WHEN 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.

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!)

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!  

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!

You know your ADD is really bad when:

You argue with your spouse regarding your age, and your spouse is right.

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 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 $10 and I can set it to hourly chime.  Maybe this was a good thing. 

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!

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.

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.

Yes, frustrating. Yet, just think of the $$ you save when this happens to you!

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!!!!

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.

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?"[/QUOTE]

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!!!

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.

[QUOTE=pbrstrtgang]you get in the shower with your clothes on [/QUOTE]

... and get out with shampoo still in your hair...

[QUOTE=pbrstrtgang]you get in the shower with your clothes on [/QUOTE]

... and get out with shampoo still in your hair...

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... 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

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 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!

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!

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.)

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

... 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.

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 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

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!

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!

[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.

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................

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=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=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!

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 $1,200 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=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 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.

[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'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.)

I love all the posted.  I have been there with all of them.

The password thing.  Save your passwords to excel sheet at work, and at home.I added a sheet to my checkbook excel spreadsheet, so the passwords tips.  Also, try to use the same password for everything.

That is not a ADHD advise, but a professor in Accounting.

I was diagnosed when I was 20 years old.  It took me 10 years for 2 year degree.  I joke that I took the scenic route through college.  It has been 4 years, so I think it is time to go back, but...

The key thing.  Make 12 copies.  This was a trick told to me by a dr. with Adhd was well.  Give copies to people that you trust.  12 does sound a lot.  But as Adhd knows, maybe not a enough.  I haven't had to make 12 in awhile.  I do have 6 copies. 

Each of my parents have a key, my daughter (9) has a set of keys for the house, and the car.  I have 3 different copies.  1 in my backpack, one in glove department ( it happens losing car key even with the car open)  Coworkers that don't live near you, you trust give them a set of you keys. 

Leave one at work, one under a rock, just make sure you paint the rock to remember which rock.  That was one thing the doctor highly recommended.

Good luck to all.

Adhd we 

The password thing.  Save your passwords to excel sheet at work, and at home.I added a sheet to my checkbook excel spreadsheet, so the passwords tips.  Also, try to use the same password for everything.

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You are as unsecured as I am....

I keep a key in the car, a key under the car, a key in my wallet, and a key on my keychain. Each of my kids has a key, and my wife... I still got locked out b/c the key I kept in my hand didn't open the door, the key under the car was the same, the wallet I left in the car, as well as the key in the car, the kids and wifey were all at home, and I was on business in L.A....

You know your ADD is really bad When you...

...  make coffee, to only forget to place the pot under the drip.

...finished cooking, to only forget to turn off the burner.

...while cooking go to another room, and get distracted in doing this and that, and untill you smell something cajin.

... you ask a question...THAT YOU JUST ASKED 5 MINS AGO.

...When your husband who is away from come complains that he hasn't been getting any mail from, and insistantly tell him that you have been writting and mailing...then 2 months down the road, you find letters around the house, trunk of car, purse..etc that are of misc. dates. -- UGGH!!

...Leave your keys in the front door of your house.

...Leave your keys locked in the car...even after the car beeped at you to warn you your keys are in the ignition..but you just couldn't figure out what didn't "quite feel right"

...when you tell your friends about the scenariors above and they tell you "oh that happens to all of us at times" and then when they notice, it is "frequent" with you, then they say... "I think you might have ADD"  DUHH!!

...when you clean house, & things just get shoved in boxs, only to be moved to a closed room...along w/ years of other boxes of things you had intend to get to later.

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Keys: I too have several sets - on w/ a very trusted friend only 2 miles away...so not to long of a walk if needed.  I have lost keys, and only to find them a year later in a bottom kitchen cabinet pushed back in the corner.... I think I tossed them there to hide them from my two year old...hide them so well, I didn't remember hiding them.  It was a locked cabinet, so only I could get into it.

You know your ADD is bad when

You lose the cap to your adderall in the time that it takes to get one pill out and swallow it. I do this every morning (Oh well it will turn up eventually or my G/f will find it whilel i am at work)

I love you, too, God!

[QUOTE=Madame LasaGna] [QUOTE=pbrstrtgang] you get in the shower with your clothes
on
[/QUOTE]
I am a 52 yr. old domestic goddess who was diagnosed with
ADD a few years ago. Computers generally give me a rash,
but this I could do. I love you people!

You know your ADD is really bad when you get in the shower
with your glasses on...............get it?

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You get something out of your car trunk at a party, get in your car, turn it on and your friends tell you that you left your key in the trunk. You are freaking out wondering how you will get your key out so you can go home and the whole time the stupid car is running.

true story! I think they knew me better than I did at the time! LOL

I got a spam notice, so wrote the same thing again, not realizing it actually had posted. First spam notice I ever got!

[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]

If I had a dime for every time my son told me, "Mom, you left your keys in the door again.." I would be able to retire yesterday!

[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]

Been there and done that!!

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.

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By the end of the school year, I am doing that just about every work day!  I have discovered travel spray Downy that takes out the wrinkles!!  Makes the basement, been in the dryer for a week smell go away too!!

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.)

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Dont feel bad...I have actually done the opposite and got home and realized that I never picked up my baby from the babysitter and now have to go back and then pay the late fee.

Or when your baby is usually the last child at the day care because you were so distracted with other things that you get there at closing time!

Then there was the time I yelled at my hubby for leaving the car window open all night [/QUOTE]

OMG...Barb! I actually made an impulse purchase of a small turkey after thanksgiving and forgot to take it in the house.

THEN..I left the car window open and one of our cats got in and had a little feast (BIG Sparrow, I'm sure she thought). Once the thing had rotted, I drove around for a few days spraying air freshener around.

Finally, I took my son to the orthodontist and found the rotten turkey. Imagine what the receptionist thought when I asked her for a plastic bag so I could throw my rotten turkey out in their (outside) trash!

The good thing is that my son will not ever have high expectations of a spouse in terms of memory, coordination, organization or housekeeping.

Joyous,

 Yes! You said it so well. I am helping my son to appreciate the wonderful wife he will one day have! It won't even be hard for her! Not only will she measure up to Mom, she will surpass me! LOL   I'm jealous of her already!

Turkey anyone?

You know your ADHD is really bad when...

...your monthly medical expense for your medicine and psychvisit alone is over $1,200.00...

You know your ADHD is really bad when...

...half the meds you take are to mitigate the side effects of the mitigating meds (high bp, sweats, diarhea, etc.)...

You know your ADHD is really really really bad when...

...you are at the top of the label for your main med (Ritn60mg), so Dalk ADDs another (Prvgl400mg), and later ADDs another (Efxr600mg)!...

Joyous,

 Yes! You said it so well. I am helping my son to appreciate the wonderful wife he will one day have! It won't even be hard for her! Not only will she measure up to Mom, she will surpass me! LOL   I'm jealous of her already!

Turkey anyone?

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Oh, my dear, dear, ladies,

Your son will marry a woman who is as gifted an ADHD as his mother is...

How do I know this?

Because, I did, and this was well before ADHD existed... 

All is good, however. The way I figure it, the pioneering pointwork we do now, will assist the AD/HDrs and their mendicants in the years to come. So, at least, they should know what they're dealing with. So unlike us, eh? hehe

Popinbubbles,

D

You know your ADHD is really bad when...

...your favorite forum is...

... "You know your ADHD is really bad when..."

You know your ADD is bad when...

...you've spent years going to therapy, multiple misdiaganosed ailments and just generally feeling crappy about yourself, thinking you are nuts...

You know your ADD is good...

...when you finally figure out that you have ADD, learn about it and can forgive yourself for being so hard on yourself!  I always knew I was a unique person!  Now I know why!

Plus now I can help my children to appreciate their unique brains too, and not have to live through the h3ll I did!  We have the best coping mechanisms!

[QUOTE=adhdeaf]you know your ADHD is so bad when..

  (I forgot what I was going to say!)
[/QUOTE]

You know your ADHD is really bad when...

...you use what someone forgot to remember what you had not necessarily forgotten, but had not thought about in a long time...

Sooo, here you go. Blame adhdeaf.

In the 1994 runaway best seller, Drs. Holloway & Ratey listed 20 diagnostic symptoms of AD/HD. Among the twenty were benefits and detriments such as creative, distractable, intuitive, forgetful, restless, impulsive, inventive, etc. A positive response to any observation scored as a one, therefore the type and severity of ADD / ADHD was empirically determinable, ranking from 0 - 20.

They were correct. Of the 20 symptoms described, I had 21. How can that be, you inquire? Well, I created a new one they hadn't thought of. And what is that, you ask? I forget...

You know your ADHD is really bad when...

You have wasted every day of your life since college(where you barely graduated from) for 7 yrs & counting working at Crappy Call Center/Customer service jobs because your potential so severely handicapped by ADD & your "useful" Liberal Arts Degree keep you HALF a step above Mickey-D's flipping burgers. You are "shackled" to a desk & spend 8 hours(that feels like 800  hrs) a day repeating the same mind-numbing spiel to rude, godless,  OVERPRIVILEGED rich people in luxury cars on an OnStar type service. On top of that, you struggle EVERYDAY to make it on time(arriving late on most occasions) to this hell U dwell in. The torture is minute by minute as you have to hear the bark of bottom-feeding supervisors(non-degreed I might add) that will NEVER rise above this station, but feel like they are gods getting to 'crack the whip' telling you to do work THEY cannot do.

You know your ADD is bad when:

you are artistically gifted, able to draw anything, yet cannot seem to make a full living at it(except occasionally doing caricatures @ parties) because, despite being creatively brilliant, your ADD sabotages your self confidence, so you feel like you cannot Possibly learn programs on how to do art on Computers via Illustrator, Photo-Shop, etc., so technologically you are 10 yrs behind everyone else & can't even get an ENTRY LEVEL Graphic Artist Job that you would enjoy a Bazillion times more than the OFFICE SPACE-like job U have now.

You know your ADD is bad when:

You are a GREAT writer as well as Artist. You can write poems, songs, short stories, SCREENPLAYS, you name it....YET you cannot make a living at writing because of that BEAUTIFUL reality we ADDers call "THE PROCRASTINATION ZONE"...The discipline required to carve a career in screenwriting is as real a a UNICORN that Flatulates FAIRY DUST...You THINK everyday about writing but day in & day out(with the exception being some momentary "bursts of creativity" once every few weeks), NO SOLID WRITING GETS DONE...hence NO COMPLETED SCRIPTS...You start out Excited, but the interest burns out & you move on to the next/nearest stimuli...

You know your ADD is bad when:

You feel like a total failure 23 hrs a day(the one good hour is the boost you feel after taking your 30mg generic Adderall substitute pill) because you can(here's my catchphrase): "TASTE THE DAYS YOU/I WASTE". You are married to a woman/person, who despite their best intentions & love(& a touch of ADD it seems), have the anal need to be RIGHT more than the desire to be HAPPILY married...Your "better half" loves you to death, but just not enough to curtail the nagging, control issues, & the deluted opinion that because you have ADD, you cannot be counted with things that greatly affect the household. Your ADD is seen as the reason you "don't seem to understand what she(or he) is trying to say, when you actually DO understand, YOU JUST DON'T AGREE with"MRS GOTTA BE RIGHT"

WELCOME TO MY LIFE...

did I mention our 1st baby is due later this year & my "perfect" spouse keeps griping about wanting to "Make the house a home" and buying furniture & Pottery Barn/Ikea crap & the lack of money & savings we have despite the fact that she(while intelligent w/numerous gifts) REFUSES to try & do ANYTHING to bring in extra Income while I bring in extra money thru caricature gigs?How can anyone(esp. w/someone who admitted she is 'NOT AN ENTREPRENEURIAL PERSON') try & tell you  what THEY think should be done w/extra money that is brought in to the household when they have not lifted a darn(I'll be clean) finger to bring in any extra income?

*note* I'm sorry...I got off track...Imagine that.

I'll get back on track long enough to say: A) ADD has ruined my life & B) I'm in Hell...

F.Y.I. Tickets to my Pity Party Go on sale RIGHT NOW!

You know you really have bad ADHD when...

...35 of 108 posts, or 32.407407407407407407407% are in the "You know you really have ADHD bad" forum...

Hey Bree,

Welcome to the world of AD/HD! At least you're young enough to enjoy it... I didn't find out until I was 42 walking through the hospital corridors looking in mirrors seeing this old fart who didn't look like me saying I'm getting too old for this as his "Southern Belle" was screaming about something about it's his fault having our 8th child cuz I worked too hard making sooo much money with the gifted creativeness I was born into this world with inventing things that made sooo much millions that i listened to others and tried to do things their way soooo I lost it all a few times but couldn't give up having great ideas so i kept making more and she never had to work either cuz that's the American way but I said it was yesteryear when we had a west to keep westering to but now have struck the great Pacific barrier and became old trying to go west

Hey, that was kind of fun. Therapeutic, I think.

Hey, Bree, need some meds, I think. If you have AD/HD, means someone must have dx'd it for you, so they should Rx something, too, eh?

Sure, we ADrs come up with some great stuff, the best are our coping mechanisms, I believe. But, there comes a time in all times, when our copemechs need some assistance, and that's when we finally believe someone that the problem is mine, not hers, and go see someone about it who knows about it and can do something about it so it gets done and life is better.

Go see a Pshrynque and ask for remediation with assets such as Ritalin, ADDerall, Compuesta (shoot, I forgot what it was called), Symbalta (another forget), etc. This stuff really works, as long as its still active. My problem is that it wears off, so I end up self medicating a lot with trimethylxanthine, and red, juicy beef.

Hey, Torynado wants to go swimming now, so I gots to go, I'll catch you on the flip side. Oh, crabbypatties, she just threw SquareBob SpongePants at me...

D

DAVID,

Thanks, but I'll be 35 in November(no Spring chicken, I!!!). Because of ADD(naturally), It took me longer to finish college than your average person...I was 27 when I made it out & have languished(quite beautifully I add) in MEDIOCRITY ever since...

My ADD diagnosis left a lot to be desired...The ADDerall generic substitute works ok for awhile, but of course burns off too quickly...

I tried Concerta, but IT PUTS ME TO SLEEP...The few times I took it, felt like I got slipped some ROOFIES...I don't know WHY I react to it like that...

I've tried stuff like CHOLINE COCKTAIL(powder), CORAL CALCIUM...

My next step to combat Procrastination???: SUBLIMINAL CDs...Been meaning to order it for months, just haven't gotten around to it...SERIOUSLY.

ANYTHING ELSE U CAN SUGGEST?

You know you're wildly ADHD when...

... you order two lunches off the menu because you can't decide which one to have...

... then go back to work stuffed b/c of your gluttony...

... and fall asleep half an hour later b/c of the gastro-cerebral shunt...

I am 32.  I am not spring Chicken either.

Concerta does the opposite for me.  Prozac made me dead to world.

I became a ginny pig for a drug trial, that is how I found my doctor.

I have spent 10 years plus in search of a doctor that doesn't think that add is just a kids disease.

You know you're wildly ADHD when...

...you finally figure out you don't suffer from ADHD...

...you enjoy every minute of it!!!...

... and it's the normals around you that suffer...

... you...

You know your WILDLY ADHD when you...

...deal with procrastination by waiting until the last minute....

DAVID,

Thanks, but I'll be 35 in November(no Spring chicken, I!!!). Because of ADD(naturally), It took me longer to finish college than your average person...I was 27 when I made it out & have languished(quite beautifully I add) in MEDIOCRITY ever since...

My ADD diagnosis left a lot to be desired...The ADDerall generic substitute works ok for awhile, but of course burns off too quickly...

I tried Concerta, but IT PUTS ME TO SLEEP...The few times I took it, felt like I got slipped some ROOFIES...I don't know WHY I react to it like that...

I've tried stuff like CHOLINE COCKTAIL(powder), CORAL CALCIUM...

My next step to combat Procrastination???: SUBLIMINAL CDs...Been meaning to order it for months, just haven't gotten around to it...SERIOUSLY.

ANYTHING ELSE U CAN SUGGEST?

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Hey, Spring Chicken!

Compared to me, you’re a young ster… I guess that makes me a Fall Bull...

Jeex, I thought it took me long to get out of college (30 in '86)… I didn’t languish in mediocrity, b/c of a girlfriend I had that challenged me, and a movie I saw called the Paperchase. I told her I’d never be a cog, I’ll be the wheel… So I did. Millions of dollars later, I went bankrupt….

ADDerall sounds like it works for you, so stick to it. Just remember to take it. I didn’t so Dalk put me on a timed release Ritalin L.A., that although I HATE LA (I’m a SF Giants fan), it’s been the best thing for me. I never forget to take it now, cuz I always take it in the morning. And I only have to take it once.

Not LA, cuz I still want to BEAT LA!... I hate LA. The Lakers, the Rams (don't let them fool you, it's all just a big confederacy, the StLo Rams are really the LA Rams)...

About Concerta putting you to sleep, I think that means its working. Cuz you’re no longer hyper, but relaxed. The dose may not have been enough (it’s timed release Ritalin, and comes in four flavors: 54mg, 30 something, etc. etc.).

Ever thought of timed release release release ADDerall? ADDerall? ADDerall? ADDerall S.A. (for slow acting).

Coral calcium was for teeth brightening, no? Choline cocktail sounds good. I’ll take one. What’s in it? I’m into anti-choline esterases, though….

Non-drug coping mechs: TNTC (that's microbialexicology for Too Numerous To Count). Surround yourself with people who are not AD/HD (very hard to do, b/c no one else can relate). Determine it's ok to do som eth ing s in bi ts & p'sss. Something will always TRGGRR you to go back and finish... either your boss, your pastor, or your wife.... or your checking account....

Determine it's OK to do it your way...

PROCRASTINATION? I deal with it by waiting until the last minute...

You know you really belong to the ADD / ADHD world, when...

... you realize you do not suffer from ADHD, it is what has made you who you are today (although God had everything to do with it)...

...rather you suffer from the abuse and thoughtlessness that those who do not understand it HEAP on us...

...for you suffer not just for yourself, but for all of us who are LIKE MINDED...

You know you are having an ADHD day when...

You turn around and ask your son the same question you just asked him five minutes ago.

You cannot fall asleep until 6 am because you haven't taken your meds in two days and your body feels like it is vibrating with energy.

"project Jump"...you start on one project and then you see something on another counter and you leave the first project unfinished to go start on the next project and so on and so forth.

It takes you 4 hours to do the dishes (no dishwasher) because it is impossible to stand there and do the dishes all at one time.

Burn your dinner because you get distracted with a tv show coming on and forget you are cooking dinner.

[QUOTE=Heatherww]You knowit's bad when:

Doing laundry is like discovering a whole new wardrobe 


and you find out that having nothing to wear has become, "how do I choose when I have so many?" because of all the things you bought because you never had anything to wear and which are now clean, albeit wrinkled.

Your child starts doing the laundry for herself and her little brother so they have something to wear.

One of your kid's favorite birthday party traditions is for all the kids to decorate the cake because Mom always forgets to bake it until they are showing up!

Your child's friends are disappointed that they are not decorating the cake this year after it has become tradition, because you finally remembered .

You tell your child she can have a party if she cleans the house, not because you want a bunch of kids partying but just because the house will still be cleaner after they leave than it was before. (I am much better now. After she grew up and left for college I had to learn how to keep house)

You try like 4 times to insert an emoticon before you get it where you want it.

You know you are having an ADHD day when...

"project Jump"...you start on one project and then you see something on another counter and you leave the first project unfinished to go start on the next project and so on and so forth.

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Hey,

I wondered what that activity was called... I was always at a loss trying to explain it....

But, at the end of the day, all the projects were finished, right? Except the ones you started late and will carry on tomorrow; which is the peg on which you can hang your start hat...

You know you are having an ADHD day when...

"project Jump"...you start on one project and then you see something on another counter and you leave the first project unfinished to go start on the next project and so on and so forth.

[/QUOTE]

Hey,

I wondered what that activity was called... I was always at a loss trying to explain it....

But, at the end of the day, all the projects were finished, right? Except the ones you started late and will carry on tomorrow; which is the peg on which you can hang your start hat...

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I would love to say all my projects are done at the end of the day....SURE!  The problem is I always have at least five going on between work and home.  Especially with work...the countdown to the school year has started.  Every year I love to do a theme in my classroom.  This year it is the zoo....it is fun and then I don't get bored with my surroundings but at the same time a lot of work!  I love being creative but at the same time, it consumes a lot of my time-especially when I am hyper focused! 

my pharmacist tells me I picked up my prescription two days ago. 

yOU kNOW yOU'RE wILDLY aDHD wHEN...

ROTFLMAOL!* 





*Rollin'

ROFL!

You know you have ADHD when someone else's play games makes sense to you!         &n bsp;         &n bsp;         &n bsp;         &n bsp;   word

You know you have ADHD when you post something, then edit it and still can't get it right!

My last post was supposed to have the word "play" directly over "word" meaning "play on word"   and this brain can't figure out what keeps going wrong.

you know you have ADHD when you keep doing the same thing wrong againandagainandagainandagainandagain......ad infinitum........................

You know your ADD is really bad when...

You put on 2 different colored socks and when you get to work people ask you if you are color blind.

[QUOTE=Davidornado]
yOU kNOW yOU'RE wILDLY aDHD wHEN...

ROTFLMAOL!* 





*Rollin'MyArseOffOnTheFloorLaughingOutLoud [/QUOTE]

Hey, isn't that Rollin'OnTheFloorLaughingMyAssOutLoud?????

Dave....has anyone ever suggested that you might have ADHD?????

You know you have ADHD when you post something, then edit it and still can't get it right!

My last post was supposed to have the word "play" directly over "word" meaning "play on word"   and this brain can't figure out what keeps going wrong.

you know you have ADHD when you keep doing the same thing wrong againandagainandagainandagainandagain......ad infini tum........................

You know your ADD is really bad when...

You put on 2 different colored socks and when you get to work people ask you if you are color blind.

[QUOTE=Davidornado]
yOU kNOW yOU'RE wILDLY aDHD wHEN...

ROTFLMAOL!* 


*Rollin'MyArseOffOnTheFloorLaughingOutLoud [/QUOTE]

Hey, isn't that Rollin'OnTheFloorLaughingMyAssOutLoud?????

You know you are WiLdLy ADHD when...


... you can't always finish what you started...

... so you go start something else...

[QUOTE=Davidornado]
yOU kNOW yOU'RE wILDLY aDHD wHEN...

Dave....has anyone ever suggested that you might have ADHD?????

[QUOTE=addMDtobe
...when your "file cabinet" is stacks of paper on the floor
 [/QUOTE]

Whew!!!  I am not the only one who does that!

[QUOTE=bugzappers]
you also know when your adhd when you think of something funny to say 10 minutes after the subject you were talking about has ended but you don't care and then people look at you like your from mars, and then you think they are crazy...
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I have done that!  More times than I care to admit!

You know you are having an ADHD day when you get out of the shower when you are only half done!  or with conditioner still on your hair.

Also, I have realized that I had two different brown clogs on when I was shopping! 

...while being temporarily seperated from your spouse, you decide you can't afford to keep your home and make a decision to put it on the market...after getting and offer and signing the contract, you forget the closing date.  You call the realtor, she forgot what the date was on the contract as well...and in mid-conversation with your realtor, you both realize niether one of you took your adderall...

...your add sister refers to the psych doctor as "the drug dealer"...

...so you find your own "drug dealer", get a diagnosis to find out you have ad/hd...then a month later refer your mom to "the drug dealer" for diagnosis to find out she has add also...

...and you decide to take your mom, sister, and add-friendly husband out to lunch; and realize 15 minutes into the conversation why your husband is so quiet: he can't follow the ever-changing conversation!

....or your boss at work says to you, "I'm not talking to you today until you take your medicine!"

or after a hard day at work, you say to yourself, "This whole world needs a diagnosis!"

On your way home from a new swimming spot your 14 yr old son has to tell you which way to turn at each intersection...till you get back to familiar territory.

When....

You are putting away grocries, cleaning the garbage can, organizing the cupboard under the kitchen sink, trying on clothes you havent seen in a while, AND during this WHOLE TIME as you ping-pong from room to room, you are very thirsty and kep thinking I need to get a glass of water...and each time you go back to the kitchen, to where your orginal task of putting away groceries, you soon forget and get busy doing other things...and then this forum comes to mind...so what do I do?.... I come post... BEFORE I GET THE GLASS OF WATER!!! 

Say a prayer... I am headed back to the kitchen to get that glass of whater. 

Man forgets wife at gas station

Monday, August 8, 2005; Posted: 10:36 a.m. EDT (14:36 GMT)

ROME, Italy (Reuters) -- A Macedonian man left his wife at an Italian service station and only realized he had driven off without her six hours later, news agency Ansa said.

The couple, who were travelling with their 4-year-old daughter, pulled over for petrol in the coastal city of Pesaro as they were heading back to their home to Germany.

After filling the tank, the husband drove away -- without noticing that his 30-year-old wife, originally from Georgia, had got out of the car to go to the toilet.

The woman, who had no money or documents with her, contacted the police who eventually traced her husband to Milan, some 340 km (210 miles) north of Pesaro, Ansa said.

The husband told police he had not missed his wife because she always sat in the back of the car with their daughter.

Copyright 2005 Reuters. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

Dark Angel....

Beans on toast? What? Never heard of that before! Can I have the recipe??

And the dinner lady? P.E. kit? I've been looking at UK ADD forums today and I can't understand all of what they're talking about either.

I didn't know I could become even MORE befuddled than I am!

wow.

what is marmite?

When…

Your at work and you put on your headphones on to listen to your CD’s and find out they finally went out.  

A few minutes later you find yourself trying to figure out why you can not hear the music from your computer… You tweak w/ the speaker set up for a few minutes and am dumfounded as to why that is not working any more, and why sound is only coming out of the speakers and not your HEADPHONES… DUHH – the head phones didn't work in your CD player, whey would they work in the computer?!!! 

I always thought I was absent minded…or cause I am Blonde…now I know its ADD!! 

Dark Angel,

What are trainers, is it like a training bra 

 good one DavidOrlando, that will send me to bed with a laugh?

good night

Dark Angel,

What are trainers, is it like a training bra 

I was just kidding dark angel, I knew it wasn't a training bra, just messing with you!  I actually thought that each student got their own personal trainer.

I was just kidding dark angel, I knew it wasn't a training bra, just messing with you!  I actually thought that each student got their own personal trainer.

You know your ADD is really bad when...

you have to live with it

You know your ADD is really bad when...

You go to work and noones there because its a holiday or like I did Monday when I walked in an hour late and everyone says what are you doing here ? Right away I say sh*t ...Is it my day off?? 

This time I was on vacation and didn't know or forgot or somethin like that

pssssst........

I'm new here.  Hello everyone !

pssssst........

I'm new here.  Hello everyone !

Your ADHD is really bad when…

It’s twilight outside, you’re in your underwear brushing your teeth in the bathroom and you can’t remember whether you just got up or were just about to go to bed!

Your AHDH is bad when…

You into the men’s loos and wee into the bin instead of one of the urinals.

The interesting thing i find is how a drug can affect people differently.  I take 40mg adderal in am and 20mg in afternoon.  & to be honest, I don't even feel a thing, to where i question if I am getting a placebo (I know I am not)  Yet if you were to give this drug to a person who does not have ADD/ADHD and it would stimulate them.

Think of the inside of your head not as a moist, dark, grey matter writhing, electons pulsing, pulpy region, but like your face (don't look for your innerchildren, cuz they're on summervacation...).

Now look at someone else.

Does their brain look like your face?
Or does your face look like their brain?
Or does your face look like their face?
Or does their brain look like your brain?

This is your friend's face:

This, is your friend's brain:
>>>###~~~}{}---{}{***>>>&&&^^^>>>+++$$$???

This, is your friend's brain on your friend's face:

>>>###~~~}{}---{}{***>>>&&&^^^>>>+++$$$???
                                                   

This, is your brain. >>>~~~???}{}{}{***###>>>^^^>>>+++ ---$$$&&&

This, is your brain. >>>~~~???}{}{}{***###>>>^^^>>>+++ ---$$$&&&

This, is your brain. >>>~~~???}{}{}{***###>>>^^^>>>+++ ---$$$&&&

This, is your face:

This, is your brain on medication: >>>>>>>>>>>> ;>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ;>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ;>>>>>>>>>

I am actually thinking my dosage needs to be higher, but concerned of going to much and becomming addictive - Question - how would an add'er be addictive when it is use as intended and needed to regulate the chemicals in the body, and this is something that needs to be continued.

I am actually thinking my dosage needs to be higher, too. But I'm not concerned of going too much, because I'm already addictive (not to meds, I can quit anytime, already have 13 times), as a matter of fact...[/quote]

You know your ADHD is bad when:

You've broken into your house at least 7 times in the last 2 months since you left your keys inside the house through the window and you don't even bother to fix the screen on it after three times since it may just happen again............

You lost your headphones for your job 2 weeks after they were given to you by the trainer and after $50.00 just came out of your paycheck for your first pair and now you have to pay another $50.00 out of your hard earned money! AAAA!!

You wake up early(at 5am) with good intentions to get ready for work and be ready and your distracted by a gazillion and one things around you like your journal, silly putty, and other things and then you try to find things in piles of papers and clothes and you get agitated and throw a can of minute maid across the room with juice still in it, scream, hurry around trying to do 20 things at once, shove everything in closets and thats your way of cleaning, looking for clothes, then realizing it is 7:30 in the morning, hop in the shower, get dressed, cram everything in your bag (which I do forget something), and with 15 mins to spare go to the Citgo station to get another pack of cigarettes and powerwalk to work even if it means outrunning the train on the route. And come into work sweating every morning and just making it and getting a spot. (Phew! This is my normal thing each morning)

No one else is turning around so strong and voraciously in that work chair and even spinning in it, or on their knees and doing it back and forth during sales calls almost an entire shift on a day to day basis, or pushing themselves in and out of their cubicle and standing and changing positions every 15 minutes! And leaving bits and pieces of silly putty on the cubicle and the phone and then not being able to get it off!

Today (drum roll)...I walked in on my mom and discovered that she's having an affair. I just bumbled into her house..."MOM...MOM...are you here?? Where are you?" She normally turns out the lights if she leaves the house. "Are you okay?" I had the dog with me and she raced into my mom's bedroom and I heard rustling of the sheets and, "Uhh...yes, I'm okay. Call the dog out." AUUUGHHH.

I called the dog and she wouldn't come out--she was stuck in the doorway. I had to go to my mom's bedroom door and open it (all the while PRAYING I wouldn't see anything). I had to get some cheese out of  the refrigerator and entice her out! hahaha

 That is so funny!!!  Yes, I guess I am you...lmao

you know your adhd is bad when you can't find the quotes to use in this message and they were just there yesterday.

Today (drum roll)...I walked in on my mom and discovered that she's having an affair. I just bumbled into her house..."MOM...MOM...are you here?? Where are you?" She normally turns out the lights if she leaves the house. "Are you okay?" I had the dog with me and she raced into my mom's bedroom and I heard rustling of the sheets and, "Uhh...yes, I'm okay. Call the dog out." AUUUGHHH.

I called the dog and she wouldn't come out--she was stuck in the doorway. I had to go to my mom's bedroom door and open it (all the while PRAYING I wouldn't see anything). I had to get some cheese out of  the refrigerator and entice her out! hahaha

 That is so funny Blue!!  Yes, I guess I am you...lmao

you know your adhd is bad when you can't find the quotes to use in this message and they were just there yesterday.  and now you can't quote correctly.

And when there's 2 messages from me now on this screen!!! 

You know your ADD is really bad when…

The stress ball you were given to fidget with and keep you calm explodes, covering you and your new car in corn flour, just before an important meeting.

[QUOTE=bluebird38

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."
[/QUOTE]

hehehehehee I hate that, I constantly forget who I'm on the phone with and I have to very sneakily find out who they are by asking questions that will give me information and not give me away lol. Needless to say I don't spend much time on the phone

[QUOTE=Dark_Angel] lol, its a yeast extract spread, again classic here, you put it on bread, un crackers un stuff. you either  totally love it or totally hate it. I'm on the love side.
[/QUOTE]

Is that like vegiemite (spelling)?  - I loved it on toast when I was in Australia and actually continued to buy here in the states.  But I just put a tiny layer whereas the Aussie's put a big ole dollup like one does peanut butter.  I haven't had that for ages. mmmm, yummie and if it is like vegiemite than yes, you either can't believe anyone would eat that crap or ya love it.

[QUOTE=Dark_Angel] lol, its a yeast extract spread, again classic here, you put it on bread, un crackers un stuff. you either  totally love it or totally hate it. I'm on the love side.
[/QUOTE]

Is that like vegiemite (spelling)?  - I loved it on toast when I was in Australia and actually continued to buy here in the states.  But I just put a tiny layer whereas the Aussie's put a big ole dollup like one does peanut butter.  I haven't had that for ages. mmmm, yummie and if it is like vegiemite than yes, you either can't believe anyone would eat that crap or ya love it.

i can see what everyone was talking about now 

I have done that!  But not with a boyfriend.  I started a business out of my home and I needed some help because my sales were so good.  I invited some friends in my neighborhood over to help me.  A week later I was talking to one of the women I had invited over to help me.  I thought she would be great to hire permanently, she had just quit a job in which she was a production manager.  Anyway, I started to explain my business to her!  She said, "Hey! I was in your home last week, working for you, remember?"   I was so embarrassed!   But she is my best friend now.  She is a wonderful friend.  We laugh about that story all the time.

You know you're ADD when:

You take your daughter to a friends house, then go off in another world with your thoughts, realize you are driving, then panic when you realize your daughter isn't in the back seat.

When you are at Wal-Mart writing a check and you write the check to yourself, hand it to the cashier, and she looks at you funny and tells you she can't accept that, then you write another one and do the same thing.........and she squints at you and says "Are you alright"? Like I'm "slow".

When you aren't even diagnosed and your husband is buying you "Brain Recall" pills off the shelf to try to help you, and you forget to take them. (On-going joke from kids is "Mom, remember when you always forgot to take your memory pills dad got you?"

And what REALLY BAD.............when you pay all the bills at the beginning of month and feel so proud that you got it done on time, and your husband gets angry at you FOR A LONG TIME because you start getting insufficient check charges from the bank because you DIDN'T MAKE A DEPOSIT BEFORE YOU PAID THE BILLS!

You're driving down the road, and make a right turn, and for the life of me you don't know why....

hehehe

uhuhuhuh...

[QUOTE=basketcase]    And what REALLY BAD.............when you pay all the bills at the beginning of month and feel so proud that you got it done on time, and your husband gets angry at you FOR A LONG TIME because you start getting insufficient check charges from the bank because you DIDN'T MAKE A DEPOSIT BEFORE YOU PAID THE BILLS![/QUOTE]

When you write out the checks for the bills and feel so great that you actually got them done, then don't bother to send them! You really meant to go to the post office, you really did but something came up and time got away from you and you don't even know what it was but you know something came up...... And your hubby thinks you really don't care and just want to dump everything onto his shoulders....   and by then you really do just want to dump everything onto his shoulders so you can crawl in a hole somewhere and have no responsibilities....and.......

  You know your add is bad when...

  You've been to the bookstore to find "driven to distraction"Three times,,,

Still havent bought it.

  daniel

  You know your add is bad when...

  You've been to the bookstore to find "driven to distraction"Three times,,,

Still havent bought it.

  daniel

[/QUOTE]

Alright, I lied, I lied , I lied.  I said I wasn't going to read anything in the adult section and here I am.  I lasted a couple days.  That is sad but so   

You've been to the bookstore to find "driven to distraction"Three times,,,

Still havent bought it.[/QUOTE]
Or even worse, you bought it three times...

I really did. But it was to give it to people who had ADHD and didn't believe me.

you know your ADHD is really bad when..............

(my latest in the soga of..............GROCERY CART FOLLY!)

I went into the grocery store.  I usually get a regular cart, but this time since I only needed a few things I got a basket that you carry.  Well, I set the basket down...................................thats when it started.  The next thing I know I'm three isles away pushing a shopping cart!  I look in the cart and ask myself the usual question, "who put their stuff in my cart?"  Then I see that nothing I came to get is in there either......oha...it's not my cart!  What do I do?  I was so embarassed to walk around with the abducted cart to look for my basket, that I just ditched the cart right there in that isle! 

bluebire38,

You just soooooo encouraged me about school!  I can't tell you how much!

I'm going back to school after over 20 years.  I'm majoring in Special Edu.  For the past 6 years I worked as an instructional asst. at an elementary school.  I mostly worked with the "behaviors",  I'm certain many if not most were ADHD.  That is where I finally felt some passion for a carreer! 

My main reason, besides loving to teach "differently" to the kids that learn "differently", it to foster the students' self esteem.  I love encouraging them!  I've never been so focused about achieving something in my whole life!  Of course being ADHD my motivation is inconsistant, so anytime I hear anything about what you said.............it just puts the spark back in my step!    Thank you!

bluebird38,

Just PM me any time you have a question or just want to chat (I think we got a little "off topic" here) 

[QUOTE=barb]You really wish someone would chose you as their next victim for identity theft because they would have to do a better job of raising your credit score than you do! There is no way they could make it worse![/QUOTE]

That's hysterical!

You know your ADD is bad when your spouse calls you while you are at the grocery store, asks you to buy two items, and you come home thirty minutes later without either one, but a whole lot of groceries you don't need!

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!

The reason I’m attention deficit now is that no one’s paid me any lately.

You know your adhd is bad when-

someone at work asks, "Are you listening to me?" while talking in the breakroom

you forget somebody's office is their office since its an open area for the second time in a row in a week and a half and you look under the wrong starz poster for a subscriber form and your really in that person's office looking in her personal and confidential papers and you dont know it until she says it. And then she says, "What did I say about coming into my office? Dont barge in. These are personal papers and this is an office. And then you realize its the other starz poster your boss meant on the other side thats not her office where the subscriber forms are

You play wheel of fortune on your cell phone at work since your bored with just sales calls coming in and they are coming in so slow anyway. So you decide to have a competition between you solving a puzzle if you can do it before the customers take up your time. And as the calls get faster, you keep playing and love the momentum of it all!! And then your boss tells you to put that phone away. (shucks) but when he's gone, you whip it out since you can't stand the boredom and you have to do it just to get thru the day and stay in that seat even if your just itching to get out at any second.

And then you missing calls or forget what to say while talking to a customer or your words come out reversed and funny. (oops)

You know your adhd is bad when....

     You're you're getting your sons' rotc uniform from the cleaners,taking him to a dental appt.(one minute to spare),forget to pick up your daughter from school.....went home first and she wasn't there.

     daniel

bluebird38,

Just PM me any time you have a question or just want to chat (I think we got a little "off topic" here) 

You know you have ADHD when you are doing dishes and mopping your kitchen floor at midnight because you could not get focused enough to do it earlier!

Also...when you have to sit through a 30 minute profit sharing meeting and you feel like crawling out of your skin because you cannot stand sitting there!

[QUOTE=Davidornado]YOU know your ADHD is acting up when everything that Barb writes looks like this:

ЉёЊ ЋñЖЕ éБáї ПѓФҖҹ ЉёЊ ЋñЖЕ éБáї ПѓФҖҹ ЉёЊ ЋñЖЕ éБáї QUOTE]

Is this what you are apologizing for Davidornado?

You know your ADHD is really bad when you are not offended by people who make cracks about posts that you know are 10 miles long because long posts irritate you also, but you just can't seem to say what you want to in fewer words.

Its ok Ornado! You have yours coming and paybacks are always _________! Fill in the blank. No don't!

ЉёЊ Ћ�ЖЕ �Б�ї ПѓФҖҹ ЉёЊ Ћ�ЖЕ �Б�ї ПѓФҖҹ ЉёЊ Ћ�ЖЕ �Б�ї [/QUOTE][/QUOTE][QUOTE=barb]Is this what you are apologizing for Davidornado? [/QUOTE][QUOTE=Davidornado]  yeS...[/QUOTE][QUOTE=barb]You know your ADHD is really bad when you are not offended by people who make cracks about posts that you know are 10 miles long because long posts irritate you also, but you just can't seem to say what you want to in fewer words.[/QUOTE][QUOTE=Davidornado]  yEs...[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=barb]Its ok Ornado! You have yours coming and paybacks are always _________! Fill in the blank. No don't! [/QUOTE][QUOTE=Davidornado]   Yes...[/QUOTE]

      You know your adhd is bad when......

      You lose a four grand circuit board, and hope they'll just "write you up"  instead of having to listen to the bi***in and talk behind your back.

      I need a reversible knee...

     daniel

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Davidtornado

Who, other than you, is counting?!

You know your ADD is bad when you get up to introduce yourself and you state your maiden name (while being married almost 2 years).  Good part - your spouse isn't there to witness it.  Bad part - everyone you're introducing yourself to already knows you by your married name. 

Tornado,

It's not about who "can". Anybody "can" post a bunch of crap.  I've enjoyed reading and laughed at some of your posts, but most of the time when I see that you've posted, I know that I'm going to have to weed through a page or so of your nonsense to be able to get back to the original topic.  Sure getting off the topic with a laugh here or there is good, it shows that we're human, but too much can start to get annoying.  I know others can be annoying, including myself, but not at your rate. I know I'm not the only one with this view, but I will be the one who states the obvious.  It's just not the obvious to you!  Also the people on this site who have a lot of posts have them because they've posted information, questions, and support for others.  It's not a race dude!

There are no hard feelings on my part.  Just my unbridled honesty.  I hope you can handle honest, positive (in my opinion) critisism, because that's what this is. 

There is a dearth of mirth on this earth, if you haven't noticed. Sooo, I'm goin' for it. Not everyone bats 1000, so expect a few strikes ‘n’ outs, but at least I'm standing at the plate swinging...

Batter up!

D

It's not about who "can". Anybody "can" post a bunch of crap.  I've enjoyed reading and laughed at some of your posts, but most of the time when I see that you've posted, I know that I'm going to have to weed through a page or so of your nonsense to be able to get back to the original topic.  Sure getting off the topic with a laugh here or there is good, it shows that we're human, but too much can start to get annoying.  I know others can be annoying, including myself, but not at your rate. I know I'm not the only one with this view, but I will be the one who states the obvious.  It's just not the obvious to you!  Also the people on this site who have a lot of posts have them because they've posted information, questions, and support for others.  It's not a race dude!

There are no hard feelings on my part.  Just my unbridled honesty.  I hope you can handle honest, positive (in my opinion) critisism, because that's what this is.

STREEEEIIIIKKKE! one

I've lived a life of "conformity" which I refuse to submit to any longer. The depression, frustration, honesty, and long faces of many ADrs you find in this website are a consequence of a lifetime of being at bat and beat into a conformity they were not created to fit into. Like putting the wrong key in a lock. Society will break the key to make it fit.

I have boundaries, and I will assure you I remain in them. However, it appears that my box is of another design, so differences are to be expected. I am not capable of pleasing everyone, and at this stage in my life, no longer feel compelled to try.*

*Color ADDeD for ADDtistic effect...  ~A quote that doesn't exist yet but sounded good enough to bring into existence whether it was or was not or wasn't or was wierd or ultra~ ~His Story will be the judge of that...

Your Private Message "RE: still friends?", has been sent to ~~~~.

Return to your Private Messenger

*... wierd or ultra~ 

OMG!  I appoligise, apoligize, appoligize (I hate pesky words) to all members.  I think I am partially responsible for agitating thus subsequently  furthering the eruption of a rumbling volcano, or was it a TORNADO?! 

thought PM meant PRIVATE message.  Otherwise just go to the bacement to get off topic....what is the topic here anyway?

I think the world knows PM as Ping. As in 'One Ping Only, Please'

In re: topic, you'll find it in the attic ^

     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

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 your add is bad .....

     ....When your daughter asks "What channel are you on"on tv. Your answer is "27 thru 32".

daniel

[QUOTE=supert]You might be having an ADHD day when you go to the pet store to get a turtle for your classroom and come home with a turtle and a puppy![/QUOTE]

Or you are very gullible and too soft hearted for your own good!

A guppie is a cute gullible little puppie, hence 'guppie'

It looks like this kinda, stick drawn:

Or it could be this generation's slang word for AD med abusers (those without AD):

Young, Upwardly Mobile Professionals on Drugs

or YODAs

Yuppie On Drugs or Alcohol

I have figured out the behind the scenes reasons for my pet fetish.  I am a single parent of an 18 year old that is never home!  So I am searching for something(s) that need me so I feel needed!

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!?"

You Know your ADHD is really bad when......

For the life of you ...You can't figure out what to do.....

(((((((((((((((((((LTC1)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

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!  

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

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

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........................................

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=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
-!!!!!!!
go straight to post coping mechanisms... do not pass go, do not collect
$200!

{hope u got monopoly over here - or that is just gonna be too obscure}


 [/QUOTE]

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

  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

"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?

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=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

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!

When you go buy the school lunch because you forgot to bring yours... get into the teacher's lounge, and find out that the PTA was feeding you today,, sigh.........

Sherry

oh, my Adderall gaiety is a big picture thing I'm not doin’ a dark time dose
I’m
I'm not in a state of constant high anxiety panic zooming time rushing at me every glance so many ideas my brain writing letters stories dwelling retelling debating ruminating everything happening at once if I had to wash my hair that night the thought constantly there almost the way it would be if you kept thinking about how you were going to rob a bank later....still get all that later in the day and 1st thing in the morning and as of 15mg. a day I still am on a different page than almost everyone around me...I’m happiest when I’m working with the young’uns or when I’m eating correctly. I go down and grab a salad at lunch and skedaddle back up to my office where I eat while I'm working. I've never taken lunches. I hate them unless I'm not with adults. I just want to work. Is eating while working considered correct?

I have a really bad thing...run on sentences...would give my stuff to people at work to proof and always...just decided that I like run on sentences they suited me (lololol little did I know) and I would say "oh, don't mind the run on sentences, can't help myself...  

 

  [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]

Been there done that too many times!  It is bad when you can tell when pasta is overcooked just by the film on top of the water, which means you have seen it more than a few times!  Timers work well....when I remember to set them!

[QUOTE=sabina]

 I go down and grab a salad at lunch and skedaddle back up to my office where I eat while I'm working. I've never taken lunches. I hate them unless I'm not with adults. I just want to work. Is eating while working considered correct?

[/QUOTE]

I eat at my desk every day!  It feels wrong to waste that precious "quiet" time when the kids are out of my room.  Also, when I do take time to eat lunch in the lounge, I tend to get off task and stay there longer than I am supposed to!

 

Hey, this is kinda unthreadlike, but I just put 1 + 1 togehter and got 3.

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.

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!

 

                  . . . when this seems funny,

 

                      U-HAUL

                      U-HA L

                      U- A L

                      U-H U

                      U-HA

 

 

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

I can rest easy on the communication pathway prob though...I'm a library lingerer or was up until this year. I spent more time with the students than w/anyone else and I'm a sleuth when it comes to reference questions. So much fun w/kids! I think I just let this loose around them (within reason) and it's easier to create some laughter.
Is this funny or just adhd?
About 9 yrs ago we had a student come to do "kp" after school on Friday and I had to find some "chore" for him. We have vaulted ceilings & skylights on the upper level and had a pesky fly problem. So I handed the student (gr 9?) this ladybug flyswatter that I had and with a straight face said he had to go swat at least a 1/2 dozen flies. His mouth dropped open. He protested to no avail. I sent him off and the other person who was with me and I almost peed our pants laughing. He looked stunned, just sort of standing out there. I called him back and told him it was just a joke and that was his kp and he could leave,  which he did without looking back!

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

Super 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 ^~^ !
 

  Hey David-!

[QUOTE=GlenW]

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.  

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

[/QUOTE]

I so agree with you, Glen!  One particualr teacher that sticks out in my mind is one that I had in high school that really noticed I was going downhill.  I had been raped that summer, was having issues at home and becoming depressed; which effected my grades.  She took me aside one day and asked if everything was ok.  That, even tho it didn't solve my problems, meant so much that someone noticed.

I feel the same way as a parent.  My son is not a school kid, which is hard for me to say!  But he is very capable of putting up an attitude when he is out of his comfort zone.  The teachers that saw through that front and worked to reach him-he performed wonderfully for them and visa versa.

[QUOTE=supert]

  Hey David-![/QUOTE]

http://www.adhdnews.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=11131& PN=1&TPN=1

You know your ADD is really bad when...

*you pay the same bills for the same month twice.

 

[QUOTE=clusterfruck]

You know your ADD is really bad when...

*you pay the same bills for the same month twice.

 

[/QUOTE]

done that....

or you know it is really bad when you could of sworn you paid them and you really didnt....

I just love it. The honesty. You all have made my
day. Thanks.

When every day is an ADHDventure.

You know your ADD is really bad when...

Your dog dies of starvation but you never noticed he was hungry.

Thieves broke into your house or appartment and stole everthing but the computer and desk you were working at but you never noticed them or that anything was missing.

Best wishes, Vic

Marmalade_man38615.9110763889

when:

you dilligently write all your "to do" stuff in your planner but can never find yuour planner until the client is knocking on your door.

you spend all day Monday organizing to do lists and piles for the week and come tuesday you look at the piles, get overwhelmed and decide you need to go fishing and you deserve it since you did such a great job yesterday organizing the week's work load. I hate that the piles are still there on wed's.

when you're making your protein smoothie (at 9:05 pm) for dinner and you cut up a nectarine to put in cause you only have 1/2 banana and short on juice and while you're putting things into the blender you eat nectarine

You know you are ADHD when you miss one day of work because you were sick and you just cannot get back into the swing of it today. 

Also, when you are driving to pick up a prescription because you were sick and you start thinking about how you should really balance your checkbook when you get home so you start driving to the bank instead of the pharmacy.

hahahaha --- that's so funny about the thieves. when i was at university
i went back to my shared house with my friend (there were four of us
living there) and as we went in she said 'you know this lock is really
b*****ered - we should change it.'

so we went in and made a cup of tea and sat down --- and after about
twenty minutes she went 'oh, where's the TV and video?" so i looked and
went 'oh, yeah'.   so we decided one of our other flatmates must have
taken it somewhere for some reason and continued chatting.

then our more together flatmate arrives home and goes 'why has the door
been broken into?"   --- blank look from us and he takes us and shows
us the splinters of wood and shavings on the floor by the front door and
bent lock. then goes upstairs realises his music system has been stolen
along with his suitcase - and obviously the tv and video.   

and he couldn't get over for weeks that we hadn't even noticed our house
had been broken into and were just sitting there drinking tea!

or when you have to get to the bank and make that deposit.

then, when you get there after passing it twice 'cause you were thinking about something else, park, and can't find the check or deposit slip you kind of remember grabbing on your way out the door.

so, you search your pockets, then the dash, then the compartment between the seats, your pockets again, the floor. you start to wonder if it blew out the window, or if you did, in fact, forget to grab it in the first place(like that's never happened before!)

so, confident you left it at home, you go back quickly to beat the bank closing. you get home, grab your sunglasses, and head back to the bank only to realise you didn't search for the banking stuff, go back inside, teare the house apart, getting more furious by the second..decide to check out the car again, reach in your pocket for your keys.. and voila!

there is the bank slips you have not been able to find for the last 45 mins. or so.

my friends laugh at this. i would too, if these types of behaviours didn't eat up so much of my time, and cause so much stress!

[QUOTE=seeker63]

or when you have to get to the bank and make that deposit.

then, when you get there after passing it twice 'cause you were thinking about something else, park, and can't find the check or deposit slip you kind of remember grabbing on your way out the door.

so, you search your pockets, then the dash, then the compartment between the seats, your pockets again, the floor. you start to wonder if it blew out the window, or if you did, in fact, forget to grab it in the first place(like that's never happened before!)

so, confident you left it at home, you go back quickly to beat the bank closing. you get home, grab your sunglasses, and head back to the bank only to realise you didn't search for the banking stuff, go back inside, teare the house apart, getting more furious by the second..decide to check out the car again, reach in your pocket for your keys.. and voila!

there is the bank slips you have not been able to find for the last 45 mins. or so.

my friends laugh at this. i would too, if these types of behaviours didn't eat up so much of my time, and cause so much stress!

[/QUOTE]

 

Been there and done that.....you are not alone

[QUOTE=seeker63]

or when you have to get to the bank and make that deposit.

then, when you get there after passing it twice 'cause you were thinking about something else, park, and can't find the check or deposit slip you kind of remember grabbing on your way out the door.

so, you search your pockets, then the dash, then the compartment between the seats, your pockets again, the floor. you start to wonder if it blew out the window, or if you did, in fact, forget to grab it in the first place(like that's never happened before!)

so, confident you left it at home, you go back quickly to beat the bank closing. you get home, grab your sunglasses, and head back to the bank only to realise you didn't search for the banking stuff, go back inside, teare the house apart, getting more furious by the second..decide to check out the car again, reach in your pocket for your keys.. and voila!

there is the bank slips you have not been able to find for the last 45 mins. or so.

my friends laugh at this. i would too, if these types of behaviours didn't eat up so much of my time, and cause so much stress!

[/QUOTE] Wen you notice your chewing an ink cartridge 

You know your ADD is really bad when...

you have lost more than 25 jobs because of it.

You live in your house for months and then one day have a moment of clarity and wonder how anyone could live in that mess!

You keep the house spotless for weeks and have just one day when you decide it isn't bad so you won't bother cleaning. Two months later you realize that was an veeeery long day and you still don't want to clean.

you know you have AD/hd when you permanently lose your dorm
keycard, and have to go buy another one (for 15$, I might add), 4 times
in one week, then, once the fifth card is activated, find every single one
you had "lost" scattered around your dorm   .. that happened to me this
week.. soo frustrating!

you know your ADD is bad when....

You are talking to hubby on the phone, have a brain fart.. and hubby asks you what time did you take your medicine this morning??

hmmmm is he hinting at something or what??

[QUOTE=seeker63]

or when you have to get to the bank and make that deposit.

then, when you get there after passing it twice 'cause you were thinking about something else, park, and can't find the check or deposit slip you kind of remember grabbing on your way out the door.

so, you search your pockets, then the dash, then the compartment between the seats, your pockets again, the floor. you start to wonder if it blew out the window, or if you did, in fact, forget to grab it in the first place(like that's never happened before!)

so, confident you left it at home, you go back quickly to beat the bank closing. you get home, grab your sunglasses, and head back to the bank only to realise you didn't search for the banking stuff, go back inside, teare the house apart, getting more furious by the second..decide to check out the car again, reach in your pocket for your keys.. and voila!

there is the bank slips you have not been able to find for the last 45 mins. or so.

my friends laugh at this. i would too, if these types of behaviours didn't eat up so much of my time, and cause so much stress!

[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Hopeful46]

You know your ADD is really bad when...

you have lost more than 25 jobs because of it.

[/QUOTE]

oooouch. I thought I was up there, with 12...
  [QUOTE=barb]Two months later you realize that was an veeeery long day...[/QUOTE]

...but it seems just like yesterday...


  You know your ADD is really bad when, in your early morning stupor, you tried to microwave something you shouldn't have and have to explain why you were late to work to your employer.[QUOTE=barb]

You keep the house spotless for weeks and have just one day when you decide it isn't bad so you won't bother cleaning. Two months later you realize that was an veeeery long day and you still don't want to clean.

[/QUOTE]

Barb-I am right there with you on that one!  I missed one day of work this week and I have spent the rest of it trying to get back on my routine!  I have felt at least five steps behind myself. 

That's also like how my suitcase is still sitting out from the last time I used it which was Christmas.  My window air conditioner sat in the same place since I took it out last year until this year. 

You Know your ADD is really bad when...

You open your eyes in the morning and realize you are facing another ADHDAY!

I was afraid of not getting my prescription, so I accidentally paid my health insurance twice, so my bank account bounced, and I didn't have enough for the co-pay on my prescriptions...

DArn Ammie health system!!!





(For you Empire-icals, Ammie is to Ammunism as Commie is to Communism)
(For the rest of you, Ammunism is to Communism as American is to Apple Pie)

[QUOTE=Davidornado]I was afraid of not getting my prescription, so I accidentally paid my health insurance twice, so my bank account bounced, and I didn't have enough for the co-pay on my prescriptions...

DArn Ammie health system!!!





(For you Empire-icals, Ammie is to Ammunism as Commie is to Communism)
(For the rest of you, Ammunism is to Communism as American is to Apple Pie)
[/QUOTE]

that sucks davie....and i bet you like apple pie too huh

You know you have a waitress who is probably ADD because she does the following:

Brings your food after people who came in after you got their food.

Tries to give your son's breakfast to you.

Forgets to give your son his bacon.  Claims she didn't hear the order for bacon even tho she had your son repeat his order 3 times for blueberry pancakes and bacon.

Serves the people sitting in the booth behind us so late that they have to take their food with them because they have to get back to work.

Forgets to bring the lady on the other table next to you the muffin she ordered.

Then tries to give the muffin.

Apologizes 10 minutes after you have started eating that she is sorry the food is late.

Says that she definitely has the right bill for you and hands it to you.  You look at it after she walks away and it is NOT yours!

I really hope she was having a bad day because otherwise I don't think she will have that job for long!

 

The waitress tried to give me the muffin instead of rightful owner.oh boy --- that sounds like just the kinda waitress i would make.

poor add-ers!
That is what I said to my son..that would be me as a waitress.  And he agreed! hmmmm..

You know it's bad when your friend comes over and says, "what that hanging above the doorway?"  It's just mistletoe...from Christmas...9 months ago!

You know your ADHD is bad when you start wishing that the the public library would get a clue from Blockbuster and stop charging late fees (THANK YOU, THANK YOU BLOCKBUSTER!)  I might as well just buy all the books my kids and I read, it would probably cost me a lot less!I am right there with you, bepatient, I have started buying my books because of fines.  I just paid 30.00 in fines to the library because of books I turned in late last school year. 

you bounce 2 very large checks because you forgot to check your ballance. Or you forgot that money does not come in limited supply.... sigh...

Started this pay period 200.00 in the hole.... eek

sherry

You find 2 Christmas presents, wrapped and ready to go  in your closet.  Not because you have been planning ahead, but because you lost them last year and had to buy something else!

sherry

[QUOTE=kibbles002]

You find 2 Christmas presents, wrapped and ready to go  in your closet.  Not because you have been planning ahead, but because you lost them last year and had to buy something else!

sherry

[/QUOTE]

i am so glad i am not the only one who does that....i do it on bdays also

Me too!

Your Christmas tree is still up in February and you tell people it is because your child loves it soooo much that you just can't bear to take it down. They just look at you like "yeah, right".

LOL!! Mine has been know to stay up until february also!!

I'm afraid to put lights on the house.. the neighbors might complain when they are still there during the spring thaw

you are in so much mental turmoil that your brain actualy feels like It wants to explode

You have a fight with your BF....and 5 min later you can't remember the details cause or effects.....But you do know he wants you to spend less time on ADHD board....NO!  I'm not on here to make him upset!!!  I'm here for education and entertainment...Not necessarily in that order.

[QUOTE=kibbles002]You find 2 Christmas presents, wrapped and ready to go  in your closet.  Not because you have been planning ahead, but because you lost them last year and had to buy something else!

sherry[/QUOTE]

Wow, Kibblesinsherry!

You're awesome! Does that count as you're planning ahead this year?

Btw, what'd they look like? I lost a couple of my own...

[QUOTE=kibbles002]you bounce 2 very large checks because you forgot to check your ballance.

sherry[/QUOTE]

OMG! You know what I read?

you bounce 2 very large checks because you forgot to check your bounce. eek

you are unable to maintain a meaningful relationship

lacking lacking

just

start packing

[QUOTE=Davidornado]

[QUOTE=kibbles002]You find 2 Christmas presents, wrapped and ready to go  in your closet.  Not because you have been planning ahead, but because you lost them last year and had to buy something else!

sherry[/QUOTE]

Wow, Kibblesinsherry!

You're awesome! Does that count as you're planning ahead this year?

Btw, what'd they look like? I lost a couple of my own...

[/QUOTE]

ummm yeah... I think that'll work.... um I started shopping early, yeah, thats the story I'm going with!

I  know one ot them was a baseball book for my grandfather... ummm well I really dont remember what the other was... I might have to open it and be surprised

 

Here's one that happened today...

You know its really bad when>>

 You start copying materials for your job and forget  to put the origional in the copier...

I ended up with 30 blank copies before I realized my mistake.  Later, Left the origional, IN the copier a teacher comes up and makes more copies... makes a bout 30 on her account before she realized she was making more of my copies.. um oops!!

OOOHHHHHHH I am going to make your day. I went to the post office, and
then the bank. At the bank I couldn't find my paycheck!!!!!!!! I went back to
the P.O., and then the house. My husband had to leave, and needed me to
come back so the kids wouldn't be alone. in exhasperation I returned to the
bank, and went through their trash outside. I had forgotten throwing away
the box from the PO package, which I had stuffed with trash from my car.

Guess what special piece of trash was stuffed in there?[QUOTE=kibbles002][QUOTE=Davidornado] [QUOTE=kibbles002]You find 2 Christmas presents, wrapped and ready to go  in your closet.  Not because you have been planning ahead, but because you lost them last year and had to buy something else!

sherry[/QUOTE] Wow, Kibblesinsherry!

You're awesome! Does that count as you're planning ahead this year?

Btw, what'd they look like? I lost a couple of my own...[/QUOTE] ummm yeah... I think that'll work.... um I started shopping early, yeah, thats the story I'm going with!

I  know one ot them was a baseball book for my grandfather... ummm well I really dont remember what the other was... I might have to open it and be surprised[/QUOTE]

I meant the wrapper...

What'd the wrapper look like?

OH! I know! It looked like you!!!

What board id this?  Oh heah, you know your adhd is bad when you go to put your contact lenses on and both lenses are together on the designated "R" side.

OR WHEN U GO TO DO LAUNDRY AND WHERE WE LIVE IT IS IN A SEPERATE ROOM CUZ WE LIVE IN AN APARTMENT AND CANT DO IT PAST 10PM  AND FORGET ALL DAY TILL QUARTER TO NINE HUBY SAYS DID YOU WASH MY WORK CLOTHES YET AND OF COURSE SINCE HE DIDNT REMIND ME I SAID NO, ILL DO IT NOW.....AT MIDNIGHT HE SAYS ARETHE CLOTHES DRYED.....NOPE I FORGOT SO I HAD TO HANG TWO LOADS OF WET CLOTHES ALL OVER THE APARTMENT...

 

Tell him to wash his own da*n work clothes. bepatient38735.9496412037yeah no kiddig huh?  i will remember that one next time...but better write it down or ill forget...lolSorry Brig, I guess I'm just a little anti-man right now...I forget my laundry all the time. Usually when it's done washing and ready to go in the dryer.  I live in Arizona and my laundry room is seperate from the house so it's really hot in there.  Anyway, I end up rincing the clothes again so they won't smell like mildew.  I do that forgetting, rincing thing usually 2 to three times befort they make it to the dryer! bepatient38629.9776736111dont appoligize i am also anti man right now and i thought it was hillarious

You know your ADHD is reality acting up when...

even your computer is telling you to bepatient:

Ah David - fellow insomniac I see?!?

My PC used to talk back and sass me with things like "please wait" or "invalid responce" or "press any key to continue".  But I'm a repairman with a short fuse buddy - and now if it starts with me I just reach over - pull out my screwdriver and slap it where the PC can see it.  No more talkin' back after that!

Once I finish hot-roddin' my PC i'll put a pic up for you guys to see.  It's a geek's car fetish I guess.  I like my toys LOL.

 

- Glen

hey glen, I'm melting on my kb tonight. I nodded out twiceon deck. I'm listening to led zdppellih lightinng fires, withi fits with mh melting mintof--fr,,,and mh inabiliy to see wel; so this midnite cowboy is gonna crash and burn

Good night!

Wow Davi boi - I am gonna take you literally on the melting part! - you get yer cowboy behind into the sack before you end up a smear on the enter key!  Looks like sleep deprivation not doing you any favors! Wow.

Thanks for the nite though - glad you were around. 

Me - I carry on - meds are working 5 over 5 - and I plan to talk the ear off of the persons behind and ahead of my machine at the old chip plant in about four hours - whether they like it or not!  They think I'm odd - but all admit I'm a dandy worker who cares about my fellow workers and keep them safe and happy.

Ciao - later buddy!

 

Glen

wow! Is that ever true about the lightbulb thing!

[QUOTE=Dave2u4now]

 

You know your ADD is really bad when...

                                 You think your car might have been stolen at least once

a month...   LOL

[/QUOTE]

You may think your boss has ADD when he takes his son to the dentist a day ahead of when he is supposed to.

You know you have ADHD when you schedule your class's field trip for the one day the kids are not here in October!

[QUOTE=brig]dont appoligize i am also anti man right now and i thought it was hillarious[/QUOTE]

So you and bepatient are  ANTI-MAN right now. Wasn't that the name of of Japenese Sci-Fi movie......Oh no...sorry , I checked...it was called....ANTI-MATTER.   Wow you guys had me PRE-confused there for a moment.  Thanks for clearing that Up.

                                                            

 

When your neighbor sits on her front porch to count how many times you drive past your house before pulling in the driveway.

You know your ADD is really bad when...

Opening up the trunk of your car is like opening a treasure chest - Holy cow, is that where my.....shoes, jacket, paycheck etc are?  Only to leave them there and be just as surprised the next time you open the trunk.

 

Brand new, first post.  Thanks for making me feel normal!

Hey valzap,

Well, come to the Tapestry (the sum of all threads)!

D'0

Thanks for the greeting!  All day I thought it was Weds... Just found out it's thursday and was missing my weekly dose of CSI...You know it's bad.Valzap,  I'm with you on the treasure chest thing.  But it happens with all my closets and drawers too!!

Pilgrim,

I like that word,"PRE-confused"! .. That's so like totally cule dude (or are you a dudette?)

You know your ADD is really bad when...

You go to brush your teeth, realize the toothpaste is in the other bathroom. so you head that direction with your toothbrush in hand, and somehow end up in your closet!!!  LOL

 

Sherry

[QUOTE=Countrygirl]When your neighbor sits on her front porch to count how many times you drive past your house before pulling in the driveway.


[/QUOTE]

OMG...That is SOOOO  "me".........hahahhahahahhahhaaaaaa or they count how many times I drive back to my house because I forgot something.......

Kimberly

[QUOTE=bepatient]Pilgrim,

I like that word,"PRE-confused"! .. That's so like totally cule dude (or are you a dudette?)[/QUOTE]

Pil's a grim.

Not a grimette...

[QUOTE=valzap]Thanks for the greeting!  All day I thought it was Weds... Just found out it's thursday and was missing my weekly dose of CSI...You know it's bad.[/QUOTE]

I know. Since I've been on this bored kick, I've missed three episodes of Over There in a row. *ack!

Holiday weeks throw me for a loop. I can't catch up until we've had 5...

[QUOTE=SlugBug]

[QUOTE=Countrygirl]When your neighbor sits on her front porch to count how many times you drive past your house before pulling in the driveway.


[/QUOTE]

OMG...That is SOOOO  "me".........hahahhahahahhahhaaaaaa or they count how many times I drive back to my house because I forgot something.......

Kimberly

[/QUOTE]

I leave for work 3 times a day...

yes, but how many breaks do you take???? Well, let me count my casts and scars...

Oh, none!

Anni wrote

Valzap,  I'm with you on the treasure chest thing.  But it happens with all my closets and drawers too!!

Most normal people have one drunk drawer - oops, I mean JUNK drawer.  Every drawer or closet in my house is filled with junk, I don't know where to store my clothes - the floor and bathtub are quite convenient.

 

David wrote:

I know. Since I've been on this bored kick, I've missed three episodes of Over There in a row. *ack!

Holiday weeks throw me for a loop. I can't catch up until we've had 5...

Holiday?  What holiday?  Did I miss thanksgiving again? 

 

[QUOTE=Davidornado]

Pil's a grim.

Not a grimette..

-------- Thanks nado.. love it, just love it!...grim, grimette

bepatient38632.4813888889

For me the treasure chest thing is in my fridge, along with "chemistry stuffs".

 

brpatient:::jest hi.light my naME & yull find the answer...I know yuz a fe.male person of the opposite sex as me 'cause I checkeD

 

                                               

Feel frEE to be PRE:confused anytime...the doctor is always oUt...somewhere...over the RainboW

 

                                                           

[QUOTE=valzap]

David wrote:

I know. Since I've been on this bored kick, I've missed three episodes of Over There in a row. *ack!

Holiday weeks throw me for a loop. I can't catch up until we've had 5...

Holiday?  What holiday?  Did I miss thanksgiving again? 

 

[/QUOTE]

Taht's the one that's worth two, b/c we only loose two. I call my calendar the Neo-Davidian Reconning.

[QUOTE=valzap]

Anni wrote

Valzap,  I'm with you on the treasure chest thing.  But it happens with all my closets and drawers too!!

Most normal people have one drunk drawer - oops, I mean JUNK drawer.  Every drawer or closet in my house is filled with junk, I don't know where to store my clothes - the floor and bathtub are quite convenient.

[/QUOTE]

My treasure chest is my garage and yard. I should take a picture. Here, wait a sec.

[QUOTE=pilgrim]brpatient:::jest hi.light my naME & yull find the answer...I know yuz a fe.male person of the opposite sex as me 'cause I checkeD

                                                  [/QUOTE]

C'mon, PIl! you know our profiles are only good for checking what we are. I have to look at mine from time to time b/c I forget what I am.

On the other hand, it's like a sticky note to an ADDer, you fill in the blanks, but forget where you put it.

So I rely on the golden noggen and when asked the sex of a person, I do a mega-nalysis on that person's posts as I remember them (i tend not to forget things, jsut need a justifiable reason to connect them, and laughter is such a one) though there are few others), and return an impression Male or Female. I've only missed once on this post. Fallen writes so effeminetely...

Are you sure...Can this be very.fide by un.known or un.reliable  person or persons.

 

No. But sclyientists can tologically prove anything...   Ya I think I read that somewhere and something like 14.759 % of all statistics are made up....hold it.....new update ....it's 16.376 % are made up...

grim,

wyd ya ck om me?

[QUOTE=pilgrim]   Ya I think I read that somewhere and something like 14.759 % of all statistics are made up....hold it.....new update ....it's 16.376 % are made up...[/QUOTE]

I beg to differ here. The percentage of statistics which are made up are dependant  on who is giving the statistics!  I won't name names as an example...cuz you wouldn't know them anyway!

There was a lawyer, a mathematician, and an accountant at lunch, debating how to prove what 2+2='d.

The mathematician, on his napkin, wrote a lengthy equation demonstrating that it therefore, must equal 4.

The lawyer then, without a napkin, launched into a lengthy discourse, touching on such subjects as if they should even attempt to prove anything, then that it was up to the waitress, if she wanted her tip, and so on, finally concluding that it, too, was 4.

When asked what 2 + 2 equaled, the accountant laid down his napkin, and said "What would you like it to be"?

and i always thought it was twenty-two.  sheesh no wonder i am so confused.

'waitress.  bill, please.  i have to go out to lunch.'

can i take you out to lunch?

hey, now i've been paid.  maybe i can take you (without card bouncing!) 

Yay! I'm all yours...

Next week, for sure.

Somepeople who shall re.main nameLESS have put forth the propistion that ...  you.....all....ready...are.   I'm just re.peating re.reating gosup.....well i'll try not to spend it all before that then. 

hey and am gonna stack up on some ADD books too.  B&N here i come.  hooray.

annidagostini - fear not, i am persuaded into trying Stopping ADHD.  it has not all been in vain..... 

i'll let you know.  hope i don't need an awful lot of space for rolling around in or i might have to go to a park.  ah well, whatever --- it is LA after all.  there are all sorts of weird activities going on in various parks (tai-chi, yoga, xxxxxx) nobody would think anything strange.  i guess.  hey! maybe i could start a cult, my own little group of stopping adhd exercisers.  8am every tuesday.  griffith park.

Is that the crawling one?

I don't have ADHD cuz I crawled as a kid, we loved playing army...

What about tree climbing? Does that help? That's like crawling vertically.

Pil, notice how I've ignored your comment?

How about swimming> isn't that like crawling?

What else is a good ADDercise?

[QUOTE=pilgrim]Somepeople who shall re.main nameLESS have put forth the propistion that ...  you.....all....ready...are.   I'm just re.peating re.reating gosup.....[/QUOTE]

Grim,

Lighten up!  It's just lunch.  Anybody wanna have linch with me?

I'm Light.....What's Cookin'what's your pleasure?

I'm also patient . . . .

That's good cause I tend to jump the gun...guess I should wait for the D to go through before I ask a grim what his pleasure is .... oh yea, it was food we were talking about....I'm going to my room now.Toased cheese sandwich sounds good about now... oh ho di ho di ho!  pilgrim!  pilgrimette!!!!!!!

humph!


(actually i'll edit out that bit!)





chjones38632.5534722222

 

          

   Let the pm.ing  be.gin

                          

[QUOTE=pilgrim]

   Let the pm.ing  be.gin

                          

[/QUOTE]

what is pm.ing ge.gin mean?

Ping

pong

 

it means instant messaging, brigs.

with the personal message (pm) button.

i
[QUOTE=Davidornado][QUOTE=valzap]

Anni wrote

Valzap,  I'm with you on the treasure chest thing.  But it happens with all my closets and drawers too!!

Most normal people have one drunk drawer - oops, I mean JUNK drawer.  Every drawer or closet in my house is filled with junk, I don't know where to store my clothes - the floor and bathtub are quite convenient.

[/QUOTE]

My treasure chest is my garage and yard. I should take a picture. Here, wait a sec.

[/QUOTE]

Tory's 'Nado

hey davie boy i can type today......how about that?[QUOTE=Davidornado][QUOTE=valzap]

Anni wrote

Valzap,  I'm with you on the treasure chest thing.  But it happens with all my closets and drawers too!!

Most normal people have one drunk drawer - oops, I mean JUNK drawer.  Every drawer or closet in my house is filled with junk, I don't know where to store my clothes - the floor and bathtub are quite convenient.

[/QUOTE]

My treasure chest is my garage and yard. I should take a picture. Here, wait a sec.

[/QUOTE]

Davi's 'Nado

[QUOTE=chjones]it means instant messaging, brigs.

with the personal message (pm) button.

i
[/QUOTE]

 

i new it was just the way he typed it....he likes to confuse me....but its ok cuz hes a great person...

go pilgrim

now this time - i am gonna get my kishty cash.  was told to wait till 3.30 so off i go...

hey pilgrim's progress  .......
chat with ya later chjones....miss ya while u rr gone

[QUOTE=brig]hey davie boy i can type today......how about that?[/QUOTE]

Great!

How's your brain?

How's your brain on drugs?

great they upped y ritilin to 20 mg two times a day and seems to work much better...and now with the ambien i can sleep solid at night....my prozac i up next week and hopefully when that kicks in and with my therapy i willl be off my aniety meds....as my thereapist has me doing self help exercises that seem to help.

brain is good

brain on drugs is good

but nope u cant fry an egg on my drugs as i am not that bad....sorry

davidornado

My treasure chest is my garage and yard. I should take a picture. Here, wait a sec.

 

Sorry Dave, I would love to see the picture you posted but it's not coming thru on my dumputer.

u know u got ADD when u: 

Purchased the books online.  I checked ISDN and Edition dates. I was able to get both books for $20.00 compared to $150. When they arrived, I checked to make sure I had two books, as ordered. I recheck the textbook for the disc. I was brand new completely unused. The seal has not been broken on the CD file in the back of the book.

Wow! Great! How is this possible???? It's not!!!! I got the right book (still a great deal) the only difference is my text is the 2004 edition, it is still the 3rd edition but it does not have the test questions for the 2005 exam.

But I got the gotforsaken Lab Book instead of the Study Guide, so I will need a few weeks on the Lab Assignments. One of my ADD Tools is the silver lining, so now I will have (3) excellent reference books to add to my IT Professional Reference Collections instead of (2).

You know you have ADD when, you start to write a post and  and, and I don't know, I forgot. What'd you forget? Maybe I have an extra one around here. I've forgotten a few myself.You know your adhd is really bad when there are no new post so you go searching through the old

you play a game of spiders in between toggles That didn't even make sence to me

What's spyders game?

I understood the toggles.

Maybe.

spider is a solitaire game.....

i didn't understand the toggles.

Keyboard.

So I got spiders on my computer?

Where's the bug spray...

You know your ADD is really bad when you ate a bowl of cereal because you didn't realize you already had a TV dinner going cold in the microwave you had heated upYou know your ADD is really good when...

...a thread you started May 27 is still going strong on October 23...

Way to go, Rez! One of my favorite threads...

Thanks for expressing your creativity!

this happened this am...

You know your ADD is bad when...

you pour your instant oatmeal into your COFFEEE!!

Sherry

kibbles00238648.5980902778When you wear your clothes  wrongside out and backwards then think
"I must look good today, everybodys staring."
[QUOTE=kibbles002]

this happened this am...

You know your ADD is bad when...

you pour your instant oatmeal into your COFFEEE!!

Sherry

[/QUOTE]

WOW - what an idea!!!

I have to talk to my Pepsico reps - we own Quaker oatmeal.  Add coffee to instant oatmeal - a great pick me up with fiber!! Cool!

What to call it - Coffeemeal? Oatcaff? Joltin'Oats? hmmm..

Why haven't I thought of this before? gives back a few seconds in the morning.

[QUOTE=GlenW][QUOTE=kibbles002]

this happened this am...

You know your ADD is bad when...

you pour your instant oatmeal into your COFFEEE!!

Sherry

[/QUOTE]

WOW - what an idea!!!

I have to talk to my Pepsico reps - we own Quaker oatmeal.  Add coffee to instant oatmeal - a great pick me up with fiber!! Cool!

What to call it - Coffeemeal? Oatcaff? Joltin'Oats? hmmm..

Why haven't I thought of this before? gives back a few seconds in the morning.

[/QUOTE]

Hmm ,, I like the "joltin' oats" name!!  I WANT ROYALTIES!!!

hey make the oats biscuit flavored then the coffee together.. yum yum!!

( I know that tastes good -- I love dippin biscuits in coffee!)

Quaker Joltin' oats.. coming to the store near you!! Hey, yeah -- make the quaker dude have googely eyes and we are set!!

Sherry

Kibbles - you have a deal!! If they go ahead with it - you'll get creds!

They DO have an employee idea forum - I've sent in on chip suggestions but never made the leap over to another one like Quaker.  We're such a big company it boggles my little ADHD mind sometimes.

A buggy eyed Quaker - ROFLMAO!!! I'll try a photoshop of the old guy and put Marty Feldmans eyes on top - we'll see if that works!  I can imagine it already!

 

woohoo!

you are going to have to pm me that picture! LOL or post or whatever! LOL

SHerry

Hi!  New here. Second post.

You know you are having a bad ADHD YEAR when your boss wants to fire you, you haven't finished the painting projects in your house you started two friggin' years ago, and your house is so neglected that you now have to battle ants, roaches, and mice!

My house is an embarrassment. Please tell me I'm not alone on this one!

If I could remember where I posted the pictures of my yard, garage, and dd10's room, you'd feel better... [QUOTE=taritac]

Hi!  New here. Second post.

You know you are having a bad ADHD YEAR when your boss wants to fire you, you haven't finished the painting projects in your house you started two friggin' years ago, and your house is so neglected that you now have to battle ants, roaches, and mice!

My house is an embarrassment. Please tell me I'm not alone on this one!

[/QUOTE]

What are you a germaphob perfectionist? Until you can admit to tolerating unidentifiable smells in your refrigerator (for starters) I don't want to hear another word about it from you...got it?

I essentially got fired *and* have unfinished  painting, spackling, curtain, missing closet doors projects that have been haunting me for at least 2 years.
You know you have ADHD when you have to buy new clothes to wear to work because you could not focus enough to do laundry.  We have a dress code at work and are allowed to only wear certain colors so I have limited choices of what I can wear to work!Eh, just remember to take the stickers off arms and pantlegs. I can never get that right, often go around the whole day with a huge sticker down my leg letting everyone know my inseam and waist size.

yay me!

[QUOTE=Fallen]Eh, just remember to take the stickers off arms and pantlegs. I can never get that right, often go around the whole day with a huge sticker down my leg letting everyone know my inseam and waist size.

yay me!
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Lol! My friends are used to that. They just say, "Hey, new shirt! nice. C'mere" Then they clip off the tag. It's all good.

First off, PLEASE DO NOT SAY "HAVE ADHD", we don't HAVE adhd, we ARE adhd...whew! Glad I got that one off my mind....6 zillion to go...

you know you're adhd when you deinstall the commport instead of the device driver....what??????...my mind wandered!!!!

[QUOTE=sabina]First off, PLEASE DO NOT SAY "HAVE ADHD", we don't HAVE adhd, we ARE adhd...whew! Glad I got that one off my mind....6 zillion to go...

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hmm... I guess it is how a person looks at it..

For me, I HAVE ADD.. I do not believe that having a deficit in the ability to pay attention or focus on tasks makes up the total of who I am.  Therefore, I have the disorder... I am not the disorder itself.

Yes it is a part of me, but not all of who I am

sherry

You clean your house by putting everything in the floor in garbage bags and taking them to goodwill.  Then you go shopping to replace them.

ohhhh kibbles002, you misunderstand me...I think..yes, I'm quite certain as I think it happens to me all the time

what I mean is

adhd is brain chemistry that is different than the norm (3%-5%?) the name adhd or add is just a name some doc gave it and I will go further than you. Just as not being able to pay attention does not make up the total of who you are neither does it make up the total of what adhd brain chemistry is...not by a long shot.
I say we ARE rather than we HAVE in the same way that I say "I am left handed" not "I have left handedness."
The word deficit, isn't what we have really an excess of attention?...I notice every little smell, noise and my brain is so busy paying attention  to every little thing besides the all stuff roaring around in my mind that has no relation to whatever I am doing at that moment that no one thing can get very much attention...unless all my chemicals get really hopped up and I zero in
in a different society this may not be called a disorder though it certainly seems to be disordered chemistry compared to the norm...but then...look at the norm...haven't whites always told Blacks they were inferior because of their skin colour?? didn’t almost everyone believe it including the Black people?
Believe me,  looking back on my life I would have traded being adhd in a flash as it really has been hellish but since I do have this different brain chemistry I am going to apply my "not indoctrinated" way of thinking.
We do have amazing talents, I always wondered at things I could do. What is disordered about that?
In the big picture they want anyone different who may pose a threat to think  they are "faulty".  Imagine the absurdity of putting thousands of kids in rooms and expecting them all to learn at the same speed and in the same way.
Those who don't "fit in" can then be weeded out and labeled quickly beofore they have a chance to gain legitimacy. of course some do anyway but most spend their lives dealing w/the difficulty of expectations or trying to fit in. That keeps them busy. Kinda like professional sports, keep the masses preoccupied w/things that don't really matter and the things that do will stay out of their orbit and the powers that be keep smilin

I'm glad that sabina and kibbles can be so positive about ADHD (HAVE it, not BE it). I'm not sure I can get on board, though. Even though I've known for a long time that I may have ADD, I haven't until recently learned just how profoundly it affects my life. Now, it seems that everything that I considered to be a quirk of my personality was just this horrible disability called ADD! Every negative thing about my life traces directly back to it. I've been able to handle the death of loved ones, but not the affect that this little disorder has had. Frankly, I'm not sure where ADD ends and where I begin. [QUOTE=taritac]I'm not sure where ADD ends and where I begin.[/QUOTE]

I wonder that myself taritac.  Psychologist told me that it's just the way God made me.  If that's true, it just has to be some kind of blessing, right?  It only feels like a curse when we don't accept ourselves the way we are.  That is easier said than done though.

[quote]It only feels like a curse when we don't accept ourselves the way we are. --CountryGirl[/quote]

Very true, CountryGirl. I think I could accept ADD and not have such a negative view of it if we lived in a society that accomodated this disorder. Instead, we live in a country (the US-- can't speak for other countries) governed by clocks, deadlines, money, accomplishments, "personal responsibility," winning and losing. ADD and people with ADD JUST DON'T FIT! How strange to me it is, that we have to be MEDICATED because we find it hard to be on time. HUH??? We don't have a life-threatening disease, we aren't crazy, but because we judge time differently, think too fast, and have trouble with the details of modern life, we can't function in today's world, and therefore, need to be drugged.

Is it we who are wrong, or is it the world in which we live? I'm definitely inclined to think that the world is wrong, particularly considering that "normal" people have a hard time keeping up, hate their jobs, and work too hard and too long. But I suppose it's easier to drug a few of us than address the political and social realities that shape this country.

Anyway, just ranting. I'm having some trouble processing having the ADD. At first I was glad that I figured out what was wrong with me and why I was having such a hard time functioning when I am supposedly so smart and capable. But as I stated before, now I'm having trouble seeing where ADD ends and I begin.

Sigh. Where is the proletariat uprising when you need it?

You know I was thinking... ( which can be quite dangerous)

Because of being active in studying Spanish and hispanic culture, I have a lot of Hispanic acquantances.. These are some things I have noticed about my Hispanic friends:

They interupt each other CONSTANTLY and nobody cares.

They are late quite frequently

They talk over each other sometimes quite loudly.

They are passionate, creative, and exciting people.

OMG, can they ever be HYPER!!

I thought about this last night when I was sitting in class and noticed that students never raised hands, all answers were called outloud, the professor was responding and talking over others... And I was left sitting there thinking..And they call ME ADD!!!

So now i'm thinking some of our wiring could fit quite well with certain cultures.. US culture just aint it

However, thinking on what I know about Hispanic culture.. this one seems pretty darn ADD friendly.

Family and friends are more important than time.

Spice of life and good conversation more important than taking turns in conversation.. just jump in with both feet and start talking!!

Looking at the artesania is just AWESOME!! Vivid colors, bold lines, wonderful ADD friendly stuff to look at

ok, I know that not every person that is hispanic is this way... this is what I have noticed from freinds and classmates... but I think its quite interesting how one culture can be more accomodating to ADD than another

Sherry

[quote]So now i'm thinking some of our wiring could fit quite well with certain cultures.. US culture just aint it[/quote]

Hee, kibbles. You are right-- many cultures have a much different relationship with time than Euro-Americans. I won't say "U.S. culture" because segments of U.S. culture-- Hispanic, African-American, and Native American-- are a lot more relaxed about time.

I remember reading a story about negotiations between the U.S. government and Native Americans at the turn of the 20th century. The two parties made an agreement to meet on a certain date at a certain time. The government reps showed up on time, and waited, waited, waited for the Native Americans. They were late-- two weeks late! Their reason: they just weren't ready yet.

I'm African-American, and I used to attribute my lateness to what we jokingly refer to as "CPT"-- Colored People's Time! I think Native Americans and African-Americans have a similar relationship with time-- clocks simply do not control them. However, my issues are way more chronic than even what's acceptable in Af-Am culture.

That's very interesting. My mother's side of the family is full of ADHD, but not my father's. We are Native American on my mother's side.

 

The US has a culture other than love of ease and cash???

And saying only white people care about time. I think you are wrong, but I plan to test it with my black boss tomorrow. I am American Indian enough to qualify as a minority in California. Maybe I can claim his ridiculous insistance on me being on time is disrespecful to my culture.



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[quote]So now i'm thinking some of our wiring could fit quite well with certain cultures.. US culture just aint it[/quote]

Hee, kibbles. You are right-- many cultures have a much different relationship with time than Euro-Americans. I won't say "U.S. culture" because segments of U.S. culture-- Hispanic, African-American, and Native American-- are a lot more relaxed about time.

I remember reading a story about negotiations between the U.S. government and Native Americans at the turn of the 20th century. The two parties made an agreement to meet on a certain date at a certain time. The government reps showed up on time, and waited, waited, waited for the Native Americans. They were late-- two weeks late! Their reason: they just weren't ready yet.

I'm African-American, and I used to attribute my lateness to what we jokingly refer to as "CPT"-- Colored People's Time! I think Native Americans and African-Americans have a similar relationship with time-- clocks simply do not control them. However, my issues are way more chronic than even what's acceptable in Af-Am culture.

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Mopw, I didn't say that only white people care about time. I was observing generalities that can't necessarily be applied to each and every individual. And good luck claiming any cultural differences about time-- most managers would simply say you need to adopt a different culture. My black boss certainly hasn't cut anyone any slack about time (although he's pretty lax about it himself).

I think one major difference between us and normal people of any culture is that normal people are able to be on time when it really matters. We ADD'ers, however, find it difficult regardless of importance.

Let me add, also, that my origional post was one of observation of other students that I, personally have ha