You might have ADD if.................... | ADHD Information

you pick up your perscription from the doctor, stop by the house to get your son, go to the pharmacy, get to the clerk and find ........  no perscription....

Well, gee, it must have evaporated into thin air.... I just had the thing!!

 

or one more:

You are a teacher, you are holding an assignment in your hand ready to pass out to your students, you start to pass out the assignment, and you realize you no longer have it in your hands.  So, you spend the next 15mins trying to find the papers!!

The last one happened to me DAILY before meds...

Sherry

depends. but i do make realistic adjustments to my billing to compensate.

most customers expect a huge bill when i work hourly, but don't get it because i am aware of how much time my 'handicap' costs me. it should not cost them.

that's why it is so sad to wk. ten hours to only bill for 6-1/2 , for instance.

 

I understand the smoking or snorting it, but why would he put it in his cell phone?

Maybe he's CIA or something like that...
you start watching a really good movie but a commercial comes on so you switch channels and swear that this time you will remember to come back to this program, but you don't.

You have ADHD (same thing) if you start talking to someone face to face and within 30 seconds your eyes have wandered from them to somewhere else in the room and you are hearing but not retaining anything they are saying
then you pull your attention back to them to have it wander away again in no time

UNLESS OF COURSE THE PERSON IS ABSOLUTELY FASCINATING OR YOU HAVE A CRUSH ON THEM OR SOMETHING...everyone else elicits "wandering off syndrome"
or
you act on impulse and do stupid things even though you aren't stupid…could ADHD be like Tourette's when it comes to doing really stupid things?

You wash your hair with toothpaste

When you constantly are putting things "where you'll remember them" and you never see the items again.

When your dreams are so real, you don't know what's reality or what you dreamt.

When you have 5 books you're bouncing back and forth reading all at once.

When you order some new ADD books and when they arrive you're excited to see what you've got because you forgot which ones you ordered!

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When you constantly are putting things "where you'll remember them" and you never see the items again.

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And then you re-buy them (or many of them) and then find the original.

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When you have 5 books you're bouncing back and forth reading all at once.

When you order some new ADD books and when they arrive you're excited to see what you've got because you forgot which ones you ordered!

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I just counted...I have 6 books going plus one learning website.  GAH!
You might be ADHD if...

...you wake up and take your Adderall and find yourself cleaning, ironing, replacing a lightbulb, paying bills, making your bed, getting dressed, doing dishes, organizing a cupboard, feeding yourself and the dog and wondering..."Wow, what was so hard about that?" (Mind you, normally my laundry piles up for weeks, bed is never made, I'm always getting ready at the last minute and rushing out the door w/o a thing to eat <at least I always feed the dog>, and bills aren't paid even if I have the money...AUGH!)

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I can do that sometimes when I hyperfocus.  (I'm still not medicated for ADD)  But I can't pick and choose when I want to hyperfocus.

Drives my husband crazy sometimes, I can take 2 hours to get 1 thing done or I will hyperfocus and I can get done in 45 minutes what takes him 2 hours to do.

Autumnstar

this site is just SO cool. man i can so relate - the thing the having the
papers in your hand and suddenly they've disappeared and you spend 15
flipping minutes looking for them.... hahahahaha and the changing the
channel thing and the reading five different books hehehehehe

oh boy - i was put on percocet once for pain and i think it worked a little
like maybe 'ritalin'

sheesh life was so easy it was practically boring.... what no more
'herculean effort of will' just to go and get a pint of milk, the struggle and
battle of titan proportions between the two split sides of me i was all
submerged into one easy-peasy person. suddenly i understand how
people can suffer from 'ennui'. an unknown concept to me previously!!!!
anyway pills came to an end and ergo so did my easy life - back to the
chaotic impossibility of being able to do anything at all....

Despite a morning list, something always manages to get left at home

You have absolutley no recollection of conversations you had only hours before

You leave your car lights on

You lock your keys in your car

You have a song stuck in your head when you go to sleep...and it starts up again when you wake up

You feel compelled to constantly flip between radio and/or TV stations

You're mind is constantly playing out what-if scenarios from your past and future

you take a bus trip to a casino where they give you a off coupon for your meal.  you put it in a "safe" place in your purse, but a few hours later when you get in line to pay, you search your entire purse frantically but no coupon.  you assume you lost it and pay full price.  three months later (you've been using the same purse since the trip) you decide to look in the back pocket to see what's there... SURPRISE!!  it's your off coupon.  aahhh!!! You setup a lunch meeting and always leave at least one person off from your team...  I did that this morning.You're invited to a surprise b-day party and you accidentally forward your answer (and the invitation)  to the b-day person. The person organizing the event is a no-nonsense, easily offended type.

I wish it weren't a true story. They need to keep surprises like this from me too. WAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!
bluebird3838602.3650810185

You go out to the porch to smoke a cigarette, light it then remember you wanted to sweep the porch. You put the cigarette in the ashtry (but not extinguished) go get the brrom, go back to the porch. light a cigarette and when you go to set it in the ashtray to sweep realize what a dufus you are.

You go from the living room to your bedroom to get something but end up in the kitchen and stand there for 5 minues trying to remember why you were going there.

You go to the grocery store for one item and leave with 20 other items and not the one thing you went for in the first place.

You spend half a day reading posts on the message boards instead of doing your job.

or----

i work as a plumber and need lots of different little parts and tools. i have tried to keep a little notepad so i can make lists, because i forget most of what i'm looking for before i take 2 steps towards the truck with all my tools and parts.

so, i need 4 things. i write them down, well 3 of 'em anyway. i go to the truck, i find two of the three things on the list. i put them down to search for the last one that i remembered to write down.

i can't find it. i know it's there- i saw it on one of my last trips to the truck. while tearing apart the truck for the 3rd item, i find something i needed on another trip. i'm trying to hurry (mentally, all of my life is one massive rush). i put aside the other item, think of something else i need to take back to my work area, find it and head back to my work area.

guess what- where are the two first things i went for? i go back to the truck to get them, find something else i forgot to write down, grab one of the 2 items from my original trip, go back to my work area.

by then, i've forgotten what i was working on before i went to get the parts i needed, and start something else to keep the ball rolling.

as i work on the new project, i realise i need to get more parts/tools, because i am skipping what i set myself up to do in the 1st place. back to the truck- oh wait! now i remember what i was doing.

so, to save another trip to the truck just yet, i go to finish what i started earlier. after all, i just wasted who knows how long getting it together to do that. that's when it occurs to me i need the damn thing i forgot to write down in the beginning, can't progress until i have it in my hand. back to the truck, back to the top where it goes on all over again. and again.

at this point i'm trying to manage my frustration with myself and the fact that i am inadvertantly my own single biggest obstacle to getting anything done.

i work as quickly and efficiently as i can, which is usually at a greater pace than anyone around me. except that i can rarely establish enough flow in what i'm doing to progress at the rate i'm running around. 10 hours to do 6-1/2 hrs. of work.

it's funny until you realise i'm working twice as hard for half the money almost every day i work.

[QUOTE=seeker63]or----i work as a plumber 

 i just wasted who knows how long . 10 hours to do 6-1/2 hrs. of work.[/QUOTE]

Do you charge by the hour or the job?

 

You look back at how your day went and realize it could have made a great Dean Martin/Jerry Lewis comedy way back when! (with Jerry playing you, of course!)

 

God bless my former boyfriend. One thing I really loved about him (because I could totally relate) is the way his desk and car looked and how he handled papers.

He is very intelligent and was in law school at the time, but he would just throw papers everywhere. I don't know how he ever found anything. When he would pick up a piece of paper, he wouldn't do it the way most of us do. Most of us pick up a sheet of paper (could be anything--a form, a document, a bill) from the corner by using our thumb and a finger or two. But, he would slap his whole hand on the paper and grab it caveman style from the middle. HAHAHA. I don't even think he knew he was doing it. All of his papers were crumpled to some extent and yet, when he dressed up for meetings, he was so good looking and proper that you couldn't imagine him being that way. It was the best! I never pointed it out because I never wanted him to change.





hey guys, please lose the blue text..can't read it
you're sitting at a big meeting at a big table in the big big guy's office (more like a one bed. apt.) and of course don't want to be there (who the heck mailed you and put you on this list??) when the big big guy leans forward, looks right at you (doesn't usually do that) and says "if you have work to do you can leave....."

 this is the adhd part

I'm thrilled!!!! I jump up and I'm outta there in a flash, no qualms! lolololol, people want to be in meetings and on committee's, even medicated I don't want that..at least not there, I knew eveyone else was thinking what a freak or something but I've been there a long time and have my rep....will take a lot of undoing
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Your favorite song is on the radio and you change it 5 times. Only to come back to your favorite song and you wonder why you changed it.

You wash your clothes daily, but it is just what you are wearing the next day.

When you do wash your clothes.They are clean but they are stored in the dryer or a basket.

It looks like a tornando hit your house but you know where everything is.... Unless you need it @ that moment.

You read something 5 times and you have know idea what it said.

 

[/QUOTE] So the dryer isn't where you're supposed to store clothes??

Is it the blue,

Or is it the text,

Or is it the font,

Or is it the size,

Or lack thereof,

Or is it the slanting I,

Or a combination,

Or a combatination?

Or scattering distraction?

But, but, but... I lIke blue!

Or are you colorblind?

Here, after all those blues, this should be soothing...

If someone hands me a piece of paper, it isn't long before I have rolled it up into a nice neat little weenie roll.

My neighbor handed me his phone number the other day and as we stood there talking he remarked, "Are you planning to put that in your cell phone or smoke it?"

Haha, I do that. It looks bad when its sumthing inportant they've given you. opps.

 

I have to take a notebook with me to every meeting to doodle or I'll fall asleep.  If I get handouts, I color in all the spaces in letters.  MMmm orange, much better. Dunno why but wen i came to the blue my  mind said "na, can't deal with reading that." My little attention guy has problem with it, personality, i don't its a nice colour makes a change but well, the attention little guy is the boss, what can you do?[QUOTE=Kerrbear]

You go out to the porch to smoke a cigarette, light it then remember you wanted to sweep the porch. You put the cigarette in the ashtry (but not extinguished) go get the brrom, go back to the porch. light a cigarette and when you go to set it in the ashtray to sweep realize what a dufus you are.

You go from the living room to your bedroom to get something but end up in the kitchen and stand there for 5 minues trying to remember why you were going there.

You go to the grocery store for one item and leave with 20 other items and not the one thing you went for in the first place.

You spend half a day reading posts on the message boards instead of doing your job.

[/QUOTE] Maybe thats why i was up to 2 1/2 packs a day, my fridge has the seal broken (it's a wreck in four years), so much food goes bad in the fridge (thank god its trash day and I actually remembered to take out the garbage ( my nose reminded me))and I hate being away from "the posts".  It says a lot to me anyways.repairman38603.2241435185

heh heh, I used to have clothes piled on the floor and also in clothes baskets.  My closet used to only have a few things hanging up - things I NEVER wore.  And my dresser had any clothes in it all crammed in there.

 

 When you are in a four hour training class and you can not pay attention. You go back to your desk and pretend that you know the new program better than the trainer. You do not know any of it. Then when the program rolls out the next week it takes you about 30 min to know how to run it. 4 hours of wasted time.1 notebook with half drawn pictures.Stupid pictures at that who draws a bird that looks like elvis and calls it Belvis??????? I do! It is amazing what you can come up with in 4 hours.

This morning I've been packing, lol, I keep getting bored and coming on the net. I found my school leaving book, one entry says

"make sure you get an exercise book and bring it to your lesson and write your notes in it! No doodles! You just can't stop can you, your even doing it now - on a plastic bag!"

Yeah I doodle...

One teacher was so mean, went through the back of my book and put big black crosses through them then gave me a detention.

There was one teacher that excepted my doodling/fiddling, i was making a little man out of blue tack, she asked for it and I handed it over saying sorry. She said "Oh no, I know you need to do that to concentrate, I just thought it was really good."  I liked that teacher.

On a few occations I've been caught doodlin gon my arms, I think they thought i was a bit wacko, when questioned i shrugged and said "I was bored."

I allways have to have a note book at meetings, its funny when people think I'm all organised and dedicated, when they see it, its a different matter... all doodles. lol.

Exactly!  My stepdaughter is starting High school this year.  I'm sure she has ADD.  2 of her teachers are telling them that they will be taking their notebooks twice a year for 'grading'  I need to warn her to try not to doodle in those books - that she needs to doodle elsewhere.

My signature is so wild - In college, they'd tell us to 'sign' our papers, not just 'print our names' on them.  I had college professors who would say "I don't know who's this paper is"  I had to go up there to see if it was mine.  How embarrassing.  Some professors told me to start printing my name.

Other kids thought it was really cool the way I signed my name and they'd have me sign their names on stuff to see how I'd do it.  Weird.

I would just forget to sign mine at all. Everytime there was a paper without a name on it the teachers would assume its mine. I asked once, my college lecturer had named my assignment for me, "how come you knew it was mine?" "Becuase your the only student who never remembers to put your name on it." lol.

I allways doodled in those books, that would have been a smart thing to do, doodle else where, but i hadly ever remembered those books let alone extra doodle paper. lol. 

Your favorite song is on the radio and you change it 5 times. Only to come back to your favorite song and you wonder why you changed it.

You wash your clothes daily, but it is just what you are wearing the next day.

When you do wash your clothes.They are clean but they are stored in the dryer or a basket.

It looks like a tornando hit your house but you know where everything is.... Unless you need it @ that moment.

You read something 5 times and you have know idea what it said.

 

You know you have ADD if you forget someone's name more than once when you meet them.

 

You know you have ADD if, you act like a "big kid".

 

Those were the only two I can come up with at this moment.

you brush your teeth twice but forget to condition your hair

You ask a question on a thread and then forget which one you asked on and can't find it