WHEN YOU HAVE A DISAGREEMENT WITH YOUR SPOUSE AND CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT IT WAS ABOUT 5 MIN LATER. THEN  YOUR SPOUSE REFRESHES YOUR MEMORY....AND THE  DISAGREEMENT WAS ABOUT YOUR MEMORY.

WHEN THE ONLY THING YOUR ARE PREDICTABLE ABOUT....IS BEING UNPREDICTABLE.

LOL  Sorry but I can completely relate to that!

For me, not remembering helps me stay happy - I can't remember long enough to be upset.  LOL

[QUOTE=DaneDame]You know your ADHD is really bad when:
1. You forget & leave your newly purchased, well highlighted, therapist recommended, note taking, coffee stained, scribbled-in copy of Dr, Amens book "Healing ADD" ...on your return home flight from 1st vacation to Europe.
[/QUOTE]

I have missplaced my copy three days in a row.  Bad thing is, it is still sitting in the same place I found it three days ago, has not moved except when I am wiping off the counter.

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

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

...when, while flossing your teeth you do one quarter of your mouth, stop to unwind some fresh floss, then do the same quarter again because you forgot you just did it...

(kind of weird, but I just had a dentist appointment so I'm all about the dental hygene right now - should last another day or so before I start forgetting!)

Unfortunately I can relate to goldeneagle on answering my home phone the way I used to at work (I used to work in a call center), but then one day at work I answered the phone and forgot my own name.  That was embarrassing.  How does one recover from that gracefully?  I just laughed and started over again. 

I've also answered the phone at work like I answer it at home, "He-e-e-llo?"  The customer just sat there stunned and asked if they had the right number.  Whoops!  

You know your ADD is really bad when:

You are scheduling an appointment with a doctor, the receptionist asks for your address, and you can't remember where you live!

You know your ADD is really bad when:

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

Here's one I did last Christmas. I don't think I told you guys about it. This is called ADD 'inattentive type'. I was flying to L.A. to visit my mom. I got to my departure gate about an hour early, and started reading a book. Anyway, I read for a long time, and when I put my book down the gate area was empty. THE PLANE HAD LOADED UP AND LEFT RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME AND I DIDN'T NOTICE ANYTHING!

I was distraught. I really try not to be to hard on myself for ADD stuff that I can't help but this was too much. I probably would have hurt my self on purpose if I wasn't in public. I was visibly shaking. Anyway, because of this little stunt, I spent the next two days in boring, boring, boring airports waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting. Pure hell for an ADD'r. The airline staff were great; "You basically neglected to get on your plane, and you want us to give you another flight, just because you're a friggen retard? Yeah, we'll see what we can do." That was basically the attitude. Pretty embarrassing. They also were very suspicious, and were sure to hound me with every security procedure in the book, Thinking this was all some sort of unperceived terror plot that I was involved in.

It's so hard for me to get everything together to on time and not forget something really important like my ID or ticket. I was very satisfied that after driving 2.5 hours I had everything I needed, so I sat down to relax and read, having no inkling that I was heading for disaster. Wanna ruin your trip? This is a surefire way to do it.

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

You have the most amazing, insightful, funny, brilliant comment to post & the minute you start to type it goes right out of your head.

We went swimming yesterday.  I got tired of getting in and out of the pool to put things up on the chair.  I threw my watch (so it wouldn't get wet) towards my chair.  It landed on the concrete and broke apart!

I ended up going to buy a new watch yesterday.  But I got one for $10 and I can set it to hourly chime.  Maybe this was a good thing. 

You know your ADD is really bad when:

You are scheduling an appointment with a doctor, the receptionist asks for your address, and you can't remember where you live!

I always have to think a while (or even look up) my address and phone number when asked for them. And if someone on the phone reads them back to me in a different way that I 'say' them, I get all confused. KWIM? Like I may say: 1-7-8-2-6...and they may repeat back to me saying One hundred seventy-eight, twenty-six...duh?..wait, and I repeat it back to them my way again.

GypsyWomyn,

Oh, I SO know that one!!!  When people look at me weird when I don't know my own phone number, I look at them weird and say "I don't call myself, why should I remember it?" 

I always forget how old I am. 

autumnstar

When you go to the mall speifically to buy a cd you really want, and suddenly when you walk in there, you simply cannot recall the cd title or artist. As if the magnetic security sensors erased your brain on the way in. For some reason this happens to me most often at record stores and bookstores.

Very frustrating.

When you go to the mall speifically to buy a cd you really want, and suddenly when you walk in there, you simply cannot recall the cd title or artist. As if the magnetic security sensors erased your brain on the way in. For some reason this happens to me most often at record stores and bookstores.

Very frustrating.

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

When your doctor orders you a blood test because of the Strattera and you can't find the script for 6 weeks. Doc hounds you about not taking the test and you are too embarressed to tell her you can't find it.........then you find it, put off making the appointment for 2 weeks..........then you go to get the blood drawn and leave the damn script at home.

When you go to the theatre with a friend to look down and discover you have 2 different shoes on. It wasn't dark when I put them on, they fastened in different places, one was a sandle and one was a sling back. HEY.....they were the same color!!!!

You know your ADD is bad when...

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

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

Now my wife handles travel plans.

You know your ADD is bad when...

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

You know your ADD is bad when...

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

When people look at me weird when I don't know my own phone number, I look at them weird and say "I don't call myself, why should I remember it?"[/QUOTE]

That reminded me of this story:

ONE OF Einstein's colleagues asked him for his telephone number one day. Einstein reached for a telephone directory and looked it up. "You don't remember your own number?" the man asked, startled.
      "No," Einstein answered. "Why should I memorize something I can so easily get from a book?"

you Know your ADD is bad when

You are applying for help through the seniors and people with disabilities. You have tons of papers to fill out, an as usual you wait till you cant put it off any longer. After hours of hard work answering all the questions, you still have two days left before the dead line of getting the papers back to the Office...You feel proud of yourself for getting it done on time. You are going to go and donate blood the next day (because you are a baby blood Donner) SO you decide you will drop papers off after doing that. Next day donation goes great, however, you have been worrying the whole morning about having to drive down town to drop off the papers. Even though you have been to the office before you can't remember, exactly, how to get there. On the way there you make at least three wrong turns. You are also worried about finding a place to park, because finding parking down town is never easy. You finally find the office, and low and behold their is a place to parallel park in front of it. You hate to parallel park, but are determined to do it. Wow you did a great job parking...you unlock the door, and start to get out... reaching over in the passenger seat for your paper work... only to find you left them at home.   

You think... GREAT... I get to do this all again tomorrow!!!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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... or: you get out of the shower and are sure the shampoo still is in your hair, but it's not ...

[QUOTE=Wordwoman]You know your ADD is really bad when you think, "Gosh, I'm hungry,
what's to eat?" -- and then, the microwave dings and you are pleasantly
surprised to find you have already made your lunch.[/QUOTE]

That's so funny! I drive my husband crazy, I'll say what do you want for dinner He'll say lets have steak! OK great! next 10 minutes What do you want for dinner! this happens 3-4 times before it actually sinks in! It really pisses him off

You know your ADHD is really bad when you are doing 110mph down the motorway, and biting the steering wheel while trying not to jump up and down in your seat!

This apparently happened to my hubby a few months ago, while on his way to a motorbike rally!

[QUOTE=addexec]This morning I slathered my toothbrush full of Edge shaving gel. Good thing I noticed before brushing.[/QUOTE

Try liquid soap and not noticing

God, you people are cracking me up! LOL! I'm not an ADHDer, but after a very CHALLENGING and irritation-filled week with my girlfriend (who is), you guys are helping me see many of the reasons why I love her. When I can back off and see the humor, it's great. She makes serious, always-on-time, always-pays-the-bills, always-knows-the-exact-balance-in-her-checking-acount, always-has-her-ducks-in-a-row ME, be LESS SERIOUS! God bless her.

So, I will add one on her behalf:

You know you are ADHD when you agree to meet your significant other in a dog park on one of the COLDEST days of the year in Boston, and you show up wearing a thin jacket, a mini-skirt, white tights, and brand new shoes (did I mention it is also one of the muddiest days?). You have to walk across the field to meet her, and on the way, your white tights get so splattered by mud you resemble a dalmation by the time you get to her, and you're shivering your a** off b/c of the cold.

I mean, really, what could I do but smirk and give her a huge hug???

[QUOTE=Wordwoman]You know your ADD is really bad when you think, "Gosh, I'm hungry,
what's to eat?" -- and then, the microwave dings and you are pleasantly
surprised to find you have already made your lunch.[/QUOTE]

These are just so funny!  I can relate because as I get older I am doing the same things.  But this one just had me laughing for ever so I had to post how much I enjoyed!

You know you have ADD when:

You clicked on this thread, read the first page, had to pee, stood up, read another page while standing bent over, read 5 more pages, remembered you had to pee, couldn't stand up because of your stiff back, figured hell with it sat back down to relieve your back pain, forgot you had to pee, 

What was I saying again???

Oh nevermind. 

You know your ADD is bad when....

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

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

These are GREAT!  What a great way to end a sh--------- ADD day.

You know your ADD is really bad when-

You've had an unknown key on your ring for 6 years which is just like your house key and every time you enter the house you have to sort out which to use.  But it's really REALLY bad when you realize after all of those years of NOT taking the stupid damn mystery key off the ring you find while it's the same shape it has different markings and is quite easy to tell from your house key!

crisssy30

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

You finally decide to clean and wax the kitchen floor, but an hour after you finish, the floor is still sticky; the wax somehow doesn't dry. You pour more wax onto the floor only to find out, that you didn't put wax on the floor, but half a bottle of detergent !!!

(Took me an hour to get the soap of the floor.)

When you can read through 14 pages of posts, laughing at all of them and never once get distracted but you can't read a simple article about something important to you because your mind wants to think about everything but that,

you start to tell a hilarious story, get 1/2 way through and forget which one you were telling      or

finish with the ending to a totally different one

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

... You wake up late to go to work where you have to wear a uniform - green shirt and navy pants.  You jump in the car, get to work just in time and walk on to the production area to find out you are wearing your green pajama top and navy pajama pull over bottoms - which looked fine to you but are very obvious to all who have the company logo on them but see nightclothes on you.  Hard to go back after that but ya do what ya gotta do.

You know it's bad when....a post is more than two lines and you just can't read more than that and have to rush past until you get to the next post.

...you type 110 wpm.

You know you have AD/HD when...

... when you get to the airport at 04:00 without your passport with only 45 minutes to spare, so you talk the attendant into holding onto your luggage, drive 100 mph back home, can't find your passport, find your old expired one, drive 100 mph back to the airport, and as you talk the attendant into letting you use your expired passport, he lets you on the plane late, and you are putting your old passport in your briefcase, you find your lost unexpired passport in that nook you decided to hide it in so you wouldn't loose it as you decide to put your expired passport in a special place so you won't loose it, either!

and...

... you find a knife in your briefcase after three flights and their preliminary prescreening proceedures in two different cities didn't catch them... but you get busted at the fourth airport (3rd city) LAX and 5 TSAs swoop you, followed by 4 LA Swat Team members, but they let you go and keep a different 4.25 inch folding knife becuase they believed your story that normally you check your luggage but you were going just overnight this time, and forgot the knife was in your shaving kit... and besides, it's just a melon knife, which you prove by showing the slices in your jeans above your knee where you've bled yourself a few times... and where your shrink thinks you've been "para-suicidal"... which is what any person is when they jump out of an airplane, regardless of what they've got on their back!

... and I've a few hundred other ones, but here's another good one:

... when you are wandering around the house wondering why you got up from a comfortable position in the first place, but don't have a clue where you were headed or what you were going to do when you got there~ so you go back to where it all began, and crabbypatties! you remember what you just forgot, just so you can forget again by the time you get to the other end of the house! It's like that time loop Data got stuck in on STNG episode 133... did I just pass me just now?... how do I know which one is the real me?...

No wonder my wife hates me... I think I'll flip over to the spouses BB and see if I can learn to "How to Have ADHD and Still Stay Married"... I read a book once called "How to Own a Gun and Stay Out of Jail", but it didn't really work very well.... Maybe I need a wife for each reality, eh? Or impusle. Or distraction. Or maybe I've forgotten that "I Do" have more than one! OMG!

Not. Just giddily kiddilying.

G'nite, Y'all!

P.S. Awe, shoot, I couldn't unhyperfocus. Here's another good one:

... when you come up with some great conceptually communicable lexicology, and your spell checkker goes nuts... Hey, instead of phonetics or english, we could call it logeticals, or something... like take GypsyWomyn's advice, and travel to http://add.about.com/cs/addthebasics/a/communication_2.htm . But I guess I'd forget what I was doing once I got there, eh? Or where I even was, mebay.

Oops, here's another one:

... when you've been in jail three times in your life, and people still look up to you because you're smart, a leader in your field, and make them a lot of money...

And that reminds me of this one:

... when you've tried to run your own businesses, b/c you're a great creator and entrepreneur, but have gone broke more than 4 times because you had too many projects going at once, with trouble following through... b/c you attracted other AD/HDers like bees to nectar (can't really say like bees to honey, b/c they must not really like it, as they puke it up)... and noone could stay focused and follow through...

All right, already, this time, I really mean it, GOOD NIGHT! Luv Y'all way lots,

D

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

lambiekin

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

lambiekin

you know your adhd is bad when every time you thouroughly clean your room you find 4-6 copies of the key to your front door

or

when looking over your bookshelf you realize you have 3 copies of a memory improvement book that you still havent remembered to read

or

when you are late to bed every night because you have to spend an hour writing yourself notes and deciding where they have the best shot of being noticed the next day. taped over the light switch,mirror,on the ceiling right where you look when you first wake up, hanging from a string in the middle of the hallway, around the alarm clock with duct tape so it takes five minutes to unrap before you can hit snooze.

or

when the only pet you had as a kid that you had long enough to name was a box turtle with the ability to go without food or water for a long period of time.(dont wory i dont subject animals to my ownership any more)

or

if as a kid your siblings would always blame you when caught after doing something wrong because you would always apoligize saying "im soo sorry i cant belive i would do such a thing....grounded for 3 weeks thats fair, again i cant belive i would do that, and i dont even remember why i did it"

or you hate sighning in at front desks or sighning official forms because after they tell you the date you have to ask "and what month?"

or

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

or

at parties when someone tries to bum a ciggarete you check your shirt,pants, and jacket pocket before realizing youve never smoked in your life

or

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

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

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

 I do soooo love this thread.

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

Must get to work!

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

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

[QUOTE=adhdeaf]we at times forget items and they eventually become chemistry "stuffs"!

[/QUOTE]

My mother stayed with me for a week a while ago.  When I put my coffee grounds in the trash - they stay wet and make a mold that is bright fluorescent orange!  My mother says that it must be because I care for my mold so much - they've had the chance to evolve!!

I know I'm a slob sometimes in some ways - it's just so hard to remember the trash as it's hidden from view most times.  It's better than it used to be though!

Oh, here's a good one:

You know your ADHD because you post soo many replies in soo many forums because you keep loosing the one you first posted, and you get distracted by the other topics and post your way into oblivion... 

That's why I went from Newbie to Groupie in 4 days. Jeez, did you check my profile? I average 9.4 postings / day. And they're not short. I am, though. But short people don't have as far to fall.

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

You know your ADD is really bad when you forgot to put a load of clothes in the the dryer....rince, forget, rince, forget, rince, forget...same load, 2 days. 

[QUOTE=adhdeaf]Now we live in the South where I park my car OUTSIDE.  [/QUOTE]

...when your garage is too full of "chemistry and other stuffs" you know for sure you'll need some day that you don't throw it away that your car doesn't fit in it anyway, whether you're in the north, or the south, or central america....

[QUOTE=bluebird38]I got up to take the trash out this morning and realized...I left the keys in the front door....AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!  This is not good for someone who worries about weirdoes.




[/QUOTE]

Where do you live? I don't lock our doors in the summer, and the cars are never locked...

[QUOTE=bepatient]You know your ADD is really bad when you forgot to put a load of clothes in the the dryer....rince, forget, rince, forget, rince, forget...same load, 2 days.  [/QUOTE]

Hey, try mouldy clothes....  Thanks for reminding me, I really did leave a load in the wetwasher..... !

You know your ADHD is really bad when...

you've had 22 jobs in your life, and been fired from 24 of them...

and my wife says "you'll never learn! nothing has changed!" but

You know your ADHD is really bad when...

It's not b/c you keep making the same mistake, or much less make it twice, you just keep coming up with new ones....

You know your ADHD is really bad when...

Your AOL spell checker says "Only the first 100 msipsellings are highlighted below"...

You know your ADHD is really bad when...

Your butt is tired b/c it's 23:18 and you sat down to read your email at 18:00...

[QUOTE=bepatient]You know your ADD is really bad when you forgot to put a load of clothes in the the dryer....rince, forget, rince, forget, rince, forget...same load, 2 days.  [/QUOTE]

Hey, try mouldy clothes....  Thanks for reminding me, I really did leave a load in the wetwasher..... !

[/QUOTE]

You know your ADHD is really bad when...

and my clothes are still not in the drydryer...

You know your ADHD is really bad when...

when the last 8 postings in the fourm "You know your ADHD is really bad when..." are yours...

Did everybody really leave? Aren't there any ADHDrs beyond the Pacific Barrier? Do I really have to turn off the lights? Here, I'll talk to myself: G'nite, David!

G'nite, me! I'll most likely see you'me in the mirror...

You know you have ADHD really bad when....

You know you could make a killing publishing this stuff, but never get around to it because you have some other killer stuff to do....

[QUOTE=bepatient]You know your ADD is really bad when you forgot to put a load of clothes in the the dryer....rince, forget, rince, forget, rince, forget...same load, 2 days.  [/QUOTE]

Hey, try mouldy clothes....  Thanks for reminding me, I really did leave a load in the wetwasher..... !

[/QUOTE]

You know your ADHD is really bad when...

and my clothes are still not in the drydryer...

[/QUOTE]

You know your ADHD is really bad when...

...you use this fourm to remind you to wash your laundry: really, I just remembered (ya, right, this is not remembering, it's being reminded: but, David, you were the last one to write about your laundry, so its like remembering: but me, that does not count...

I did get my laundry in the dryer, but its still there. Oh, darn. Now I'll have to iron my shirts, or wash them again....

You know your ADHD is really bad when...

...it takes you five and a half hours to do a load of laudnry...

You know your ADHD is really bad when...

...the funniest entries in the fourm are your own....

...cuz you can't understand the others!

You know you have ADHD really bad when....

You know you could make a killing publishing this stuff, but never get around to it because you have some other killer stuff to do....

[/QUOTE]

You ought to see my 2 car garage where I can't get even a bicycle in sideways....

I got a lot of killer stuff to do there....

You know your ADHD is really bad when...

...you look in your garage b/c you have a lot of killer stuff to do in there...

...and find 1 Intel 286 computer with a 10 mb harddrive, 1 Intel 386 computer with a 20 mb hd, 1 Intel 486 computer with a 40 mb hd + a $1,200 1,000 mb hd, 1 each of a Pentium 200, 300, & 400 computers with 2,3, & 4 gb hds, and about 10 miscelaneous 15 & 17 inch monitors that you've been collecting since 1992...

...which you kept upgrading from, but kept b/c they still worked when you bought your next 'puter, and you figured you could do something killer with these, but never got a round tuit to do it...

You know your ADHD is really bad when...

...you create one more post so you can hit an average postings per day that you thought was cool, and wouldn't have reached if you hadn't posted the one more posting...

[QUOTE=bepatient]You know your ADD is really bad when you forgot to put a load of clothes in the the dryer....rince, forget, rince, forget, rince, forget...same load, 2 days.  [/QUOTE]

Hey, try mouldy clothes....  Thanks for reminding me, I really did leave a load in the wetwasher..... !

[/QUOTE]

You know your ADHD is really bad when...

and my clothes are still not in the drydryer...

[/QUOTE]

You know your ADHD is really bad when...

...you use this fourm to remind you to wash your laundry: really, I just remembered (ya, right, this is not remembering, it's being reminded: but, David, you were the last one to write about your laundry, so its like remembering: but me, that does not count...

I did get my laundry in the dryer, but its still there. Oh, darn. Now I'll have to iron my shirts, or wash them again....

You know your ADHD is really bad when...

...it takes you five and a half hours to do a load of laudnry...

[/QUOTE]

You know your ADHD is really bad when...

...you finally did finsih your load of laundry, but it took 6 hours, not 5.5....

You know your ADHD is really bad when...

...you still have the following cached on your computer clipboard, 4 hours later "You know your ADHD is really bad when..."

You know you have ADHD really bad when....

You know you could make a killing publishing this stuff, but never get around to it because you have some other killer stuff to do....

[/QUOTE]

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

I started my thread in May and its still going strong. Thanks for all the replies guys. It's awesome 8 )

You know your ADD is really bad when you wrote on your hand what you needed to remember not to forget that you wrote on a sheet of paper that you sent yourself an e-mail reminder about at home when you were at work. Then you forgot to read your hand.

You keep coming back to this thread because its like looking in a mirror and laughing !!!

You leave your dry clothes in the dryer and just toss a damp washcloth in and run it for a while every morning so they aren't wrinkled because you don't have the motivation to iron or put them away.

you write long, drawn out sentences because they are easier than trying to figure out where to end one and how to start another.

[QUOTE=LTC1]For the fifth time you think...I have got to take my meds....you go to take them... only to find out....you took them the fourth time you thought about them. [/QUOTE]

You know your ADHD is really bad when...

....as you're swallowing your meds you remember you just took them ten minutes ago....

[QUOTE=LTC1]For the fifth time you think...I have got to take my meds....you go to take them... only to find out....you took them the fourth time you thought about them. [/QUOTE]

You know your ADHD is really bad when...

...as you are swallowing you meds you realize you grabbed 3 Provigil instead of 1 Provigil and 2 Ritalin L.A.s (they are both oval and white) and you realize that Provigil is what kept the U.S. Army awake for 100 hours in Gulf War 1...

You know your ADHD is really bad when...

...you post a post about "You know your ADHD is really bad when..." on another topic board.... 

... when, pre-diagnosis, pre-med (of course) and therefore pre-agenda for more than 1 day per year, the first thing your boyfriend does when you come over to see him is start reading your daily schedule, phone numbers, etc. off the back of your hand, your arm, sometimes past your elbow...

(or when the FIRST thing you do when you see your girlfriend is start reading her schedule, phone numbers etc...????)

You know your ADHD is really bad when...

...you're off your meds and the police reports they've got a YODA on the loose (yuppie on drugs or alcohol)...

You know your ADHD is really bad when...

...you take an online ADHD assessment and it recommends you talk to your physician...

You know your ADHD is really bad when...

...you take an online ADHD assessment and the results are:

Your Personal ADHD Summary
ADHD Inattentions Symptoms: 9
ADHD Hyperactivity-Impulsivity Symptoms: 9
Childhood Onset of ADHD symptoms: Yes
Identified ADHD Impairment Areas: home, work and social life areas.

Overall, your responses indicate very severe behaviors that may be consistent with ADHD with possible significant impairment in your home, work and social life areas.

 ... when you can't remember whether or not you brushed your teeth after you woke up in the morning, and have to do it again (although they did feel clean!). 

This happened to me a couple of days ago. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Good luck to all.

Adhd we 

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

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You are as unsecured as I am....

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You know your ADD is bad when

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

I love you, too, God!

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

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

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

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

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

[QUOTE=bluebird38]I got up to take the trash out this morning and realized...I left the keys in the front door....AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!  This is not good for someone who worries about weirdoes.




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

[QUOTE=bepatient]You know your ADD is really bad when you forgot to put a load of clothes in the the dryer....rince, forget, rince, forget, rince, forget...same load, 2 days.  [/QUOTE]

Been there and done that!!

You keep coming back to this thread because its like looking in a mirror and laughing !!!

You leave your dry clothes in the dryer and just toss a damp washcloth in and run it for a while every morning so they aren't wrinkled because you don't have the motivation to iron or put them away.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Joyous,

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

Turkey anyone?

You know your ADHD is really bad when...

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

You know your ADHD is really bad when...

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

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

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

Joyous,

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

Turkey anyone?

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Oh, my dear, dear, ladies,

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

How do I know this?

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

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

Popinbubbles,

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You know your ADHD is really bad when...

...your favorite forum is...

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

You know your ADD is bad when...

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

You know your ADD is good...

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

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

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

  (I forgot what I was going to say!)
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You know your ADHD is really bad when...

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

Sooo, here you go. Blame adhdeaf.

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

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

You know your ADHD is really bad when...

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

You know your ADD is bad when:

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

You know your ADD is bad when:

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

You know your ADD is bad when:

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

WELCOME TO MY LIFE...

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

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

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

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

You know you really have bad ADHD when...

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

Hey Bree,

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

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

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

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

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

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

D

DAVID,

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

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

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

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

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

ANYTHING ELSE U CAN SUGGEST?

You know you're wildly ADHD when...

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

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

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

I am 32.  I am not spring Chicken either.

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

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

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

You know you're wildly ADHD when...

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

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

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

... you...

You know your WILDLY ADHD when you...

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

DAVID,

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

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

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

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

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

ANYTHING ELSE U CAN SUGGEST?

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Hey, Spring Chicken!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Doing laundry is like discovering a whole new wardrobe 


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Hey,

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

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

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

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

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Hey,

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

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

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

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

yOU kNOW yOU'RE wILDLY aDHD wHEN...

ROTFLMAOL!* 





*Rollin'