start shopping
until 122508 0900.
Beat that.
Rite Aid.
Aided my proscratination.
ha
again!
u kno u r adhd whn u respond to a Christmas post 5 months later...
...and
still have
a snowflake
as your avatar
in June................
[QUOTE=Davidornado] ...and
still have
a snowflake
as your avatar
in June................
Luvmykids0239926.9376388889When you can't find important things that you need because you reorganized and put them in a new spot so you would remember where they are.a colleague tells you to have patience and you know full well there is no such thing.
I woke up this morning and wanted to bake bacon and couldn't find the cookie sheet only to discover that it was still in the oven from the last time (maybe a month ago?) I made bacon with the gross foil still on it! OMG!
You know your ADD is really bad when...when...uh..wait a minute haven't I been here before? I seem to recall posting this some time in 2005 I think. hehe 8)
... when you put a pot of water on to boil to make a snack, then forget alll about it until the smoke alarm goes off and dash to the kitchen to find the (now dry) pot ruined, along with the plastic base of the blender that was next to the stove... whoops.
You know your ADHD is really bad when you forget to pay your car payment for 3 months & it is repo' ed!!!WHEN ALL YOU GOT IS
INSTEAD OF GIVING FROM MY SHIRT POCKET TO AN 11 YEAR OLD ON HIS BIRTHDAY.
I GAVE HIM FROM MY JEANS POCKET.
THAT'LL TEACH ME NOT TO WAIT TILL THE LAST MINUTE AND JUST GIVE CASH.
This was SO GOOD for me!!! I just have discovered that I likely have ADHD. I laughed out LOUD until I cried-- how validating these stories are!! I'm not diagnosed but have an appt with a psychiatrist next week, hopefully to obtain a dx and get started on some meds.
You know your ADD is bad when you and your friend (who I also found out is ADHD and medicated) had a competition in college to see who could LOSE more stuff, in an effort to find some comic relief in our mutual bad habit. How did this silly conversation start?
*I lost a 00 check.* Miraculously, some honest person mailed it back to me.
Memoryless~
You just summed up my entire college career!
Sad, but true!You get up from "studying" (which should really be called "daydreaming while staring at a textbook") because you need your highlighter from another room. As you walk to get it you realize you're thirsty, and make a mental note to grab a soda on the way back. You get to the room with the highlighter, forget why you're there, see some notes you need, grab those, and go back to studying. A few minutes later you realize you're thirsty, remember that you wanted a soda, get up and get one, sit back down, re-read the last few sentences. Realize you want to highlight. Ah, that's why you got up! Go get highlighter. Thirsty... can't find the soda, because you took it with you into the other room. Go on a search for your soda. Give up and open a new one. Can't find highlighter again, because you took it with you on your search for the soda, and left it somewhere in the house. Decide you never really wanted to highlight in the first place.
You know you are ADD when...
You refuse to buy anything that says "assembly required" cause you know that all those little screws and doodads and boards will lay on the carpet for several weeks before you finish the assembly, IF you can understand the directions to even attempt to put it together.
and,
when you stop at a STOP SIGN and find you are sitting there waiting for it to turn green.
You know your ADHD is bad when...The secretaries at your work think you have left because they have not seen you wandering around in the last 10 minutes.
(Little did they know, i had just started back on adderall that morning
)You know you are ADHD when you go to type in .com, and spell out the dot
[QUOTE=Davidornado]You know you are ADHD when you go to type in .com, and spell out the dot
[/QUOTE]
pmsl david
ive done that myself more than a few times lol
Being in hyperfocus about something totally irrelevent to what you should be doing, your 3yrd comes up and rattles off something and you say "sure, o.k" then your 16 yr old yells "Mom, do you know what you just told him he could do???!!!"---and honestly you have no idea.LOL This thread had my cracking up!!! I bought this shirt on ebay about a month ago....
It totally describes my personality, pre-adderall XR 
In the meantime, you know you have ADD when...
Your partner buys you 4 sets of keys for the house and your car and places them in strategic places all over so that you can at least find *1* set of keys.
Also when your Boss jokes that they are getting 2 employees for the price of 1 due to your hyperactivity. My Boss has joked about that for the past 10 years!
hi alllast week we got a new blue wheely bin for recycling of the council
yesterday my neighbour said to me heres some spray paint do you want to spray your number on like mine so i said oh yes thankyou and sprayed next doors number on my bin, he said youve done 5 you live at 4, i blamed him of course lol i dont know what made me do a 5 instead of 4 i thinks its coz he said do i want to do it like his
anyway i managed to get it off and do a 4 lol i amaze myself at time none of what you people are saying has anything to do with add or adhd. none of it.
you want to know when you know your add is bad? when your teeth are falling out when you're in high school because you never brush them even though you know you're supposed to and you get picked on because of it, but you do sit in bed and worry about it non-stop until you fall asleep. when you never can force yourself to sit down and write a song, when you're a musician. you know it's bad when it has destroyed every thing in your life because you are unable to act in your own defense. People think you're useless, or trying to hurt them. when all you want in the world is to not be who you are.
People, seem to think add/adhd is something that acts up. those people are full of crap. it doesn't ever act up, it's just there. it's never better or worse. it's not a fever, it doesn't get higher or lower. it's just part of who you are.
after reading through a bunch of posts on this forum looking for information on severe side effects of medication that I've had, I think you people need to hear that you're taking too many drugs, and you're giving them to your kids way too quickly. I don't mean to sound rude, but wtf man?
You see when people who don't really need medication say they do, or when doctors tell people they have add when they don't, that means what for the people that can literally not function in society because of it? no one believes that it's a serious problem because of this. Did you know there is a guy that posted in your medication forum that he takes "effexor xr [with adderall] which adds to the euphoria"? Do you know how insane that is? the same guy said it gave him a uncontrolable sexdrive.....yeah of course it does, he's taking speed. he shouldn't be taking amphetamines. An increased sex drive is a clear sign to tell your doctor something is wrong. Yet the guy replying to that post just says "I agree with you!".
Mostly what I pick up from posts here is that people think being absent minded is add. No it's being absent minded. I have been diagnosed by 4 doctors, from when I was 15 until last year when I turned 27, which is when I got on medication. So I lived my entire adult life having been told I was adhd but refusing drugs. And I never once did one thing on your 117 pages of "you know your add's bad when" thread. never. It's not like that.
Do you think it's kind of odd that most people here have a list of drugs they've tried already or are on for depression or anxiety? How would anyone who's been popping whatever someone tells them to for years have any idea what's wrong with them? The only thing that makes me more mad than dealing with people who think I'm one of you people, is dealing with you people.
The person that set this up I'm sure did so out of only good intentions, but this is insane people. The Adderall taking people, that in my opinion (and more than likely any doctor worth his salt's) that don't really need it, are speed freaks. Anyone, and I have spoken with doctors on this, anyone will perform whatever it is their doing better on amphetamines. the only difference is someone with legitimate add/adhd is willing to take the risk of prolonged exposure to dangerous drugs in the hope that it will enable them to come close to living up to at least their own expectations or standards.
I'm out.
Derpimpf2--
Who peed on your wheaties? Most of us are just trying to be funny.
I have struggled my entire life. I was diagnosed with alot of stuff I didn't have. I very rarely take/took medications. I had a very difficult childhood--even worse teenage years--won't bore you with details. I developed some strict organizational skills, followed strict routines, dropped out of college when I figured out it wasn't for me and even with all the anxiety and panic attacks I did o.k. as an adult. After 8 different jobs, I found one that let me be me and I succeeded. I had one child, a very small house and I worked 50 to 60 hours a week. We did o.k. Then I got married, had a second child. Lost some of my coping skills. Had a third child,lost more of them. our house flooded, my husband was deployed overseas. So I am left to take care of a much bigger house and three kids by myself. I did the worst thing I could have done and quit my job. I had nothing to keep me busy and no particular place I had to ever be. My coping skills went out the window. We were a mess by the time my husband got back. I just couldn't get myself "back together." And if Mama ain't happy-nobody is happy!kwim? I suspected adutl adhd for a couple of years. but never mentioned it to docs, as we were getting by. I went back to the doctors --I just wanted to be able to take care of my family again. I first wanted to know what he thought. Yes alot of adhd symptoms. I took an online test and took it back to him. He wanted to try adderal xr. I tried it. It is not speed for me. As a matter of fact with no caffeine or adderall in my system I am pretty wild, kind of like goofy drunk on speed. I am pretty impulsive. And I get absolutely nothing accomplished. Adderall mellows me out. slows me down. helps me think. I am 39. I lasted a long time without medication. my goal is to only be on it for a year. My husband is trying to understand. We are working on putting my coping skills back in place. Try not to be so judgemental. You are not the only one that has had a tough time. We cannot possibly put our entire life history on this board.
derpimpf2
not cleaning your teeth is not adhd it is just YOU BEING LAZE AND DIRTY
i have to go out right now but will continue this later 
derpimpf2 i was so shocked to read your post,
everyone is entitled to there own opinion on this board and we try our best to not insult each other like you have,
in all the hundreds of post on this 117 page thread and you have never done any of them, i find that hard to belive of someone who CLAIMS?? to have adhd like the rest of us but yet you have done nothing like what is mentioned in the thread then maybe you being mr or mrs perfect do not need medication as you get though your day so well
adhd/add dose not start at age 15 it is the way you are born and if you are add you would of suffered all your life not just throgh adulthood
http://www.qeeg.nl/index.php?pId=69
because, it showed me to my relief, that beyond any shadow of any doubt, that i am an adhd poster child. my theta to delta waves are at a 4 to 1 ratio, instead the average person, who is at a 2:1 ratio. I didn't rot out my teeth, but i forgot to pay my dentist bill. I may be hopped up on 'speed' but i stopped locking my keys in my car (from four times a week!) and i can keep my cell phone for 6 months instead of 6 days. you may trivialize these problems, but they can get really fricking expensive and frustrating. The test for adhd- in daily life- is not who is the "worst" but are you personally not achieving your potential because you just don't make enough dopamine for your frontal brain lobes. people thought i forgot stuff because i didn't care about them or my job, or doing things well.
like bipolar, like autism, like depression, like blood pressure, there is a range. there is the deep end of the adhd pool, and the shallow end. sounds like you can't touch bottom, and we feel for you. However you want to be called a hero because you have it sooo bad and still refuse your meds? You want applause for this? I think you are selfish. Yep. Selfish.
am i a hero if i never remember to return my kids permission slips, leave their teacher waiting on conference night, forget to drop off the birthday cupcakes and forget to do all the other things the other mommies do for their kids?
No.
Should I just 'try harder'? i tried harder for 34 years. results sucked. Maybe my adderall will take 2 years off my life. I don't think it will be the best 2 years that i lose.
There is more than one way to 'lose' a year isn't there? I think you have already discovered that on your own, right? would you live those years over again? I am happy to trade my last 2 years diapered in a nursing home to know where my keys are NOW, to keep my job FOR AS LONG AS I WANT, and show the people i love how MUCH i care for them. any year that doesn't happen is a lost year.
Bonus- I am still as funny, happy, and sexy as i am off my meds. Why? maybe because i can finally relax a little, and not neurotically worry about what i might be forgetting. this board is for those of us who have found methods and an attitude that work for us. we aren't really looking for constructive criticism from folks who want to do it the hard way, suffer, make everyone in their lives miserable, but still be "right". My little children are happier now. That's the true test, and the only one i really need. By god, don't judge me for my choices. if it works for me, mind your own business. I don't know that your choices work for you but its your life. Good luck with your struggles. WHOOOO HOOOO0O! Thanks nickled for saying it so much better than I did!
Standing and clapping Nickled! Thanks for saying that for all of us.
When I first read derpimpf's post my first thought was that "uh oh, somebody needs a little nap". I think derpimpf needs to do a little research and get his/her facts straight before they start spouting crap.
Well said nickled!
If I may add, I suspect that this person just came on here to spout hatred and run. I notice there have been no other posts since this last ridiculous one. If derpimpf really IS struggling with ADHD, I hope that he/she finds the help they need and succeeds in life. I really do. Everyone deserves to be happy.
However, if NOT, know that we don't tolerate hateful remarks and know better than to listen to someone who obviously does not really understand ADHD.
TO ALL NEWBIES WHO COME HERE TO FIND SUPPORT AND LEARN:
You are NOT stupid, lazy, a freak, crazy or a drug addict for taking meds that help you! When you see posts like the one above, PLEASE take the time to read others from people who have a clue before feeling like a failure and running away! There are plenty of people here who DO know a great deal about both ADHD and medication as well as some therapies that can help improve your quality of life!
I can say that I was so pleased when I started coming to this website that there are no "whiners" that are pulling a victim card and are just feeling sorry for themselves. We have all felt that way at one time or another because ADHD is very hard to deal with and accept, but most everyone here accepts who they are and are doing their best to overcome struggles and move forward. I have seen posts from so many teenagers and young adults who are struggling and looking for help and I admire them for having the strength to do so at their age. I did not have the strength at that age. Many of them are incredibly supportive and offer advice from their experiences all the time.
Most (if not all) of us are just so happy to find people who can understand us, especially those of us dx'd as adults who thought we were failures all our lives and those who have children with ADHD and live with constant judgement from others who think they are terrible parents and "just need to discipline their children"!
To all parents of children with ADHD: you have my utmost respect and admiration for what you are going through! I used to get annoyed with difficult children in public, but now that I understand ADHD from the other side, I will never judge any parent that I see struggling to keep their child under control. In fact, I am likely to give them an understanding smile. You guys beat yourselves up enough.....you don't need it from outsiders....
This said, it is probably time to give derpimpf's comments the attention they deserve, NONE.
katastrophee39288.4158217593derpimpf2 is not the 1st person to come here just to say horrible things and wind us all up, and probley wont be the last
when you try to find your contacts in your contact case and spend a very strange amount of time wondering where they went and then all of a sudden you realize you can read the clock across the room and they are in your eyes....
Wow - it was good to read some of the others - I am somewhat new to knowing I probably still have ADD as an adult.
hi dksbless2
isnt it good to know your not the only one who dose things like that?
welcome to the boards
yes - i am glad to be a around people like me - i was diagnosed hyperkinetic as a child which we believe is the old version of ADHD - sure have all the issues - I have learned to cope more than i realized, but during stressful times I totally wig out so looking for help beyond medication ...[QUOTE=dksbless2]when you try to find your contacts in your contact case and spend a very strange amount of time wondering where they went and then all of a sudden you realize you can read the clock across the room and they are in your eyes....
I do that.....hilarious.....!!!
Wow - it was good to read some of the others - I am somewhat new to knowing I probably still have ADD as an adult.
[/QUOTE]
My latest one:
When you go to change the cartridge in the printer and it doesn't work. You take it out, put it in repeatedly, but still won't work. You give up in frustration because you are running late. Husband calls later to tell you that it didn't work because you didn't pull the protective tape off of it before installing....
My latest one:
When you go to change the cartridge in the printer and it doesn't work. You take it out, put it in repeatedly, but still won't work. You give up in frustration because you are running late. Husband calls later to tell you that it didn't work because you didn't pull the protective tape off of it before installing....
[/QUOTE]
I usually forget to remove the protective cap on the end, and decide that the printer is broken, or that I have bought the wrong size of cartridge!
[QUOTE=katastrophee]And all your dorking around with it broke the printer and it needs to go in for repair....[/QUOTE]
I very nearly did this the last time I tried to force the cartridge in with the protective cap still on! Thank goodness my husband walked in when he did!
pair of dirty jeans, which were kicked in the corner of a random room.
... you can remember what you wore the day before only because there is
a trail of clothing starting at the front door and continuing into the
bathroom.
... you take your meds, which are sposed to help you focus, but you freak
that you have to get everything done before it wares off, just to get
nothing done.
... you go to a store with a purpose, but end up walking around checking
things out for the next hour, only to realize you're bored with shopping
and leave without getting what you were there for.
... your reminder lists turn into doodle pads.You go to the grocery store and follow your normal route through the store that will take you past everything you usually need and and a perky new store employee asks you if "you are finding everything" and you forget where you were on your mental list and just leave....You know you have ADHD when...
when at the store to pick up your adderall (because you are totally out), the pharmacist has to call your name 3 times to get your attention because you are wandering around and off in your own world. I then responded "Earth to Nicole! Earth to Nicole! ... Nicole is not here right now, please leave a message after the beep" A lady sitting near by looks at me and tells me "you have WAY too much energy for me"...if she only knew what the meds i was picking up were for.
You know you have adhd when...
When you work at a school, and you joke with the principal that you will be out in the hallway whit one of our ADHD kids doing push ups and jumping jacks to burn off your extra energy!
when you sign up for an house supervisor position.
let your guard down
wake up late for work
forget and blow off a team meeting
only to get there disheveled and pulled to the side by the director of services to do the interview and forget turn off a banned cell phone before it rings as youre telling the director youll be a good one to start enforcing the rules
Loose your script and have no idea where it is
You know its bad when:You sign up at this site so you can post on this thread, but forget what email address you signed up under. So, you then have to check all your active email addresses to find the activation email...for some reason it is always the last one...
When your computer is your alarm clock, and you have to get up out of bed several times in a 10 minute period to check if you remembered to turn the volume on your speakers all the way up. First you get up and check, then you get up and check that you checked, then you get up and make sure you turned the speaker knob the right way( may have turned them all the way down instead.) Wake up late the next morning because you forget to set the alarm clock program on your computer...
You want to make tea-- so you put some teabags in a big bowl and stick em in the microwave.... it dings 5 minutes later and there is this rancid smell--didnt add water.
you open a can of mushrooms and throw the can away without emptying the contents first.
You decide you want to make your roommates breakfast so you put biscuits in the oven, get dressed, and then go to work... :o
You drive right through a 4-way stop intersection daydreaming about having a conversation with the girl at the hotel checkin counter.
You pack all your things up to go on a 5-day work trip installing computer networks at cash land locations. Don't realize you forgot to bring the suitcase until after you have taken a shower and stepped on the dirty clothes you threw in the floor while you are getting out of the shower..
oh god i have tons... get more of em everyday...
here is one on impulsivity:
I have been known to... get my check, go to the bank and cash it, go to Fry's Electronics, buy a whole bunch of stuff I dont need, knowing I need gas money to get to work over the next week, but spending it all anyway. Then asking my parents if I can borrow gas money...
I have taken steps to control my impulsive buying but it sometimes flares up like that.
ooh... here is one... when you are banned from every movie store in the area because you rent movies, never watch them, and forget to return them. When the local library would like to ban you too but cant cuz its a public service--thank god they stupid charging fees after .00.
When the bank clerk asks you why it has taken you so long to cash these checks. You now have a crapload of money in the bank and decide to go on a shopping binge for completely useless but incredibly cool on tv gadgets. Damn, I shouldnt have cashed them.
oh man i had another good one but i cant remember what it was... will have to get back to you...
am not joking either, really did have a good one...
ohh I found it I don't remember putting it now back to my game
[QUOTE=Marauder]ohh I found it I don't remember putting it now back to my game
[/QUOTE]Script? Do you write for games?
I'm confoozled
[QUOTE=MetisRebel]
Script? Do you write for games?
I'm confoozled
[/QUOTE]
medication scriptanother one
I was on the highway the other week I had to take a exit I took it and knew I had to go left on the round about well that was that I didn't think anymore of it didn't pay attention to the large sign lol so I took the wrong left and went back on the highway
I'm with you MetisRebel.
For me people are faces and voices. It is a good thing I can recognize voices because as my sight gets worse (older), people are starting to look alike (kind of blurry).
Two of my most recent....
It's bad for me when...
The checkout girl at the market chases me out to my car to give me my groceries that I left behind.
When I'm standing in the shower and the water gets cold because I've been in there so long that I've drained the hot water tank... Then I realize I haven't even began washing yet.
Another shower related incident was when I got out of the shower to dry off only to find my hair still full of shampoo or conditioner.
In California you have to see your doctor for each month's prescription.
I kept forgetting to make an appointment, though I thought of it often.
I finally ran out of meds, so I called for an appointment.
He's so popular now I have to wait 4 weeks to get in.
I'm going to Mexico.
When you can't sit still long enough to read all of these posts...it's taken me 2 days to get to page 2...ugggggggggg
put chicken soup on the stove then leave to go get dunkin donuts coffee, come home and find your soup if now fried chicken :)
Atleast me house didn't burn down
You know your ADD is bad when......
Your son brings you the bottle of cough syrup with codeine (thinking it's the antibiotic) and says he needs to take his medicine. You pick up the bottle of antibiotic to double check the dose and accidently give him 3X the dose of cough syrup thinking that you're giving the antibiotic. Then proceed to spend the next 4-5 hours (until 1 a.m.) in the emergency room to make sure he doesn't stop breathing.
Surely this would qualify me for the ADD and sh*tty mother hall-of-shame.
The doctors made me feel a little better saying that it happens more than you would think. But still.
OMG! How frightening...
I trust he's all okay.
My greatest fear is taking Ambien when I'm supposed to take Ritalin CR,
or
Ritalin CR when I'm supposed to take Ambien.
Two nights ago I spent half an hour online trying to identify whether the round white pill I had was Ambien or Ritalin CR (they both look alike).
Thanks. Yes, everything is fine. He had a nice loooong nap.
The nice folks in the ER said it's more common than you would think. (like that's supposed to make me feel better)
It was a lesson to me. #1)Daily meds.... good. #2)check and double check
People, unless they live it, don't realize how something like this could happen, do they?
Right.
Happy Thanksgiving!
[QUOTE=OutOfTheLoop]put chicken soup on the stove then leave to go get dunkin donuts coffee, come home and find your soup if now fried chicken :)
Atleast me house didn't burn down
[/QUOTE]Welcome to my world of burnt tea-pots.
[QUOTE=Davidornado]
OMG! How frightening...
I trust he's all okay.
My greatest fear is taking Ambien when I'm supposed to take Ritalin CR,
or
Ritalin CR when I'm supposed to take Ambien.
Two nights ago I spent half an hour online trying to identify whether the round white pill I had was Ambien or Ritalin CR (they both look alike).
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Before ya poison yourself david--get one of those little pill cases that says what time ya take the pill--willya?
[QUOTE=somuch2do]
when you stop at a STOP SIGN and find you are
sitting there waiting for it to turn green.
I have done this!!! I also sometimes stop at intersections with no light or
stop sign at all.
And occasionally at a green light as well. I forgot the time of my super ultra important Organic Chemistry exam. I arrived there at 5.45, thinking that the exam start at 6 (I CAME 15 MINS EARLY YAY THATS RARE) but what a surprise the exam started at 4 and ended at 6....
My room is never clean, somehow. My laundry is scattered everywhere in my room, I clean them up (which I rarely do) but 1 day later it would return to "normal" which is, messed up. Same thing with books, plates, bottles, trash, anything is mixed in the pile...
I skip classes, I skip work, I lost my phone like 2 weeks ago but still haven't got a new one yet, I sleep in class, drawing unimportant things, I like to look at my handsome teacher, and play games nonstop.
I forgot to pay bills, forgot to check my bank account balance until at least 5 overdrafts, forgot exam dates/time, forgot assignments, left wallet/cellphone when going out, lost stuffs in my room (check book, credit card), always lost my key everyday (found them in the fridge, or toilet, in shoes, or below the scattered book), laundry once a month or when I remember it, forgot to send something important that cost me my university admittance (I was withdrawn :( ), etc stuffs that I forgot to mention here. But why the hell I remember events about something I forgot..
[QUOTE=ADHD4Me]
LOL This thread had my cracking up!!! I bought this shirt on ebay about a month ago....
It totally describes my personality, pre-adderall XR
In the meantime, you know you have ADD when...
Your partner buys you 4 sets of keys for the house and your car and places them in strategic places all over so that you can at least find *1* set of keys.
Also when your Boss jokes that they are getting 2 employees for the price of 1 due to your hyperactivity. My Boss has joked about that for the past 10 years!
[/QUOTE]I SO WANT ONE OF THOSE SHIRTS!!!
The other one I wanna get says, "I was intelligent until I got educated"
[QUOTE=absolutroot]You know its bad when:
You sign up at this site so you can post on this thread, but forget what email address you signed up under. So, you then have to check all your active email addresses to find the activation email...for some reason it is always the last one...
Of course it's in the last place you looked--if you found it why would you look anymore?--hey we're daffy not stupid!
When your computer is your alarm clock, and you have to get up out of bed several times in a 10 minute period to check if you remembered to turn the volume on your speakers all the way up. First you get up and check, then you get up and check that you checked, then you get up and make sure you turned the speaker knob the right way( may have turned them all the way down instead.) Wake up late the next morning because you forget to set the alarm clock program on your computer...
Or it was set to wake you up in pm, not am
You want to make tea-- so you put some teabags in a big bowl and stick em in the microwave.... it dings 5 minutes later and there is this rancid smell--didnt add water.
I burnt my teapot 4x yesterday because I forgot I was making tea...
you open a can of mushrooms and throw the can away without emptying the contents first.
Oh YES!
You decide you want to make your roommates breakfast so you put biscuits in the oven, get dressed, and then go to work... :o
You drive right through a 4-way stop intersection daydreaming about having a conversation with the girl at the hotel checkin counter.
You pack all your things up to go on a 5-day work trip installing computer networks at cash land locations. Don't realize you forgot to bring the suitcase until after you have taken a shower and stepped on the dirty clothes you threw in the floor while you are getting out of the shower..
oh god i have tons... get more of em everyday...
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We are all so THERE
[or more accurately NOT anywhere...]ADHD--YOU KNOW YOU'RE HAVING A GOOD DAY WHEN...
You find clean socks and they match
You remember to take the dog out before you step in a puddleYou set the alarm and it actually went off at 7am for the first time in weeksYou haven't burnt anything on the stove all daySomeone called and left a number and you didn't have to lay down the phone and run around like a maniac looking for a pencil then say, "Can ya call me right back and leave that number on the answering service?You managed to get everywhere you had to go on time with all your buttons correctly buttonedYou never once had to say, "Gee sorry. I forgot you said that."
MetisRebel39381.8588888889
you know youre adhd is bad when you have to ask your spouse how old you are !
when you realize that you post constanly on this site as an attention seeking stimulus.
ommas39381.6537962963That was the problem,
I put them in a pill case, without their labels, so I'd have them all in one place and not lose them.
I guess I lost myself instead...
When you forget your password to this forum and the email you used, make another account don't receive confirmation email get frustrated and remember another email address you might of used and it works...... [QUOTE=Marauder]When you forget your password to this forum and the email you used, make another account don't receive confirmation email get frustrated and remember another email address you might of used and it works...... [/QUOTE]That's why I always use the same email addy even if it means spam hell
LOL all of your posts happened to me, please be creative, people 
This one is memorable
Me: Can i have ice to go with the can coke and a packet of marlboro
Waiter: Here u go sir
Me turns to go with drinks and ice on tray
Waiter: Your change sir!
Me turns to go with drinks and ice on tray + change in pocket
Waiter: Your cigarette sir!
Me turns to go with cigarettes
Waiter: Your DRINKS sir!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Another one i just remember
I wanted to make myself some fries, so i pour some cooking oil into a pot
then pour some fries. It takes sometime to cook so i think i can chat with my
WoW friends online.
Went to my computer and went online to WoW and then proceed to quest with
my guild mates.
Received an SMS from my wife to remember to eat something... after 2 hours
sh*t i went to the kitchen to see a pot of black stuff and the pot was so full with tar and charcoal it had to be thrown away LOL
Or
I was in the office and my colleague went back home, reminded me to lock the office before i go.
I did remember to lock the door (the sort which u can lock without keys by pressing the button lock inside then closing it) BUT left everything i need inside... wallet, cash, keys etc. Luckily i had my cellphone, called up my colleague and took a cab to his place which was 30 minutes away, he paid for the fare and passed me the keys, then i went all the way back to unlock the office with the keys and take my stuff out.
Afterwards i left WITHOUT locking the office LOL
You know your Add is really bad when...
You have to run through all the dog's names before you run through all the kid's names to remember your husband's name !
Dontcha love that? What IS that? Did I suddenly turn invisible here? Why don't they just ask YOU?
Hey we might be motor mouths but we CAN clarify
Your new friends ask your new boyfriend to translate. "Whats she going on about?!!!"[QUOTE=MetisRebel] [QUOTE=Wolverine-X]
Due to my door lock experiences I've picked more locks than a professional cat burgler.
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I lived 12 years in a house where we'd lost all the keys, so never locked it for about 10 years. I don't think I lost them all, as we all had ADHD. 6 of us. Aaaack!
or ADD
when in hyper mode, calling a female friend to set up a date while getting two networks back on line after a power surge that wiped out our UPS, rebooting three servers, two routers, two copiers, two printers, setting up a new monitor, taking care of two students who forgot their passwords, fixing two more machines that didn't like the hard boot, getting a panic call from one of the instructors about not being able to install some software, having my own students start laughing at the whole situation while trying to keep up, having conversations with everyone I passed about what to do about their systems/classes - all while still having a conversation on the phone. She was having a hard time keeping up with just our conversation - I was juggling the world.But I got two dates lined up, saved the system, got all of the classrooms back on line, administration back on line, lost two pens, gave my students a lesson they won't soon forget, and fixed all of that stuff in 30 minutes!
Let a 'normal' person try to do that!
Ok, so the lady was a bit freaked out :)
Some people panic, I just kick it into overdrive and get it all done.
[QUOTE=turbofish]when in hyper mode, calling a female friend to set up a date while getting two networks back on line after a power surge that wiped out our UPS, rebooting three servers, two routers, two copiers, two printers, setting up a new monitor, taking care of two students who forgot their passwords, fixing two more machines that didn't like the hard boot, getting a panic call from one of the instructors about not being able to install some software, having my own students start laughing at the whole situation while trying to keep up, having conversations with everyone I passed about what to do about their systems/classes - all while still having a conversation on the phone. She was having a hard time keeping up with just our conversation - I was juggling the world.
But I got two dates lined up, saved the system, got all of the classrooms back on line, administration back on line, lost two pens, gave my students a lesson they won't soon forget, and fixed all of that stuff in 30 minutes!
Let a 'normal' person try to do that!
Ok, so the lady was a bit freaked out :)
Some people panic, I just kick it into overdrive and get it all done.
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It's that just the greatest feeling when that happens? Remind them of that when anyone beeches at you because you fogged out at a meeting
You mean we don't have to learn to read by candlelight?
SAY IT ISN'T SO??!!
[QUOTE=eatmytry]
Welcome to our whacky world
BTW everyone, these posts are wicked!! I'm researching my ADHD after diagnosis in the summer and I never knew how much it affected me and that my 'flaws' are just quirks!
I get annoyed by the 'checklist' of ADHD symptoms on diagnosis websites that I can see in myself but not relate to as well as these posts. Its totally lifted my spirits!! when I told my boyf the 'how many ADHDers does it take to change a lightbulb' joke he wet himself laughing saying it summed me up perfectly!!
[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=ommas]when you sign up for an house supervisor position.
let your guard down
wake up late for work
forget and blow off a team meeting
only to get there disheveled and pulled to the side by the director of services to do the interview and forget turn off a banned cell phone before it rings as youre telling the director youll be a good one to start enforcing the rules
[/QUOTE]YOU MADE MY DAY!
I once forgot a funding meeting [can we say, GET PAID anyone?] and it turns out my boss told me that up until I came flying through the door winded wearing camouflage's instead of a suit [normal outreach clothes] that the funder thought from my reports I walked on water
Oh well
[QUOTE=ommas]
you know youre adhd is bad when you have to ask your spouse how old you are !
when you realize that you post constanly on this site as an attention seeking stimulus.
[/QUOTE]We both can feel guilty for that one
You know your ADHD is bad when you're trying to sort out an old video to record over for the rugby world cup final and get sucked into a movie you recorded years ago (and never got round to watching). You finally realise that you missed the world cup final and are not even concentrating on the end of the film anymore cos a trashy magazine took over.
Yes, my dad went NUTS!!!
eatmytry39414.4232175926
BTW everyone, these posts are wicked!! I'm researching my ADHD after diagnosis in the summer and I never knew how much it affected me and that my 'flaws' are just quirks!
I get annoyed by the 'checklist' of ADHD symptoms on diagnosis websites that I can see in myself but not relate to as well as these posts. Its totally lifted my spirits!! when I told my boyf the 'how many ADHDers does it take to change a lightbulb' joke he wet himself laughing saying it summed me up perfectly!!
You know it's bad when a blind classmate asks you to "lead" him to the cafeteria. You forget that you are "leading" a blind person and he rams into a pillar, breaking his special "talking blind" watch.
True story.
twirly1
[QUOTE=Wolverine-X]
LOL all of your posts happened to me, please be creative, people
This one is memorable
Me: Can i have ice to go with the can coke and a packet of marlboro
Waiter: Here u go sir
Me turns to go with drinks and ice on tray
Waiter: Your change sir!
Me turns to go with drinks and ice on tray + change in pocket
Waiter: Your cigarette sir!
Me turns to go with cigarettes
Waiter: Your DRINKS sir!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Another one i just remember
I wanted to make myself some fries, so i pour some cooking oil into a pot
then pour some fries. It takes sometime to cook so i think i can chat with my
WoW friends online.
Went to my computer and went online to WoW and then proceed to quest with
my guild mates.
Received an SMS from my wife to remember to eat something... after 2 hours
sh*t i went to the kitchen to see a pot of black stuff and the pot was so full with tar and charcoal it had to be thrown away LOL
Gee--you're not familiar with the daily camp tea charcoal festival are you?
Or
I was in the office and my colleague went back home, reminded me to lock the office before i go.
I did remember to lock the door (the sort which u can lock without keys by pressing the button lock inside then closing it) BUT left everything i need inside... wallet, cash, keys etc. Luckily i had my cellphone, called up my colleague and took a cab to his place which was 30 minutes away, he paid for the fare and passed me the keys, then i went all the way back to unlock the office with the keys and take my stuff out.
Afterwards i left WITHOUT locking the office LOL
I refuse to rent apartments that do not have the locks you gotta stick your key in to lock unless there's a free ladder permanently attached to the window. One place was perfect--the door lock was stuck so I HAD to leave my keys in the door all the time just to open/close it. Never once forgot to lock it because it wouldn't shut unless I did and I never forgot to lock it at night because it had to be locked to stay shut. If I could figure out WHY it did that--I'd do it to every door for the rest of my life!
Due to my door lock experiences I've picked more locks than a professional cat burgler.
My dream is to have a house that flushes...
well chances are I won't meet him again or for yrs so he will of forgotten by then but you remember someones name and know who it is where no one else does to they are told..and you had nothing to do with this person
Marauder39402.1651388889 Names?
People have names?
MetisRebel39402.3586689815you know you're ADHD when you grill yourself a juicy steak, serve it your dog, then happily sit at the table and find yourself looking into a lovely dish of kibbles!When you play about 5 different online games a month due to not being able to stick to 1 [QUOTE=Davidornado][QUOTE=Young1]
You know your ADHD is really bad when:
You can't remember most of the names of people you've had "relations" with
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I thought that was Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome denial...
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I thought that was normal! Always use protection, kids!
[QUOTE=Young1]You know your ADHD is really bad when:
You can't remember most of the names of people you've had "relations" with
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I thought that was Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome denial...
when you accidentally spend 40 minutes in the shower even though you only have 40 minutes to get ready for workYoung139494.4058912037You know your ADHD is really bad when:
Your plants are on constant life support because you forget to water them until they are almost dead
Your doctor will only prescribe you an antibiotic that you take ONCE a day- and you still forget
When you go to the coat closet EVERY day to get your coat at work, then realize you started hanging it on your chair months ago because you were too distracted to get to the coat closet
When you are constantly pointing out new restaurants to people who respond that they have been there for years
You light a cigarrette, set it down, light another one, set it down, light another one and then wonder why you have three lit cigarrettes in the ashtray
You yell at your daughter because she's left her hair straightener on again and she counters that you ALWAYS leave your curlers on
You let your dogs outside and wonder where they are three hours later
You can't remember most of the names of people you've had "relations" with
When you realize automatic billpay is the best invention ever but it still takes you two years to sign up
When the ability to laugh at yourself is your best asset!!!!!!!!
Young139494.4086921296You know it's bad when you've left all your coats and umbrellas at work.,when you need a list to keep up with your lists.
I've done the dog thing lots of times and I think they invented auto shut off on irons just for people like us!
I can remember to take pills in the AM and the PM but if it calls for a midday forget it.
I thank God every day for my sense of humor because if I couldn't laugh at my idiosyncracies I'd tear my hair out!
You know your ADD is really bad when you rush yourself and your husband to the airport to pick up your mom, and see everybody come out of the gate except mom. You figure that your mom may have missed the plane (mom demonstrates blends severe ADD traits with incredible togetherness) and call her overseas. She is still in bed. "No sweetie, I'm boarding this morning."The next day, you rush to the airport, same flight number, no husband because he can't get another day off without early notice. This time bright Mommy is on board:) Upon returning, she opens her suitcase to show us our gifts, and she starts staring at the contents of the suitcase blankly, "Sweetie, this is not my suitcase!" We call airport securities, they have found mom's suitcase, and there is a couple at the airport looking for their missing suitcase which looks very much like Mom's. Husband is home just in time to drive mom's suitcase back to the airport for suitcase exchange. That makes 3 trips to the airport over 2 days
When work calls me saying that I'm supposed to be teaching a course and my students are waiting, and I'm somewhere shopping or visiting a museum on the other side of the town.
When I spend a whole day scanning negatives at school, then forget to copy the files to my hard drive or my iPod.
When I plan a full day of to-do's and end up doing nothing. Sometimes it's a whole week. I hate it when people ask me what I did in this case. I usually pretend to have been very busy.
When people say that you are so smart that this should be a breeze and my heart sinks because I know it WILL be a major struggle.
When people tell me that I have everything that everybody envies (degree, abilities, talent, whatnot) and ALL I have to do is to WILL it and it will come to me, as if I've chosen consciously to perform poorly.
Coping strategies: I digitize everything: iCal, to-do lists, contact info, travelling must-bring items, and I try to look behind me before I leave some place, especially public transit/waiting room/sales counter to make sure that I don't leave something behind (it still happens to me all the time).
[QUOTE=bluebird38]I got up to take the trash out this morning and realized...I left the keys in the front door....AGAIN!!!!!!!!!! This is not good for someone who worries about weirdoes.
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I do this all the time on both counts forgetting the keys and being afraid of the weirdos!!!!!!!! I hate it when my husband is the first to find them because I get the weirdo lecture.
Oh my gosh I sent a blank post I am sorry I really didn't do it on purpose but I have to say I just cracked myself up. I love this I feel so normal. The keys in the door I do that all the time then in the morning go crazy because I cant find them then my son walks over opens the front door and there they are. I always loose my debit card and it is always right in the spot I put it in my wallet I loose my drivers license
I got stopped in a spot check one day bad enough I was lost had no clue where I was and he asked for my drivers licenes I started to panic I didn't know where my purse was then realized it had to be in the back seat of the truck well let me tell you I drive around with the house in my back seat I told him I think its back there he wasn't amused one bit when he saw all the junk ( I was moving also) told me to pull to the side and find it in a not so nice way then I yell out the window I found it I was laughing and he must have though I was on something acctualy the problem was I wasn't on anything I forgot to take my meds that day Then he asked me where I was going and I said I had no clue I was lost I bet he wished he never stopped me I explained to him the whole moving and was lost I think he understood or was just in a hurry to get rid of me as I pulled away I looked in the mirror and he was looking at the ground shaking his head
This is the greatest!!
Recently I was in a store looking at magazines and noticed a new issue of a magazine that I subscribed to. I was upset that it made it to the store shelf before I received it in the mail. I didn't buy it, but considered it because it seemed like it was taking forever to get my own. I went home and couldn't stop thinking about it. After a few days I decided to go back to the store and buy the magazine. When I was checking out I said something to the girl about being frustrated that I had not received my own copy that I had a subscription for. Well, I was feeling all happy that I was going to be able to have something new to read that night. Later I sat down and started looking at it and it looked very familiar. I knew I had seen it before! So I started digging into my pile of magazines and sure enough I already had that issue! So now I have two....
Several years ago I was leaving the house and noticed that my daughter's car was parked behind mine in the drive way. I could usually just pull forward and actually turn around and leave out the other side of the driveway. I got in my car and promptly forgot about her car and backed right into it! She almost killed me. I thought I had alzheimers or something! This was before DX of ADD. Well, we got it repaired and a month later I did the same thing!!!!!!!! My family was ready to send me off somewhere. She never....ever....parked anywhere close, or around, my car again. A year later my son who has ADHA ran over her same car in their grandparents driveway! My poor daughter........
She moved to a different town the minute she graduated from high school!!!!
When your cooking walking the dog doing laundry and then go take a shower and then realize the food is burning, forgot the soap in the washer and left the dog outside and can't find him. Keys what are they can never find one
bills I don't say the dog ate them I tell them my adhd lost them
shopping take 10 trips a week because you forget everything on the list or forget the list or loose the list
Time whats that I keep my own time always late never on time
Having a date book to remember apt. loose the apt card forget to write the apt in book or just loose the book then forget your apt
Birthdays stock up on belated B-day cards always forget
Oh forgot
Sitting in a parking lot and start to drive home to the address you lived at 4 years ago no kidding I have done this or forgot where I lived
I have horses and in the middle of the show ring forgot the course stopped and laughed they thought I was nuts but at least they laughed also.
Turn water on for horses and hour later wonder why they are splashing around in a pond
At home decide to watch a movie and it turns out the movie was great! Tell hubby "I saw a great movie today explain story line to hubby he then replies "Yeah it is a good movie you liked it last year when we watched it at the movies for the first time too!"
This happens with books too and sometimes it snaps at the end of the book that I know the ending already... hmmm I must have read this before. I hate it actually when I remember wish I could have had the joy of rediscovery at that point.
Hubby especially hates this: I have a meeting like to sign my son up for something and get there and kinda feel like I am forgetting something only to discover I didn't bring son's Birth Certificate, player id or anything that I knew I needed hmmm... maybe that's why I made it to the meeting on time.
When you forget to remind your child who also has ADHD to do his homework.
Today- Go to kitchen to take meat out of freezer for defrosting so meat is ready to cook for dinner. Instead go to kitchen take ADHD med. later in the day I then go to kitchen to prepare meat that I did move in the freezer but I just moved it never took it out!? LOL[QUOTE=goldeneagle]
[QUOTE=addexec]This morning I slathered my toothbrush full of Edge shaving gel. Good thing I noticed before brushing.[/QUOTE
Try liquid soap and not noticing
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Don't feel bad while mopping the floors I decided I need a water break (at the time I am drinking a bottled water reach over and I'm all tired and sweaty grab the water and take a huge sip and realize I just took a huge swig of Fabuloso a floor cleaner that comes in a plastic (water bottle like bottle) only Fabuloso is purple and tastes terrible so I run and spit out the Fabuloso in shock and think to myself man am I glad no one was around to see that ONE. Later that evening I meet my hubby for dinner I've already showered and brushed teeth since the incident and he says you smell just like Fabuloso!! He still doesn't know I accidentally used it for mouthwash!
you know your ADD is bad when....
You search the house for the email address of your long lost college roommate and after looking everywhere you go to take a leak and it falls out of the rim of your pants (no pockets!) because you put it "someplace I'd remember it".
Oh, and it falls in the toilet.
YAY! Ice cream! erm... what was I doing again? hmm....I know I clicked the link for some reason..hmmm...[QUOTE=bluebird38]Laughed my butt off at all of your posts. I needed that. I have been in ADHD hell for months.
...you have to do the Forgot Password thing almost every day because you don't feel like writing them down and you think you will remember.
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GOD I do this all the time now. I used to have all my passwords set to the same word, hardly ever changed the word, but now that I work the for the state government, our computer security networks have us change our passwords every 30 days.
You know you have bad ADHD when:
...you accidentally sort of set your friend on fire (long story, I'm not a pyromaniac, just a bad decison gone really really bad).
...a disproportionate amount of your stories that had terrible endings you have to preface with "long story, you had to be there, it's not as bad as it seems..."
...you risk losing your job (which is a great-paying job that I only have to work 4 hours a day at, and in addition I get over 0/month towards comprehensive healthcare) because you really want a cup of cheddar broccoli soup and you really don't care if you get fired for walking out, you just have to go get some soup right now.
Wow, I have a ton of these! Here are a couple recent ones:
You know you have ADHD:
When you pour yourself a glass of milk and put the milk in the CABINET and the glass of milk in the fridge...then hubby opens cabinet later and shrieks to see a big jug of milk...then you sheepishly walk to the fridge to find your glass of milk that you forgot to even drink!
When you are able to carry on three or four conversations at once in the teacher's lounge and never miss a beat with any of them!
WHen you can find out just about eveything there is to know about a topic in one day because you are able to "hyperfocus"...but the world turns a bit during that time and you realize you've missed out on a lot of other important issues!
When you bake cookies for a potluck at work and decide to put them in a tupperware container that morning to transport them...you get to work (30 mile commute) happy that you actually remembered to BRING something to the potluck, open your trunk and triumphantly pull out...an EMPTY tupperware container!
The list goes on and on...Sometimes its to your advantage, sometimes its frustrating, sometimes its just plain funny!
I went back to page 1 and started reading more of these...MAN these should be put in a book for "those" days---when we need a good laugh!
AND.. is it me or is that "get my free book" add to the left aggravating as crap! I can't get rid of it!
When your TO DO list for the day includes
1. wake up
2. eat breakfast
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DOn't feel bad... my husband thought I was terrible b/c mine included:
*get dressed
*dress baby
*put baby in carseat
etc.....
for a LONG time!
AND you know it is really bad when you realize that this thread was started in 2005! and you are posting away as if it were started this week!
you know everyone else is having an add day when your inbox is FULL of posts!
when you spend four days obsessivly planning and andscheming to take bake over your life and then loose the list you made on how to do it.
wait a year do it agianthe next year under the guise of new years resolutions,
loose hat one too .
wait five years do a one new again . suddenly find both the old ones and amazingly their all nearly identical.
ommas39453.268275463when your 34 and your parents help you write out your bills so they dont get sent late again and againwhen you deciede to fix up a room then get it 90% done then you start another room get it 90% done and keep doing this through out the house till nothings finished. ill finish one day It takes you 6 colleges, 5 majors, and 6 years to complete your undergrad, and then you move 9 times in the last 5 years while changing careers 4 times in 3 years since graduating.You know your ADD is bad when you are standing in your kitchen formulating your plan for the day and you need to get something in the family room. You walk into the family room and forget what you went in for. You then think of something you want to get in the kitchen, so you go back and forget what it was you wanted to get in there. This happens for two more cycles until you stop and commit to memory what you are leaving the room for.
Also, it was 9:00am when I started typing this and then I got sidetracked. When I got back to my computer it was 1:00pm and I saw the window down in my tray and remembered I was in the middle of something.
You know your ADHD is gunna be bad when you get up at 6am and have a bath, then scream at your boyfriend for being lazy and not getting up on time!
'The bathroom's freeeee!!' .....
.....'I SAID THE BATHROOM IS FREEEEEE!'........
....................GET UP ITS TEN TO EIGHT!!!..........................
no, its ten to seven, but even if it was ten to eight, you would have been in the bath for nearly an hour and made me late... get back to bed or make a cup of tea, just shut up!!!
***GROAN!***
You know your ADD is really bad when........you leave a voice mail for some people you needed to return calls to, hung up, lost track of a few minutes then call them again and leave the same message.
OMG! i thought all these things were normal!!! i have been crackin up at all these things.. 99% of them sound like my life... just now realizing HOW ADHD i am.. I FOUND HOME!!! Good to met you guys.. ijust started on adderall about 6mos ago.. told my Dr I thought I was ADD and would like to try and see if it helped.. he said ok... and i was like a lightbulb clicked on... lol!!!
Ok, so I am really NOT the only person that is so forgetful?? I really am glad to know that something is not "wrong" with me, and that it's just my ADD. I mean I'm glad it has a label now. I have been like this all of my life and thought something must really be wrong with me...how much should the medicine help? I mean I know it won't make my memory 100% but it should help, right? I can tell that it already has in so many ways, especially at work. My boss can tell me something while I am doing another task and I will actually remember when I am done with my task. Before that never would have happened. I find that ADD is 97% chemical, that techniques to fight it are as useless as thinking your way out of a serious chemical depression or something. so i find the meds are the only thing that help at all.
You know your ADD is really bad when.....
You go to leave Wal-Mart and don't remember what door you came in....
Then you can't find your car........
To make matters worse, you have more than one car and forgot which one you drove!!!!
true story.
Genealogy. There's no such thing as a closed or finished genealogy project. It is a gloriously living thing that is impossible to ever "shut." It is an unfinished project by its very nature.
Perfect for the ADHD person who loves to research....without ever having to "finish the project."
A beautiful, dangling, open-ended project. PERFECT!
You know your ADD is bad when....
Your purse looks like a little tornado has taken up residence there..
and invites all it's little tornado friends to hang out.. in your car :)
...when you go the wrong way when there's a detour from construction going on when you already knew about it, then immediately following the exact same route--the same mistake--THREE MORE &#$%ING TIMES RIGHT IN A ROW (I am not kidding, this was about as short a route as driving around the block four times trying to find a turnoff), in a period of a couple hours where I also left my keys in the house, left the car light on, went the wrong way on TWO different one-way streets in a town I've lived in for TEN years, and after everything, forgot about the thing I left the house for.
[that was monday]
You know you ADD is really bad when.. you haven't been here in 6 months and theres a link on your address bar to remind you..
you know your add is really bad when you leave all your stuff in your pscyh office when you have just been diagnosed.
You know your psych has add when he goes of track constantly and you leave his office knowing everything about the education system in australia and you have to pay for the time he is rambling.
you know both you and your friend have really bad add when you walk round and round the parking lot because you think she knows where the car is and she thinks you know where the car is......... and you are so deep in conversation it is about an hour before either of you notice.
...when you are 35 and still have not learnt to drive becasue you would be a danger on the road.
...you look confused and really have to concentrate when asked how old you are. sometimes you even panic and blurt out any old answer. I have even said i am about 10 years younger only to recieve a puzzled look and wonder how am i going to explain this one.
when you take a roast chicken to school instead of your books..and you are the teacher!
when you are a day late for a conference at a catholic church and sit at the front bench and then the priest speaks in a foreign language and starts crying...then you realise everyone is in black and it is a priests funeral...and you are in the family bench. then you have to pretend your laughter is tears and bury your!head in your hands until the ordeal is over and find a new church.
when you walk to the train station getting lots of wolf whistles, stares and beeps from cars wondering what is up with everyone that day or if you look particularly hot in your new skirt only to be approached by a stranger to be told your skirt is tucked into the back of your tights. Of course you had to be wearing huge unattractive underwear that should be used by granma's...
unfortunately none of this is made up..
[QUOTE=bcgirl1978] You know your ADD is bad when....
You can't find your drug plan card while you are at the pharmacy trying to buy your ADD meds. After tearing your entire wallet and purse apart, you resign yourself to paying cash and then find the card nestled snuggly behind your debit card.
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AMEN to that! But it's usually after I get home.
You know Your ADD is real "GOOD" when you get out of doing stuff at work cause your boss tells you , your too UnfocusedYou know its bad when you sneakily surf the internet at 3pm, look up and its suddenly 7pm and nobody is in the office but you!....
...and you've done no work....
Last night....!
[QUOTE=adhdeaf]You know your ADHD is so bad when..
after grocery shopping, you forgot to take the last grocery bag in the car trunk and after several hours, you realized you left the ice cream box in the trunk.
By the way, I live in Florida.
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Or as I did the other day, bought a dinner from the grocery store, including a gelatan desert and left it in my car overnight in Arizona. It was brown soup in teh morning. Luckily, the dinner came in with me.
I am nodding at giggling at most of these.
When going to switch out the laundry you realize you never put any clothes in the washer, or left the lid open, or forgot to turn on the dryer.
You know your ADD is really bad when...
After already being late going to work, you turn your car around to go back home because you're not sure whether you rember flushing the toilet or not.
Or you get off the bus half way because you're sure you left the coffee/tea on the burner and you don't want to come home and find your dog is a crispy critter...Wow, so many of these sound just like me! It's nice to find people who can relate to what I deal with on a day to day basis!
*When you go to pump gas and you're using the "pay by card" option and you put the card in where the receipt comes out. It doesn't take it immediately so you push it up further. And only when you've pushed the card up so far you can't get it back out do you see the card slot just to the right of the receipt slot. So you have to unbuckle your two small children. (the whole reason you opted to pay at the pump in the first place was so you wouldn't have to take them out) But you haul them both into the gas station red-faced to get an attendant to help get your card back. Thankfully I actually remembered to get gas after that!
*When you are a homeschooler and you go a whole week without doing school and you don't even realize it until Friday evening when you're husband asks your son what he learned in school today!
*when you missed an improtant Christmas party that you and your hubby both really wanted to go to because you forgot to inform your hubby that you even got the invitation.
*when you open the microwave door, get your ramen noodles all ready to cook, close the door and start the microwave. Only to be reminded by a burning smell, a minute or so later, that you forgot to put the food INTO the microwave, so then the microwave is just cooking itself. Suprisingly enough, it still works!
When your normally strait thinking boss walks into the kitchen looks around like she's lost and has forgotten what she was doing in there, you ask her if she's having a Marietta Moment. (Marietta's my name if you haven't guessed)
* When you're suprised that you DIDN'T forget something!
I KID YOU NOT......This is the HONEST truth!! You know you have ADD when ....
You live in a high-rise apartment building and you lose your car key. ONE YEAR later, your car is missing. You report it to the police and your insurance company. Then it re-appers in the parking lot. You think you're going crazy!! You assume you overlooked your car (for 3 hours) before reporting it missing. THEN, two days later, the car is missing AGAIN!! You report it again to the police, who in turn, warns you for making false reports. Your insurance company threatens to cancel your policy unless you take further actions to secure your car. This time, the car didn't re-appear. It was used in the commision of a crime and impounded. I had to pay 0 to get my car back. When I went to court, the perpetrator said I gave him the key. I was LIVID. Later, one of the suspects' mother told me (with a straight face) that her son was innocent, but the other boys used to "BORROW" my car all the time. I couldn't believe what I was hearing!! Only someone like me with MAJOR ADD would be so oblivious to my car being parked in a slightly different spot, or the gas gauge being slightly off, or the seat being slightly tilted, or whatever, etc., etc. Of course my family & friends have laughed at me unrelentingly and deemed me a total lunatic...thank God they love me anyway!!
By the way, the teenagers (theives) were let off the hook for my car because the DA wanted to prosecute them for the larger crime of assult and robbery with a deadly weapon (gun) ...committed while using MY CAR!
See, if it had been me telling this story it would've turned out that I had told them that they could borrow the car and just forgot I had told them. You know your ADHD is bad when you have an assessment appointment with the Assistive Tech people at College, remember to go to the appointment, show up on time, and then realise you forgot to bring your report with all the recommendations from the psychologist who diagnosed you, so you end up having to reschedule the appointment for the next day... :(... and you suspect the assessor has ADHD when she's 30 minutes late for the rescheduled appointment even though you watched her program it in her calandar the day before!
[QUOTE=Lee74]I actually did something I've joked about ALMOST doing for years:
I washed my face with my glasses on. I mean wet my hands, soaped them up and pulled them up to my face and BAM, all over my glasses. Didn't really realize it til my hands hit my glasses and it just shocked the hell out of me.
Proud moment.
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I have SO done this
When I can even FIND my glasses
[QUOTE=kalstolyn]You know your ADHD is bad when you have an assessment appointment with the Assistive Tech people at College, remember to go to the appointment, show up on time, and then realise you forgot to bring your report with all the recommendations from the psychologist who diagnosed you, so you end up having to reschedule the appointment for the next day... :(
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I SO DID THIS^^^^^^^
When I went though a psych assessment for meds [already had a diagnosis years before but the record was gone]
When he asked for the assessment papers I'd just filled in 5 minutes before I entered...
I handed him the magazine I was reading in the lobby!
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You know you have ADHD when...
... you realize Robot Chicken on Cartoon Network is the BEST show EVER 'cause its only 15 minutes long and most sketches don't last more than 3-4 minutes. One of my friends calls it "ADD TV".
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TV? You can sit still that long?
I'm addicted to YouTube because uploads are only allowed to be 10 minutes or less.
YouTube is the answer to the ADHD dream
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[QUOTE=bluebird38]I got up to take the trash out this morning and realized...I left the keys in the front door....AGAIN!!!!!!!!!! This is not good for someone who worries about weirdoes.
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I do this all the time on both counts forgetting the keys and being afraid of the weirdos!!!!!!!! I hate it when my husband is the first to find them because I get the weirdo lecture.
[/QUOTE]Good lord you people can FIND keys to leave in the door?
I gotta move up the ADHD scale!
You know you have adhd WHEN
You move your computer next to the stove because the neighbours are complaining about the amount of times your smoke detectors go offSomeone asks how your dog is and you say, "I own a dog? Damn, no wonder the bathmat doesn't stay put!"You don't go anywhere without a google map in hand. Except when you get out the front door to the bus stop, go back and GET the google map--all three copies.You wonder why your jeans have skid marks and discover that the Oh Henry bar you were looking for as a midnight snack last week melted on the computer chairYou haven't eaten at your kitchen table in 6 months because you need a backhoe to clear off the paperworkThe roaches are threatening to move because the cupboards are a demolition hazardYou have to cancel all your appointments and kill your social life because the computer is down and you can't function without your reminder programWhen people say, "Man, can you ever 'think outside the box!'" and you haven't the foggiest notion there ever was a box...You look at the answering machine and there are 87 backed up messages. 2 relatives are sick, you forgot to pay your cable bill, you've missed 12 appointments, the vet has the blood test back, 50 are telemarketing hangups, one is a wrong fax number and your friends are planning your wake and just wanted to see why the executor hadn't called them yet with the funeral arrangements. Okay, so ADD is not all about distraction.
It's a lot about impulse, too.
You know your ADD is really bad when...
you have an impulse to go peepee from the highest you can climb in a tree
and then regret it when you have to climb down said tree...
haha ew. [QUOTE=Davidornado]Okay, so ADD is not all about distraction.
It's a lot about impulse, too.
You know your ADD is really bad when...
you have an impulse to go peepee from the highest you can climb in a tree
and then regret it when you have to climb down said tree...
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David, hereby and forever after, affectionately known by all ADHD'ers as
"Puddles"
AHHH! You know it's bad when you pull two all-nighters to get a project ready for presentation in a college class, manage to somehow (miraculously) finish it the day before it's due, go to bed early, get woken up by the phone and then have horrible insomnia until 3 am, finally get back to sleep, sleep straight through your alarm, and wake up 45 minutes after you were supposed to be in class presenting your project... ARGH! All that effort for nothing! [QUOTE=kalstolyn]AHHH! You know it's bad when you pull two all-nighters to get a project ready for presentation in a college class, manage to somehow (miraculously) finish it the day before it's due, go to bed early, get woken up by the phone and then have horrible insomnia until 3 am, finally get back to sleep, sleep straight through your alarm, and wake up 45 minutes after you were supposed to be in class presenting your project... ARGH! All that effort for nothing! [/QUOTE]
Yup that is an ADHD nightmare.
Right up there with forgetting to put your pants on in the morning and not realizing until you take the garbage out ...actually happened to a friend of mine's mother who couldn't figure out what the garbage man was waving about for!
>.< ouch.
Actually someone in one of my classes was relating a similar tale about her husband the other day...
Do tell sista
Yuppers, that's sounds like the sorta stuff we do
I don't remember details, I just know it had something to do with going outside and forgetting his pants... and underpants. Apparently he was wearing a longish tshirt and didn't realise why things were a little breezy until his wife hollered at him...
When you leave home 30 minutes earlier than necessary, arrive 45
minutes late, and somehow without any water around or rain, you get
dirty muddy and wet.... but none of it is your fault, everything just
kinda happens....When you try to say something sweet but end up being rude.......all the time....
When everybody is standing in line quietly at a museum and you're standing there nearly yelling about how wierd the naked statue is and debate why he's named 'david' and then go on to talking about a fond memory of a david you used to know and how he was a jerk, and His ex said how terrible he was in the sack, going into enough detail to make EVERYBODY in the line blush and brush it off while laughing at them for being so 'uptight'
...when you search for your glasses for over a minute before realizing that you are wearing them.
...when your "file cabinet" is stacks of paper on the floor
...when you have to stop mid-story because you realize nobody is really following you (including yourself). "Umm...yeah. anyway, it was pretty funny."
...when you wonder how three hours have just passed. It only seemed like 45min, and you weren't even doing anything.
And the #1...
You know your ADD is really bad when you're hanging around the house on a Saturday morning, just chilling out.
Your roommate comes in and asks why you aren't at work.
You: "What are you talking about? I don't work on Saturday."
Him: "Uhh, dude it's Friday."
You: "Oh sh*t!"
You get to work 2+ hours late.
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You know your ADD is really bad when...
You think your car might have been stolen at least once
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when you call your current boyfriend the name of your first husband you haven't even seen or spoken to in the last 5 years.[/QUOTE]
Ouch!
You can't find your drug plan card while you are at the pharmacy trying to buy your ADD meds. After tearing your entire wallet and purse apart, you resign yourself to paying cash and then find the card nestled snuggly behind your debit card.
bcgirl197838499.6450115741
You know your ADD is really bad when...
when you call your current boyfriend the name of your first husband you haven't even seen or spoken to in the last 5 years.
[QUOTE=Reizende]You know your ADD is really bad when...
you're in the middle of making dinner and have a sudden urgency to clean the kitchen floor so that everyone has to leave their plates on the dining room table until the floor has dried.
You know your ADD is really bad when...
not only did you put the shirt on inside out, but the tag is on the front of your neck.
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OMG!!!! I'm LMAO!!!!!
When your doctor orders you a blood test because of the Strattera and you can't find the script for 6 weeks. Doc hounds you about not taking the test and you are too embarressed to tell her you can't find it.........then you find it, put off making the appointment for 2 weeks..........then you go to get the blood drawn and leave the damn script at home.
When you go to the theatre with a friend to look down and discover you have 2 different shoes on. It wasn't dark when I put them on, they fastened in different places, one was a sandle and one was a sling back. HEY.....they were the same color!!!!
Oh, and this isn't funny, sorry. When your husband decides to find someone on the internet to have an affair with because you forget to do the things he's asked you to do and so, therefore, you must be having an affair yourself. True!
SeanChristopher, you just made me laugh out loud with:
the remote control, never, ever, has had a back on it
I was planning to go to the store where I bought our TV to ask for a new back for the remote control, but now I know I will break or loose the next one aswell, so why bother.
But you know your ADHD is bad when ... you get some bread-ends from the freezer and forget to close it. Your husband finds out the next morning and doesn't even get upset over it. Does he really think that such accidents are normal for me? Happened yesterday, my son was going to feed ducks at a nearby pond and needed bread. How much food was ruined, I don't know.
Last semester I had 2 classes in classrooms that were side by side, the same time, but on different days. The classes started at 7. The class I was going to was the only class of the day and I had just gotten out of the car to go to it but when I got the the classrooms I stopped in front of them because I didnt know which door was which. I forgot which class I had. I forgot what day it was. And i was too self conscious and afraid to open the door and look inside. So I stood out in front of the doors for like 5 minutes and waited for someone to go in.
Total brain freeze. I felt so stupid :| lol You know your ADD is really bad when you forget what you and your psychologist were talking about...right after the door to the office closes when you leave. Thats like what? 5 seconds? lol. :|lol. When I was in 5th grade and we got back in the classroom from PE class, everyone was putting back on their uniforms. I sat down and was reading a book. Next thing I remember is looking up and everyones is ALREADY DRESSED and doing their schoolwork and i'm still sitting in my gym uniform reading a book. lol. it was soo embarrasing! I had to slip in my clothes while sitting down. Hoping nobody noticed. :|
oh, and a couple weeks ago, I missed an appointment, which I left really early so I wouldn't be late. I was runing to catch the bus but I stopped to talk. And it was too late to even think about getting on the bus. I was already 10 minutes from the appointment and the bus takes over 30 to get there :|. I hate when that happens.
evil distractions. they're evil! lol
ya...more rambling. uh huhYou know your ADD is really bad when you can't find the damn remote controller for 4 days (if someone sees mine, please msg)
when you spend all your money whithin the first 2 weeks of the month.
when you leave home, walk 100m and have to think 20sec where you are.
xaiev38526.8703472222What was this thread about again????
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oh, and a couple weeks ago, I missed an appointment, which I left really early so I wouldn't be late. I was runing to catch the bus but I stopped to talk. And it was too late to even think about getting on the bus. I was already 10 minutes from the appointment and the bus takes over 30 to get there :|. I hate when that happens.
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Always wondered, do we get charged for missed apointments, or is it expected. If they tell us our appointment is at 12, do they actually pencil us in for 12:15?
You know it's bad when you turn up at the office (early for a change!) to discover that your pass key doesn't open the door, then you further discover that you've not worked there for the last two years (almost), you've actualy taken the wrong train, are using the passkey from your new office, you are now late for work and are wayyyyyyyyyy to embarrarssed to tell anyone even as a joking aside, "Hey! Wait 'til you hear what I done......................."When you get home and you still answer the phone as if you was at work (Thank you for calling company name, this is Jason). What is worse you do it when the phone rings again 30 mins later, this time you forget your name.
Not that it has happened to me.
You know it's bad when you get so caught up reading info on ADD and you end up late for call-in meetings that your co-workers and boss are already called into. AND your computer reminds you before the meeting starts!
That's happened to me 3 times in the last 2 days.
1. You forget & leave your newly purchased, well highlighted, therapist recommended, note taking, coffee stained, scribbled-in copy of Dr, Amens book "Healing ADD" ...on your return home flight from 1st vacation to Europe.
2. You are late or forget 1/2 of your appointments with your therapist & shrink.
3. You do not have the patience to figure out how to post your picture on the avatar, so you email the administrator rather that read directions.
DaneDame38527.3605092593WHEN YOU HAVE A DISAGREEMENT WITH YOUR SPOUSE AND CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT IT WAS ABOUT 5 MIN LATER. THEN YOUR SPOUSE REFRESHES YOUR MEMORY....AND THE DISAGREEMENT WAS ABOUT YOUR MEMORY.
WHEN THE ONLY THING YOUR ARE PREDICTABLE ABOUT....IS BEING UNPREDICTABLE.
LOL Sorry but I can completely relate to that!
For me, not remembering helps me stay happy - I can't remember long enough to be upset. LOL
[QUOTE=DaneDame]You know your ADHD is really bad when:
1. You forget & leave your newly purchased, well highlighted, therapist recommended, note taking, coffee stained, scribbled-in copy of Dr, Amens book "Healing ADD" ...on your return home flight from 1st vacation to Europe. [/QUOTE]
I have missplaced my copy three days in a row. Bad thing is, it is still sitting in the same place I found it three days ago, has not moved except when I am wiping off the counter.
[QUOTE=autumnstar]When people look at me weird when I don't know
my own phone number, I look at them weird and say "I don't call myself,
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That reminded me of this story:
ONE OF Einstein's colleagues asked him for his telephone number one day. Einstein reached
for a telephone directory and looked it up. "You don't remember your own number?" the man
asked, startled.
"No," Einstein answered. "Why should I memorize something I can so easily get from a
book?"
you Know your ADD is bad when
You are applying for help through the seniors and people with disabilities. You have tons of papers to fill out, an as usual you wait till you cant put it off any longer. After hours of hard work answering all the questions, you still have two days left before the dead line of getting the papers back to the Office...You feel proud of yourself for getting it done on time. You are going to go and donate blood the next day (because you are a baby blood Donner) SO you decide you will drop papers off after doing that. Next day donation goes great, however, you have been worrying the whole morning about having to drive down town to drop off the papers. Even though you have been to the office before you can't remember, exactly, how to get there. On the way there you make at least three wrong turns. You are also worried about finding a place to park, because finding parking down town is never easy. You finally find the office, and low and behold their is a place to parallel park in front of it. You hate to parallel park, but are determined to do it. Wow you did a great job parking...you unlock the door, and start to get out... reaching over in the passenger seat for your paper work... only to find you left them at home.
You think... GREAT... I get to do this all again tomorrow!!!
It's getting bad when you go back home to get something you need at the office and realize that you forgot to take your morning medication. Or did you? You decide to take it anyway because your pretty sure you didn't take it. At this point, what's a few more milligrams and you can't get the pill back anyway. You then realize that you left your dog outside in the Oklahoma intense heat. Or did you? Searching outside you can't locate the dog and finally find the dog hiding under the couch. Poor thing, she is probably still a little shook up from the morning whirlwind of the "ADHD Pet Owner" trying to get out the door. She has an appointment at the groomer today, hopefully the meds will kick in and she won't be forgotten. This was my morning and it's only 9:10. When you are getting ready for vacation and your waiting for the clothes to jump in the suitcases...when you have 2 million things to do but your on the computer instead.
you've put open pens into shirt pockets, that dont exist..... then spent the rest of the day with a red line on your shirt
the remote control, never, ever, has had a back on it
you can loose things in bed.... even if you havent moved at all... not even a little
socks... where the hell did they go
you've lost your underwear while out..... and have no idea how
have had a bottle of pills break, and then spent weeks using whatever they broke in as a container, back back, car consule, random crevase
you've taken a 45 minute walk through a movie theater.... during a movie, multiple times
this break around you, this that really shouldnt be breaking, solild durable things, particularly chairs
you're walking in the hall, realize you have no idea why you are walking in the hall, spend 3-5 minutes trying to remember where the heck you were going, decide you should probably take a pill so you dont get so distracted, and then realize thats what you were going to do in the first place
you can absolutly not use a telephone without doing something else at the same time
you've laughed numerous times in movies at things that shouldnt be funny, but because you got distracted the momment lost its seriousness (ex Batman Begins, Liam Neissen telling batman "Rub your chest".... how am I not supposed to laugh at that?"
I used to go swimming regularly a few years back. I didn't know I had ADHD then, but it became sort of a "tradition" for me to forget to take with me at least one thing, every single time! Like a fresh pair of socks, shampoo ... (never my bathingsuit though!) It didn't even anoy me, was just me ...You know your ADD is really bad when.......................................
You have the most amazing, insightful, funny, brilliant comment to post & the minute you start to type it goes right out of your head.
We went swimming yesterday. I got tired of getting in and out of the pool to put things up on the chair. I threw my watch (so it wouldn't get wet) towards my chair. It landed on the concrete and broke apart!
I ended up going to buy a new watch yesterday. But I got one for and I can set it to hourly chime. Maybe this was a good thing.
Here's one I did last Christmas. I don't think I told you guys about it. This is called ADD 'inattentive type'. I was flying to L.A. to visit my mom. I got to my departure gate about an hour early, and started reading a book. Anyway, I read for a long time, and when I put my book down the gate area was empty. THE PLANE HAD LOADED UP AND LEFT RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME AND I DIDN'T NOTICE ANYTHING!
I was distraught. I really try not to be to hard on myself for ADD stuff that I can't help but this was too much. I probably would have hurt my self on purpose if I wasn't in public. I was visibly shaking. Anyway, because of this little stunt, I spent the next two days in boring, boring, boring airports waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting. Pure hell for an ADD'r. The airline staff were great; "You basically neglected to get on your plane, and you want us to give you another flight, just because you're a friggen retard? Yeah, we'll see what we can do." That was basically the attitude. Pretty embarrassing. They also were very suspicious, and were sure to hound me with every security procedure in the book, Thinking this was all some sort of unperceived terror plot that I was involved in.
It's so hard for me to get everything together to on time and not forget something really important like my ID or ticket. I was very satisfied that after driving 2.5 hours I had everything I needed, so I sat down to relax and read, having no inkling that I was heading for disaster. Wanna ruin your trip? This is a surefire way to do it.
You know your ADD is really bad when you put a pizza in the oven, go to wash clothes, sit down in front of the computer, hungry, and start smelling burning cheese and realizing that you forgot that you put the pizza in the oven :|but hey, it still tasted good. crispy and burnt cheesy, but good lol.
that always happens. i forgot to put the alarm on on my phone lol. ah, my trusty cell phone. which i hardly use because i hate phones... [QUOTE=Little Lisa]
You know your ADD is really bad when:
You are scheduling an appointment with a doctor, the receptionist asks for your address, and you can't remember where you live!
[/QUOTE]I always have to think a while (or even look up) my address and phone number when asked for them. And if someone on the phone reads them back to me in a different way that I 'say' them, I get all confused. KWIM? Like I may say: 1-7-8-2-6...and they may repeat back to me saying One hundred seventy-eight, twenty-six...duh?..wait, and I repeat it back to them my way again.
GypsyWomyn,
Oh, I SO know that one!!! When people look at me weird when I don't know my own phone number, I look at them weird and say "I don't call myself, why should I remember it?"
I always forget how old I am.
autumnstar
When you go to the mall speifically to buy a cd you really want, and suddenly when you walk in there, you simply cannot recall the cd title or artist. As if the magnetic security sensors erased your brain on the way in. For some reason this happens to me most often at record stores and bookstores.
Very frustrating.
[QUOTE=eafiii]When you go to the mall speifically to buy a cd you really want, and suddenly when you walk in there, you simply cannot recall the cd title or artist. As if the magnetic security sensors erased your brain on the way in. For some reason this happens to me most often at record stores and bookstores.
Very frustrating.
[/QUOTE]Yes, frustrating. Yet, just think of the $$ you save when this happens to you!
You know it's bad when you're compiling a list of ADD books you'd like to check out and you have the same books written down more than once. - on the same very small page!--When twice in several years, went to get the car seat out of one car, to put into the other car, put my child in, dropped her off at daycare, went to work, did something afterwork, came home late to find I left the car door open all day in my driveway. The battery was dead and I was damn lucky no one had stollen anything out of my car. 
did I hve my pills today?
Do I just think I had my pills today?
Did I have them yesterday either?
What day is it anyway?
[QUOTE=eliza]did I hve my pills today?
Do I just think I had my pills today?
Did I have them yesterday either?
What day is it anyway?
[/QUOTE]
Eliza. . .you, too, huh? You know it's bad when... did this one yesterday... I changed out of my work clothes while in my bedroom, I grabbed the clothes to put them in the hamper in my closet - I went the opposite direction down to the kitchen. In the kitchen, I realized I was holding my clothes, I set them down to "grab them when I went back upstairs" as I started other various tasks in the kitchen.
Those clothes sat there until I was walking upstairs going to bed 5 hours later - that's when I grabbed them to take them back up. (After my husband mentioned them 3 times) I'm lucky that I remembered them then.
My husband just shakes his head "I don't know what you were thinking..."
You're lying in bed at 8:51 a.m. reading and responding to posts when,*You have a meeting with your boss who is currently mad at you at 9:30 a.m.
*You haven't walked the dog yet.
*You haven't prepared for your meeting.
*You are more prepared to take a whipping than you are able to just do the work.
Pray for me.
bb
GOOD LUCK BB! Thanks.
Took a 3 min. bath.
Got dressed.
Walked the dog till she did you-know-what.
Jumped in my car, drove 15 mi.
Saw angry manager; maintained the cool, logical manner of a lawyer; matter-of-factly answered embarrassing questions.
Got chewed out. I was eating donuts in my mind.
Ran home and ditched a department meeting like a scared bride. Grabbed the dog and gave her a hug.
Phone started immediately ringing--let it go to answer machine. It was boss with more details. Ick.
Started working on first action item.
She called again, so I answered. Found composure.
Promised a few things to get them off my back.
Here I am.
Back to work. (Planning escape in the back of my mind.)
See ya.
When you're in a hotel room and you wake up in the night to go to the bathroom. You get up, go into the bathroom, close the door,
AND YOU'RE IN THE HOTEL CORRIDOR IN YOUR UNDERPANTS!
Locked out of your room you have to go to reception and get someone to let you back in. IN YOUR UNDERPANTS!
(This happened to a friend)
You know your ADD is really bad when you . . .
Tell your friend you will bring her dinner because she just had a baby and then you forget . . . so you tell her you are sorry and that you will do it tomorrow. . . and then you forget the next day . . . and the next. . . so you end up buying a gift certificate instead. . .
[QUOTE=dvirgo421]...when you read all these posts and you have all these ideas running through your head of what you want to post, but by time you get to the end of all the posts (cause they are hilarious and you can't stop reading) you forget what you were going to write anyway. So you end up telling that story instead of the 20 other that were just flying through your head as you read.
[/QUOTE]
OMG, you're me disguised as you!
You know it's bad when you can't remember if you have taken your morning medicine. This happened today.You know your ADD is bad when you go to the psychiatrist to get a prescription for Ritalin and you are 20 minutes late for the appointment.
Then within 4 hours you lose the prescription for Ritalin and have to go back to ask for another one.
D - you just posted exactly what I was going to post! You know your ADD is really bad when you can relate to every post on this thread. LOL
D
Its even worse when you DONT stop at a red light...
Did it a few weeks ago.
When you are asked to make another piece of garlic bread by your boy friend, and 15 min later he comes to see how his bread is coming along....the bread is in the oven... the oven is off.. and your sitting at the computer playing spider. Okay...you know you have AD/HD when (and this JUST happened):You freak out and panic because you know you just lit a cigarette (I know
) but then you can't find it...and are sure you either dropped it or it fell out of the ash tray onto the floor. And as you're furiously looking on the floor, you at last realize ... lo and behold! all along it's been between your fingers of your hand! You know your ADD/ADHD IS BAD WHEN YOU STOP AT A GREEN LIGHT.........
DID IT TODAY
You know your ADHD is really bad when...
All your wife ever seems to say is.......
'Why did you not clean all the dishes baby?'
'Are you listening to me?'
'Did you here anything I just said?'
'I said get eggs, not bread!'
'Go and get a cloth, quickly!'
And probably the most common, for me anyway....
(In a raised voice) 'Stop it....'
thejestersmuse38506.1963078704You know your ADD is bad when:People comment on how good your new pants look, as you realize that you still left the tags on the back AND the sticky plastic strip down the front of one leg with your size listed on it.
You have breakfast twice because you forgot the first one.
You fondly remember ex-girlfriends for their level of tolerance for all the stuff Thejestersmuse wrote about above.
While driving on the highway you suddenly remember that youre driving....
and you have no clue where you are or if you've missed your exit, on your daily commute that you've been doing for a year.
You suddenly notice that there's been a huge map on your wall for the last 6 months that you had never noticed before, even tho its 6' x 3' and right next to you.
You tell your Mother In Law, who you see every day, that you like her new orange hair color and she tells you that the hairdressing accident was 4 weeks ago.
You put your one shoe in the fridge and one on the bookshelf while feeling smug that you finally remembered to pick up after yourself for once.
...when you read all these posts and you have all these ideas running through your head of what you want to post, but by time you get to the end of all the posts (cause they are hilarious and you can't stop reading) you forget what you were going to write anyway. So you end up telling that story instead of the 20 other that were just flying through your head as you read.
[QUOTE=LCT1]When you are walking through the Atlanta air port with the back of your dress caught up in your carry on bag. When finally stoped by someone, you think your being robbed because they tell you to drop your bag. [/QUOTE]HAHAHA!
You know your ADD is bad when...you accidentally babytalk to your boyfriend's dad in the middle of the night over the phone. "Hi Sweetie...do you miss me? I miss yooooou."
When your TO DO list for the day includes
1. wake up
2. eat breakfast
When you are never logged off from this forum, because you don't remember to log off.
When you are walking through the Atlanta air port with the back of your dress caught up in your carry on bag. When finally stoped by someone, you think your being robbed because they tell you to drop your bag.
When your home alone and you go into the garage, and lock your self out of the house.
[QUOTE=eliza]When your TO DO list for the day includes
1. wake up
2. eat breakfast
[/QUOTE]
More disturbing is when I only remember #1. Like today.
Yesterday, I got home from work and found my front door wide open! The inside of the house looked like a tornado hit it. I walked in slowly with my adrenaline pumping, ready to confront the invader.
All I can say is that I *might* have been robbed, but i have no way to be sure. Eventually I just started watching TV.
floofthegoof38520.2948726852Bless all of you! It is so uplifting to know that there are so many of us out there who can look at this "problem" of ours with humor, while still maintaining our self-respect. Bless all of you!!!These are great.
I forget my passwords ALL the TIME, and we have a ton to remember. Of course at least 5 of them have different rules so no 1 password ever works for all of them. Well the company came up with a 'password program' that you can put your passwords in. Trouble is that I forget the password to get into that also.
I get off the phone with my husband and I remember him saying "Remind me to do ***" - I can't remember what it is. I sit there all day trying to remember what he asked me to remind him... :(
I get a wonderful planner to write everything in - then I forget to write stuff in it.
I lose medicine all over the house - I have 5 different prescriptions of my migraine medicine hiding somewhere in my house... :)
[QUOTE=GypsyWomyn] [QUOTE=bluebird38] When you walk through the Charles De Gaulle train terminal in Francewith your skirt tucked into your backpack for at least an hour.
[/QUOTE]
Oh, BB...tell me you didn't!
I haven't laughed this hard in a long time...these are all hilarious!![/QUOTE]
Well, I guess the upside is that I made friends with the train stewards because of it.
They teased me about it all the way to Florence, Italy.GarbagePailKid--you sound just like me. I have days like that ALL the time.
You accidentally get into someone elses car and drive off with it because it is dark & rainy, the car is parked next to yours, looks similar (but is a different model), and DANG! the key works.
As you drive off, you think..."Hmmm..I don't listen to country music." When you finally figure it out, you are so weirded out that you hurry and re-park the car and hope to God the person doesn't catch you in their car. You're in such a panic that you hurry and jump out of the car, lock it, and head for home.
You call your best friend on your cell phone to have a good laugh about it until you realize that YOU LEFT YOUR PURSE IN THE OTHER PERSON'S CAR. You're about to have an all-time break down as you drive the 5 mi. back and have to re-break into the person's car at midnight.
I will neither confirm nor deny that this actually happened to me, but has anyone else had this happen? LOL.
bb
When you walk through the Charles De Gaulle train terminal in France with your skirt tucked into your backpack for at least an hour. When you pour the last of the wine into the ashtray like I've just done. Damn. I'm off to bed to sulk.
[QUOTE=Adultadhd]You know your ADD is bad when.....
You try to say something sweet but end up being rude.......happends to me all the time....
Start a story about something that you think is funny and notice that no one around you is paying attention.
When you get the in car and start to drive to the grocery store but forget what it is that you are supposed to get once you get there.
[/QUOTE]Yes.. And those (and others like them) *REALLY* suck.
[QUOTE=bluebird38] When you walk through the Charles De Gaulle train terminal in France
with your skirt tucked into your backpack for at least an hour.
[/QUOTE]
Oh, BB...tell me you didn't!
I haven't laughed this hard in a long time...these are all hilarious!! You spill soda on your white shirt on the way to work. You find the nearest public bathroom, and quickly soak the shirt, forgetting that you are wearing a black bra, and soda stains are preferable in most workplaces...You get to your job stressed out and soaking 20 minutes late, put away all your stuff, punch in, and start working. An hour later, your boss comes over to you and asks you what you're doing working on your day off? And what's the temperature of the lake like (snort giggle)?
DAY OFF?!?!
Ahh, day off. You get your stuff and start walking home. You call your sig. other, and
say that you just found out you have a day off, and you are going to do all the laundry. He is very happy, because you never do laundry. You pick up a roll of quarters at the bank for the wash. You leave the roll of quarters at the bank.
You get home, and fumble for your keys. You don't have your keys. You can not get in. You can not do laundry like you promised. You are stranded on your day off with .75 in your pocket. The bank does not know what happened to your quarters.
You go to the nearest bookstore and browse for six hours- until your s.o. comes home to unlock the gate, and greets piles of unwashed laundry.
You buy a deck of cards, hoping to make up for flaking on the wash by playing a kick a** stud hilo tournament- you will teach him how. It will be fun. You start the game, and realize in the middle of the first round that it is a pinochle deck- cards from 9 - ace. This is the third time in three months that you accidentally bought a pinochle deck- it's a couple cents cheaper...You run back to the store to exchange the deck. You come home with another pinochle deck.
Anyway, sorry for rambling. This was today.
GarbagePailKid38518.9967939815
Hey, I'm new here - just got diagnosed with ADHD (not like I didn't know I had it)...had to comment on this topic (something I did Sunday).
You know your ADD is bad when.......you get so tired of losing your keys, that you dig out the "key finders" that your Mom gave you 2 Christmases ago that you always meant to use. The instructions don't make any sense, but you figure it out finally and attach a key finder to 2 sets of keys and put the "main" finder someplace where you will be sure to find it if you lose your keys - but then, you can't remember where you put it. Then, you decide you shouldn't use them anyway, because your toddler will probably get them and take the quarter-sized battery out and choke herself, so you take them all off and ..where do you put them? On a high place she can't reach - the mantle, of course, which is where you discover the "main" key finder. Why not throw them away? Might use them when toddler gets older. So they will sit on the mantle for at least a year. Does this make sense? Of course not.
You know your ADD is bad when.....
You try to say something sweet but end up being rude.......happends to me all the time....
Start a story about something that you think is funny and notice that no one around you is paying attention.
When you get the in car and start to drive to the grocery store but forget what it is that you are supposed to get once you get there.
You know your ADD's really bad when.... your parents threaten to runaway on a daily basis. *from my mom's perspective*You know it's bad when you put the house key on the hire car keyring and think "I must remember to take the house key off when I return the car".
Then of course you return the car and remember 10 hours later you don't have a house key, so you are locked out of the house for the entire weekend until the next person brings the car keys back to the hire place.
[QUOTE=fukaiotaku]These are all hilarious posts. They really make me laugh.
You know your ADD is bad...when you're watching a tv show and you forget what tv show you're watching in the middle of it. *has happened a few times* XDD;
[/QUOTE]Happens to me ALL the time.
[QUOTE=super t]You know your ADD is bad when you take forever trying to decide what task you need to do around the house first. Then you get so overwhelmed trying to figure it out that you don't get anything done because by then you are sucked into a show or movie on the television.[/QUOTE]
Ditto again. You should see my house (actually, no you shouldn't. No one should.)
when......
you can see a week's worth of leftovers on the counters.
you're doing a project and you get everything done but writing out 3 sentences worth of a final report....... and then never want to hand in the report because it's not done....
You get the milk carton from the fridge, get a glass from the cabinet, pour the milk into the glass then put the milk carton in the cabinet, and forget to drink the milk.
(Happened last night)
You can't find your car keys no matter how hard you look.....only to find them later in the refrigerator!!!!!!!!
You know you have ADD when:
You clicked on this thread, read the first page, had to pee, stood up, read another page while standing bent over, read 5 more pages, remembered you had to pee, couldn't stand up because of your stiff back, figured hell with it sat back down to relieve your back pain, forgot you had to pee,
What was I saying again???
Oh nevermind.
You know your ADD is bad when....
You tell your doctor you are going to try to go a week or so without your meds to see how you feel. After a while you realize you are not doing well so you call him to make an appointment and he asks how you are doing since he has not heard from you in six months!
This just happend to me. Six months got sucked into a black hole somewhere!
You know it is bad when you come home from taking your cat to the vet and your son tells you that you are wearing your shirt inside out!... You wake up late to go to work where you have to wear a uniform - green shirt and navy pants. You jump in the car, get to work just in time and walk on to the production area to find out you are wearing your green pajama top and navy pajama pull over bottoms - which looked fine to you but are very obvious to all who have the company logo on them but see nightclothes on you. Hard to go back after that but ya do what ya gotta do.
You know it's bad when....a post is more than two lines and you just can't read more than that and have to rush past until you get to the next post.
...you type 110 wpm.
It's bad when I re-read my own emails or posts and realize the I consistenly omit several words in a sentence, have typos, and incomplete or grammatically incorrect sentences...and I am a professional writer! I am just too impatient to really give it a go-over. It's the quality thoughts that count, right?![QUOTE=bluebird38] It's bad when I re-read my own
emails or posts and realize the I
consistenly omit several words in a sentence, have
typos, and
incomplete or grammatically incorrect sentences...and I
am a
professional writer! I am just too impatient to really
give it a
go-over. It's the quality thoughts that count, right?!
[/QUOTE]
Same here on *all* counts! You know your ADHD is so bad when..
after grocery shopping, you forgot to take the last grocery bag in the car trunk and after several hours, you realized you left the ice cream box in the trunk.
By the way, I live in Florida.
...when you go check out the ADHD Events forum....
adhdeaf reminded me of the time I left a package of hamburger in my trunk for 3 days. I couldn't figure out what that horrid smell was and it never entered my mind to check the trunk.
Then there was the time I yelled at my hubby for leaving the car window open all night so a stray cat could pee in it! We lived with that stench for days until I cleaned the car so it could be shampoo'ed and found a package of cheese curd under my seat. My cheese that I had tucked there so no one else would eat it on me! I tossed it and the pee smell went away! I then could remove all the plastic bags I had covered the seat with to keep us from being contaminated!
My refridgerator gets so full all the time that I start thinking, "what the hell's in here"? Thats when I start really looking (when it's so full that I can't possibly fit another thing). Then I start opening all the tuperware containers with the "chemistry stuffs". Then I think, oh yea, I forgot about that, it was so good, I really wanted to eat it............ On top of that I notice that I have 4 bottles of catsup, 3 big containers of yoguert................True story -A few years ago when we lived in North where the houses usually have the garage attached - many times I left the car running in the garage and Thank God our children let me know the car was running on so I turned it off.
One night I made the mistake and somehow the kids didn't notice - so we all woke up with severe headaches - Thank to my wife for waking up in the middle of the night, knowing my car was running on, turning it off and opening all windows up. It was in the middle of the freezing winter and I woke up feeling like a popsicle! I am so blessed of having her...
Welll!!! Two or three (my wife just came up and said it is three) summers ago we put the children away at a camp for a week and again I forgot to turn off my car when I got home. My wife and I were unaware of the car running since we could not hear. To make the long story short, we were and still are sooooo lucky- we had to be taken to the ER by the ambulances. After one hour, the percentage of Carbon Monoxide in my blood was 36%! Yike!
I am still blessed to have her in my life and to make me aware I have ADHD.
Now we live in the South where I park my car OUTSIDE.
I got up to take the trash out this morning and realized...I left the
keys in the front door....AGAIN!!!!!!!!!! This is not good for
someone who worries about weirdoes. You know your ADD is really bad when you forgot to put a load of clothes in the the dryer....rince, forget, rince, forget, rince, forget...same load, 2 days.
[QUOTE=adhdeaf]Now we live in the South where I park my car OUTSIDE. [/QUOTE]
...when your garage is too full of "chemistry and other stuffs" you know for sure you'll need some day that you don't throw it away that your car doesn't fit in it anyway, whether you're in the north, or the south, or central america....
[QUOTE=bluebird38]I got up to take the trash out this morning and realized...I left the keys in the front door....AGAIN!!!!!!!!!! This is not good for someone who worries about weirdoes.
[/QUOTE]
Where do you live? I don't lock our doors in the summer, and the cars are never locked...
[QUOTE=bepatient]You know your ADD is really bad when you forgot to put a load of clothes in the the dryer....rince, forget, rince, forget, rince, forget...same load, 2 days. [/QUOTE]
Hey, try mouldy clothes.... Thanks for reminding me, I really did leave a load in the wetwasher..... !
You know your ADHD is really bad when...
you've had 22 jobs in your life, and been fired from 24 of them...
and my wife says "you'll never learn! nothing has changed!" but
You know your ADHD is really bad when...
It's not b/c you keep making the same mistake, or much less make it twice, you just keep coming up with new ones....
You know your ADHD is really bad when...
Your AOL spell checker says "Only the first 100 msipsellings are highlighted below"...
You know your ADHD is really bad when...
Your butt is tired b/c it's 23:18 and you sat down to read your email at 18:00...
[QUOTE=Davidornado][QUOTE=bepatient]You know your ADD is really bad when you forgot to put a load of clothes in the the dryer....rince, forget, rince, forget, rince, forget...same load, 2 days. [/QUOTE]
Hey, try mouldy clothes.... Thanks for reminding me, I really did leave a load in the wetwasher..... !
[/QUOTE]
You know your ADHD is really bad when...
and my clothes are still not in the drydryer...
You know your ADHD is really bad when...
when the last 8 postings in the fourm "You know your ADHD is really bad when..." are yours...
Did everybody really leave? Aren't there any ADHDrs beyond the Pacific Barrier? Do I really have to turn off the lights? Here, I'll talk to myself: G'nite, David!
G'nite, me! I'll most likely see you'me in the mirror...
You know you have ADHD really bad when....
You know you could make a killing publishing this stuff, but never get around to it because you have some other killer stuff to do....
[QUOTE=Davidornado][QUOTE=Davidornado][QUOTE=bepatient]You know your ADD is really bad when you forgot to put a load of clothes in the the dryer....rince, forget, rince, forget, rince, forget...same load, 2 days. [/QUOTE]
Hey, try mouldy clothes.... Thanks for reminding me, I really did leave a load in the wetwasher..... !
[/QUOTE]
You know your ADHD is really bad when...
and my clothes are still not in the drydryer...
[/QUOTE]
You know your ADHD is really bad when...
...you use this fourm to remind you to wash your laundry: really, I just remembered (ya, right, this is not remembering, it's being reminded: but, David, you were the last one to write about your laundry, so its like remembering: but me, that does not count...
I did get my laundry in the dryer, but its still there. Oh, darn. Now I'll have to iron my shirts, or wash them again....
You know your ADHD is really bad when...
...it takes you five and a half hours to do a load of laudnry...
You know your ADHD is really bad when...
...the funniest entries in the fourm are your own....
...cuz you can't understand the others!
[QUOTE=Davidornado]You know you have ADHD really bad when....
You know you could make a killing publishing this stuff, but never get around to it because you have some other killer stuff to do....
[/QUOTE]
You ought to see my 2 car garage where I can't get even a bicycle in sideways....
I got a lot of killer stuff to do there....
You know your ADHD is really bad when...
...you look in your garage b/c you have a lot of killer stuff to do in there...
...and find 1 Intel 286 computer with a 10 mb harddrive, 1 Intel 386 computer with a 20 mb hd, 1 Intel 486 computer with a 40 mb hd + a ,200 1,000 mb hd, 1 each of a Pentium 200, 300, & 400 computers with 2,3, & 4 gb hds, and about 10 miscelaneous 15 & 17 inch monitors that you've been collecting since 1992...
...which you kept upgrading from, but kept b/c they still worked when you bought your next 'puter, and you figured you could do something killer with these, but never got a round tuit to do it...
You know your ADHD is really bad when...
...you create one more post so you can hit an average postings per day that you thought was cool, and wouldn't have reached if you hadn't posted the one more posting...
[QUOTE=Davidornado][QUOTE=Davidornado][QUOTE=Davidornado][QUOTE=bepatient]You know your ADD is really bad when you forgot to put a load of clothes in the the dryer....rince, forget, rince, forget, rince, forget...same load, 2 days. [/QUOTE]
Hey, try mouldy clothes.... Thanks for reminding me, I really did leave a load in the wetwasher..... !
[/QUOTE]
You know your ADHD is really bad when...
and my clothes are still not in the drydryer...
[/QUOTE]
You know your ADHD is really bad when...
...you use this fourm to remind you to wash your laundry: really, I just remembered (ya, right, this is not remembering, it's being reminded: but, David, you were the last one to write about your laundry, so its like remembering: but me, that does not count...
I did get my laundry in the dryer, but its still there. Oh, darn. Now I'll have to iron my shirts, or wash them again....
You know your ADHD is really bad when...
...it takes you five and a half hours to do a load of laudnry...
[/QUOTE]
You know your ADHD is really bad when...
...you finally did finsih your load of laundry, but it took 6 hours, not 5.5....
You know your ADHD is really bad when...
...you still have the following cached on your computer clipboard, 4 hours later "You know your ADHD is really bad when..."
You know, I seriously think some of you or one of you should look into publishing this stuff. This is too funny! I have been laughing at each and every one. ....is bad when you did your laundry last night and smugly put laundry
soap in the soap dispenser, bleach in the bleach dispenser, and fabric
softner in the fabric softner dispenser. FINALLY, I'm going to use up
all of those bottles!BUT, it turns out the the fabric softner was actually a small bottle of detergent that you bought and you didn't bother to look close enough.
I put SOAP in the fabric softner dispenser!!
(Well, at least everything *looks* ok. Maybe *that's* why the dog has been scratching all morning.
You know your ADHD is so bad when...
your spouse keeps the list of all your usernames and passwords for many different websites
[QUOTE=Davidornado]
You know you have ADHD really bad when....
You know you could make a killing publishing this stuff, but never get around to it because you have some other killer stuff to do....
[/QUOTE]
I should have known someone would have come with a great come-back. Thanks for starting my late A.M. with a laugh!
I started my thread in May and its still going strong. Thanks for all the replies guys. It's awesome 8 )
You know your ADD is really bad when you wrote on your hand what you needed to remember not to forget that you wrote on a sheet of paper that you sent yourself an e-mail reminder about at home when you were at work. Then you forgot to read your hand.
You keep coming back to this thread because its like looking in a mirror and laughing !!!
You leave your dry clothes in the dryer and just toss a damp washcloth in and run it for a while every morning so they aren't wrinkled because you don't have the motivation to iron or put them away.
you write long, drawn out sentences because they are easier than trying to figure out where to end one and how to start another.
For the fifth time you think...I have got to take my meds....you go to take them... only to find out....you took them the fourth time you thought about them.
[QUOTE=LTC1]For the fifth time you think...I have got to take my meds....you go to take them... only to find out....you took them the fourth time you thought about them. [/QUOTE]
You know your ADHD is really bad when...
....as you're swallowing your meds you remember you just took them ten minutes ago....
[QUOTE=LTC1]For the fifth time you think...I have got to take my meds....you go to take them... only to find out....you took them the fourth time you thought about them. [/QUOTE]
You know your ADHD is really bad when...
...as you are swallowing you meds you realize you grabbed 3 Provigil instead of 1 Provigil and 2 Ritalin L.A.s (they are both oval and white) and you realize that Provigil is what kept the U.S. Army awake for 100 hours in Gulf War 1...
You know your ADHD is really bad when...
...you post a post about "You know your ADHD is really bad when..." on another topic board....
... when, pre-diagnosis, pre-med (of course) and therefore pre-agenda for more than 1 day per year, the first thing your boyfriend does when you come over to see him is start reading your daily schedule, phone numbers, etc. off the back of your hand, your arm, sometimes past your elbow...
(or when the FIRST thing you do when you see your girlfriend is start reading her schedule, phone numbers etc...????)
You know your ADHD is really bad when...
...you're off your meds and the police reports they've got a YODA on the loose (yuppie on drugs or alcohol)...
You know your ADHD is really bad when...
...you take an online ADHD assessment and it recommends you talk to your physician...
You know your ADHD is really bad when...
...you take an online ADHD assessment and the results are:
Your Personal ADHD Summary
ADHD Inattentions Symptoms: 9
ADHD Hyperactivity-Impulsivity Symptoms: 9
Childhood Onset of ADHD symptoms: Yes
Identified ADHD Impairment Areas: home, work and social life areas.
Overall, your responses indicate very severe behaviors that may be consistent with ADHD with possible significant impairment in your home, work and social life areas.
... when you can't remember whether or not you brushed your teeth after you woke up in the morning, and have to do it again (although they did feel clean!).
This happened to me a couple of days ago.
You know you have AD/HD when...
... when you get to the airport at 04:00 without your passport with only 45 minutes to spare, so you talk the attendant into holding onto your luggage, drive 100 mph back home, can't find your passport, find your old expired one, drive 100 mph back to the airport, and as you talk the attendant into letting you use your expired passport, he lets you on the plane late, and you are putting your old passport in your briefcase, you find your lost unexpired passport in that nook you decided to hide it in so you wouldn't loose it as you decide to put your expired passport in a special place so you won't loose it, either!
and...
... you find a knife in your briefcase after three flights and their preliminary prescreening proceedures in two different cities didn't catch them... but you get busted at the fourth airport (3rd city) LAX and 5 TSAs swoop you, followed by 4 LA Swat Team members, but they let you go and keep a different 4.25 inch folding knife becuase they believed your story that normally you check your luggage but you were going just overnight this time, and forgot the knife was in your shaving kit... and besides, it's just a melon knife, which you prove by showing the slices in your jeans above your knee where you've bled yourself a few times... and where your shrink thinks you've been "para-suicidal"... which is what any person is when they jump out of an airplane, regardless of what they've got on their back!
... and I've a few hundred other ones, but here's another good one:
... when you are wandering around the house wondering why you got up from a comfortable position in the first place, but don't have a clue where you were headed or what you were going to do when you got there~ so you go back to where it all began, and crabbypatties! you remember what you just forgot, just so you can forget again by the time you get to the other end of the house! It's like that time loop Data got stuck in on STNG episode 133... did I just pass me just now?... how do I know which one is the real me?...
No wonder my wife hates me... I think I'll flip over to the spouses BB and see if I can learn to "How to Have ADHD and Still Stay Married"... I read a book once called "How to Own a Gun and Stay Out of Jail", but it didn't really work very well.... Maybe I need a wife for each reality, eh? Or impusle. Or distraction. Or maybe I've forgotten that "I Do" have more than one! OMG!
Not. Just giddily kiddilying.
G'nite, Y'all!
P.S. Awe, shoot, I couldn't unhyperfocus. Here's another good one:
... when you come up with some great conceptually communicable lexicology, and your spell checkker goes nuts... Hey, instead of phonetics or english, we could call it logeticals, or something... like take GypsyWomyn's advice, and travel to http://add.about.com/cs/addthebasics/a/communication_2.htm . But I guess I'd forget what I was doing once I got there, eh? Or where I even was, mebay.
Oops, here's another one:
... when you've been in jail three times in your life, and people still look up to you because you're smart, a leader in your field, and make them a lot of money...
And that reminds me of this one:
... when you've tried to run your own businesses, b/c you're a great creator and entrepreneur, but have gone broke more than 4 times because you had too many projects going at once, with trouble following through... b/c you attracted other AD/HDers like bees to nectar (can't really say like bees to honey, b/c they must not really like it, as they puke it up)... and noone could stay focused and follow through...
All right, already, this time, I really mean it, GOOD NIGHT! Luv Y'all way lots,
D
you shake the mustard container after openig the lid you know your AD/HD when" you stay up late b/c you keep goign to the same web pages bc/ you forgot you'd been there already...I thought I was the only one who did that! You know your ADHD when you know what's most enlightening about these forums that you finally (after 49 years, 10 months, and 11 days) find out YOU ARE NOT ALONE! YAY! I thought I was the only one who did that....[QUOTE=adhdeaf]we at times forget items and they eventually become chemistry "stuffs"! 
[/QUOTE]
My mother stayed with me for a week a while ago. When I put my coffee grounds in the trash - they stay wet and make a mold that is bright fluorescent orange! My mother says that it must be because I care for my mold so much - they've had the chance to evolve!!
I know I'm a slob sometimes in some ways - it's just so hard to remember the trash as it's hidden from view most times. It's better than it used to be though!
Oh, here's a good one:
You know your ADHD because you post soo many replies in soo many forums because you keep loosing the one you first posted, and you get distracted by the other topics and post your way into oblivion...
That's why I went from Newbie to Groupie in 4 days. Jeez, did you check my profile? I average 9.4 postings / day. And they're not short. I am, though. But short people don't have as far to fall.
You know you're ADD when you can only read the first 8 pages of these before you get completely overwhelmed.
But before you leave you HAVE to add your own.....
You know you're ADD when you are supposed to drop the baby off at daycare, but forget her, go to work and leave her in the car all day.
(I know this is terribly unfunny, but I had to say it. Am I the only one who can actually, sadly, tragically understand how this is possible? I am grateful for all the things I could have done ....but didn't.... which could have ended badly.)
Joyous5638564.4036111111
These are GREAT! What a great way to end a sh--------- ADD day.
You know your ADD is really bad when-
You've had an unknown key on your ring for 6 years which is just like your house key and every time you enter the house you have to sort out which to use. But it's really REALLY bad when you realize after all of those years of NOT taking the stupid damn mystery key off the ring you find while it's the same shape it has different markings and is quite easy to tell from your house key!
Scary how I can relate to so many of these!! I have one thing I have done numerous times; I walk away from my grocery cart to look at merchandise (especially sale stuff w/big signs), usually wind up picking up whatever it is that is a bargain, going back, dropping it in the cart and going along my way. A few minutes later, I realize I have taken somebody else's cart... by that time I have already added several things to the contents. It is SO embarassing to have to track down my cart, explain, and then try to figure out what is actually mine (usually the other shopper can point out what they did not put in). Most of the time, what clues me in is that I cannot find my coupon envelope, then I take a good look at the contents of the cart and say, "Oh, no... not again!"
you know your adhd is bad when every time you thouroughly clean your room you find 4-6 copies of the key to your front door
or
when looking over your bookshelf you realize you have 3 copies of a memory improvement book that you still havent remembered to read
or
when you are late to bed every night because you have to spend an hour writing yourself notes and deciding where they have the best shot of being noticed the next day. taped over the light switch,mirror,on the ceiling right where you look when you first wake up, hanging from a string in the middle of the hallway, around the alarm clock with duct tape so it takes five minutes to unrap before you can hit snooze.
or
when the only pet you had as a kid that you had long enough to name was a box turtle with the ability to go without food or water for a long period of time.(dont wory i dont subject animals to my ownership any more)
or
if as a kid your siblings would always blame you when caught after doing something wrong because you would always apoligize saying "im soo sorry i cant belive i would do such a thing....grounded for 3 weeks thats fair, again i cant belive i would do that, and i dont even remember why i did it"
or you hate sighning in at front desks or sighning official forms because after they tell you the date you have to ask "and what month?"
or
when your profesor finds a report without a name he always knows its yours because its dated 1999
or
at parties when someone tries to bum a ciggarete you check your shirt,pants, and jacket pocket before realizing youve never smoked in your life
or
when writing down adhd stories you realise youve writen down 9 when you were just going to post one before you log off and clean the kitchen
You know your ADD is really bad when: You are having a great time reading this thread, laughing so hard that your significant other comes over to see what is so funny....after he's reading for awhile he looks at you and says "How can you laugh at the horrible things that are happening to these people...."
Isn't it a Harley Davidson saying ??? If I have to Explain it, you wouldn't understand.
I do soooo love this thread.
You spend too much time on the ADHD forum.... so you are rushing to get the cleaning done that you promised to do, and you grab the ceiling fan duster to mop the floor. Then after realizing your mistake you go back for the mop, and can't find it, even though, the mop is hanging right in front of your face.
Must get to work!
You know your ADHD is bad when you walk away in the middle of a conversation....And it is your boss is the person that you just walked away from.....Opps
lambiekin
You know your ADHD is bad when you are running late for work and you can't find your glasses or car keys...the glasses are sitting on top of your head, and the keys are hanging from you pinky finger...
lambiekin
On an "early release friday" for students only, (at an elementary school where I worked) I went home too, as if it was a regular school day. When I got home and realised it was only 1:15 I had to rush back to work!crisssy30
OMG! I've done the same thing a couple of times taking off with someone elses grocery cart! I eventually look in the cart and say to myself, "who put that in there?"
You finally decide to clean and wax the kitchen floor, but an hour after you finish, the floor is still sticky; the wax somehow doesn't dry. You pour more wax onto the floor only to find out, that you didn't put wax on the floor, but half a bottle of detergent !!!
(Took me an hour to get the soap of the floor.)
[QUOTE=super t]You know it is bad when you come home from taking your cat to the vet and your son tells you that you are wearing your shirt inside out![/QUOTE]Yesterday, I took the dog out for a walk, talked to the neighbor, came back inside and caught a look at myself in the mirror. I had my shirt on backwards and the tag was sticking up on my neck.
When you can read through 14 pages of posts, laughing at all of them and never once get distracted but you can't read a simple article about something important to you because your mind wants to think about everything but that,
you start to tell a hilarious story, get 1/2 way through and forget which one you were telling or
finish with the ending to a totally different one
when you develop and implement a program at work that is so effective your boss asks you to go set the exact same thing up in another location. You get there and just look at the program you created and it makes absolutely no sense to you and you don't remember ever seeing it before
[QUOTE=barb]when you develop and implement a program at work that is so effective your boss asks you to go set the exact same thing up in another location. You get there and just look at the program you created and it makes absolutely no sense to you and you don't remember ever seeing it before[/QUOTE]That is so weird, it has happened to me a LOT!
God, you people are cracking me up! LOL! I'm not an ADHDer, but after a very CHALLENGING and irritation-filled week with my girlfriend (who is), you guys are helping me see many of the reasons why I love her. When I can back off and see the humor, it's great. She makes serious, always-on-time, always-pays-the-bills, always-knows-the-exact-balance-in-her-checking-acount, always-has-her-ducks-in-a-row ME, be LESS SERIOUS! God bless her.
So, I will add one on her behalf:
You know you are ADHD when you agree to meet your significant other in a dog park on one of the COLDEST days of the year in Boston, and you show up wearing a thin jacket, a mini-skirt, white tights, and brand new shoes (did I mention it is also one of the muddiest days?). You have to walk across the field to meet her, and on the way, your white tights get so splattered by mud you resemble a dalmation by the time you get to her, and you're shivering your a** off b/c of the cold.
I mean, really, what could I do but smirk and give her a huge hug???
[QUOTE=Wordwoman]You know your ADD is really bad when you think, "Gosh, I'm hungry,
what's to eat?" -- and then, the microwave dings and you are pleasantly
surprised to find you have already made your lunch.[/QUOTE]
These are just so funny! I can relate because as I get older I am doing the same things. But this one just had me laughing for ever so I had to post how much I enjoyed!
...you have to do the Forgot Password thing almost every day because you don't feel like writing them down and you think you will remember.
You know your add is really bad when.....wait what? Anyways. Alright yeah. WHEN your laying in a tanning bed for 15 mins before you realize you forgot to push the on button...
How come ADHD is the same as "senior moments"???...went to mail a letter at the post office and found myself in my work parking lot (on a Sunday) instead.
I know my ADD is really bad when:
My CD that I bought on overcoming procrastination through hypnosis is 3 yrs old and still has the shrink wrap on it.
My two year contract on my cell phone just came up and I was just about to get around to programming some numbers into it.
I grab a book marker to mark my Page in "Driven to Distraction" and its a business card from 3 jobs ago.
I hear Sly and the Family Stone's "I can see clearly now..." on the radio and I have to pull over and cry. I've had broken noses, broken arms, seperated shoulders, given eulogies for relatives...never a tear, but hearing that song & thinking about how much time and potential is gone and how much of my youth was unwittingly squandered....just the saddest thing.
you know it's bad when:
You're supposed to catch the 7am train up the coast to visit the family (2 hour trip).
Before you know it, it's 1pm and you're still at home. You haven't had breakfast or taken tablets either.
You know your ADD is really bad when...
not only did you put the shirt on inside out, but the tag is on the front of your neck.
[/QUOTE]I have done that (more then once).
You know your ADD is bad when you take forever trying to decide what task you need to do around the house first. Then you get so overwhelmed trying to figure it out that you don't get anything done because by then you are sucked into a show or movie on the television.
These are all hilarious posts. They really make me laugh.
You know your ADD is bad...when you're watching a tv show and you forget what tv show you're watching in the middle of it. *has happened a few times* XDD;
Just loved that one, goldeneagle. Well the good news I was only off by one yearYou know your ADD is really bad when:
You are scheduling an appointment with a doctor, the receptionist asks for your address, and you can't remember where you live!
You know your ADD is really bad when:
You argue with your spouse regarding your age, and your spouse is right.
Unfortunately I can relate to goldeneagle on answering my home phone the way I used to at work (I used to work in a call center), but then one day at work I answered the phone and forgot my own name. That was embarrassing. How does one recover from that gracefully? I just laughed and started over again.
I've also answered the phone at work like I answer it at home, "He-e-e-llo?" The customer just sat there stunned and asked if they had the right number. Whoops!
wow, well if I had been able to hold onto my book that long, I probably would have spaced it all over my house & office. When I called them the next day, they were like AD-who? book? I went on to give them my gazillion-miles-a-minute blog on ADD whowhatwherewhywhenhow...and my important notes & coloring I did in the damn thing.I really didn't want to buy another one - I wanted my scribbles. Come to think .. oh I still haven't bought a replacement! Sheesh. I went to the bookstore, and got side tracked buying new CDs. I lost it on January 2nd. Oy Vey.
You know it's bad when you go back to a topic that you KNOW you wrote a post on and you don't see it on the post list.... Did you hit "submit"?!?
Gah! Well, it's not like I'm not posting enough on other topics - I think my hyperactivity is acting up today... Sorry!
...when, while flossing your teeth you do one quarter of your mouth, stop to unwind some fresh floss, then do the same quarter again because you forgot you just did it...
(kind of weird, but I just had a dentist appointment so I'm all about the dental hygene right now - should last another day or so before I start forgetting!)
Start new job Monday, hope I remember. :) [QUOTE=chatters]When you are getting ready for vacation and your waiting for the clothes to jump in the suitcases...when you have 2 million things to do but your on the computer instead.[/QUOTE]LOL! That's what I'm doing RIGHT NOW.
In my defence I am VERY tired.
You know your ADD is bad when...
Your big family vacation to Mexico is coming up and you work with your wife, packing, getting the kids in the car, driving 45 minutes to the airport...only to discover you left your passports at home. So you go home to get them. Only to return once again to the airport--having missed your flight--to discover that the flight is the next day.
Two years in a row. (Well, the second year we were there on the right day, but I mixed up the dates of our return flight.)
Now my wife handles travel plans.
You know your ADD is bad when...
Your backyard birds have 'feast or famine,' because either you go a month without filling the feeders OR you leave the box/bag/tub of birdfeed out in the yard.
You know your ADD is bad when...
You have a TiVo and still watch the commercials during recorded programs becuase you forget you have a TiVo.
athomas38532.7715162037You know your ADD is really bad when you think, "Gosh, I'm hungry,what's to eat?" -- and then, the microwave dings and you are pleasantly
surprised to find you have already made your lunch.You know your ADD is really bad when...you go to a movie..it's rather long..you can't sit still for the entire thing so during the movie you go and get a drink or walk around you come back and forget what movie you were watching.You know your ADHD is really bad when... You go to get your keys that you've left on the seat of the car and 30 minutes later freaking out looking everywhere in the house, than remembering that when you went to get your keys the first time you never got them, so there still on the seat of the car
you know your ADD is really bad when....
you go to get money out of an ATM machine and you completely skip the part that asks you to put in your pin number. It's right in front of you but you press a button to go next without even noticing and wonder "why can't I get money out? I KNOW i have money in my checking account" LOL.
this happened to me the other day. I was so frustrated. I had gone to renew my license and forgot to bring cash. They do not accept credit cards so I was in trouble. I had to go find an ATM machine. I went right across the street to a gas station and they had one and this is where the situation happened lol.
I thought the ATM machine was broken and was really annoyed. So, I drove down the street for a few miles til I got to another gas station. Again, they had the SAME exact ATM. i was like "oh great!" but I was hoping this one would work. The same thing happened here at this ATM lol. But, this time I picked up on what I had done wrong. All the sudden i remembered about entering my pin number and when I did, out came the 30 dollars I needed lol!! I am soo scatterbrained, forgetful and ADD!!
If I had only realized that earlier at the first gas station right by the drivers license place the whole process would have been a lot quicker, not to mention if I hadn't forgotten the cash to begin with lol.
Speaking of ATM's.....Once, after a particular long work week, I drove away and left my card in the machine, even tho the machine beeps loudly to tell you to take your card out! Luckily, a very nice gentleman pulled up next to me at the stoplight and handed me my card. Talk about feeling like a world class dork!!Princessbride...it is great that we can laugh at ourselves even if no one else understands why we are laughing at ourselves!! This is such a great place to come to. Non-add/hders, even tho they try, just don't get it![QUOTE=pbrstrtgang]you get in the shower with your clothes on [/QUOTE]
... and get out with shampoo still in your hair...
You realized you have not ate dinner at 12 midnight, and you are hungry from missing lunch earlier[QUOTE=BAKtoGriffin][QUOTE=pbrstrtgang]you get in the shower with your clothes on [/QUOTE]
... and get out with shampoo still in your hair...
[/QUOTE]
... or: you get out of the shower and are sure the shampoo still is in your hair, but it's not ...
[QUOTE=Wordwoman]You know your ADD is really bad when you think, "Gosh, I'm hungry,
what's to eat?" -- and then, the microwave dings and you are pleasantly
surprised to find you have already made your lunch.[/QUOTE]
That's so funny! I drive my husband crazy, I'll say what do you want for dinner He'll say lets have steak! OK great! next 10 minutes What do you want for dinner! this happens 3-4 times before it actually sinks in! It really pisses him off
You know your ADHD is really bad when you are doing 110mph down the motorway, and biting the steering wheel while trying not to jump up and down in your seat!
This apparently happened to my hubby a few months ago, while on his way to a motorbike rally!
[QUOTE=addexec]This morning I slathered my toothbrush full of Edge shaving gel. Good thing I noticed before brushing.[/QUOTE
Try liquid soap and not noticing
You know it's bad when you, your husband, and two kids are walking from your hotel room to the restrauant at the resort, with kids behind you, and you hear one daughter tell the other daughter (with the ADD Dx), "Michelle, you dropped your brush!" Then your ADHD husband says to you, "she's always so oblivious to everything."
Then a few minutes later the ADD daughter says," Mom, Dad, wern't we soppossed to go over that bridge to get to the restaurant?....it was 50 yards back!
Add/hd is bad when you step out of the shower and realize you wet your hair down, but forgot to use shampoo.
Add/hd is bad when you step out of the shower and realize you wet your brain down, but forgot to use Ritalin LA.
You know your AD(H)D is bad when you start to get out of the shower but then can't remember is you put the conditioner on your hair so you just do it again.(This always happens to me if I do anything in the shower that is out of sequence)
You know your ADD is bad when.....
You go th the hobby store to pick up supplies for your daughters' school project, and wonder why you're suddenly shopping at Wal-Mart. Worse?..?
Your daughter is with you and was supposed to remind you of where she needed to go for supplies.
daniel
[QUOTE=pilgrim]You know your ADD is bad . . .
The song on the classic rock station is over and
you were spacing out to the tunes of {fill in the most
recent one} and the d.j. starts yaking it up or a
COMMERCIAL comes on, so you flip over to a
jazz station and the same thing happens, flip over to
classicic music or country or ANYTHING so you
don't have to listen to COMMERCIALS that drive
&n bsp; Y O U
&n bsp; C R &nbs p;A Z Y . &nbs p; ;
I cannot stand radio commercials and will listen
to almost any else instead.
Thank goodnes for I-TUNES ! ! ![/QUOTE]
Hey Pilgrim,
I can so tune into that!
I've even trained my kids to do it, too!
We're a commercial free family. I hate yakkers.
Thank goodness for spatial apparatus and xm-band music.
NOt that I like band music, except at high school football games.
 [QUOTE=KTsDistraction]
You know your adhd is really bad when........................................
3 times in the last 2 months
at work, you get up to ask a question in a morning announcement at
work and you forget what you were going to say in front of 60 some
people and you wave your hand in a circular motion going, "Cmon, I got
it. Its coming............." and it doesnt and the boss starts talking
again and you interrupt and say, "Oh, yeh!"
When you are being trained on something new, you just inadvertently start joking about and expanding on what the boss was saying to try to relate to the training material with your own jokes. Or, some crack or joke comes flying out of your mouth otherwise in a meeting. You can't keep it inside and You just blurt this out in the middle of training and some people laugh, some people look at you like your crazy, and your boss gives you that stern look and then you realize, "Oh!!! Oops!" Or he talks over you. (Many, many times!!!)
[/QUOTE]Haey, Katie,
REading MY mail??? I had a fight with the VP of Research (my boss) in Jan at the annual company meeting, b/c he didn't clearly state an instruction, several of us did our presentations as per our understanding, and he goes and uses me to correct the misunderstanding. I'd put in weeks of work on a professional presentation, as did everyone else, so I challenged him, and he got so hot he quit talking. The year before I was the ONLY presenter to get an ovation, out of 15, at a scientific conference.
On the other hand, I was the only one who showed up at the conference with a laser pointer.
 [QUOTE=kibbles002]
You know your ADD is bad when....
You make a doctor's appt a week in advance for 11:00.
The night before the appt. you realize that you have to be back at work by 12:00.. Doable, right? ummm no... left after sitting in the waiting room , wasted a good 1/2 day off, and you wonder why in the world you have absolutley no concept of time!
Sherry
[/QUOTE]Hey, I missed 2 pshrynquiatrist appointments, and he started charging me for the missed ones. And he said if I'm late one more time, he's gonna FIRE ME! And this is on meds, just in June!!!
 You know your day is going to be an ADHD day when you get up at 5:30 to allow yourself enough time to get ready for work, walk two dogs, etc. and still arrive late to work at 8 because you can't find your keys. It is only a 10-15 min. drive to work! After frantically searching, you find them in your jeans pocket from yesterday in the laundry.
supert =
I went to the hardware store and had
1/2 doz. car keys made, their only @ .50-
.00 each, it's worth the few bucks it cost.
D.o. &n bsp; WHAT IS WRONG WITH BAND MUSIC ?
And since we are on the subject of bland
music { whoops i mean Band music, did the
group ' the Band ' play band music ? } , do
you have any idea why i keep getting this:
&nbs p; when I do a post with spaces in a
word, or spaces between words. Pain in the
tusch.
you know it's bad when you have to write a check at a store (because you forgot your debit card) and you have to ask the cashier ," where am I?" and then after she answers with that funny look on her face, you say to her, " what's the date today?" (happened yesterday) ug!ou know your ADD is bad when....
"""You make a doctor's appt a week in advance for 11:00.
The night before the appt. you realize that you have to be back at work
by 12:00.. Doable, right? ummm no... left after sitting in the waiting
room , wasted a good 1/2 day off, and you wonder why in the world you
have absolutley no concept of time!""""
but you made the appointment! having scheduled it a week in advance
-!!!!!!!
go straight to post coping mechanisms... do not pass go, do not collect
0!
{hope u got monopoly over here - or that is just gonna be too obscure}
[QUOTE=supert]You know your day is going to be an ADHD day when you get up at 5:30 to allow yourself enough time to get ready for work, walk two dogs, etc. and still arrive late to work at 8 because you can't find your keys. It is only a 10-15 min. drive to work! After frantically searching, you find them in your jeans pocket from yesterday in the laundry.[/QUOTE]
Hey! that's where I store my keys!!!
Sherry
[QUOTE=chjones]ou know your ADD is bad when....
"""You make a doctor's appt a week in advance for 11:00.
The night before the appt. you realize that you have to be back at work
by 12:00.. Doable, right? ummm no... left after sitting in the waiting
room , wasted a good 1/2 day off, and you wonder why in the world you
have absolutley no concept of time!""""
but you made the appointment! having scheduled it a week in advance
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go straight to post coping mechanisms... do not pass go, do not collect
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{hope u got monopoly over here - or that is just gonna be too obscure}
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WHile, yes, this is true... I only knew to keep it because:
1 I am hyperfocused on ADD right now because of the newness of it all
and 2 My palm alarm went off the night before reminding me that I need to be there.
and yep , got monopoly... Now there's a game that can start an ADD moment.... hee hee
SHerry
[QUOTE=chjones]yeah a palm, that seems to come pretty high up on the cms right next to
post it notes! and write on back of hand (my favourite but only works if
you also forget to have a shower for a week!) --- but have you seen the
new nano ipod??? huh?
i got shown one yesterday and it looks so cool and 'apparently' can do a
lot of the palm-y things just much smaller and far more elegant!
of course, smallness could lead to lose-ability. so maybe not great. and
probably a bit fiddly an all that - but LOOKS fantastic. if i had cash would
get one right now....[/QUOTE]
That's enough of that now!!! Your going to make me impulse buy!! I love my gadgets way too much
Sherry
yeah a palm, that seems to come pretty high up on the cms right next topost it notes! and write on back of hand (my favourite but only works if
you also forget to have a shower for a week!) --- but have you seen the
new nano ipod??? huh?
i got shown one yesterday and it looks so cool and 'apparently' can do a
lot of the palm-y things just much smaller and far more elegant!
of course, smallness could lead to lose-ability. so maybe not great. and
probably a bit fiddly an all that - but LOOKS fantastic. if i had cash would
get one right now....
You know you are still experiencing an ADHD til the bitter end when you started the day getting to work late and then had to come back at 9pm to finish up your newsletter has to go out tomorrow,complete reports and correct papers. I totally love being a teacher. 
But right now, things are feeling...whew! Teaching is not a 9-5 job! I just told someone tonight that September is always a wash for me...getting back into the work routine and trying to balance home and work. Okay..now I will get off my pity party and get those things done so I can go home and get some type of sleep.
But right now, things are feeling...whew! Teaching is not a 9-5 job! I just told someone tonight that September is always a wash for me...getting back into the work routine and trying to balance home and work. Okay..now I will get off my pity party and get those things done so I can go home and get some type of sleep.
[/QUOTE]
Hey Fellow teacher! I know what you mean to an extent... I'm an electives Teacher ( Spanish) So I don't have all the grading and reports.. However, I do have to keep up with over 820 student's stuff! Very difficult when i have a hard enough time keeping up with my own stuff!
One really cool thing about being a teacher with ADD : We get to come up with really neat, creative things to reach our students!! And when we get students with Attentive problems -- we can relate and maybe be a little more helpful than those who don't realize just what they are going through! Good luck balancing everything.. i just finished my lesson plans for next week, ( don't you think I'm organized, I'm just required to turn them in to the principal weekly )
Now its time for me to get to sleep.. gnite!
Sherry
[QUOTE=apprehensive]These are all hysterical (well, in a weird kind of way lol) but I had to add to this one:"I know my ADD is really bad when:
My CD that I bought on overcoming procrastination through hypnosis is 3 yrs old and still has the shrink wrap on it."
My addition: I know my ADD is really bad when, I have a rubbermaid bin full of exercise videos, still in the shrink wrap... I swear, I keep thinking about them! lol[/QUOTE]
LOL! Must be strenuous. Don't sprain your brain, eh?
i did this tonight.....when you start boiling noodles and forget about it, cuz you went in the other room for just a second, walked right by the stove and 15 minutes later remember you were cooking to find a big glob of burned noodles in the pan....boy were my kids pissed when i had to start over and low and behold i did it again. finally they got to eat!!when people are trying to take you down and you dont' care cause you're on Adderall and thinkin its time HAVE SOME FUN!!!!
[QUOTE=brig]i did this tonight.....when you start boiling noodles and forget about it, cuz you went in the other room for just a second, walked right by the stove and 15 minutes later remember you were cooking to find a big glob of burned noodles in the pan....boy were my kids pissed when i had to start over and low and behold i did it again. finally they got to eat!![/QUOTE]
You know your ADHD is acting up when you forget to eat... and it's 22:00, so you eat a can of cold English Clam Chowder... out of the can.
[QUOTE=Davidornado][QUOTE=brig]i did this tonight.....when you start boiling noodles and forget about it, cuz you went in the other room for just a second, walked right by the stove and 15 minutes later remember you were cooking to find a big glob of burned noodles in the pan....boy were my kids pissed when i had to start over and low and behold i did it again. finally they got to eat!![/QUOTE]
You know your ADHD is acting up when you forget to eat... and it's 22:00, so you eat a can of cold English Clam Chowder... out of the can.
[/QUOTE]
no way, i do not like clams.....but you could make me some homemade vegetable beef soup
[QUOTE=sabina]when people are trying to take you down and you dont' care cause you're on Adderall and thinkin its time HAVE SOME FUN!!!!
[/QUOTE]
Hey, Canuckee! Let's go to the seawall and have a great fall!
BTW, what'r ya d'in' on ADDeraaaaaall this time o' nite?
You know you are a ADDer when 1 + 1 = 3
...and it really does make sense!
Against The Wall
my tears fall for thy fallen ones,my sorrow grieves with thee,
my heart hurts with thine,
my pain overwhelming,
fear, anxiety, anger,
no clothes
no home
no work
no food
no car
FATHER!!!
You bear us!
You are with us!
You are not Alone!
You are Hope Arisen!
you know its bad when you're reading through these posts and think 'oh
yeah, that makes me think of x - i'll go and post that up there' and by the
time you go to do it (now) you've already forgotten what is was you
wanted to post.
happened two seconds ago.
you know its bad when you get in your car to visit your friend on a
saturday and half an hour later mysteriously find yourself having driven to
work - and stop, thinking 'why am i here?' You know your AD/HD is reality acting up when...
... your input is as bad as your output...
e.g.
"X" wroted:
i can't tell my mom about my add b/c she is one of those people who thinks it's all bs...
Hey "X",
Check this out. I thought at first you writed
"I can't tell me mum a/b me dad, b/c she is one of those people who thinks he's all bs..."
REallY! I guess I read like I think... in bits and pieces, and put together the whole as I jump to conclusions... you are funny davidornado....
funny peculiar and funny haha - so its all good.
i always do that - read things wrong. there was a poster sticker on the
back of a car in front of me today that said FULCI LIVES (i don't know
who/what fulci is) and i read for no good reason --- FULCI SAVES LIVES
like a whole new word outta nowhere!
it's hopeless.Wow, I read F**K All Lives
And I'm not vulgar!
My wife says 'out of the mouth the heart speaks'.
But I say "I got 'king ADHD! Woman!'
You know your ADD is bad when....
You make a doctor's appt a week in advance for 11:00.
The night before the appt. you realize that you have to be back at work by 12:00.. Doable, right? ummm no... left after sitting in the waiting room , wasted a good 1/2 day off, and you wonder why in the world you have absolutley no concept of time!
Sherry
You know your adhd is really bad when........................................
You lose the pen, pencil or marker you put down 10 seconds ago almost every single time your home and you come back and you can't find it and you spend another half hour looking for a different one and you finally find one. And the next day, the dang pencil, pen, or marker from yesterday is sitting in front of you!
3 times in the last 2 months at work, you get up to ask a question in a morning announcement at work and you forget what you were going to say in front of 60 some people and you wave your hand in a circular motion going, "Cmon, I got it. Its coming............." and it doesnt and the boss starts talking again and you interrupt and say, "Oh, yeh!" Or other mornings you dont ask questions in embarrasment and you just go up to the boss himself.
When you are being trained on something new, you just inadvertently start joking about and expanding on what the boss was saying to try to relate to the training material with your own jokes. Or, some crack or joke comes flying out of your mouth otherwise in a meeting. You can't keep it inside and You just blurt this out in the middle of training and some people laugh, some people look at you like your crazy, and your boss gives you that stern look and then you realize, "Oh!!! Oops!" Or he talks over you. (Many, many times!!!)
Your garbage can is always ending up behind your cubicle on a day to day basis and on to the sales floor and you have no idea why it happens every day. Someone just says, "your garbage can is out there." And your like, "oh.......i'll get it." And then its out there again later!
When you cant find your keys three fourths of the time in the mad dash to work, and so you keep the back door open and hope no crooks come in your house during the day......
You dont know how you took 5 days worth of AM pills after the date it was sposed to be and only have 1 day before the actual day on the PM meds and someone points it out to you that it was only the 12th and you didn't even know you messed up on them besides!!! And Ive lost count how many times in 7 years this has happened alredy.................
You find things in your house you never thought you had before...................
Other people's papers ends up in your backpack after you bring it home from work on a constant basis...........................and you say, "What!?"
KTsDistraction38609.7226851852You Know your ADHD is really bad when......
For the life of you ...You can't figure out what to do.....
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I can relate to that. I was there a few nights ago. it is a really bad place to be in. All I can say is that I wish you the best and hope you get better and find your way out of "the black hole" soon.....Take Care!
These are all hysterical (well, in a weird kind of way lol) but I had to add to this one:
"I know my ADD is really bad when:
My CD that I bought on overcoming procrastination through hypnosis is 3 yrs old and still has the shrink wrap on it."
My addition: I know my ADD is really bad when, I have a rubbermaid bin full of exercise videos, still in the shrink wrap... I swear, I keep thinking about them! lol
David-You cannot judge all teachers by one teacher! In defense of teachers, when talking to children who go on and on at times, we have adapted over the years to getting the conversation to the point. Sometimes, unfortunately, this does transfer to adult conversations. Teachers, I can only speak for myself, do not mean to be rude...we just get into teacher "mode" and sometimes it can be difficult to get out of it! Like when we ask adults to take a bathroom break and to make sure they washed their hands. LOLSuper T. LOL! Very funny!
I find myself switching to "teacher" mode with my co-workers often! And I was only a teacher for a couple of summers! Sticks with you it seems LOL
I've had teachers that cover both ends of the spectrum good AND bad! And I must say the good ones stuck with me to this day! The ones I remember always saw through the ADHD kid and looked at the "spark" I seemed to have. They had seemingly endless patience and always found a way inside my addled mind. Wonderful people.
Even the ones that had no clue of what I had or how to "control" me often made a big influence on me and my life. My grade 5 english teacher, who in our small country school was also the principal, was a BIG influence on me! He was very upright english from Jolly Old England. He would often encourage and challenge me like noone before or after. I remember him telling me "you Mr. Watson, are a Prrrrrrocrastinator! If you learn to control THAT you can do anything!". He rolled the r in procrastinator that made it seem to me to be a mysterious and powerful word! He encouraged me to enter intra-school debating, and to love literature like noone had me do.
Wonderful teachers can make a big difference! The ones that tried to beat me into their idea of a good, quiet student are behind me and I don't pay any mind to them. I only now have wonderful memories of those great great teachers that made me who I am today!!!
- Glen
Oh, I was going to do a "you know your ADHD is bad when..." and forgot! LOL
Typical ADHD huh? LOL
Well -
You know your ADHD is bad when you get a short list of directions from someone and walk 2 feet away... only to have to turn back and get more than one piece of it read back to you because it's totally gone. You know your ADHD is TERRIBLE when you have to do it 8 times before it sticks! Happened WAY too often! LOL
But I'm MUCH better now!
Remember that one? Night Court if my memory serves me.
- Glen
[QUOTE=supert]David-You cannot judge all teachers by one teacher! In defense of teachers, when talking to children who go on and on at times, we have adapted over the years to getting the conversation to the point. Sometimes, unfortunately, this does transfer to adult conversations. Teachers, I can only speak for myself, do not mean to be rude...we just get into teacher "mode" and sometimes it can be difficult to get out of it! Like when we ask adults to take a bathroom break and to make sure they washed their hands. LOL[/QUOTE]'Sup, sup?
Yes, you are right. I didn't intend to imply all teachers.
Here I sit,
broken hearted,
came to learn,
my brain! ...it farted.
In these cases, btw, they were jumping to conclusions assuming they knew the gist of my unfinished question. The revelation there was that all three did it in one night. Probably wouldn't have caught it otherwise. Thanks for the head's up ^~^ !
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You know your ADD is really bad when you don't let someone finish saying what they are saying before you interrupt and answer them. I do it all the time!
Shoot, Dornado, I guess I don't like myself much either!
Teachers of children are so experienced in communicating with children, that when communicating with adults, it's a challenge to disconnect from their communication style, and the communicated adults can misunderstand the communicating teacher.
Outwardly, to the teacher, the non-teacher adult may appear to be communicating as a student communicating to his teacher, but, the teacher should be cautious in their responding communication style.
I say all that b/c at back to high school night this week I initiated verbal intercourse with all of my daughter's teachers. When speaking with a new acquaintence, I carefully choose my words to avoid misunderstandings, therefore speak on the slow side.
Three of the six jumped to conclusions during my uncompleted question, and all three malassumed. What I just realized was that they were triggered to think down a classroom-like pathway by the initiation of my questioning, but it's destination was not what they'd assumed.
I wonder if this was b/c we were in their classroom?
I love to disagree! Frankly, some people just think they know what you are going to say and don't listen to you, thus interrupting. A good teacher should listen to a student so they know what the kid is talking about.
I remember too many teachers who responded to what they thought my problem was and refused to accept that that really wasn't what I was talking about. When I don't get something, its very hard sometimes to express just what it is you aren't getting.
In my experience as a parent, children are very hard to understand. Not only do you have to listen to them, you have to ask pointed questions to find out what they really mean. I already don't like your kid's teachers and I don't even know them.
Sorry David. We aren't on the same page this tiime.
. . . when this seems funny,
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never thought of that...always just pegged the male teachers and their bombastic rhetoric when aimed at me as the usual "need to impress" stuff, I just wouldn't want to judge every school by the one I know and many teachers work their butts off for the students, they just may act out toward the adults..sigh