You know  your ADD/ADHD  IS  BAD  WHEN YOU STOP AT A  GREEN LIGHT.........

DID  IT  TODAY

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I do that all the time.  I will come to a dead stop at green lights and sit there for a couple seconds until I realize what I have done.  A couple times I have tried to fly through a red.

[QUOTE=LTC1]When you are asked to make another piece of garlic bread by your boy friend, and 15 min later he comes to see how his bread is coming along....the bread is in the oven... the oven is off.. and your sitting at the computer playing spider. [/QUOTE]

Or your going into the kitchen and you ask "Can I get you anything?"  He says "Sure I'll take a pop" so you go into the kitchen get what you were going to get for yourself, come back sit next to him on the couch and then he asks "Where's my drink!"

You know your ADD is bad when.....

You try to say something sweet but end up being rude.......happends to me all the time....

Start a story about something that you think is funny and notice that no one around you is paying attention.

When you get the in car and start to drive to the grocery store but forget what it is that you are supposed to get once you get there.

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I alwasy start a story and I get half way through it and realize I have completely forgotten what I was even talking about!

When....

You make a long list of everything you and your boyfriend needs from the grocery store.  You get to the grocery store and either forget completely that you made a list or you forget the list and you can't recall anything that was on it. I do this every single Sunday!

You know your ADD is bad when...

You have a secret hiding place for personal things or important papers but..... you can't remember where that secret hiding place is!

MY MUM BLAMED THE SNORING ON MY CAT

I SOMETIMES PANIC WHEN MY KIDS ARE NOT WITH ME AND WONDER WHERE THEY ARE(THEY ARE AT SCHOOL BUT I FORGET)

I HAVE POST IT EVERYWHERE AND STILL I FORGET TO DO THINGS

Always pass the turn off to my house when I'm driving home.  The other day I passed it and I was walking.

Found the toothbrush in the dishwasher.  I swear I don't remember putting it there.  My kitty's safe.  He can't open it.

Always pass the turn off to my house when I'm driving home.  The other day I passed it and I was walking.[/QUOTE]

I do this ALL. THE. TIME!!

i also pass turns when i am walking and lost in fairyland,it is very embarassing and you turn back trying to look like you  meant to do that.

i keep forgetting i put a hanging basket at my front door and i walk into it each time.

i lost count on how many times i walked into an opened kitchen cupboard door i just opened

you know you are ADHD

When you are watching tv and decide to change the station. Just when you pick the remote up your dog barks at you to get some love . So now your focus is on him. Pet him give him a kiss ok now change stations. Ok what is wrong with this stupid remote the station is not changing. Well if you would point it at the tv instead of the dog it might work. Yes friends I did this today and yes even the dog looked at me like what the heck are you doing? This one even made me laugh.  Now you know why I picked the name fruit loop to use on post. lol

Dang I wish I'd come across a $100 bill or a $20.  Right now I'd settle for a $5.

You know your ADHD when your cousin calls you from Florida to ask if you will print some pictures of the new baby to give to her mom (who lives near me) I tell her sure, I'd be happy to.   Then when I go to my mailbox I see an email from a senderI don't recognise so I delete it.  The title was "Here's the pictures"

Next day my aunt calls and asks if I received the pictures.  Thank goodness I didn't empty the trash.  

Really bad when I stand in the middle of a room for half an hour just looking at everything that needs to be done, then get on the computer instead.

This has been me for the last week

[QUOTE=steppingstone]I am constantly driving past places where I am supposed to turn, even in familiar areas.  I once was getting ready to pick my daughter up from school, to take her to a doctors appointment in another town.  When I was turning out of our drive, I turned in the opposite direction from her school.  I realized after I had driven several blocks that I was heading for her doctors appointment, but without her![/QUOTE]

 That's funny!

When you are turned down for something you want very badly, and the absolutely only response that enters your brain is, "That's great!  Thanks!"

(This happened to someone I know.  The person on the other end must've been shocked!  lol)

You know your ADD/ADHD is bad when you get a call about a traffic violation that occurred 7 years earlier & you now have to pay a fine to avoid going to jail because you forgot about it!

You get a phone call about a bill that you were supposed to send the payment on. You find the money order that your spouse handed you to take care of the payment, in your purse cause you forgot to send it with the note.

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or when you plan an entire party and then forget to invite everyone????  (only kidding CG.....)
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I missed that!  You know your ADHD is bad when you have read this page 4 or 5 times and miss an entire post.

Lela, I love your signature

You know your ADD is really bad when...

....you return to ADHDnews only to find you forgot you had posted this in May 2005... 8 )

[QUOTE=Countrygirl]You know you're ADHD when you think Robin Williams is too laid back.[/QUOTE]

  You are funny!!!! 

You know you are adhd when - you cannot remeber the day of the week or what month it is without looking at your pocket calendar!!!! 

You know your ADD is bad when you go to the
psychiatrist to get a prescription for Ritalin and you are 20 minutes late for
the appointment.

Then within 4 hours you lose the prescription for Ritalin and have to go
back to ask for another one.

OK you know you have ADHD when you have 50 things to do today and keep on reading these instead. You read them to the point where the only reason that you stopped was because you had to go to the bathroom so bad from your morning coffee that if you read one more you you were not going to make it to the bathroom.

OK you know you have ADHD when you have 50 things to do today and keep on reading these instead. You read them to the point where the only reason that you stopped was because you had to go to the bathroom so bad from your morning coffee that if you read one more you you were not going to make it to the bathroom.

Awe, come on!

You know you woulda made it to the bathroom even if you read 10 more.

You'da just been a little more of a humid being when you got there...

You've hyperfocused when . . . .

You've spent the last three hours reading all 104 pages in this thread, laughing yourself dizzy while seeing your life playing out in the words of others.

You know you're ADHD when . . . .

This board is one of the few places you feel "at home".

....when you leave your keys in the door, complete with car keys for car right next to door, plus the car itself is unlocked!

....and you loose it, big time with family and friends for no particular reason, and it then takes them ages to calm you down!   OOOOhhheerrr

......  you get caught studying rather intently the inticracies of the common tater tot!  and get teased about it relentlessly the rest of the day.

( Zoning rather badly that day LOL)

Proud - I'm going to give this to you straight...

There is NO cure for ADHD!

No medication, meditation, vitamin, hypnosis or religious intervention can cure ADHD.  It's still unknown how much of ADHD is nature and how much nurture but it's far too large a disorder to just claim a cure for.

You immediately raise suspicion (and the hairs on the back of my neck) when you claim to know a cure. 

I only fly in and manage ... deconflicting airspace. 

There is NO cure for ADHD!

GlenW. Please. As one who is ADD and KNOWS there is no cure. (I was born this way too, hence, the name ADD&Proud?) I was wanting to send this to someone who could post this.... IT IS A JOKE!!!  Actually a South Park clip.  But if you can't laugh at the so-called experts or yourself... Then... well, nuff said. 

Hey Davidornado, do you want to see it? It really is funny.

edit to add:

I realize that we get enough family, friends, so-called experts & various freeze-dried wackaloons on here telling us that they "know" what our problem is and if we would just do/take this amazing, just-discovered therapy/pill/exercise, all of our (their?) problems would go away.  We could become like them! (god forbid)  But, I hoped/expected that one's post would be judged based on one's history and time on the board here.  How many times have the whack-jobs come on here and within the first 5 posts are about a new cure or wondering how the ADD drugs will affect their sex life. 

Just asking for a little forebearance and research before you get your hackles up. 

I only fly in and manage ... deconflicting airspace. 

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David,

maybe you need a TFR - temporary flight restriction!!!  That would deconflict your airspace!!! 

Sure!

I only fly in and manage ... deconflicting airspace. 

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David,

maybe you need a TFR - temporary flight restriction!!!  That would deconflict your airspace!!! 

Ritalin does that.

So, if Ritlain is a TFR, then

I suffer from CAS.

Constricted Airspace Syndrome.

I'm glad I know now it's not ADHD I suffer from:::

I only fly in and manage ... deconflicting airspace. 

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David,

maybe you need a TFR - temporary flight restriction!!!  That would deconflict your airspace!!! 

Ritalin does that.

So, if Ritlain is a TFR, then

I suffer from CAS.

Constricted Airspace Syndrome.

I'm glad I know now it's not ADHD I suffer from:::

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I would just say that you are safe from other aircraft crashing into you!!!!  You can still fly, it would just be alone, in your own airspace!!! 

[QUOTE=Kirsty]when you leave money in the cash mashine for the next in line to steal.... 3 TIMES IN ONE MONTH!!!![/QUOTE]

My cheapness must override my adhd syptoms on that one - I have never done that!!!! 

Your ADD Inattentiveness has caused you to shut the door on your 6 yr old's fingers for the upteenth time in a row. 

ADDproud,

I have never done that, but I have slammed my own hands in the car door multiple times.  I have even shut it in the helicopter door at work a few times!!!    I have had to burn holes in my finger nails to let the blood out so the pain would stop!!!

You know your adhd, when someone asks your name and you forget it!!! 

You finally get around to sorting oall the socks and you have over 100 pair, enough to fill 2 drawers!  I kept just buying new pairs instead of washing and sorting. I would run out and say humm I guess I need more socks. 

I keep forgetting what BTW stands for, I am in the wildland firefighting business and only fly in and manage aircraft related to fighting fires and deconflicting airspace. 

I guess I would call you a crappy Mom if you did it on purpose!!! 

I dropped a piece of firewood on my kids bare toe once!!!    That's all right, she gave me a black eye when we were practicing Lacrosse!!

I was proud to say my 9 year old gave me a black eye!!!! 

Hey teacher,

That's why I buy all the same color socks!!!!! 

OMG! Is that why I have so many socks?!  LOL!

LCdc, better my own fingers than those of my son's.  And what gets me is that I look. I swear I look to make sure he's in the van.  He is, but his fingers are still on the outside! Then, heaven forbid if my husband is in the car! Talk about making me feel bad.  This past Sunday is when the latest episode happened.  I told him that if he was trying to make me feel like a crappy mother I didn't need his help.  Everyday I was reminded by the chaos around me that I am on any given day managing to screw up my kids enough that they will either need multiple visits to the doc or some serious psychotherapy as an adult.  So, please, don't join in on the "Christy is a crappy mother bandwagon. This tour is already full. The next tour is tomorrow. The ticket window opens one hour before showtime."

I guess we need to have a pre-flight checklist. The pilot doesn't take her seat until all passengers are buckled in. 

BTW, we are in the aviation/helicopter business too.

You know your adhd is bad when you carpool with your adhd friend on a day when there is no school........

You drive home without your groceries

Or even worse, you're returning to drama practice after a dinner break with your boyfriend and your shirt is inside out....

[QUOTE=ZORG] [QUOTE=Reizende]

You know your ADD is really bad when...

not only did you put the shirt on inside out, but the tag is on the front of your neck.

I've got a great .wmv file on an amazing new cure for adhd.  Who can I send it to so you can put it up here?

You know your ADHD is bad when

You open up the microwave to reheat your morning coffee that you forgot to drink and find the previous evening's dinner that you forgot to eat.

You often take the TV remote to work because the last task in your morning ritual is turning off the TV as you walk out the door.

Groceries spoil because you forgot to take them out of the car.

when you get two cups of cappachino from the vending machine sprinkle them from the chocolate shaker then put the chocolate shaker under the hot water spout then press the button for another cappachino which pours all over the chocolate shaker all over the floor to the delight of 6 people waiting in the que behind you and the one laughing also has add, he's just glad you done it first

You know you are when your kids have to stand at the garage door with your keys, briefcase, breakfast, bills and all the supplies you need for the day so they won't be late for school!!! 

You know you are when your kids have to stand at the garage door with your keys, briefcase, breakfast, bills and all the supplies you need for the day so they won't be late for school!!! 

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Yep, that's a pretty good give away

you know your add is bad when.....

ST. Anthony is your best friend

you know your add is bad when........

when you have a gimmilion post its all over the place with reminders of things you have to do and when you clean up  you notice all the stuff you forgot to do because you forgot to look at your post its

 LCdc that is hilarious,

You know it's bad when,  you've put the tea caddy in the fridge again!!!

You compliment your DH on his new t-shirt and ask him where he got it!!!! yep you got it for him 3 days ago.......

You know your ADHD when you have to post this sign on your office door!!

Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.

You know you have adhd when you go to the grocery store, then put some of the groceries up and forget about the rest and have to throw spoiled milk or meat away!

I've done that too many times!

you know your add is bad when.....

ST. Anthony is your best friend<<

  So true! I was just "talking to him" last night... lol!

[QUOTE=bepatient]When you squeegee off you glass shower doors really good and then decide to turn on the shower to rinse the squeegee water off the shower floor.....duh! [/QUOTE]

 Or when you clean your mirrors with an oil rag

when you are taking driving lessons and 2 of your instructors ends up with heart problems.

when you went to answer this post with a good example and can't remember what you were going to say

When you don't bother to open your mailbox because what's in it, is scary. 

(I used to do this... over time I grew a tiny bit of courage to open the bills.  Now I pay every bill when it comes.  I could not have done that before.  My finances were in such a mess, I could barely pay 1 bill).

[QUOTE=bepatient]When you squeegee off you glass shower doors really good and then decide to turn on the shower to rinse the squeegee water off the shower floor.....duh! [/QUOTE]

 Or when you clean your mirrors with an oil rag

You put clothes in the washer, soap, start the washer and then discover the next day that you didn’t close the lid.

You know your ADD is bad, when you pour your coffee onto your saucer..... ooops forgot the cup

or one of the good things... you can watch seinfeld episodes over and over again and still enjoy them. 

When you put a bag of garbage on the roof of your Jeep, meaning to stop at the dumpster on your way out. You come out of the post office and start to get in the car when you suddenly spot your trash and know that every single person who passed by you on the way was laughing.

When you lock your keys in the car and wait around for the campus security guard to break into it for you...embarrasing enough, but understandable. Until you are back in the office the next day and the receptionist says "we have all done it". I'm thinking yea right. I told the security guard at least I was giving him some good practice. Anyone else get tired of coming out to the car and reaching in their purse for keys, and your so used to it you don't even dare look inside the car cuz you know they are hanging there?

When you take the wrong route so many times that the right one feels wrong...

Thanks, CG.

I can't believe I left it in Dallas.

Did you find it with Alice?

For me it's not so much what I was thinking about, its all about what I was feeling.

When I cross into ADHDerlandia, it's a great feeling.

I HATE it when someone ALWAYS drags me out of my soft, cushy, warm, universe...

I'm still aware of what's going on around me, sorta, but,,,, please, let me chill there awhile longer...

I know. It's like the Nexus, in Stark Trek Generations...

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You said that perfectly!  That's exactly it, its such a wonderful feeling and sooo frustrating when someone interrupts and drags you back.  I can't remember what I was thinking or where I went.  I'm just left with this lingering feeling of contentment, happiness.  And I can't go back because I can't remember the thought process that lead me to happy land.  Irritating to say the least!

You know your ADD is really bad when...

...you wake up on a weekend morning at 8, stay in bed drifting in and out of sleep for another 2 hours while contemplating all of the 50 things you want to get done that day, finally drag your rump out of bed at 10, dawdle over coffee and a book till noon, turn on the computer *real quick to check something on the web*, realize hours later that you're hungry, thirsty and have to pee, and the dog is whining to go out (or barking to come in), then you realize it's going on 4 pm and you're still in your pj's. Then in a frenzy you chase through the house in a futile attempt to get at least a fraction of the stuff on your list accomplished by midnight, and drop into bed feeling like a failure, with the door unlocked, the dog barking outside, and oh, dang-it, you forgot the one important thing you REALLY set out to do that day.  **Sigh**

?? Maybe it's not just you?? Could the world be conspiring against "the stare"?

    Trust me . I've felt my own Stare, and the 'absence' of really any coherence of rational thought. It's called daydreaming. What gets to me is knowing there was a thought that was supposed to be there. And to think a thought thought to outthink me and escape without a thought!

[QUOTE=repairman]And to think a thought thought to outthink me and escape without a thought![/QUOTE]

Me too! I hate when someone asks me what I was thinking and I don't know. All I know is it must have been interesting to keep my attention so well.

[QUOTE=repairman]And to think a thought thought to outthink me and escape without a thought![/QUOTE]

OMG!  if there were any shred of doubt, its GONE now!!  You know your ADD when you understand the above sentence without having to reread it!!!

[QUOTE=repairman]And to think a thought thought to outthink me and escape without a thought![/QUOTE]

Me too! I hate when someone asks me what I was thinking and I don't know. All I know is it must have been interesting to keep my attention so well.

For me it's not so much what I was thinking about, its all about what I was feeling.

When I cross into ADHDerlandia, it's a great feeling.

I HATE it when someone ALWAYS drags me out of my soft, cushy, warm, universe...

I'm still aware of what's going on around me, sorta, but,,,, please, let me chill there awhile longer...

I know. It's like the Nexus, in Stark Trek Generations...

So I bought an Epson...

..... when you post a reply in a forum and when you leave the forum to go to the main page and see your screen name as the last post of a forum and not remember what that post was! it just happened to me!! DAMN!!!

I wear contacts and glasses (not at the same time) Anyway, this morning when I woke up I reached for my glasses, found my sunglasses instead and put them on. Freaked me out because there for a moment,  I thought I was blind. It was so dark! Heart racing woke me up though. (Dang, I'm tired)

[QUOTE=ringdawn]You can't find your car keys no matter how hard you look.....only to find them later in the refrigerator!!!!!!!![/QUOTE]

I found mine in the garbage can once!

These are great.

I forget my passwords ALL the TIME, and we have a ton to remember.  Of course at least 5 of them have different rules so no 1 password ever works for all of them.  Well the company came up with a 'password program' that you can put your passwords in.  Trouble is that I forget the password to get into that also.

I get off the phone with my husband and I remember him saying "Remind me to do ***" - I can't remember what it is.  I sit there all day trying to remember what he asked me to remind him...  :(

I get a wonderful planner to write everything in - then I forget to write stuff in it.

I lose medicine all over the house - I have 5 different prescriptions of my migraine medicine hiding somewhere in my house...  :)

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!!

When you are carrying your groceries into the house, and for some odd reason lay your keys down on the ground (hidden by a large plant).   You frantically search for them for the remainder of the evening, and into the night...The next morning, you find them-with the lawn mower!  They go flying into the side of the car, leaving a rather suspicious looking dent and scratch that friends and family question you about, and you have to rather sheepishly admit what happened.

This actually happened to me about 15 years ago.

You know your ADD is really bad when...

YOU HOWL!!!    

Or when you've lost your keys for 2 whole days. Finally give up looking and decide to go get some made: You look in your purse to check your wallet for needed cash, and, oops,, there's the keys, LOL

Sherry

You know your ADD is really bad when...

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

- Vic [/QUOTE]

PLEASE tell me that didn't really happen!

You know your ADD is really bad when...

Your staying at a luxury hotel and go to put your food in the microwave wondering why when you opened the door the microwave had carpet in it- put your food in anyway, shut the door and realize only when you read "enter your 4 digit pen #" that you have put your food in the SAFE to cook!Mmmmmm!

 Hey, you ever put something on the stove to cook to come back later on and check it to find that you never even turned the burner on?

Or put something in the microwave to heat up, and discover it hours later when you go to heat up something else...

And um, I have two walls painted banana yellow and one rasberry fizz right now LOL been that way for about six months now!

And keys? Ever leave them in the fridge?   Yup, fridge, cabinet, bathroom... the worst place to leave them is in my pocket though. Heh!

You know your ADD is really bad when...

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

- Vic [/QUOTE]

PLEASE tell me that didn't really happen!

You know your ADD is really bad when...

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

- Vic [/QUOTE]

PLEASE tell me that didn't really happen!

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Makes you feel damn guilty for a long time. I really better not have gerbles again.
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I'm VERY SORRY I was hoping it was a joke!

you  know you ADD is really bad....when you come to this site and go directly to page 93 and add your 2 cents.....would love to look at all but there is definately 3 or more hours involved with that.

You know your ADD is really bad when.........You have to write every word of a conversation down before making a call.

You are traveling along the interstate and focus in on the lint on your pants.....instead of the road!

You go onto the internet to look something up and 2hrs. later forgot what it was you were interested in looking up in the first place.

You put something on the stove....and your daughter says, "mom, what's burning?" Completely forgot you were cooking!!!

Start to paint a room, get bored painting that room, so leave the trim, go start to paint another room, get a few walls done, and don't like the color, so start another room.........and yep, have several walls in several rooms painted, but none completed!!!!!

You put something on the stove....and your daughter says, "mom, what's burning?" Completely forgot you were cooking!!!

Start to paint a room, get bored painting that room, so leave the trim, go start to paint another room, get a few walls done, and don't like the color, so start another room.........and yep, have several walls in several rooms painted, but none completed!!!!!

 Hey, you ever put something on the stove to cook to come back later on and check it to find that you never even turned the burner on?

And um, I have two walls painted banana yellow and one rasberry fizz right now LOL been that way for about six months now!

And keys? Ever leave them in the fridge?

t.j.  and repairman....and I thought I was the only one in the world with half painted walls...thank you sooooo much for making me feel "normal"  i would love to paint the outside of the house, trim and all...but afraid I'd be the only half painted house in the neighborhood...or town for that matter!!!  Maybe you could come help me and together we could get it finished!!!

I definately have put something in the oven, on the stove, in the microwave and have forgot to turn it on....crazy thing is...sometimes I swear I did, and blame others for turning it off!!!

You know your ADD is really bad when you forget what your  talking about...mid sentence....I just call it "Brain Fart"

Start to paint a room, get bored painting that room, so leave the trim, go start to paint another room, get a few walls done, and don't like the color, so start another room.........and yep, have several walls in several rooms painted, but none completed!!!!!

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I can't even get started on the painting part.  About 3-4 yrs ago I took everything off the walls (including all the kids hand made knick-knacks and promised I wouldn't have them boxed up long) started patching the kids nicks and dents in the walls and well that's as far as I've gotten.  Let me tell you these are some pretty walls I have!  I can't even decide on the color I want.  Doesn't really matter much since I can't even get the walls ready to paint.  I've been seriously thinking about just painting and not worrying about all the little dents.  It would have to look better than the way they do now.

[QUOTE=taritac]Hey, count your blessings: at least you didn't leave one of the kids!! [/QUOTE]

Believe me, I have been so afraid of doing something like that!

When you are trying to corrall very tall 4th graders into the gym for school dismissal and you try to get a 2nd grader to go in there with them.

Mom argues that he's never done that before, and I say that we have always done this... THe white noise is so bad in my head at that moment that I have no clue what she said next..  I finally realize that the poor kid is not part of my group and let him go.

sigh...  I don't mind doing funny stuff.. but when it really angers other people... I'm not too happy

Sherry

When you are trying to corrall very tall 4th graders into the gym for school dismissal and you try to get a 2nd grader to go in there with them.

Mom argues that he's never done that before, and I say that we have always done this... THe white noise is so bad in my head at that moment that I have no clue what she said next..  I finally realize that the poor kid is not part of my group and let him go.

sigh...  I don't mind doing funny stuff.. but when it really angers other people... I'm not too happy

 Sherry

Go to work with your car and at the end of the day you forget you had a car so you come back home using the Public Transit.

The first time my hubby thought it was funny but after a few times he was not laughing as much.

You know your ADD is really bad when...

1) you go to register on a BB concerning ADD (you never knew existed) so you can put your two cents in and can't use your login becuz some yahoo took your preferred user name... only to dicover that that "yahoo" is you... profile is complete with your presonal info...  I KNOW I have never been there (different site!!)

** happened TONIGHT **

2)  You drive your 45 minute morning commute to work, barely arriving on time.  As you throw it in Park your 4 year old son says "Daddy this isn't my school" (His school is by the house... 45 minutes away.. cuz you forgot he was in the car! )

**happened YESTERDAY**

3) You "wake up" in the middle of a converstion finishing a sentence but don't really know what the original subject was or where the hell your going with what was just said!  [Fake bathroom emergency and run away!]

**EVERY DAY**

*** THANK GOD he made my heart and lung functions autonomic! ***

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Yes I was completely shocked this morning when my son spoke to me this morning on the way to school....I had totally forgotten he was in the car. 

You know your ADHD is bad when tell your 22 year old daughter that you want her to meet your new bf and she says, "you're not going to be all over each other are you?"

You know your ADHD is bad when you return home from Thanksgiving holiday to find that you've somehow managed to leave on a gas burner on your stove.

For four days.

I'm lucky my neighborhood still exists.

LOL my thread is going going going.. 8 )

You know your ADD is really bad when you forgot you already posted before and posted again.

your working on a research paper and everytime the email pops up you check this message board!!

hey, I'm calling them "mini breaks"

sherry

Yes, it does stink Rayray... BUT I find it much more healthy to laugh at myself and go on, than to kick myself for something that happened that I can't change.

Besides, laughing increases all sorts of nice little chemicals that actually help us health wise.. I figure if we laugh at our little mishaps, ADDers should be just about the healthiest people around!!

As long as my stupidity doesnt harm anyone else, I'm gonna keep laughing...

Sherry

How about going through a drive through starving paying for your food and driving fifteen minutes getting inside your home and having to hear your stomach growl before you realize you didn't wait for your food..... yes I did go back.

I've done this twice. The only thing that I was happy about when I looked at my watch was that my concerta was 1/2 hour out of my system. I get really mad when I do stupid stuff like this medicated.

pay for 50 bucks in gas and drive off on E

When you burn a pot of boiling water.......

when you forget your adding some water to your pool.. wake up the next morning and your yard in now a swamp.

Soup outa the can, cold. Don't have to wash dishes that way, nor chance getting burned or something like that...
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you're talking about the plastic "cans" where you just gotta peel off the foil top right? not the ones where we have to actually use a can opener...

[QUOTE=Davidornado][QUOTE=kibbles002]You cant remember if you took your meds or not in the am, go through the day being an airhead.. but still don't know for sure 'cause you been sick and maybe your loopy 'cause your sick.. but then again maybe lack of meds.. or cause your sick orr..........SHerry[/QUOTE]

You know you're ADHD when you do this, and then try to count the pills left in the bottle...
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But then that doesnt work because you keep having to restart because you lose count. I always forget if the number I am on was the pill i just counted or I am about to count.... of course that could just be stupidity on my part too.

OK I seriously haven't laughed this hard in a long time - I've done so many of these things...

Here's mine...

when you drive to the mall - forgot your purse - came back - grab your purse - leave it by the mailbox - go back in the car - go to the mall - no purse - go back in the car - drive home - get purse... go back - shop - and figure out you took out your debit card out a previous time and didn't put it back in and it's at home...

and then...

You drive all the way to work only to realize that you still have your toddler still strapped in the car instead of at the daycare where you should have dropped him off!!

I DONT THINK THIS STUFF IS FUNNY,

I THINK IT SUCKS!!!!!!!!

When you have your license in one hand, trash in the other, and throw your license in the trash can...

Then you realize, OMG!...why is this trash still in my hand? cuz you can't remember what was in the other...

So you carefuly look through the trash can, to make sure you didn't throw away something important, and find your CDL there...

when you do something so ADHDerly, like the above two events, and come here to VENT!...

You sart to get the bread maker ready for the next loaf and get as far as washing out the bread tin.....

Then

Start making the bed.....

Only to realise you were just about to empty the clothes dryer......

Go and half empty the washing machine instead of the dryer......

Hear the phone and answer it......

Then

Forget about the washing machine half emptied and dry your hair instead......

Suddenly remember ( whilst drying hair ) the washing machine was half emptied....

Finish making the bed........

Remember the clothes you need to get out of the dryer.......

Get the kids tidying their rooms.......

Take the dry washing out of the dryer.......

Finish taking the washing out of the washing machine( whilst remembering the bread )........

Get clothes in the dryer.......

Realise what you have just done......

Got side tracked yet again and come to post here.......................

Uhm ......... I'm off to bake bread now.................... I THINK

All this in the last 1 hour

When you loose things without even moving your feet

while you are walking, you see someone you havent seen in a while, you are in a hurry, so you don't stop, but smile real big and wave.

Meanwhile,  while you are smiling and waving, you turn and hit head on SMACK into the door to the building..

At least I come out of that one Laughing!!!

Sherrry

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

You have to rely on your 12 year old to help you keep up with mailing your bills on time and to help you remember things that you have to do.

You sit and wait excitedly for your favorite TV show to come on and turn on the station at the appropriate time and your show is not on! You get upset, you run around checking the time to make sure the time is right when it hits you..... It's Thursday, not Friday. You are a day Early!!!!

I did the second yesterday

I've been doing the first for years.

When you get ready to get out of the tub, you are standing up and grabbing for the towel when you remember that you haven't washed the shampoo out of your hair. 

Did that one tonight!

I just laugh. What else can one do?

Oh, I've walked into doors many times. My Mom says it's "Oh TJ's trying to get ahead of the door again". LOL

TJ

When you get ready to get out of the tub, you are standing up and grabbing for the towel when you remember that you haven't washed the shampoo out of your hair. 

Did that one tonight!

I just laugh. What else can one do?

Oh, I've walked into doors many times. My Mom says it's "Oh TJ's trying to get ahead of the door again". LOL

TJ

OMG kibbles002....LMAO!

You just reminded me about my first day at a new job about 6 years ago...

I had on a nice skirt and top... while parking may car (and proud that I was on time) I looked down at my feet..I had on these stupid sandals that I wear just to go in and out of the house..they were rubber!

I DONT THINK THIS STUFF IS FUNNY,

I THINK IT SUCKS!!!!!!!!

rayray812 are you okay?  There was a time when my thoughtless actions got to me so much that I got depressed.  I started really hating myself...I was diagnosed with depression and took some med. for it.  It helped me so much!  Now I can accept myself and just laugh things off!  If I can't do that than I'm totally...in trouble. 

          I DONT THINK THIS STUFF IS FUNNY,I THINK IT SUCKS!!!!!!!!
         

                   &nbs p;               

You know your ADD is bad when you start to run the sink full of dishs and soap, walk away, start vacuming and find your kitchen floor soaked becasue the sink is running over!! ( and i thought i was doing a good job getting everythign done! oops!) AT least the kitchen floor is mopped now too!!!

...when you have to stop mid-story because you realize nobody is really following you (including yourself). "Umm...yeah. anyway, it was pretty funny."

TOO FUNNY, happens daily to me!!!!

You know your ADHD is really bad when.. you go to the grocery store, grab a cart that's right outside the store and start walking in. when you look over at an employee with a confused smile on there face.  You look down and you see that you're pushing two carts that are stuck together.  I just said, "oh, I wasn't paying attention." (duh, really?)

(Just when you think there couldn't be anymore firsts!)

When you call your sister, wish her a happy belated birthday and profusely apologize for forgetting – two months before her birthday.

You know it's bad when your go to try on clothes in a fitting room and you hear your ADHD daughter in the fitting room next door say, "I can't find my number!" (the number you're given for the amount of item you bring in). 

Then she says, "I know all of these clothes in here arn't mine!" Then you hear her fitting room door slam and she says,  "I'm outa here!"  She leaves taking nothing with her!

Then I go to leave and I can't find my number!  I just took my clothes out and appologized for loosing it.

See? those rhymes help out don't they?

so if I lived in Australia I could say that I was so ADDled that I fall forward all the time.. but then I SPRING right back!

oh groan.... maybe I should quit while I"m ahead..

So I'd have to say it the other way, is that right?

So I'd Spring back and Fall forward!!

I wont ever forget that for as long as I live!!!!!!!!!!!

In spring we go an hour forward and in Autum they go back. We dont have FALL. Fall sounds a lot prettier though. In Queensland the clocks dont change at all cos the cows get confused if they do

Gotta use my rhyme to remember that one:

Spring forward and Fall back...   I actually have to quote it EVERY time the clocks get changed!

sherry

You know your ADHD is really bad when you forget what you were talking avbout, because you interrupted yourself.

Happens constantly to me.

[QUOTE=BDLB]Your shaking a guys hand at church and say 'how's it going?' and he says 'fine and you?' and I say 'fine and you?' forgetting I just asked him how's he doing and he just looks at me like I fell out of a well and hit a pully. [/QUOTE]

 Have you ever answered the question? You ask someone: "How are you?" and before you know it you've already answered, "Good thanks" .. to your OWN question. LOL ya ......... that's never happened to me.

you are driving down the freeway, get halfway to Dallas before you realize you are on the WRONG freeway...[/QUOTE]

And I'm in Denver....

I wake up in hotels and cannot for the life of me remember which city/state/country I'm in... I have to look out the window...

I wake up in hotels and cannot for the life of me remember which city/state/country I'm in... I have to look out the window...

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What happens when you don't recognize anything when you look out the window????

you are driving down the freeway, get halfway to Dallas before you realize you are on the WRONG freeway...[/QUOTE]

And I'm in Denver....

I wake up in hotels and cannot for the life of me remember which city/state/country I'm in... I have to look out the window...

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Been there done that  Everytime I take a road trip to see my parents.. I am so disoriented when I first wake up in a hotel room.. I have to stop and think where I am and why I'm there

got another one:

You REALLY know your ADD is bad when you get a "fart machine" as a Christmas gift and have hours of fun playing with the thing!!  -- it even has a rmote control for unsuspecting  victims  hee hee.. hubby's gonna kill me!!

Hi All. Here's one for you,

            You know your ADHD is bad when the only day I got to work on time this year was a day that I was rostered off

I've done that too

you know your ADD is bad when...

you are driving down the freeway, get halfway to Dallas before you realize you are on the WRONG freeway, turn around , go back 15 minutes or so, get back on correct freeway in order to finally get home...

yep did it today.. off meds.. who the heck called it a 'vacation"  ???

DD is wanting to know when I will go back on them

These are hilarious! I can relate with so many of them. Maybe I should put myself on meds! LOL

You know you have ADD:

.. when you agree to drop off your boss's cheque to the staff room's 'order box' only to have pocketed it instead. 2 weeks go by and your boss is wondering why they never recieved the product they ordered (as you're shaking your head with disbelief) and you have no recollection of any cheque .. until you find it in the wash.

.. when you're impatiently rushing to get out of the house with your 5 year old so you can go to the corner store for some bread .. on a saturday afternoon, when you have nothing else planned for that day.

.. when your forever losing your cutlery that you start buying plastic wear. YIKES!

.. when you have a ton of cleaning to do yet you complain that you're bored.

.. when you forget to lock your house door - two days in a row.

you know ur add is really bad when,

you get out of a night class look for your car for a half hour, pile of broken window where you parked your car that was stolen

but you loose your car so often , u ignore physical evidence go say hell with it & go back to dorm, planning to find it next day,

in the AM the phone rings its the police, we found your car and caugh suspects

     After reading this I don't know if I feel like laughing, or crying.  But right now I'm just sitting here with my jaw gapping open in disbelief.  I have just recently been diagnosed with ADD and it never occured to me that I could possibly have it.  I just thought I was a failure at life in general.  I can't believe how ALL of these things mentioned fit me.    Thanks.

     You know your ADD is bad when...........

     Your two kids that don't have ADD are always reminding you to do things like......cook dinner. And your child that has ADHD is the most interesting person in the world and you both find yourselves starting to clean her room and end up playing games for hours.

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The most important thing you can find out with your diagnosis is that your ADD is both a gift and a curse! Mostly a gift but also mostly a curse! If you understand that its time for adderal!!!!!!!!!!

     After reading this I don't know if I feel like laughing, or crying.  But right now I'm just sitting here with my jaw gapping open in disbelief.  I have just recently been diagnosed with ADD and it never occured to me that I could possibly have it.  I just thought I was a failure at life in general.  I can't believe how ALL of these things mentioned fit me.    Thanks.

     You know your ADD is bad when...........

     Your two kids that don't have ADD are always reminding you to do things like......cook dinner. And your child that has ADHD is the most interesting person in the world and you both find yourselves starting to clean her room and end up playing games for hours.

You know your ADD is really bad when...

when you call your current boyfriend the name of your first husband you haven't even seen or spoken to in the last 5 years.

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That's why all my girlfriends and even when I was married my ex-wife was named babe or sexy! Hey babe, Hi Sexy, What's up babe?  

You know your ADHD is realy bad when you spend half an hour trying to start your motorbike, finaly give up, reach in to your pocket to get your cell to call a mechanic and find your bike keys.

You make it half way down the road on the motorbike and then realise your helmet is still next to ytour bed.

you decide to take your Motorbike out in the snow, well it cant be that dangerious, you get to the end of the road and crash.

You get taken to the A+E after the bike crash, they ask you if you hit your head when you came off the bike, you say no, youd definatly remember that, then you get home and find that your helmit is trashed.

all this and more happend in the same week.

     You know your ADD is bad when...........

     Your two kids that don't have ADD are always reminding you to do things like......cook dinner. And your child that has ADHD is the most interesting person in the world and you both find yourselves starting to clean her room and end up playing games for hours. 

[QUOTE=Wordwoman]What if you wash your clothes 5 times because you don't know if the basket they're in has dirty clothes in it, or clean ones that you took out of the dryer and haven't yet put away? [/QUOTE]

now that sounds ADD

how bout if u wash something that shoud have been washed 5 wears ago,

then say screw go to tjmaxx and get a new shirt

How's getting a heap of information on improving your short term memory only to put it down somewhere and have never found it again.

Or ringing my husband at work demanding to know where my keys are cos Im late for work and not believing he didnt touch them until I go to my car and they're in the ignition from the night before.

And so on and so on

When the first place you look for your coffee mug is the microwave, the second place you look is the fridge and the last place you look is the cupboard where you keep the mugs.

Dabonbon

In your first year of college, you are soo nervous, you wash your clothes 5 times a week to keep yourself occupied

doesnt sound ADD t ome

You know your ADD is really bad when...

1) you go to register on a BB concerning ADD (you never knew existed) so you can put your two cents in and can't use your login becuz some yahoo took your preferred user name... only to dicover that that "yahoo" is you... profile is complete with your presonal info...  I KNOW I have never been there (different site!!)

** happened TONIGHT **

2)  You drive your 45 minute morning commute to work, barely arriving on time.  As you throw it in Park your 4 year old son says "Daddy this isn't my school" (His school is by the house... 45 minutes away.. cuz you forgot he was in the car! )

**happened YESTERDAY**

3) You "wake up" in the middle of a converstion finishing a sentence but don't really know what the original subject was or where the hell your going with what was just said!  [Fake bathroom emergency and run away!]

**EVERY DAY**

*** THANK GOD he made my heart and lung functions autonomic! ***

Meanwhile,  while you are smiling and waving, you turn and hit head on SMACK into the door to the building..

At least I come out of that one Laughing!!!

I've walked into glass patio doors thrice. Broke them twice. Poor little birdie...

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Last night I was looking at the moon, wondering if I could get a picture of it. Then I saw a ring of moisture around the moon, and started wondering how that happens. Then I walked into the side of the house. Someone moved the door. Now I have another 2 inch soccer scar on my shin, from hitting a planter...

[quote]My yahoo tool bar is in German.  --Countrygirl[/quote]

Funny. As. Hell.

About walking into doors: I haven't done that in YEARS! But I can't keep count on the number of WALLS I walk into on a weekly basis!

And about shampoo or conditioner in the hair: I have to double check myself in the mirror EVERY DAY to make sure I'm rinsed.

....  OMG I love this thread.. it is sure helping me to laugh at myself!

THis morning was especially frustrating... my son argued with me insisting that he brought his PE clothes home.. we tore the place apart looking for them.. after several words back and forth, he goes out and finds them fermenting in the car.

BUT that's not all!! He then lets me know that he left his tennis shoes over at a neighbors house - so now we go see if we can catch him before school... I grab my stuff, we head out the door, no one home...

Son goes to school in sandals, I get to school myself dressed in nice shirt, dress pants and guess what else???

TENNIS SHOES!!!  Now how the heck did I get those on instead of dress shoes????  I had no clue that I had them on until I looked down and saw them!!

Sherry

You know your ADD is really bad when

the answer is B

You know your ADHD is bad when you finally realize that the only way you're going to remember to return the DVD (because you would never make a special trip JUST to return a DVD) is to hold it in one hand while driving because having it sit on the passenger seat right next to you isn't a good enough reminder.

Then before you know it, I'm home, with DVD still in hand!  OMG.. what do I have to do.. tape it to my head?

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Oh my gosh, I forgot to return my DVD's almost two weeks late.....time for me to be checked. 

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

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I second that thought!

That WAS well put wasn't it??

As was quoted once on Buffy the vampire slayer - "I wear the cheese - the cheese does not wear me"

WHen you call someone and once you're done dialing and the phone is ringing... you forget who it was you were calling.

WHen you call someone and once you're done dialing and the phone is ringing... you forget who it was you were calling.

person answers "hello"

Me "Um.... uh... who is this?"

person very annoyed "No... who is THIS? you called me"

Me... hang up.

However the invention of caller ID has saved me quite a few times cuz they see its me who is calling.

OMG mommytoaj, been there done that

You know your ADHD is bad when you make a pot of coffee and you forget to put the carafe on the hot plate..at first you wonder... "why's there coffee all over the counter?".. takes a few seconds to pick up on it

 You know  your ADD/ADHD  IS  BAD  WHEN YOU STOP AT A  GREEN LIGHT.........

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Done that but it was a red light and i treated it like a stop sign.   stopped looked both ways and turned left.  well at least no one was coming. ..

i frequently slow down for green lights.

it's like my brain gets more than one message at a time and blends them together.

lights changing means slow down and stop. or green light means don't stop. or green light means slow down and stop. oh, wait! that's a red light.

seeker63,

I'm with you. Those darn pesky lights!

I have a problem when the trafic signals are too close together.  I tend to look at the one thats the furthest away....not so good ..  

 You know  your ADD/ADHD  IS  BAD  WHEN YOU STOP AT A  GREEN LIGHT.........

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Done that but it was a red light and i treated it like a stop sign.   stopped looked both ways and turned left.  well at least no one was coming. ..

Nado,

what is a mickey mouse driver's licsense?

You cant remember if you took your meds or not in the am, go through the day being an airhead.. but still don't know for sure 'cause you been sick and maybe your loopy 'cause your sick.. but then again maybe lack of meds.. or cause your sick orr..........

SHerry

You know your ADHD is bad when you finally realize that the only way you're going to remember to return the DVD (because you would never make a special trip JUST to return a DVD) is to hold it in one hand while driving because having it sit on the passenger seat right next to you isn't a good enough reminder.

Then before you know it, I'm home, with DVD still in hand!  OMG.. what do I have to do.. tape it to my head?

 Naw, just tape it to the steering wheel. You can always return it when you get to L.A.

       ROFLMAO

while you are walking, you see someone you havent seen in a while, you are in a hurry, so you don't stop, but smile real big and wave.

Meanwhile,  while you are smiling and waving, you turn and hit head on SMACK into the door to the building..

At least I come out of that one Laughing!!!

Sherrry

I've walked into glass patio doors thrice. Broke them twice. Poor little birdie...
  

Let me add, also, that my origional post was one of observation of other students that I, personally have had experience with.

My post was meant as something positive, the only thing that might have been contrued as less of that might have been the relationship of time with my OWN culture

Certainly many cultures have adapted to a more time oriented, rather than family/friend oriented relationship with time.

I appologize if anyone thought I was being offensive or non PC at any point in time... it was NEVER my intention

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.

[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.

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.

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....

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  I should have known someone would have come with a great come-back. Thanks for starting my late A.M. with a laugh!

[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

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!

this happened this am...

You know your ADD is bad when...

you pour your instant oatmeal into your COFFEEE!!

Sherry

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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.

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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

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!

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=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

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

[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.

this happened this am...

You know your ADD is bad when...

you pour your instant oatmeal into your COFFEEE!!

Sherry

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

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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.

taritac -

OMG, that totally sounds like something I'd do.

I just had to laugh with you.

Once in college I was so distracted and worried about a Calculus Quiz.... That apparently I neglected to button up my entire shirt (that's right my blouse was completely open)

I noticed that during the quiz the TA kept staring at me and I started to be come paranoid and distracted that he thought I was cheating on the quiz when I was just really frustrated with it.  The distraction of him staring at me was too much on top of the anxiety about the quiz topic....It was only when I put my head down in frustration that I noticed my entire blouse was unbuttoned and hanging open.

Well, now that I figured out that he didn't think I was cheating we was just being a normal male staring at my breasts. I buttoned up and finished the quiz!!

I don't know how I managed to keep my composure though.

What's wrong with that?

You have two breasts, don't you?

You know you may have ADD when you start on page 84, read Sassee's cell phone story, laugh you butt off and the next thing you know you find yourself reading in another thread when the intention was to read the rest of page 84 and 85.  

Well here I am an hour later and must say the 2 bra story is hysterical!!!

How about when you've filled the sink for the sixith time to wash the same dishes, for the sixith time??

I thought this was normal, apparently its not. Where you guys in on the secret?

Your gastroenterologist gives you a list of tests that you need stool samples for.

You go to the lab and they give you the containers you need for the samples.

You diligently spend three days collecting the different samples.

You take the samples back and the lady at the counter insists you still have your lab slip.  And you just know that the vials are marked with stickers and the original lady who gave you the containers took your lab slip and entered it in the computer.

You get ticked off because the lady is now ignoring you and helping other patients and you are standing there with a bag of your own poop.  And of course, you are late picking your kid up at daycare and you are beginning to sweat.

So you leave the filled sample container of poop on the counter for the lab lady to figure it out and leave.

When you get home from picking up your kid.  You go into the master bedroom and lo and behold.  There's that darn lab slip.

Whoops.  Have to say I didn't call the lab back and admit my mistake.  She was kind of rude, so I figured it was just Karma evening things out.

ADHD Problem Solving:  (not necessarily thinking things all the way through)

While you parents are in Europe, you decide you need to use your mom's new Acura which is in the two car garage

but your short tempered brother's broken down car is parked behind it.  You know he'll beat the you know what out of you if you either 1 wake him up or 2 touch his car. 

Your "friend" who wants to ride in the new acura points out that its a two car garage and says if you make like a million point turn you can turn the car 180 degrees and drive right out the other side.

You think this is a brilliant idea and begin the process..... you get the car completely perpedicular to the way it's supposed to be in the garage and start freaking out and loose interest in completing the task at hand because you didn't remember that the refrigerator was in the corner and you just really need that 6 inches to back up either way to get the care moving to rectify this situation.  and now your frustrated because the task is just too hard.

Conclusion:  Get out of the car and resolve that you'll just have to take your old clunky 1976 malibu classic to the beach and off you go.

Later my brother wakes up from his hangover to find the Acura completely stuck sideways in the garage.  Thank God he didn't have a panic attack, although he was VERY confused as to how this happened.  He was able to get the car out of the garage.  I brought this story up the other day (this happened about 15 years ago) and my brother swears he doesn't remember it.  I guess it was the hangover.  Or, maybe he thought he did it while he was drunk.  All I know is that at the time I was afraid to ask why I didn't get into trouble for it.

ADHD Problem Solving:  (not necessarily thinking things all the way through)

You put on your last pair of panty hose and guess what they run all the way up your calf.  You are off course late for an important meeting and don't have time to stop and get another pair much less take the time to put them on.

You spot the hot curling iron and think to yourself.... hey pantyhose are like made of plastic/nylon and you can probably fix this buy melting edges of the run together.....seems completely logical.

Well you don't have enough time to take the hose off so you decide to use the curling iron on your panty hose while you are wearing them...... seems logical

You are shocked out of your brilliant thought process by black acrid smoke filling the room, accompanying the searing heat is the smell of chicken cooking, and awful pain stemming from your pantyhose melting to your second degree partial thickness burns on your calf.

Now there is no way you can even think about wearing panty hose or even pants because the burn on your leg  is sooo painful. 

No you half to go to your meeting and explain why your not wearing pantyhose and by the way what is that nasty thing on your leg.....

I have to say, I don't think this episode inspired much confidence in me by my co-workers or clients....or even myself.

I am really not this stupid. I have high IQ and a minor in mathematics..... but the thoughts just come to me so fast, it just seemed like a good idea.

[QUOTE=taritac]auntbea, poor thing! It sucks when ADD leads to injuries.

You know your ADD is REALLY bad when you are standing line at Wendy's and feel something around your waist. Ooh! You realize it's your bra! "Wha . . . why is my bra around my waist? Don't I already have a bra on around my back like I'm supposed to?" That's when you realize that you had started to put on a bra at home, forgot about it in mid-stream, ran around the house looking for a bra, remembered that there was one in your car that you had taken off while driving earlier in the week, jump in the car, drive to work while putting on the new bra that you'd found in the passenger seat, and COMPLETELY FORGOT ABOUT THE BRA AROUND YOUR WAIST.

That's right, ladies and gentlemen-- I discovered in a public, fast-food restaurant that I had on TWO BRAS! 
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At least the one around your waist was under you shirt, right? At first I was picturing it on the outside of your shirt!

I did somthin similar,

You know adhd is bad when you go to wash your face and you go to put one of those stretchy head -bands on to hold the hair outa your face.  Then you take a few seconds to put some stuff away off the bathroom counter while the water is getting warm.  Then you can't find the head- band anywhere.

So you get out another head -band, slip it over your head, and before you pull your bangs back with it... there it is, the first head band, around your neck with the second head- band!

I think I'm on a roll..they're all coming back to me now...

You know your adhd is really bad when you go to your aerobic class (just a few minutes late) and you wonder why the previous class to yours is still going on .  So you wait another 5 minutes or so before you realise that the class before yours just started!... You were an hour early.

You know it's bad when you go to try out the new bicep curl machine, shut your eyes like you always could with the old one, and then almost knock yourself out.

My frontal lobes are already loopy enough..sheesh!

Auntbea, I am laughing so hard tears are running down my face.  The car story is the funniest story I've heard in a long time!

Kaks, You too - the laundry story was hysterical.  Gosh, I too forget things so quickly...I really hate to think what I'll be like as a elderly person some day.

How about..........when you take your daily morning dose of Metadate, count 4 remaining pills, go call the clinic to schedule an appointment.   Wife looks at you like, "OH here goes...$75.00 for Dr......$80.00 for medicine....."

Call back clinic, cancel appointment.......Wish me luck folks....here we go again!

You know you're ADD when:

You try to shift from 5th gear to 5th gear...3 times in a row.

You decide that since you can't see your passenger seat anymore, it is time to clean out your car, where you find your wallet, your phone, homework from the past 2 days, the perscription you lost, and your favorite hat, all of which you looked for in your car the day before, and the day before that...

also: you get out of the shower, start drying your hair, and realize there is still shampoo in it, then after you get back in, wash your hair out, and start drying it off, you realize you just got shampoo back in your hair because you used the same towel again.

You can finish most of these posts after the first 5 words because they have happened to you, or you finish them with something completely different, but equally *special*

and you had some really good ones, but you forgot them because you had to finish reading the page you were on...

You know you're ADD when:

You try to shift from 5th gear to 5th gear...3 times in a row.

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Or you forget to shift into 5th.  You've been driving in 4th, going 50, 55 and never realized.  BTW, done the re-shifting into 5th, really bad when someones in the car and catches you doing it.

My friend and I catch eachother doing it ALL the time, but it's ok, because we both know how ADD the other is!

How about..........when you take your daily morning dose of Metadate, count 4 remaining pills, go call the clinic to schedule an appointment.   Wife looks at you like, "OH here goes...$75.00 for Dr......$80.00 for medicine....."

Call back clinic, cancel appointment.......Wish me luck folks....here we go again!

You know you are ADHD when you empty a paper vacuum cleaner bag for the third time because you can’t remember to buy them at the store.

You know you are ADHD when you continue to put your dirty dishes in the already running dishwasher when it is on “dry” cycle.

OMG!  I've been cleaning house!!

I know my ADD is really bad when:

My CD that I bought on overcoming procrastination through hypnosis is 3 yrs old and still has the shrink wrap on it.

My two year contract on my cell phone just came up and I was just about to get around to programming some numbers into it.

I grab a book marker to mark my Page in  "Driven to Distraction" and its a business card from 3 jobs ago.

I hear Sly and the Family Stone's "I can see clearly now..." on the radio and I have to pull over and cry. I've had broken noses, broken arms, seperated shoulders, given eulogies for relatives...never a tear, but hearing that song & thinking about how much time and potential is gone and how much of my youth was unwittingly squandered....just the saddest thing.

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Who wrote this????  A guest?  The last paragraph is the story of my life...and the most paralyzing thing I have ever experienced.  Anyone else?

you know it's bad when you try to start your car when it's already running!

when you clean your glasses before you leave the house and then while your driving you notice a spot on them..and then another..and then they seem kinda foggy. 

So you take them off wondering why, after you just cleaned them really well...Then you see that you're wearing your other pair of glasses that needed cleaning!  How'd they get on yer face?

you know your ADHD is bad when you put some coffee beans in the grinder at the grocery store and then walk off and leave it...for good.

Oh my gosh,,,,, I did the aerobics thing except that it was in church..... we walked in in the middle of the priests sermon and I thought he was making a bunch of annoucements...... so I lead myself, my husband and his two non-catholic cousins straight up the aisle to the front where there were some empty seats  all the while the priest was looking at us with a look of consternation, which I confused with a "welcome" look...... I was wondering why everyone was looking at us so funny.. It wasn't until he finished his sermon and they started in again on the service that I realized what I had done.....missed the first half hour of a 45 minute mass.  I would love to have seen the look on MY face...... my husband was glaring at me like OMG I am SOOOO humiliated to be with you and "I am with Stupid"

I guess God does have a sense of humor.

You wheel your groceries to the car, put your heavy, fat purse on the roof of the car as you unload the groceries, push the grocery cart away from the car so you can drive away, and drive away. 

At a stop light you realize that the people next to you are laughing hysterically and pointing, so you laugh with them, nod, and think, "Damn, some people are absolutely nuts!" 

You drive home, park, look at the passenger seat, realize your purse has been stolen or lost, and begin to panic.  Get out of the car so you can run inside and call the grocery store, and there's your purse on the roof of the car. 

You know you're ADD when:

You try to shift from 5th gear to 5th gear...3 times in a row.

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Or you forget to shift into 5th.  You've been driving in 4th, going 50, 55 and never realized.  BTW, done the re-shifting into 5th, really bad when someones in the car and catches you doing it.

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I do that so many times or when your in the middle of shifting and you can't remember what gear you were in and what gear you need to go to

also I smoke and get to talking 90 to nothing and have a cig lit, and light up another one look down and realize I already had one lit

You know you're ADD when:

You try to shift from 5th gear to 5th gear...3 times in a row.

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Or you forget to shift into 5th.  You've been driving in 4th, going 50, 55 and never realized.  BTW, done the re-shifting into 5th, really bad when someones in the car and catches you doing it.

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I do that so many times or when your in the middle of shifting and you can't remember what gear you were in and what gear you need to go to

also I smoke and get to talking 90 to nothing and have a cig lit, and light up another one look down and realize I already had one lit

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I drive in 4th gear so often I'm sure my husband would take the car if he knew! 

The other day I was sitting in the turning lane at a red light and when the light changed I started to turn.  I couldn't figure out why the cars opposite of me started driving at me.  Not my shining moment when I realized it wasn't my turn to go yet!  I was so shocked I couldn't even think fast enough to back out of the way, cars are driving around me.  Jeez, did I feel like the idiot!  Thank god nobody honked at me or hit me.  This time I couldn't even blame the kids for distracting me, it was just me, myself and I.  

ME was apparently talking to loud and I forgot what MYSELF was doing.

You wheel your groceries to the car, put your heavy, fat purse on the roof of the car as you unload the groceries, push the grocery cart away from the car so you can drive away, and drive away. 

At a stop light you realize that the people next to you are laughing hysterically and pointing, so you laugh with them, nod, and think, "Damn, some people are absolutely nuts!" 

You drive home, park, look at the passenger seat, realize your purse has been stolen or lost, and begin to panic.  Get out of the car so you can run inside and call the grocery store, and there's your purse on the roof of the car. 

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I have done this only in place of the purse it was a large glass measuring bowl I was returning to my mother-in-law and it did not make it in one piece.  We could all hear when we lost it.  Whats worst is my mother-in-law NEVER makes mistakes!  And once it was a pizza left on the roof of the car, that didn't make it home either!!!

Alright, Country Girl, I think you win.  That pretty much tops them all.

Are they handing out prizes?  I'll nominate you!

You wheel your groceries to the car, put your heavy, fat purse on the roof of the car as you unload the groceries, push the grocery cart away from the car so you can drive away, and drive away. 

At a stop light you realize that the people next to you are laughing hysterically and pointing, so you laugh with them, nod, and think, "Damn, some people are absolutely nuts!" 

You drive home, park, look at the passenger seat, realize your purse has been stolen or lost, and begin to panic.  Get out of the car so you can run inside and call the grocery store, and there's your purse on the roof of the car. 

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ROFLMAO with tears running down my face!! Brings back memories...at least your purse was heavy and stayed put!  

RE I can see clearly now.

This also struck a chord with me. Absolutely Paralyzing.  I shared it with my husband and he also was touched by it.

It is very tempting to grieve for the time opportunities and relationships lost while in the grips of a particulary bad time - especially if the depression has got you as bad as the ADHD... (and my opinion is ADHD, anxiety, Bi-polar, Depressive, whatever, if you've got one you probably have a touch some of the others and your diagnoses just depends on who made it and what meds you respond to.)

Anyway, I digress, just try to remember that whoever wrote that song HAD to know some of these feeling and chose to write and produce the song in a very upbeat, uplifting manner.  Try to celebrate those happy times you do have because they are few and far between sometimes. I guess that's what makes them all the sweeter.

Of course I feel like crying though as I write this :}

f u & ur ADD

You know your ADD is really bad when you call one of your friends - you know the number by heart - and before they answer the phone, you realize you forgot who you called.  When they answer the phone, you can't tell who it is!!!  So you tell them, something just came up and you will call them right back (They seem to know you just fine, calling you by name)  Then you rack your brains trying to figure out who it is!!!  You can't . . . and you think you are probably going crazy - at this point in life you don't even know you have ADD -  Then you decide you have to figure out who in the world you called, so you hit redial and you listen to the dialing tones on the phone and hang up before it starts to ring.  You listen over and over until you figure out the number.  Finally you remember who you called!!!  Then you realize that your friend's daughter - who knows you well too - answered the phone, that is why you didn't recognize her voice. 

AAHHHHGGG!

get a kettle that whistles..loudly!  Or use the microwave oven to heat the water.

[QUOTE=bepatient]get a kettle that whistles..loudly!  Or use the microwave oven to heat the water.[/QUOTE]

No silly I knew when the water was done...I poured our tea then put the empty kettle on the stove and left the stove on....not sure why ...but I did ...and I did it the next day with the pot...poured the water out of the pot and put the empty pot on the stove while I left the burrner on...

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My hubby says to post this one.

You know your ADD is really bad when you give your hubby a signal that all is on for the evening, if you know what I mean,,

and then, much to his dismay, I totally forget and begin a new project in the living room while he falls asleep in bed, watching Conan

OOOpps.

you realize that is COMPLETELY necessary to continue your medication in order to 'deal with your mother' over the holidays!!!!

I am now completely convinced that my ADD came from my mother... and boy does she have it BAD!!! 

SHerry

I was recently diagnosed with ADD although I've suspected it for some time. I love this message board. I feel so normal here!

You know your ADD is really bad when you put both contacts in the same eye and can't figure out why you can't see.....on more than one occassion.

And the worst for me yet....You're late for work AGAIN and don't have time to ride around to find a parking spot. So you leave your car running out front while you run inside to clock in only to get distracted by learning that your partner called out sick and you'll be working with someone different for the day. 45 minutes later someone comes in and mentions that there's a car running outside. Oops!

I was recently diagnosed with ADD although I've suspected it for some time. I love this message board. I feel so normal here!

You know your ADD is really bad when you put both contacts in the same eye and can't figure out why you can't see.....on more than one occassion.

And the worst for me yet....You're late for work AGAIN and don't have time to ride around to find a parking spot. So you leave your car running out front while you run inside to clock in only to get distracted by learning that your partner called out sick and you'll be working with someone different for the day. 45 minutes later someone comes in and mentions that there's a car running outside. Oops!

 45 minutes later someone comes in and mentions that there's a car running outside. Oops!

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OMG you just reminded me..

You know your ADHD is bad when you lock your keys is the car, while it's still running!  (done it twice) 

that's probably why i don't use spray deodorant, only stick. i use the toothpaste in the tall pump, rather than a tube.

been thinking about going back to bar soap from liquid body wash 'cuz i am always washing my hair with the wrong stuff. i rinse it out, and do it again many times. twice in the same shower!

it's one of the banes of my existence to get thoughts confused, reversed, switched all the time.

i can laugh sometimes, but mostly it causes unbearable frustration. instead of being a silly mistake that happens every now and again, it constantly causes me problems, and has left me behind my peers. i f***ing hate that i am always doing things twice (or more!) to get it done once right.

i'm not just talking about the shower stuff. it's work, and housework, and all the things that life requires.

f u & ur ADD

Uhhhhh, what was your name?

I don't have ADD.

I have ADHD!

Woo-hoo!

At least some of us are still honest, eh?

I do the same.

Hey, this is DAvid, I forgot whose number I just dialed!

Oh, Jim! Thanks. Told ya I was ADHD...

Think that's bad? I was stopped at a stop light, saw no one coming from the left or the right, so I made my left turn. Next thing I know, I see a red light in my mirror, flashing. There was a cop waiting behind me to make a left turn, too. Arrrgggghhhhh....

Gets better, though.

Sadly, I'd left my CDL at the bank the night before, and when asked for my ID, all I had was my season pass to Disneyland with a picture on it. So, I told the dude all I had was my mickey mouse driver's license. heheheh. So, seeing as we were at Pismo Beach, a resort area, he promptly administered a drunk test, in front of all my family. Of course, I passed it, and my ADHDexcuse was so believeable, he didn't even ticket me. I told him I live in the country, and we don't have stop lights there. We come to a stop, look left n right, then move. LOL.

He believed me.



Have you heard a/b the two times SWAT teams swooped me? heheheh

Another stories.

Later,

D

You know your ADHD is bad when...

Just as you think you have everything sorted for your annual review with your consultant, you suddenly realize you have no idea where it is and have to log on to the internet just before bedtime in a desperate attempt to locate it.

You then also decide it's best to email it to your ADHD Dad, who also has an appointment there tomorrow, immediately after you, as if you've forgotten, he certainly will!

Why thanks, Tar!

That's my City Planner look...

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

You find the neatest birthday card for you daughter and find out after you give it to her, it was the same one you gave her last year.

You're making your breakfast and you drop your instant oatmeal into  your cappuchino. You eat it anyway and find out you like it.

You are diven to make 100 christmas ornaments, bake 24 dozen cookies and make everyone's christmas present all in the week before christmas. Your friends are amazed and you just wish you could stop.

I have really enjoyed all the posts.  If we don't laugh about it, we will cry.  Life is too difficult for regular people or shall we say "non-gifted" people, they have no idea what we go through.

You know your ADHD  isn't so bad.........

when you go to to the store with your non-ADHD child and she does the OCD thing about unloading the cart is a special order and you get to tease her about it.

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

you meet for the 2nd or 3rd time and can't remember their name.  But you can remember talking to them, what you talked about, what they were wearing  and where it was.

When you call your sister, wish her a happy belated birthday and profusely apologize for forgetting – two months before her birthday.

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10 months late???~?~??~ hahaha

         Or, when you ground your child and have to call all the other parents in the neighborhood to let them know because after two days of a one week grounding your children start asking to go to their friends.  You say sure and then get a phone call ten minutes later from a parent saying. "Wasn't Shelby grounded?  She's down here playing."  DUH!

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OMG I do that all the time I don't think my kids have ever been grounded for more than a day or two. I forget!

     You know your ADD is bad when every year you  swear to be more organized, you go nuts organizing the whole house, set up chore charts for the kids and behavior charts and schedules for everyone.  After all the work and pride you have that this is gonna be the year, you find the older children consoling the younger "don't worry, we won't have to do all those chores, mom will forget about it all in two weeks."

     Or, when you ground your child and have to call all the other parents in the neighborhood to let them know because after two days of a one week grounding your children start asking to go to their friends.  You say sure and then get a phone call ten minutes later from a parent saying. "Wasn't Shelby grounded?  She's down here playing."  DUH!

I know my ADD is really bad when:

My CD that I bought on overcoming procrastination through hypnosis is 3 yrs old and still has the shrink wrap on it.

My two year contract on my cell phone just came up and I was just about to get around to programming some numbers into it.

I grab a book marker to mark my Page in  "Driven to Distraction" and its a business card from 3 jobs ago.

I hear Sly and the Family Stone's "I can see clearly now..." on the radio and I have to pull over and cry. I've had broken noses, broken arms, seperated shoulders, given eulogies for relatives...never a tear, but hearing that song & thinking about how much time and potential is gone and how much of my youth was unwittingly squandered....just the saddest thing.

How come ADHD is the same as "senior moments"???...went to mail a letter at the post office and found myself in my work parking lot (on a Sunday) instead. 

you know it's bad when:

You're supposed to catch the 7am train up the coast to visit the family (2 hour trip).

Before you know it, it's 1pm and you're still at home. You haven't had breakfast or taken tablets either.

You know your ADHD is really bad when...

All your wife ever seems to say is.......

'Why did you not clean all the dishes baby?'

'Are you listening to me?'

'Did you here anything I just said?'

'I said get eggs, not bread!'

'Go and get a cloth, quickly!'

And probably the most common, for me anyway....

(In a raised voice) 'Stop it....'

You know your ADD is bad when you go to the psychiatrist to get a prescription for Ritalin and you are 20 minutes late for the appointment.

Then within 4 hours you lose the prescription for Ritalin and have to go back to ask for another one.

You know your ADD is really bad when you can relate to every post on this thread.  LOL

D

 WHEN your laying in a  tanning  bed for 15 mins  before you realize you  forgot to  push the on button...

 You know  your ADD/ADHD  IS  BAD  WHEN YOU STOP AT A  GREEN LIGHT.........

DID  IT  TODAY

Its even worse when you DONT stop at a red light...

Did it a few weeks ago.

Okay...you know you have AD/HD when (and this JUST happened):

You freak out and panic because you know you just lit a cigarette (I know ) but then you can't find it...and are sure you either dropped it or it fell out of the ash tray onto the floor. And as you're furiously looking on the floor, you at last realize ... lo and behold! all along it's been between your fingers of your hand!

D - you just posted exactly what I was going to post!

...when you read all these posts and you have all these ideas running through your head of what you want to post, but by time you get to the end of all the posts (cause they are hilarious and you can't stop reading) you forget what you were going to write anyway.  So you end up telling that story instead of the 20 other that were just flying through your head as you read. 

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OMG, you're me disguised as you!

When you're in a hotel room and you wake up in the night to go to the bathroom. You get up, go into the bathroom, close the door,

AND YOU'RE IN THE HOTEL CORRIDOR IN YOUR UNDERPANTS!

Locked out of your room you have to go to reception and get someone to let you back in. IN YOUR UNDERPANTS!

(This happened to a friend)

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

Tell your friend you will bring her dinner because she just had a baby and then you forget . . . so you tell her you are sorry and that you will do it tomorrow. . . and then you forget the next day . . . and the next. . . so you end up buying a gift certificate instead. . .

When you are never logged off from this forum, because you don't remember to log off.

When you are walking through the Atlanta air port with the back of your dress caught up in your carry on bag.  When finally stoped by someone, you think your being robbed because they tell you to drop your bag.    

When your home alone and you go into the garage, and lock your self out of the house.

...when you read all these posts and you have all these ideas running through your head of what you want to post, but by time you get to the end of all the posts (cause they are hilarious and you can't stop reading) you forget what you were going to write anyway.  So you end up telling that story instead of the 20 other that were just flying through your head as you read. 

You know your ADD is really bad when...

not only did you put the shirt on inside out, but the tag is on the front of your neck.

These are all hilarious posts. They really make me laugh.

You know your ADD is bad...when you're watching a tv show and you forget what tv show you're watching in the middle of it. *has happened a few times* XDD;

You know your ADD is bad when.....

You try to say something sweet but end up being rude.......happends to me all the time....

Start a story about something that you think is funny and notice that no one around you is paying attention.

When you get the in car and start to drive to the grocery store but forget what it is that you are supposed to get once you get there.

These are all hilarious posts. They really make me laugh.

You know your ADD is bad...when you're watching a tv show and you forget what tv show you're watching in the middle of it. *has happened a few times* XDD;

When your TO DO list for the day includes

1. wake up

2. eat breakfast

When your TO DO list for the day includes

1. wake up

2. eat breakfast

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More disturbing is when I only remember #1. Like today.

Yesterday, I got home from work and found my front door wide open! The inside of the house looked like a tornado hit it. I walked in slowly with my adrenaline pumping, ready to confront the invader.

All I can say is that I *might* have been robbed, but i have no way to be sure. Eventually I just started watching TV.

Oh, BB...tell me you didn't!

These are great.

I forget my passwords ALL the TIME, and we have a ton to remember.  Of course at least 5 of them have different rules so no 1 password ever works for all of them.  Well the company came up with a 'password program' that you can put your passwords in.  Trouble is that I forget the password to get into that also.

I get off the phone with my husband and I remember him saying "Remind me to do ***" - I can't remember what it is.  I sit there all day trying to remember what he asked me to remind him...  :(

I get a wonderful planner to write everything in - then I forget to write stuff in it.

I lose medicine all over the house - I have 5 different prescriptions of my migraine medicine hiding somewhere in my house...  :)

You know your ADD is bad when.....

You try to say something sweet but end up being rude.......happends to me all the time....

Start a story about something that you think is funny and notice that no one around you is paying attention.

When you get the in car and start to drive to the grocery store but forget what it is that you are supposed to get once you get there.

Oh, BB...tell me you didn't!

You know it's bad when you put the house key on the hire car keyring and think "I must remember to take the house key off when I return the car".

Then of course you return the car and remember 10 hours later you don't have a house key, so you are locked out of the house for the entire weekend until the next person brings the car keys back to the hire place.

Hey, I'm new here - just got diagnosed with ADHD (not like I didn't know I had it)...had to comment on this topic (something I did Sunday).

You know your ADD is bad when.......you get so tired of losing your keys, that you dig out the "key finders" that your Mom gave you 2 Christmases ago that you always meant to use.  The instructions don't make any sense, but you figure it out finally and attach a key finder to 2 sets of keys and put the "main" finder someplace where you will be sure to find it if you lose your keys - but then, you can't remember where you put it.  Then, you decide you shouldn't use them anyway, because your toddler will probably get them and take the quarter-sized battery out and choke herself, so you take them all off and ..where do you put them?  On a high place she can't reach - the mantle, of course, which is where you discover the "main" key finder.  Why not throw them away?  Might use them when toddler gets older.  So they will sit on the mantle for at least a year.  Does this make sense?  Of course not. 

SeanChristopher, you just made me laugh out loud with:

the remote control, never, ever, has had a back on it

I was planning to go to the store where I bought our TV to ask for a new back for the remote control, but now I know I will break or loose the next one aswell, so why bother.

But you know your ADHD is bad when ... you get some bread-ends from the freezer and forget to close it. Your husband finds out the next morning and doesn't even get upset over it. Does he really think that such accidents are normal for me? Happened yesterday, my son was going to feed ducks at a nearby pond and needed bread. How much food was ruined, I don't know.

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!

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

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. 

Q: How many ADD people does it take to change a lightbulb?

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You know your ADD is really bad when...

when you call your current boyfriend the name of your first husband you haven't even seen or spoken to in the last 5 years.

You know your ADD is really bad when...

you're in the middle of making dinner and have a sudden urgency to clean the kitchen floor so that everyone has to leave their plates on the dining room table until the floor has dried.

You know your ADD is really bad when...

not only did you put the shirt on inside out, but the tag is on the front of your neck.

Q: How many ADD people does it take to change a lightbulb?

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You know your ADD is really bad when...

                                 You think your car might have been stolen at least once

a month...   LOL

when you call your current boyfriend the name of your first husband you haven't even seen or spoken to in the last 5 years.[/QUOTE]

Ouch!

you've put open pens into shirt pockets, that dont exist..... then spent the rest of the day with a red line on your shirt

the remote control, never, ever, has had a back on it

you can loose things in bed.... even if you havent moved at all... not even a little

socks... where the hell did they go

you've lost your underwear while out..... and have no idea how

have had a bottle of pills break, and then spent weeks using whatever they broke in as a container, back back, car consule, random crevase

you've taken a 45 minute walk through a movie theater.... during a movie, multiple times

this break around you, this that really shouldnt be breaking, solild durable things, particularly chairs

you're walking in the hall, realize you have no idea why you are walking in the hall, spend 3-5 minutes trying to remember where the heck you were going, decide you should probably take a pill so you dont get so distracted, and then realize thats what you were going to do in the first place

you can absolutly not use a telephone without doing something else at the same time

you've laughed numerous times in movies at things that shouldnt be funny, but because you got distracted the momment lost its seriousness (ex Batman Begins, Liam Neissen telling batman "Rub your chest".... how am I not supposed to laugh at that?"

did I hve my pills today?

Do I just think I had my pills today?

Did I have them yesterday either?

What day is it anyway?

did I hve my pills today?

Do I just think I had my pills today?

Did I have them yesterday either?

What day is it anyway?

Eliza. . .you, too, huh?

You know it's bad when...  did this one yesterday...  I changed out of my work clothes while in my bedroom, I grabbed the clothes to put them in the hamper in my closet - I went the opposite direction down to the kitchen.  In the kitchen, I realized I was holding my clothes, I set them down to "grab them when I went back upstairs" as I started other various tasks in the kitchen.

Those clothes sat there until I was walking upstairs going to bed 5 hours later - that's when I grabbed them to take them back up.  (After my husband mentioned them 3 times)  I'm lucky that I remembered them then.

My husband just shakes his head "I don't know what you were thinking..."

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!!!

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.

...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!)

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oh, and a couple weeks ago, I missed an appointment, which I left really early so I wouldn't be late. I was runing to catch the bus but I stopped to talk. And it was too late to even think about getting on the bus. I was already 10 minutes from the appointment and the bus takes over 30 to get there :|. I hate when that happens.

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Always wondered, do we get charged for missed apointments, or is it expected.  If they tell us our appointment is at 12, do they actually pencil us in for 12:15?

When you get home and you still answer the phone as if you was at work (Thank you for calling company name, this is Jason).  What is worse you do it when the phone rings again 30 mins later, this time you forget your name.

Not that it has happened to me. 

You know it's bad when you get so caught up reading info on ADD and you end up late for call-in meetings that your co-workers and boss are already called into.  AND your computer reminds you before the meeting starts!

That's happened to me 3 times in the last 2 days. 

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.
2. You are late or forget 1/2 of your appointments with your therapist & shrink.
3. You do not have the patience to figure out how to post your picture on the avatar, so you email the administrator rather that read directions.
DaneDame38527.3605092593

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.
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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.

wow, well if I had been able to hold onto my book that long, I probably would have spaced it all over my house & office. When I called them the next day, they were like AD-who? book? I went on to give them my gazillion-miles-a-minute blog on ADD whowhatwherewhywhenhow...and my important notes & coloring I did in the damn thing.
I really didn't want to buy another one - I wanted my scribbles. Come to think .. oh I still haven't bought a replacement! Sheesh. I went to the bookstore, and got side tracked buying new CDs. I lost it on January 2nd. Oy Vey.

You know it's bad when you go back to a topic that you KNOW you wrote a post on and you don't see it on the post list....  Did you hit "submit"?!?

Gah!   Well, it's not like I'm not posting enough on other topics - I think my hyperactivity is acting up today...  Sorry!

This morning I slathered my toothbrush full of Edge shaving gel. Good thing I noticed before brushing.

[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

Oh, and this isn't funny, sorry. When your husband decides to find someone on the internet to have an affair with because you forget to do the things he's asked you to do and so, therefore, you must be having an affair yourself. True!

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 it's bad when you're compiling a list of ADD books you'd like to check out and you have the same books written down more than once. - on the same very small page![QUOTE=BAKtoGriffin]

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

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

You realized you have not ate dinner at 12 midnight, and you are hungry from missing lunch earlier

You know your ADD is bad when...

Your big family vacation to Mexico is coming up and you work with your wife, packing, getting the kids in the car, driving 45 minutes to the airport...only to discover you left your passports at home. So you go home to get them. Only to return once again to the airport--having missed your flight--to discover that the flight is the next day.

Two years in a row. (Well, the second year we were there on the right day, but I mixed up the dates of our return flight.)

Now my wife handles travel plans.

You know your ADD is bad when...

Your backyard birds have 'feast or famine,' because either you go a month without filling the feeders OR you leave the box/bag/tub of birdfeed out in the yard.

You know your ADD is bad when...

You have a TiVo and still watch the commercials during recorded programs becuase you forget you have a TiVo.

athomas38532.7715162037You know your ADD is really bad when you think, "Gosh, I'm hungry,
what's to eat?" -- and then, the microwave dings and you are pleasantly
surprised to find you have already made your lunch.You know your ADD is really bad when...you go to a movie..it's rather long..you can't sit still for the entire thing so during the movie you go and get a drink or walk around you come back and forget what movie you were watching.You know your ADHD is really bad when... You go to get your keys that you've left on the seat of the car and 30 minutes later freaking out looking everywhere in the house, than remembering that when you went to get your keys the first time you never got them, so there still on the seat of the car

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

 you go to get money out of an ATM machine and you completely skip the part that asks you to put in your pin number. It's right in front of you but you press a button to go next without even noticing and wonder "why can't I get money out? I KNOW i have money in my checking account" LOL.

this happened to me the other day. I was so frustrated. I had gone to renew my license and forgot to bring cash. They do not accept credit cards so I was in trouble. I had to go find an ATM machine. I went right across the street to a gas station and they had one and this is where the situation happened lol.

I thought the ATM machine was broken and was really annoyed. So, I drove down the street for a few miles til I got to another gas station. Again, they had the SAME exact ATM. i was like "oh great!" but I was hoping this one would work. The same thing happened here at this ATM lol. But, this time I picked up on what I had done wrong. All the sudden i remembered about entering my pin number and when I did, out came the 30 dollars I needed lol!! I am soo scatterbrained, forgetful and ADD!!

If I had only realized that earlier at the first gas station right by the drivers license place the whole process would have been a lot quicker, not to mention if I hadn't forgotten the cash to begin with lol.

Speaking of ATM's.....Once, after a particular long work week, I drove away and left my card in  the machine, even tho the machine beeps loudly to tell you to take your card out!  Luckily, a very nice gentleman pulled up next to me at the stoplight and handed me my card.  Talk about feeling like a world class dork!!Princessbride...it is great that we can laugh at ourselves even if no one else understands why we are laughing at ourselves!!  This is such a great place to come to.  Non-add/hders, even tho they try, just don't get it!

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.

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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)

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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?"

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when your profesor finds a report without a name he always knows its yours because its dated 1999

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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

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when writing down adhd stories you realise youve writen down 9 when you were just going to post one before you log off and clean the kitchen

You know your ADD is really bad when:  You are having a great time reading this thread,  laughing so hard that your significant other comes over to see what is so funny....after he's reading for awhile he looks at you and says "How can you laugh at the horrible things that are happening to these people...."

Isn't it a Harley Davidson saying ???  If I have to Explain it, you wouldn't understand.

 I do soooo love this thread.

You spend too much time on the ADHD forum.... so you are rushing to get the cleaning done that you promised to do, and you grab the ceiling fan duster to mop the floor.  Then after realizing your mistake you go back for the mop, and can't find it, even though, the mop is hanging right in front of your face.

Must get to work!

You know your ADHD is bad when you walk away in the middle of a conversation....And it is your boss is the person that you just walked away from.....Opps

lambiekin

You know your ADHD is bad when you are running late for work and you can't find your glasses or car keys...the glasses are sitting on top of your head, and the keys are hanging from you pinky finger...

lambiekin

you shake the mustard container after openig the lid  

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

Don't even ask to look in my refrigerator!  we at times forget items and they eventually become chemistry "stuffs"!

... 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.

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.




My refridgerator gets so full all the time that I start thinking,  "what the hell's in here"?  Thats when I start really looking (when it's so full that I can't possibly fit another thing).  Then I start opening all the tuperware containers with the "chemistry stuffs". Then I think, oh yea, I forgot about that, it was so good, I really wanted to eat it............  On top of that I notice that I have 4 bottles of catsup, 3 big containers of yoguert................ True story -

A few years ago when we lived in North where the houses usually have the garage attached - many times I left the car running in the garage and Thank God our children let me know the car was running on so I turned it off.

One night I made the mistake and somehow the kids didn't notice - so we all woke up with severe headaches - Thank to my wife for waking up in the middle of the night, knowing my car was running on, turning it off and opening all windows up. It was in the middle of the freezing winter and I woke up feeling like a popsicle! I am so blessed of having her...

Welll!!! Two or three (my wife just came up and said it is three) summers ago we put the children away at a camp for a week and again I forgot to turn off my car when I got home. My wife and I were unaware of the car running since we could not hear. To make the long story short, we were and still are sooooo lucky- we had to be taken to the ER by the ambulances. After one hour, the percentage of Carbon Monoxide in my blood was 36%! Yike!

I am still blessed to have her in my life and to make me aware I have ADHD.
Now we live in the South where I park my car OUTSIDE.  It's bad when I re-read my own emails or posts and realize the I consistenly omit several words in a sentence, have typos, and incomplete or grammatically incorrect sentences...and I am a professional writer!  I am just too impatient to really give it a go-over. It's the quality thoughts that count, right?!


[QUOTE=bluebird38] It's bad when I re-read my own
emails or posts and realize the I
consistenly omit several words in a sentence, have
typos, and
incomplete or grammatically incorrect sentences...and I
am a
professional writer!  I am just too impatient to really
give it a
go-over. It's the quality thoughts that count, right?!


[/QUOTE]

Same here on *all* counts!

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!

...when you go check out the ADHD Events forum....

adhdeaf reminded me of the time I left a package of hamburger in my trunk for 3 days. I couldn't figure out what that horrid smell was and it never entered my mind to check the trunk.

Then there was the time I yelled at my hubby for leaving the car window open all night so a stray cat could pee in it! We lived with that stench for days until I cleaned the car so it could be shampoo'ed and found a package of cheese curd under my seat. My cheese that I had tucked there so no one else would eat it on me! I tossed it and the pee smell went away! I then could remove all the plastic bags I had covered the seat with to keep us from being contaminated!

You know your ADD is bad when....

You tell your doctor you are going to try to go a week or so without your meds to see how you feel. After a while you realize you are not doing well so you call him to make an appointment and he asks how you are doing since he has not heard from you in six months!

This just happend to me. Six months got sucked into a black hole somewhere!

You know 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 it is bad when you come home from taking your cat to the vet and your son tells you that you are wearing your shirt inside out![QUOTE=super t]You know it is bad when you come home from taking your cat to the vet and your son tells you that you are wearing your shirt inside out![/QUOTE]

Yesterday, I took the dog out for a walk, talked to the neighbor, came back inside and caught a look at myself in the mirror.  I had my shirt on backwards and the tag was sticking up on my neck.

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

On an "early release friday" for students only, (at an elementary school where I worked)  I went home too, as if it was a regular school day.  When I got home and realised it was only 1:15 I had to rush back to work!

crisssy30

OMG!  I've done the same thing a couple of times taking off with someone elses grocery cart!  I eventually look in the cart and say to myself, "who put that in there?"

 

Scary how I can relate to so many of these!!  I have one thing I have done numerous times; I walk away from my grocery cart to look at merchandise (especially sale stuff w/big signs), usually wind up picking up whatever it is that is a bargain, going back, dropping it in the cart and going along my way. A few minutes later, I realize I have taken somebody else's cart... by that time I have already added several things to the contents.  It is SO embarassing to have to track down my cart, explain, and then try to figure out what is actually mine (usually the other shopper can point out what they did not put in).  Most of the time, what clues me in is that I cannot find my coupon envelope, then I take a good look at the contents of the cart and say, "Oh, no... not again!"

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!

 

[QUOTE=barb]when you develop and implement a program at work that is so effective your boss asks you to go set the exact same thing up in another location. You get there and just look at the program you created and it makes absolutely no sense to you and you don't remember ever seeing it before[/QUOTE]

That is so weird, it has happened to me a LOT!

pssssst........

I'm new here.  Hello everyone !

but that's a great way to get back at someone for dumping you! Act like you don't recognize them!(especially if they haven't changed a bit)   

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

[QUOTE=Dark_Angel]I thought a cordless mouse was I good idea, soon changed my mind. Cord are great, they lead you back to the thing, but I can NEVER find my mouse.  [/QUOTE]You know, I have the same problem with my laptop. I tossed mouses b/c they were unweildly in addition to what y'all 've said, and I kept messing with all the clicky things on them, without thinking click this one, and that'd cause quantum leaps around my hardrive, some of which from I'd never return... so I turned to touchpads, b/c you can't loose them. But, they have their own challenges, like unsolicited touching, and you're q-leaping again... or it's early in the morning, and you spend half an hour looking for your pointing device, only to find it attached at your wrist... BTW, a quantum leap is what I do when I finally undo my baffling belts, buckles and buttons and toss myself on the toilet seat in the heat of sphincter battle strain (hopefully it's open)... [QUOTE=Shiver]

pssssst........

I'm new here.  Hello everyone !

[/QUOTE]


Hello Shiver! Welcome to the ADDZonE!

EVERYONE: SAY HI TO SHIVER!!!*

Hey newbie. Hi Shiver! Hullooo, uhmm, shiver... (gracious greetings from the daycrew here at ADDCenComCINCPAC.

*Oooohhh, that made me shiver! So what's a Shiver? How do you pronounce it? Shiver, or Shiver, or Shiver? When are you, Shiver? Who is the Shiver? Where is the Shiver? How is the Shiver?




  [QUOTE=Davidornado] [QUOTE=Dark_Angel]I thought a cordless mouse was I good idea, soon changed my mind. Cord are great, they lead you back to the thing, but I can NEVER find my mouse.  [/QUOTE]You know, I have the same problem with my laptop. I tossed mouses b/c they were unweildly in addition to what y'all 've said, and I kept messing with all the clicky things on them, without thinking click this one, and that'd cause quantum leaps around my hardrive, some of which from I'd never return... so I turned to touchpads, b/c you can't loose them. But, they have their own challenges, like unsolicited touching, and you're q-leaping again... or it's early in the morning, and you spend half an hour looking for your pointing device, only to find it attached at your wrist... BTW, a quantum leap is what I do when I finally undo my baffling belts, buckles and buttons and toss myself on the toilet seat in the heat of sphincter battle strain (hopefully it's open)... [/QUOTE]

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

...you had a great idea for this thread while writing a response in another thread... and...

...you find out the other thread was this thread...
 
You know you are having an ADHD moment when...

...you have to go to the bathroom soooooooooo bad, but you kept putting it off...

...until...

...you discover warm fusion while performing a quantum leap...

(a quantum leap is what I do when I finally undo my baffling belts, buckles and buttons and toss myself on the toilet seat in the heat of sphincter battle strain (hopefully it's open and clear: OUT GOING!!!)... You know you are WiLdLy ADHD when...

...you are always misplacing important tools, objects, or organs at the most importune moments...

...like when you've got to pee when you're out skiing in subzero weather with all of the cold weather gadgets on you've bought to do this with like 5 layers of pants...

...and...

...you have to go to the bathroom soooooooooo bad, but you kept putting it off...

...until...

...you discover you can't discover your relief thing (ok, weiness)...

...and think to yourself...

...I don't know if its getting cold, or I'm just getting old, but it is dang sure hard to find this thing...

...maybe I should put an avalanche cord on one end of it...

...the tag could read "Pull in Case of Incontinental Ballistic Emergency" You know you know your ADD is really bad when...

you give a "you know your ADD is really bad when.." example which is already stated earlier by someone else or even you!

[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.

Auntie38576.9857407407 [QUOTE=Auntie]

[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]

Yup, tis vegimite, lol should have thought of its real name, marmites just a brand, a very yummi and most popular brand but lol. Its easy to get into a debate over vegimite 'how on earth can you like that disgusting stuff' 'HOW DARE YOU INSULT IT!!' Hehe.

Wow as much as peanut butter? thats strong. Lol, when someone i knew didn't know what it was they put it on like it was chocolate spead, haha, i'll never forget thier face.
[QUOTE=KTsDistraction]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............[/QUOTE] I have a screw on key ring that I bolt onto my belt loop with a key so I don't loose it. Car key. I don't even lock the house anymore, b/c I lost the last house key I had. I've had the locks changed two times, but won't do it again b/c I know I'll loose the last key.
[QUOTE=shaggious][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]Jeezman, I don't even have to be on the phone with them to forget who I'm talking to. My trick is "how do you spell your name"? I even walked up to an old girlfriend once, stuck out my hand, and introduced myself! She thought I was joking, and I said, no phsyt, I've never met you!
[QUOTE=bluebird38]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. [/QUOTE]Yeah, I walked into my sister's affair once, and my brother having affairs with his wife.

[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

I can see all the obstacles in my way...... and still trip over them! [QUOTE=barb]I can see all the obstacles in my way...... and still trip over them![/QUOTE] i can see what everyone was talking about now it's bad when
you get into the shower...with your glasses still on
you leave the fridge door partially open
you can't remember the last time you cleaned out the fridge.
Thanks Davidornado
lol you are funnyyou know it's bad when you got into trouble for a silly mistake,
get left at home while they go to church without you, spend the
next 2 hours crying and obsessively readiing this board while
knowing full well that you have chores to do and will catch hell
if it's not done Hey, that's why I'm still here. They left without me. I didn't cry though. I did come here. Welcome to the Tapestry.

We can have church here.

My favorite ADHD song is Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, that saved, an ADDr, like meeee.

I was once abandoned, but now am diagnosed,

Was blind, but now I see...

My medicine is like glasses. I can see clearly now... The rain is gone...
Davidornado38579.9562152778You know your ADD is really bad when you go into
the other room, start doing something, realize later
you want a cigarette, go back into the first room to get
your smokes, then see a dark groove burned into the
hardwood floor where you lit one, forgot about it, then
it tumbled onto the floor, burning away.
And you do this more than once in the same week,
after swearing to yourself the first time that you don't
want your house burning down around your ears.

Also, it's bad when you meet someone for the
umpteenth time, apparently had long conversations
with them, but you see them another time and you
have NO clue who they are. And you've been
re-introduced more than once. (I swear, I don't do
this to everyone, just a few lucky winners.)

Oh yeah, hi! I'm new. [QUOTE=thecrawl]Also, it's bad when you meet someone for the
umpteenth time, apparently had long conversations
with them, but you see them another time and you
have NO clue who they are. And you've been
re-introduced more than once. (I swear, I don't do
this to everyone, just a few lucky winners.)

Oh yeah, hi! I'm new.[/QUOTE]
Hi New,

Welcome to the Tapestry. I'm sure you'll find these threads amusing and helpful.

I did that with an old girlfriend once. I hadn't seen her in 6 months, she changed her hair, I walked up to her, and introduced myself. She refused to give me her name, but she gave me a dirty look, and I haven't talked to her since...
You know you are WiLdLy ADHD when...

... and never do...
You know you are WiLdLy ADHD when...and not alone...

...when someone else is still posting at these unGodly hours...




Hey BB, you can call me D, or David, or Dave, or David (in spanish), or Davido, or Davidornado, if you want. I know it's hard to type something wierd like -ornado, so feel free to improvise. I do. I'll call you bluebird38 if you want me to...
You know you are WiLdLy ADHD when...

... it takes you four hours to get to this thread, b/c you had to look at all the other threads and post something interesting b/c something interesting caught your attention and distracted it on the way here...
You know you are WiLdLy ADHD when...

...and then when you get here finally, you forgot what it was that was so interesting you wanted to post...
You know you are WiLdLy ADHD when...

...so you go back looking for what triggered your interesting thought, and it takes you another 4 hours to find it...
I'm right there with you Davidornado. I've been too embarrassed to tell anyhow how bad it has really been (even my ADHD board friends) this last month. I've been a disaster. It feels almost physically painful to focus on what I'm supposed to be concentrating on. :(

  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=repairman]

  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   

[QUOTE=repairman]  You know your add is bad when...

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 you have obsessive compulsive type attention deficit hyperactivity disorder when...

...you respond to a quoted post and correct their grammar and spelling...

...Before you can post your post...

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.

 

When you feel adhd meds make little difference. I think the most improvement we have seen has been with spd therapist ideas and alternative approaches.  

...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!"

When you get a cup, put a tea bag in, fill up the kettle then pour the water in cup and then remember you didn't actually put the kettle on to boil, then think, darn it, I did it again.


You know your ADD is really bad when the cereal box is now in the closet and the car keys in the refrigerator

[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...
[/QUOTE]

 

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! 

you know you are having an ADHD day when you leave your house, heard the door shut and realize the keys are inside...and you are now locked out....You know you have ADD/HD when you make at least five posts a day.You know you have ADD/HD when you make at least 0.59 posts a day.

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! 

bepatient38584.9893981482bepatient,

Oooh, your signature quote ("children may forget what you say, but they will never forget how you made them feel.") is so profound.  I remember that so well from my childhood. Some adults seemed to say the right things but were some of the meanest people you'd want to know.  I have been traumatized, I'm sure, by these hardcore types. Others were Godsends...they just loved and encouraged and made me feel good.  Those people deserve wings...especially since I was an ADHD child and I'm sure they would need to see past my exterior annoyances to see the good in me. Where did these human angels come from? I never forget the kindnesses.

I just started a "I Hate Mean People" thread. I have also heard, "people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care." I tend to agree.

bbird

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!

Bepatient, I wrote you a response and it didn't save, dang it! So, now I'm starting over again.

Wow, thank you so much for saying that I inspired you! You have no idea how much that means to me. I'm really happy for you and the children that you will, no doubt, have such a wonderful influence on. I only wish I would have had knowledgeable, udnerstanding, creative teachers like you in school.

I have been wanting to teach too. Now YOU"RE inspiring ME! I may need to ask you some questions about how to get started. 

I just know there has to be a job out there that I would love and that I can do an awesome job at...that I'll make people thrilled rather than ticking them off all the time. Wouldn't that be wonderful????

Thanks for your post!

bbird

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!

lillian38585.5438541667[QUOTE=barb]but that's a great way to get back at someone for dumping you! Act like you don't recognize them!(especially if they haven't changed a bit)   [/QUOTE]
Hey, I wasn't acting! I really did not recognize her! She'd cut her hair, she was verrrry quiet, we were in a classroom full of people, and I thought she was cute enough to go introduce myself to her. What A NUT! Well, she'd grown up a bit, you know, filled out...
  When you sit down to read (not reseach) and bring along five books, then end up reading none becuase another one pops up in your mind and you just HAVE to read that one and come back with three more books which you don't read. I didn't realise that was odd until someone said, 'you know most poeple read one book at a time? Not eight....' lol

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!

heheehehe - basket case.   ooo.  i had to join just to add mine!


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

you are consistently unable to close any cabinet door or drawer.

you have to carry a gigantic purse because you ABSOLUTELY need everything in it, but you can NEVER EVER find your keys, phone, wallet. (mine has been rightly named "the bag of oblivion".

you have been cleaning your room for five months, and it has never in that time period been remotely clean.

you leave your house for work an average of three times a day.

when you mention having ADD to new friends, they usually respond "yah i figured."
Hohoho,

Now you've reminded me of why I'm AD:

You know you are a basketcase AD/HDr when...

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

hehehe


Hohoho,

Now you've reminded me of why I'm AD:

You know you are a basketcase AD/HDr when...

You're filling out a check, and reverse the amount info on the to line, and v.v....
Or even worse:

You mail you're mortgage check just in time, but it's returned with a late fee b/c you forgot to sign the check...

uhuhuhuh...


And this one I'll conclude in red:

Hohoho,

Now you've reminded me of why I'm AD:

You know you are a basketcase AD/HDr when...

You make ok money, but have lousy credit score, b/c you can't balance a checking account, so you just assume you have money in the bank, until you start getting checks back, so you open another account so you don't look so bad to the bank, and after 3 months you're bouncing checks there, ALSO, so you open another, and another... I have 4 accounts that I try not to bounce. The only one that doesn't is the one in my wife's name only, b/c she won't let me in there...

I think a survey of AD/HD has to include questions on money un-managment... and spllnige...

[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 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=iwilleaturface]ooo.  i had to join just to add mine!

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

you are consistently unable to close any cabinet door or drawer. Me2. My wife slams them closed for me...

you have to carry a gigantic purse because you ABSOLUTELY need everything in it, but you can NEVER EVER find your keys, phone, wallet. (mine has been rightly named "the bag of oblivion". I have a man purse, b/c I need all this stuff, I think. But I didn't like a fanny pack, b/c they're named funny, and they are so effeminate, so I wear a utility belt that I supply from the local police uniform shop, so my wife thinks I'm living out my childhood fantasies of wanting to be a fireman, and the TSAs at the airport call me Batman when they see me in line...  I carry two phones, a PDA, a note pad, two pens, two knives, two flashlights, two sets of car keys (no house keys cuz we lost all of them, so don't lock the house), oh, a third knife, 2 thumb drives w/ data backups for my laptop, oh, a third flashlight, a backup memory stick (no, not my memory...), two pairs of reading glasses, a three day supply of my meds, and OTCs that I think I may need, handywipes, glasses wipes, passport, pencil, lighter (don't smoke, but I may need it), rubber gloves, a basic midsize bloodstopper set, bandaids (I'm a volunteer EMT)...

you have been cleaning your room for five months, and it has never in that time period been remotely clean.

you leave your house for work an average of three times a day. Me2. At least...

when you mention having ADD to new friends, they usually respond "yah i figured."
[/QUOTE]

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)

KTsDistraction38588.4995601852You know you are ADHD acting up when...

...you get messages like this from the ADHD News Forum computer:

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You know you are WiLdLy ADHD when...

Hey, guess what?!!! I turned 500 today!!!

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  [/QUOTE]You know you are WiLdLy ADHD when...

...it took you 16 more posts after you copied this report before you made it over here to post this note... [QUOTE=ringdawn] You can't find your car keys no matter how hard you
look.....only to find them later in the refrigerator!!!!!!!![/QUOTE]

When you look in the fridge as a rule whenever you can't find your car keys. [QUOTE=Vmoney] [QUOTE=ringdawn] You can't find your car keys no matter how hard you
look.....only to find them later in the refrigerator!!!!!!!![/QUOTE]

When you look in the fridge as a rule whenever you can't find your car keys.[/QUOTE]When you look in the fridge for your keys, find you're hungry, and there's a lot of food in the fridge, then can't decide what to eat and say "there's never nothing to eat'... [QUOTE=Davidornado] [QUOTE=Davidornado:You know you are WiLdLy ADHD when...]You know you are WiLdLy ADHD when...

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  [/QUOTE]You know you are WiLdLy ADHD when...

...it took you 16 more posts after you copied this report before you made it over here to post this note... [/QUOTE]

Happy 500 Post Day  to yoooooou.....happy 500 post day to yooouuuuuuu...

Add/hd is bad when you step out of the shower and realize you wet your hair down, but forgot to use shampoo. Add/hd is bad when you step out of the shower and realize you wet your brain down, but forgot to use Ritalin LA. 

You know your AD(H)D is bad when you start to get out of the shower but then can't remember is you put the conditioner on your hair so you just do it again.(This always happens to me if I do anything in the shower that is out of sequence)

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

You know your AD is really bad when...

... you can't remember your dreams, daydreams, or life dreams...and end up with just figlets* of your imagination ...


...*the shorter portion of a figment that an ADr is able to retain and act upon...

...which makes them nervous as a pink pig(let)...
You know something is going on when your profile is locked out and you have to start all over!  I had to reregister and now I am back at a newbie!

     You know your ADD is bad when.....

     You go th the hobby store to pick up supplies for your daughters' school project, and wonder why you're suddenly shopping at Wal-Mart. Worse?..?

Your daughter is with you and was supposed to remind you of where she needed to go for supplies.

daniel

[QUOTE=supert]You know something is going on when your profile is locked out and you have to start all over!  I had to reregister and now I am back at a newbie![/QUOTE]Oh, darn! You missed all the fun...

Did you check your browser? I had to adjust my browser and change my password not long back. I was afraid I'd loose a few birthdays until I figured that out...

Just think, I could have been supert... Mebe in my next life...
  Yeah, you can just do "I forgot my password" and it will send you it. acK!*









* acK*: cat having a bad hair day...

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!

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

YOU know your ADHD is acting up when at the end of the day everything you read looks like this:

ЉёЊ ЋñЖЕ éБáї ПѓФҖҹ ЉёЊ ЋñЖЕ éБáї ПѓФҖҹ ЉёЊ ЋñЖЕ éБáї ПѓФҖҹ You know your ADHD is reaaaally bad when...

...you're laughing so hard at your elf that you can't remember what it was you were laughing so hard about that you wanted to poast so everyone else could roast with you... You no yowe're real AHDD is reality acting up when...

...Your mind plugs in the gaps left by mispelings, missed let ers, mist words, or messed sentences...

...and you reality due understand what she's saided...

...ёЊ ЋñЖЕ éБáї ПѓФҖҹ ЉёЊ ЋñЖЕ éБáї ЉёЊ ЋñЖЕ é...
[QUOTE=bepatient]

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]
Hey, let's change "PM" to "ping". Ping sounds cooler, and everytime a girl writes PM I thinks shes smisspells sits smissings an s. 'Specially when they include the phrase '"off topic" here', like they're gonna say something realy juicey, I'm and gonna missi t.

e.g. Just PING me any time you have a question or just want to chat

Sea, doesn't that sounds better? Like a submariner saying "but just one PING, only.

B/c or else I jump to conclusions thinking let's AM each other, b/c I thinks eyes got thinks to do in the PM.

So what's PM mean, anyway? Powdery MildeW???

NOooo chance of that in my head... no cobsweb here... there, mean I...

To quote [QUOTE=The Oracle who] "Doesn't that just bake your noodle?"[/quote]
  You know your reality is ADHD acting up when you have to apologize to three people in one forum in one day...

Sorry, BarB.

Sorry, BePob.

Sorry, BlueB.

Will you forgive me?

Until the next time,

D
When you can't work in a non quiet environment. This was me and now my son. You admit you have ADHD when...

...you jump to conclusions b/c you don't conclude your jumps...

PM=Private Messenger....look up top ^

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!

When you write a post about five minuets ago and look at the forum list and say, wait an minuet! I'm the last person to have posted in that thread but I never posted in it, most have been a mistake, I'll go and delete it. Oh, no, I have writen something, oh yeah! lol. 

[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!

Sequence ravelled out of sound...

DAvidornadog is a Gringo capitalist who brings his talents to a wide range of ventures. He is an enormously successful bankrupt entrepreneur and CEO founder of several enterprises that carry the thoughts of upheaval and rebellion. He brought revolution to the thinking industry by claiming he was ADHD and is recognized as one of the most fascinating business leaders in his own mind. He started his first business selling worms to golfers while he was still in grammar school.

You know the "H" in your ADHD is really bad when.....

EVERYONE (except the dog) LEAVES THE ROOM AFTER YOU'VE CONSUMED ANYTHING CONTAINING CAFFINE OR SUGAR.     

DaneDame38594.05625You know your ADHD is really bad when...

...you turn 600 only 3 days after you turned 500...

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When your friends say 'are you Ok?' cus your getting kind of twichy and then panick when they realise they have fed you coke, sweets, chocolate and cider & black. tee hee hee.
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Who, other than you, is counting?!

  Bepatient-

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.

 

 

[QUOTE=barb]when you can't decide whether to laugh or cry because you want to do both and you see both as appropriate![/QUOTE]

Just don't do it outloud in church...

At a funeral...

  when you can't decide whether to laugh or be angry because you want to do both and you see both as appropriate!

 

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. 

You know you are adhd wehn you put the ice cream scoop in the freezer and leave the ice cream on the counter. I think this guy has ADD:

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.

When you realise your reading this tread backwards because you skipped to the end but still wanted to read it all.
When you deciede to make beans on toast, put the beans on, put the toast on, then end up completely perplexed at why the beans were making smoke but wernt burning, lifting up the sourcepan then declaring it as a mystory. Then somone comes in and says the 'toast is on fire.'
'oh yeah' you say 'the toast.'
'didn't you realise the room was full of smoke?'
'Yeah, but, err.....' Feeling quite embassed.

When at school you didn't need to tell the receptionist what you wanted they just automatically told you what class you had and what room that was in.

When you didn't need to tell the dinner lady why you were there in the middle of the afternoon. she just said 'heres your P.E kit'.  Dark_Angel38573.2824305556

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!

Hey Joyous,

Wow! Beans on toast is a classic here, it's just baked beans put on buttered toast, with a smige on marmite on (well actually i might be the only one that does the marmite bit.) Ok the othe uk terminology, dinner lady, or dinner man but i've yet to see one, they serve dinner at schools and P.E stands for Physical education, so it's the trainers, t-shirt, shorts.

Hehe.

(I didn't just realise I dumly put 'groupie' and edit my post, honest.)
Dark_Angel38574.0850925926Oh, I'm maxed out on the label of 3, I think. I wrote about them in another forum, ADHD meds, or something such. Saw Dalk on Thur, he incr'd Cymbalta to 160 mg, on top of Provigil 400 mg,  and Ritalin L.A. 60 mg. Only Rx left to incr is Provigil to 600 mg, but @ $6/hit, that's 20 clams/day; and as I'm self insured, it's something I hope can be avoided. I also take trimethylxanthine as needed under my own supervision. Soooo, I'm near legally maxed out, just keep ADDing to the tank mix...

As for my creativity, it's most apparent when I'm de-mg'd, i.e. the MxRxs have worn off... Check the posting times. Those are PDST, BTW... or haven't kicked started yet...

On them, I'm controllable... unless adrenalized... then ~Quack~...

However, on them, I'm also very focusable, and will steamroll to conclude a project before the advantage is metabolized...


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. [QUOTE=bepatient]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. [/QUOTE]

Lol. Didn't do much training tho, not without a P.E kit. Oh well, I didn't like P.E anyways :-)

Dark Angel,

What are trainers, is it like a training bra 

 

[QUOTE=Dark_Angel]When you realise your reading this tread backwards because you skipped to the end but still wanted to read it all.
[/QUOTE]Trouble in gets and class in backwards reads she and, backwards read to how kindergartner your teach you when. When you teach your kindergartner how to read backwards, and she reads backwards in class and gets in trouble.

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!! 

 

You know you are adahada when...

...you are lousy in an argument, but great at coming back later and reviving the argument so you can have your say...



you've gotta know it's bad when your daughter wants to use the computer and she can't find the mouse and you were the last one to use it and you would never take it away from the desk......Then you find it a half hour later on top of your microwave oven! [QUOTE=bepatient]you've gotta know it's bad when your daughter wants to use the computer and she can't find the mouse and you were the last one to use it and you would never take it away from the desk......Then you find it a half hour later on top of your microwave oven![/QUOTE]
That's why I use a touchpad. The problem is when my daughters want to use the laptop, but I've taken my finger with me and can't find it until a half hour later...
...on my hand...
[QUOTE=bepatient]

Dark Angel,

What are trainers, is it like a training bra 

 

[/QUOTE]

*Tries to think of american equivilent*

Sneakers?

Soft shoe things you run in.
I thought a cordless mouse was I good idea, soon changed my mind. Cord are great, they lead you back to the thing, but I can NEVER find my mouse. 

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

good night

wow.

what is marmite?

you know you have ADD when:

a) you walk up to the ATM to make a night deposit. You frantically search for your pen.   Go back to your car and tear apart the glove compartment, the trunk, the consol, to no avail. Walk back to the ATM & hope to be lucky enough to see some other evening ATM bankers....do indeed get lucky.....kindly ask them for a pen - and with a half cracked smile they reply "what's wrong with the one in your mouth.."


b) the control freak in you has created a new A.D.D. GAME- becoming a control freak over, AND outsmarting your own A.D.D.; ......AND OF COURSE, silently keeping score in your head! My average ratio [to date] is 6:10 and gaining.

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

Your students inform you that you frenquently stop talking mid-sentence and walk off... 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.

You know your ADD is really bad when...

you have to live with it

[QUOTE=DaneDame]you know you have ADD when:

a) you walk up to the ATM to make a night deposit. You frantically search for your pen.   Go back to your car and tear apart the glove compartment, the trunk, the consol, to no avail. Walk back to the ATM & hope to be lucky enough to see some other evening ATM bankers....do indeed get lucky.....kindly ask them for a pen - and with a half cracked smile they reply "what's wrong with the one in your mouth.."
[/QUOTE]

HOOT HOOT HOOT !!! hehe...

You know you are wildly ADHD when...

...you loose your sunglasses and reading glasses at the same time, knowing you just had them somewhere, then your kids help you find them on your forehead...
  You know you are wildly ADHD when...


...the things you do would be diagnosed as Alzhiemer's Disease if you were 30 years older....



yOU kNOW yOU'RE wILDLY aDHD wHEN...


yOU kNOW yOU'RE wILDLY aDHD wHEN...

ROTFLMAOL!* 





*Rollin'MyArseOffOnTheFloorLaughingOutLoud [QUOTE=KTsDistraction]

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.

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.

 

KTs...OMG! Are you ME???!

I go through this kind of thing almost every day.

Yesterday, I kicked over the dog's water bowl 3 times and dropped salsa on a job application.

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

I SWEAR this kind stuff only happens to me! AND...just WHO am I going to tell?? My brother? My dad  (they're not married)? My friends (who see her ocassionally?) AAAAAAAAUUUUUGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH.

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Oh yah...I had a Class A blowout in a meeting at work and my car broke down on the way home.

You know you're ADHD when all of this stuff is sort of a normal day for you.

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!

 

 

[QUOTE=loveactuary]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! [/QUOTE]

  [QUOTE=Davidornado] [QUOTE=loveactuary]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! [/QUOTE]

  [/QUOTE]

You know your ADHD is really bad when...

...you think loveactuary actually said...

..."she was standing in the twilight outside in her underwear brushing her teeth..."

  You know you are wildly ADHD when...

...the things you do are what bugs your wife, kids, family, friends, and foes sooo much, but THEY TICKLE YOU PINK, while you're ROTFLMAOOL*






*Rollin'MyArseOffOnTheFloorLaughingOutLoud

 

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.

You know your ADHD is really bad when...

... you have brain on your face...

[QUOTE=Thorns4Life]Wow - I find this all interesting.  Davidornado You have a wealth of info here (I have seen other postings too) Yes, it's one of those quirks of nature, not that I claim to be, but others make the claim for me... I just understand very well chemicalbiologybiochemistryorganicchemistrygeneticsphs yiology etc. Should've been a MendiCant, but although pre-med peer pressure put me in pre-med school, I didn't make the GPA cut (too distracted to keep a 4.0; in particular I didn't like 08:00 classes, so took strong hits in Physics : D. Prof'd pop quizes on us that were due 08:05, no make ups. I made up for it in Lab, though, blowing one out (not up) and giving the school a half day holiday.

So I made up some lame ADHD excuse, saying I didn't really want to go to med school anyway, b/c I want to work outdoors, which was true, so I became a cropdoc, and work outdoors. I make more money than most doctors, and get sued just like them, too. Sometimes I make more money than lawyers, too.

My name is Pancho, I work on a rancho, and earn 5,000 per day. My lawyer is Lucy, she saves me from noosie, and takes all my dollars away.

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 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]

...I'm a cereal addict. I trade one addiction in for another...

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

...you spend your lunch hour creating the above post...

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?

[/QUOTE]

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!

barb38565.4342939815

[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=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?

[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!!

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 

 

 

[QUOTE=Tiggeroo72]

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.

[/QUOTE]

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....

 

[QUOTE=barb]

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.

[/QUOTE]

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!!

[QUOTE=Joyous56]

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.)

 

[/QUOTE]

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!

[QUOTE=barb]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 [/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)!...

 

 

Davidornado.... what meds you on? Might try a little more mg's next time 
bugzappers38570.6558217593[QUOTE=Davidornado][QUOTE=super t]

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...

[/QUOTE]

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! 

You know you're ADD when you can only read the first 8 pages of these before you get completely overwhelmed.

But before you leave you HAVE to add your own.....

You know you're ADD when you are supposed to drop the baby off at daycare, but forget her, go to work and leave her in the car all day.

(I know this is terribly unfunny, but I had to say it. Am I the only one who can actually, sadly, tragically understand how this is possible? I am grateful for all the things I could have done ....but didn't.... which could have ended badly.)

 

Joyous5638564.4036111111You know you are WiLdLy ADHD when...

... you can't get through the previous list without listing a few choice words of your own, as you read, reread, rereread, rerereread, rererereread, rerererereread, rererererereread, rerererereread, rererereread, rerereread, rereread, reread, read,  ADD infinituuummm the list again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again,  andagain andagain andagain andagain andagainandagainandagain... You know you are WiLdLy ADHD when...

... you are known as an "andagain"...

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.

   You know you have adhd when you try to email a photo to someone waiting, and no matter how hard you try, or what email program you use, you hit something and everything disappears, again and again and again, eventhough you are following the directions,and you have no idea why this is so difficult. So finally , hours later, you finally succeed by emailing it to yourself 3 times, then fowarding it to your friend, only to find out it's become too small to see.    You know you are wildly adhd when you finally get to talk to your new neighbors and you know you are going to be best friends because its midnight  and you're both on the roofs of your houses, and nobody asks why. 

[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 your adhd when your right, everyone else is wrong and you go home and realize at 11 pm you were wrong.... now you can't sleep cause your not so smug anymore.... and then think about why you were wrong and blame everyone else for it.. then you can fall alseep... then go to work the next day and act like nothing happened and exclaim YEAH YEAH YEAH, when issue is brought up and then proclaim NEXT... or
you just got on adhd boards to check a couple things and wind up responding to 30 messages and loose 2 hrs of time....

or
  you hate davidnorado and you don't know why his posts take up the whole page when all he had to do was edit the original.

.and


this was funnier while it happened and not so funny when you type it out.
bugzappers38570.4368865741 [QUOTE=barb]

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

[/QUOTE]

You know ADHD is for real a social thing when others post something, edit it, still can't get it write, but others can still figure it out, b/c they understood the PLAY WORD, but maybe not necessarily right, but well enough for themselves that they launched into an ADHD Event of their own....

On a serious note, y'all, I honestly, truthfully had heard that about 4-6% of our nation (not the wolrd: the U.S.A. has actually attracted therefore concentrated the rate of ADrs over what the wolrd has: <0.2%). I think we could end World War III (the war on terror, you know: alquida, and them), if we gave them a dx for AD/HD, mxd them, brought them to the west, put them in california, and trained them to their ADHDness. I bet there are some bright ones).

Back to the serious note, and believed that in my head, which really means nothing sometimes, BUT

Y'all have touched my heart, b/c really, trully, WE ARE NOT ALONE. THERE IS SOMETHING OUT THERE, and it is us. I have really had to fight this good fight pretty much alone, except my family... my dalk... and until now, not you guys. Now you are here, and I appreciate you very much. Thanks for being there, and for listening (even at 00:45, or 02:00, or 04:24, or whenever!), and for helping out. Go for it, and say something. Y'll never know how important it may be to someone listening... you'll never know who'll be listening... oh, oh...there's someone out there....

Now you've been ADDed to my family, b/c you help me understand me, you mostly let me vent safely, and I'm learning from y'all. A lot of what I exploit for success or coping or whatever comes from ideas y'l planted, one of which is the allowance of a little rambling, which in a world of normals gets me wierd looks and men in white jackets hitching their gear... So one learns to repress what is just bubbling inside... and maybe this is why there are volcanicEruptions from time to time... we get jolted, can't hold it anymore, and VENT!

So if the message is getting across, thanks for being there. I'm here for you, all, too. I love you!

If the message is not getting across, take your meds...

Oh, BTW, I do take meds, but they tend to get metabolized with the passage of time, several enzymes, TT, and do do, rendering me normal late at night, and early morns.

Your ADD'led brother with arms,

David John
  [QUOTE=Reizende]

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]

... i have two different colored shoes in the closet, they fit, but they are mismatched... I must have mixed them up in public somewhen I was going barefoot... I even wore them to church for a few weeks before I noticed one had green trimming, and the other not...!

Soooo, if the same thing has happened to you, and you're looking for the missinig missmatching loafers, come by and we'll trade.... size 9.5
  you know your adhd when you promise pizza and bring home dishsoap and watermelon and grass seed and bread and weedeater string and spraypaint... and you went three places to go get it...OR

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...
bugzappers38570.4432523148

[QUOTE=bugzappers]You know your adhd when your right, everyone else is wrong and you hate davidnorado and you don't know why... [/QUOTE]