Are ADHDrrs Competitive? | ADHD Information
I am very very competitive...at work, can't stand it if some one is doing better then me...makes me work ten times harder...at the gym, in just about everything part of my life...I am very competitive with myself...(if this is possible)...I am always trying to out do my personnal best...lambiekinGreen Font I like to think that I'm not that competitive but my husband would strongly disagree with me. There's that denial thing again. :)
Autumnstar
[QUOTE=kdiddy]I am VERY competitive. VERY VERY!!
I hate to lose!
kdiddy[/QUOTE]
Ya, me2. I cheat my own kids so I don't have to loose. Oh, what a looser...
I'd rather not play, than to loose.
I went into clinical depression when the TTTT9rs lost to Dallas 20 - 10 in the playoffs in 1987. Jerks.
I was a decent chess player, then lost once, and never played since.
Same with Risk. I lost a good friend b/c he backstabbed me in
Kamtchatka, and wiped me out. I haven't talked to him since, nor played
the game.
I hate to loose. I hate L.A. Beat LA, beat LA. The Lakers, the Dodgers,
the Rams. (oh, don't let them fool you, it's all a confederacy, they
are still the LA St.Lo Rams.). Gotta luv the 9ers!
I have always been very competitive, both against others and myself. I am not and never have been into sports but give me a game and watch out!
Unfortunately, I have to really work at being a good winner and being a good loser. Either way, I tend to over react so I have to watch myself. Most people don't even realize just how competitive I am now. It wasn't always that way.
[QUOTE=Davidornado] The West Coast is Great, b/c the world's highest rate of AD/HDrs live here. We'ev wandered our way impulsively West, until we ran out of West, and are piling up here, for a reason.
So how do you figure we have the message board now? Is it cuz it is later in the night elsewhre, and they fell off? I'm about to fall off, myself.
How about you? I think the world is flat. When we get to the end of the day, we fall of it. [/QUOTE]
I did write that we had the board because others had fallen off for the night...and just as I posted my S.O. got home from work... so I also fell off for the night.
our son cares less about sports like activities. He just wants to be like others. I was that way but competative now.I am VERY competitive. VERY VERY!!
I hate to lose!
kdiddy
Are any of you ADDrs or ADHDrrs hyper-competitive? Like get depressed if the Fortyniners loose in the playoffs? Or you just have to win? Or you just have to get to the next 100 posts? Or move up one page on the Memberlistpostsort?
Yes to all the above.
Hey, look what I found:
My Link
Davidornado38579.9757523148
Great link! 
Isn't the West Coast great. We have the message board now.
As to the sport question, no I'm not competitive.
The West Coast is Great, b/c the world's highest rate of
AD/HDrs live here. We'ev wandered our way impulsively West, until we
ran out of West, and are piling up here, for a reason. So how do you figure we have the message board now? Is it cuz it is later in the night elsewhre, and they fell off? I'm about to fall off, myself.
How about you? I think the world is flat. When we get to the end of the day, we fall of it. Davidornado38580.1416898148
I am not competitive, not in the least. Because most things aren't worth competing for! I compete against myself (unfortunately, I often lose).
But not for long!
ЉёЊ ЋñЖЕ éБáї ПѓФҖҹThe first one to translate that gets the truck size Hershey bar. No fair--you KNOW I want that Hershey bar, Tony Orlando!
I'm not at all competitive. I'm a "win-win" kind of gal. I'm also much older (59) and ADD rather than AD(H)D.
I suspect competitivenss has a lot more to do with age and perhaps other personality characteristics than with either ADD or ADHD.
It seems that whenever there is pressure on, my mind comes alive and is at its most creative and capable.
Absolutely, BlueBird38! Whenever we'd get assigments in school that were due in 2 weeks it drove me nuts! It was so distracting to have that assigment dangling out there. So I'd push it out of my mind until the night before then stay up all night doing what was apparently a perfect job since every time I did this I'd get a standing ovation from the class. Until my As* is up against the wall I can't really perform to the best of my abilities. Wierd, huh?
For organization--use your positive reinforcement: Remember how much you liked waking up to a clean kitchen? Wasn't it so liberating & freeing to have all that time & space for something else? Well, even though it drives my family nuts, when I walk in the door at home each night--I must 1.) Distribute the mail 2.) Collect all car keys & cell phones & put them on the key hooks by the front door & plug in the phones to charge 3.) Put away my backpack/purse after clearing out anything I might need from it until I use it again the next day (alarm clock for sleeping in car at work during lunch), plastic containers from food I'd brought, Dr. Appointment Post-Its I'd jotted down during the day, etc. 4). Clear all dishes into dishwasher 5.) Set twins' clothes out for next day 6.) Organize their backpacks, sign homework logs, pack fruit snacks, etc.
Well, I think you get the picture--point is--I mentally & physically cannot relax or change out of my work clothes until I have a "Clear"/Clean path/field of vision about the house. It bothers me too much to try to sit back & relax when I KNOW I'm going to have to get up & get the trash cans out to the curb or finish folding the laundry that is visible outside of the dryer eventually so may as well DO IT NOW. It's like if I don't do these things NOW, the whole next morning could be ruined & I'd be in a crappy mood for the whole day if something was forgotten or I was late to work because I HAD to clean the house before I left. I hope some of this is helpful to you.
You also bring up another good point...it makes sense that being competitive stimulates the pleasure center of my brain. And I guess you were linking that to having a similar effect as smoking. Very interesting. Never thought of myself that way before because I don't drink, smoke, do thrillseeker stuff, etc., but I have my own version of it...just doing other things to excess.
Vedy Interdestink!
Thanks, BlueB,
BTW, the reference to the 'camel' was a Sopwith Camel that Snoopy flies. Not smokes. I don't think Snoopy smoked either. Except when his plane was going down. Then it was the plane that smoked, not him. I think Snoopy was ADHD, emphasis on the H. Koolkat.
Hey, I think I know why ADHHHDs are competitive: it release a little known chemical in the brain where it acts like a neurotransorgasmitter and it strokes our pleasure point portions of the brain pieces we're missing. Or something like that... I bet you that's why we 're combative, too.
And make good snoops.
Here, Snoopy, Snoopy! Come get your 'camel! I'm competitive if I think I can win. hee hee Otherwise, I don't bother trying.
Remember the games "Perfection" and "Operation?" WINNER HERE!!! I was GOOD! And...Monopoly..forget about it! If I thought I was winning, I would want to stay up all night to the bitter end to make sure I took all!!
My doctor said I am the type of person you would want to pass the ball to in the last 2 seconds of a game. I like that. But, it also means that I hyperfocus.
I always thought I would make an excellent detective...snoop, snoop, snoop--nose to the ground until I find and entrap the guilty party. Danger? All the better. :D
Actually, I used to do collections for a company that I managed. I would have to track people down and sometimes have them served for court. You cannot just rely on a deputy to find them if they are really hiding, so I did my own legwork. This was sometimes the best part...it was like telling a Beagle to "go find the Fox." Awooooo!!!! <baying all the way> I could be very creative about this sort of stuff. I'm good at acting, so I didn't have a problem "being in character" to do whatever it takes. As soon as I would locate them, I would call the sheriff to have them served immediately. It's a form of competition, I think..."can I find them before they can get away?" It definitely is something that woke my mind up.
Now I would rather use that natural motivation to help people...even thought I would enjoy an anti-terrorism type job.
It seems that whenever there is pressure on, my mind comes alive and is at its most creative and capable.
When I watched Seabiscuit, I thought "HE'S ADHD!" loL. They said he was lazy, etc. But, when they got him directed and handled by a good, kind handler, you could just watch him go and he'd leave everyone else in the dust. I feel like I'm the same way.
bbird
p.s. Terie Re: Organization
You inspired me! I love to be organized, but when mine builds up, instead of taking care of it, I just sit there looking at it and not doing the things I need to be doing because I can't get started until things are clean either. Horrible loop I get into. I have wasted SOO much time.
I'm cleaning my kitchen before I go to bed tonight. Keep posting about organization. I need more, more, more.
One thing I do now, and it was painful to get used to, but now I love it. I do my dishes as soon as I'm finished cooking or eating. It's like I have a fairy godmother..."Who DID all those dishes??" Oh, it was me...hee hee. I LOVE when I wake up and my dishes are clean. LOVE IT!
bbird.
Well I would say they all apply except Organized. I don't think a person who is organized has AD(H)D, or maybe my med. dose is just too low (?). And quick to respond is just for the Ad'ers with the (H). In fact a lot of what you listed terrie, describes the (H) part.
And Mr. Orlando, Ornaldo, Onaldo, whatever, sorry.......I said I don't think age matters as far as how competitive a person is, unless your say over 90.
bepatient38587.4597337963You're right--Hyperfocus provides the lion's share of the positive traits, i agree. I guess organization is a compulsion I require in order to keep my sanity & for me to function. I don't care how hygienic/clean my house is but everything must absolutely be in its place in order for me to deal. Otherwise it is a distraction & nothing can come before the disorder is rectified.Terrie,
If you have any pointers, please share! I am so unorganized that I get to the point of being overwhelmed! And it's hard then for me to plan and think about starting something new because I feel so bogged down!
[QUOTE=adhdeaf]I don't think age matters.. my daughter and I are highly competitive and we both have ADHD (hyperactive) Might be based on which type of ADHD?? (e.g. inattentive, hyperactive, both..)??[/QUOTE][QUOTE=DAVIDORNADO]Well, I'd have to say hyperactivelly inattentive. Something along the lines of classic inattentive, like Christopher Robert. Actually, I don't really think he was ADHD ADDerall, rather schyztophrenic... I think Triggr (the phrenic part), the white rabbit (the schizm part), the pink pig (anxiety), and the blue donkey (depressive) were all figlets of his imagination, and poo was left from behind...[/QUOTE]...tut, tut... it looks like rain.
I'll highlight my experiences in blue. Imagine that.
Maybe this will explain what type I am.
A Typing, by ADviHDornor
Better yet, let me sum up.
Classic Inattentive Over-focused Temporal Lobe Ring of Fire ADD
Inattentive,
distractible, disorganized,
hyperactive, restless,
impulsive, Inattentive, disorganized, trouble shifting attention, frequently stuck
in loops of thoughts (rarely negative), occasionally obsessive, always
oppositional, argumentative, often irritable, aggressive, mood labiality, very
impulsive, break rules, fight, be defiant, very disobedient, Inattentive, chronic, feelings, Inattentive,
extremely distractible, occasionally angry, irritable, extremely overly
sensitive to the environment, hyperverbal, extremely oppositional.
Whoa, Doggies!
Doesn't that sound like the sound of your father coming, after you left
behind a little figlet or your imagination?
I'm gonna get that Classic Inattentive
Over-focused Temporal Lobe Ring of Fire ADD kid!
Instead, how about:
1.) Organized
2.) Creative
3.) Highly-productive
4.) Enthusiastic
5.) Impulsive-to-Fun
6.) Energetic
7.) Calorie-burning
8.) Relentless
9.) Quick to respond
1O.) Pays strict attention to detail
What's wrong with this list Mr.Ornado ?
Gosh, I hope this helps . . . for me, like I said, it's a compulsion: I know if something's out of place it & I can see it, it will bother me. So let's say it's something large, something I can't afford to finish right now, like all the laundry--I have to get that out of my line of sight. I'm a highly visual person--so that means enough laundry hampers to hide the waiting to be done laundry until I choose to make time for it. If I can see it, it will bug me. Everything must have a place. I love lists, to-do & so forth, but I know once you start making them there can be no end. I just love the satisfaction of crossing something off once it's done--like I have proof of my accomplishment. As if the visual neatness or completion of task alone is not sufficient. The list reminds me that I finished it--even if it already needs to be done again--and that gives me validation. It makes me proud to have finished. These are feelings I like to reinforce because they make me feel good and they make me feel productive, which I suppose probably makes me feel important & useful--I'm guessing those are important validations for me & I need to give them to myself, not wait for someone else to--I know that's selfish & impatient--but I have all those qualities, too. I understand a lot of ADDers have difficulty completing a task without starting another & another. My mom is like that. Perhaps that is what inspires me to finish. It's too distracting if it's not done, and to me it's embarassing if you say you're going to do this or start a new business & people ask you how it's going and you never finished/accomplished any of it/them. So when you tell someone about something new, they mentally discount what you're saying automatically because you seem like a flake/talker--not a do-er. So--I'm guessing now--if you're in the middle of a messy house with kids, etc., my first move would be pick one room & don't leave it (so you're not distracted by what's in another) & at least make piles of what goes in other rooms. Make things FEEL/LOOK organized so you can allow your mind/eyes to do something else--other task, make kids' lunch, etc. That is what works for me. But I admit, when I come home from work at night it takes me a good 2 hours to get everything done, in its place, ready for the next day--packing backpacks, signing homework, clothes to wear, etc. I'm not sure what you need specifically, but (big surprise) I'm always full of suggestions, so let me know. Thx!
[QUOTE=sachetm]I'm not at all competitive. I'm a "win-win" kind of gal. I'm also much older (59) and ADD rather than AD(H)D.
I suspect competitivenss has a lot more to do with
age and perhaps other personality characteristics than with either ADD
or ADHD.[/QUOTE]
You may be right. I wonder if anyone's counted up the pole? KIK.
Now look, you drew Attention to yourself... I thought you were Attention Deficit.. Why AD(H)D.? Doesn't that take a lot of energy to type? Why not jsut ADHD? I strangle myself everytime I type AD/HD, just so I'm not leaving out the ADDrs. I'd rather just type ADrs, 'zuc that's common in all of us'ns, right?
Yo, beP,
Fast? Taht's fast? I and change the color 2 blue, 2.
Naw, that's how I type. My fingers fall where they may, like my mouth likes to have it's own say...
So you're saying when the (H) in AD(H)D is (H), (surrounded) that's to mean hyper-focusing? Oh, darn. Another inclusion. From now on I'm goin' ADr, and that'll mean EVERYONE! I bake my noodle trying to type things that are not letters, like numbers and punctuation. Periods are easy, though. Except when it's my wifes... and now my daughter's, too...
BTW, I'm a classic, like Christopher Robert. Actually, I don't really think he was ADHD ADDerall, rather schyztophrenic... I think Triggr (the phrenic part), the white rabbit, the pink pig, and the blue donkey were all figlets of his imagination, and poo was left from behind...
...tut, tut...
Davidornado38586.9999537037[QUOTE=bepatient]I'm ADHD and ADD, combined type, you know, the pooh/tigger combo. I envision it really as a chicken running around with it's head cut off.[/QUOTE]
Hey, you know what? I think I saw you crossing the road! Now why did you go and do that?
[QUOTE=bepatient]I don' t think it has to do with age.[/QUOTE]
Pardon my AD, but what doesn't have to do with age?
I don't think age matters.. my daughter and I are highly competitive and we both have ADHD (hyperactive)
Might be based on which type of ADHD?? (e.g. inattentive, hyperactive, both..)??
I don' t think it has to do with age. I think it is the H in the AD(H)D. The hyper- focusing part.
I'm ADHD and ADD, combined type, you know, the pooh/tigger combo. I invision it really as a chicken running around with it's head cut off. How do you type that fast?
...the shorter portion of a figment that an ADr is able to retain and act upon...
Yes, I am very competitive, A LOT!! I have been most of my life. I get so pissed when I lose that I have to get calmed down.I'm always trying 10x harder then anyone around me to outbeat them in something. I also have the "H" aspect of the AD(H)D in me as well. So its interesting that its common among us hyperACTIVEs!!!
Katie
I-Just-Got-Fired LOL !!! That will wrench a smile into my face for a good portion of this day. Thank you. Extra blessings & all that.
I WOULD like a truckload of Ceviche & Gazpacho--with prawns, avocado & sour cream, though. In case you happen to have any of that on hand . . .
That was a quickie...
LOL! Nah, not really. It's always an extended honeymoon talking to you
. What can I say--I'm an addict to anything & everything I guess. I don't like to stop or change . . . well, anyway. I've had an overload of coffee & thermogenic pills are probably really confusing the issue of the Adderall. I've gone awry! Anyway, not sure what to tell him--hopefully he will direct.Watch the caffeine on stims. I overdosed on caffeine yesterday, and my BP freaked at 164/106. Today's it back to below normal, 118/70. Haven't had a drop of caffeine (that I know of).
Chillin'.
Good luck with your doctor. Maybe you're dose isn't high enough?
Didn't you indicate it was 15mg? Was that per day, or 3x per day?
Most likely. definitely too short to be waiting around for my first pseudo-therapy session. What will Dr. say when i relay to him that my initial feel-good period of Adderall seems to be over with?
1.) Over-Achiever
2.) Junkie
3.) In need of lots of attention
4.) Trouble-maker
5.) Problem-finder
6.) Ne'er do well
Uno. Doc said. Maybe increase. Problem is, I started taking these stupid thermogenic pills the day before i started the Adderall & I have to admit I liked the effect of the therms but now I don't know what I was feeling, so i have a another feeling that Doc will say stop thermos & anyway, I'll have to. I have no idea what the heck I've done to my body, but I will cut out the caffeine per your suggestion. Thx! I may not even have gotten on the plane to go to my honeymoon yet, huh?
Naw, it was supposed to be the luv boat...Somaybe y'ain't started yet... :)
Maybe. I'm starving for food, right now.Yeah, that's where I just got back from. Had beans and rice and watermelon. With cheese. And lemonade. [QUOTE=terrie]Instead, how about:
1.) Organized
2.) Creative
3.) Highly-productive
4.) Enthusiastic
5.) Impulsive-to-Fun
6.) Energetic
7.) Calorie-burning
8.) Relentless
9.) Quick to respond
1O.) Pays strict attention to detail
What's wrong with this list Mr.Ornado ?[/QUOTE]
'Sup, terrieTourney!
I give up, what?
1.) Organized
2.) Creative
3.) Highly-productive
4.) Enthusiastic
5.) Impulsive-to-Fun
6.) Energetic
7.) Calorie-burning
8.) Relentless
9.) Quick to respond
1O.) Pays strict attention to detail
What's wrong with this list Mr.Ornado ?[/QUOTE]
I'm gonna get that Classic Inattentive
Over-focused Temporal Lobe Ring of Fire ADD kid!
 Ha! I sure hope so, otherwise I'd have to end it all right now. I have 2 more hours to go until I see my new Psych for the first time for him to monitor me on my AdderallXR. It's driving me nuts to wait around with nothing to do.
Let's see if we'd make good twins.
[QUOTE=terrie]Instead, how about:
1.) Organized disorganized, overly sensitive to the environment
2.) Creative , break rules, disobedient
3.) Highly-productive aggressive, obsessive
4.) Enthusiastic hyperverbal, argumentative, defiant
5.) Impulsive-to-Fun impulsive, oppositional
6.) Energetic hyperactive, fighter
7.) Calorie-burning , restless, mood labiality
8.) Relentless obsessive, hyper-focus
9.) Quick to respond, irritable
1O.) Pays strict attention to detail Inattentive, distractible,
What's wrong with this list Mr.Ornado ?[/QUOTE]
So what do you think, is this a good match?
1.) Organized
2.) Creative
3.) Highly-productive
4.) Enthusiastic
5.) Impulsive-to-Fun
6.) Energetic
7.) Calorie-burning
8.) Relentless
9.) Quick to respond
1O.) Pays strict attention to detail
What's wrong with this list Mr.Ornado ?[/QUOTE]
Hey, I think I figured out what's wrong with your list! Is it too short?
It's funny. I am NEVER competitive at work (I wonder why? I'm sure I could use some competitiveness there - any ideas?)
In social settings - ALWAYS though, games or against myself - somebody stop me! I'll do anything to win and everyone thinks I'm crazy.
Also, I do really well in personal goals / projects. I can focus, plan, execute - I'm perfect.
When it comes to work - it's like I used up all the good skills for the personal life. No organization, planning, everything done at the last time, procrastinate...
Any explanation for this?
lack of motivation or reward? You'd think the motivation would be to keep the job. That has worked to an extent. Need to find more motivation factors I guess..... [QUOTE=brig]i have all of my llife been a competitor...i get the same addrenaline rush thaat you would if you just went bungy jumping. i hate to lose. especially if someone tells me i cant. by the way that really pisses me off so i make sure i can do it or i make sure i win[/QUOTE]
Hey brig,
You CAN'T do THAT!
 [QUOTE=slimacik]You'd think the motivation would be to keep the job. That has worked to an extent. Need to find more motivation factors I guess.....[/QUOTE]
Hey Slim,
Okay, so if that's not moti enough, how a/b money?
Wear clothes? That's a good motivation.
Drive a car? Feed kids? EAt food? Pay rent/mort? These are pretty practical.
Here's some that hurt: Are you just lazy!? Are you an idiot??? Something's wrong with you!!! Didn't they teach you that in school? Enuf there. I scared my elf... .... .... see him run .... .... .. .
Here's how they should work: My, Lin, you are so brilliant! Can you help me design a program to help your poor little elf get caught up? Or, my personal favorite: You are so creative! Let's fix it even if it ain't broke! Or, here's one for you to fill in the blank: Oh, I'm so ADD, I feel better if I can do it this way ____________ ).
 auntie --- you are funny! i hadn't even noticed.
well, i am NOT competitive at all. i often deliberately lose a game if i feel
someone will get upset by not winning. particularly if playing with men
and a game like chess where if they don't win for some reason they will
inisist on playing you again and again until 3am or something! and i
don't care who wins or loses... so i worked that out pretty early on.
i like games and i like playing them and i am somewhat cheaty --- if i get
to a point where i can see that i can get them into checkmate in a few
moves i will deliberately make a stupid move and then let the game
progress until they win. that's the easiest.
having said that, i love playing with people who love to play but enjoy
losing as much as winning. my old flatmate in London was fantastic, she
loved card and board games and she would get so over-excited, shouting
(but in fun) and cursing if she lost but never genuinely upset. it was great
to play her --- because either way it was fun. i love playing children (my
neices and nephews particularly) because they LOVE to win so much.... i
was playing a stupid card game with my neice and she won nine times in
a row and she was tearing around the house ----- i beat aunty christine
NINE TIMES!!!!!!! it was such fun.
i particularly like playing checkers (is that what you call it here - a game
on a chess board where you can jump the pieces) because you can set it
up so well so that the child can jump maybe four pieces at once and
maybe become a queen in the process!!!!! it's so cool.
i am the least competitive person i know. i like to be challenged but i
really don't care about the result as long as it was a good game.
perhaps the only thing that brings out any competitiveness in me is if i
think someone is being deliberately nasty --- then i feel like 'right, you
little ******* i'll get you for that'. and i will take time to think about it
and plot my perfect revenge - the ones i like best are where it seems
accidental and they can't be sure that you did it on purpose.
the sort of thing that if someone is being rude or obnoxious on the
subway next to you and there is a jolt in the train you make sure to kick
him hard on the shins and then go 'oh i'm so terribly sorry - these train-
tracks, just dreadful!" etc. etc.[QUOTE=Auntie][QUOTE=Davidornado]
Hey Fallen,
Where do you play the blues? I've been draggin my sorry ess to a blues group every Thursday, a Ron Thompson. Last Saturday Mike Piazza was in town and met a lot of my friends there. Never been into blues b4, but it's a unique scene.
If I only had a brain! I stumbled into (litteraly, he fell into me) my ex-brother in law there and he was introducing me to some fine ladies, and one was rustling around my purse and said, ohooh! Are those condoms? And I said, no! Why would I carry those? She turned cold and said "you don't use condoms?". I said no, why would I? She said cuz it's dangerous! And I said what kinda wOman are you (with echoes of Brookelea's sugar plums dancing in my head - don't fornicate - it's still adultery)? I finally caught on and LMAO and said, sorry, I don't do that! And she goes "are you gay"? . And I go no, I"m involuntarily celibate. She wanted to defrock me after that. So that's my blue story.
It's a different world there. I prefer spanish dance, but now I like the blues.
[/QUOTE]
Ya know what I got outta all that...you carry a purse???
[/QUOTE]
Yeah! An' I let a w0man go through it...
Naw, I'm not gay, I'm just an irrespective apolitical trouble maker. But my boyfriend is...
I'ts a "rescue belt" or an "instructor's belt". Properly attached and latched, I can rapel with it. I'ts a 2 inch wide ballistic nylon peace officer / EMT belt, with special ADDons I designed from my ADDulterations.
Oh, ALL RISE!
It's a coping mech... 2 cell phones, 2 knives, 2 wallets, one notebook (EMP proof) one Palm, 1 passport (issued in Costa Rica), 2 computer flash drives, one Sony memory stick (total: 2 gb: my memory aids/hiv), 2 flashlights, (I'm famous: SureFire published a story of mine in Jan 05), two sets of keys (one active, one as backup), a first aid kit, rubber gloves, a pair of scissors, no condoms, handy butt wipes, a laser pointer, a PMS device (when I've a target lock on threat warning), an extra pair of readers, a 3 day supply of drugs, a (sniff) coke kit, two pens in 5 pouches.
NOW, wasn't it easier to say purse, and everybody except you understood? Hey, do w0men carry that much? I didn't include tampons, but I do carry Kotex. They're great bloodstoppers...
Sorry, didn't mean to be mean...
[QUOTE=terrie]Brig & davidO: I just got unbusy & now I have to leave work. Here's what my eldest twin asked me last night:
Q: Why did Piglet look in the toilet?
Why, Zoie? I asked.
A: He was looking for Pooh!
Zoie then falls on the ground in hysterics & laughs so hard she starts choking.
Have a fun night, you guys . . . maybe if I can distract my husband from World of WarCraft long enough I can join in the twilight fun! Otherwise, see you tomorrow when everyone's in bed & I'm at my desk. Ciao for now!
[/QUOTE]
terrie that is too funny....whats even funnier is she new it would crack you up too. thanks for that i needed it
i don't carry that much that's useful - no flashlights or anything (i have torely on a man being in the near vicinity)
my 'handbag' as i call it ---- is filled with loads of rubbish that is patently
useless - old receipts/bits of scribbled on paper, whose only purpose in
life it seems is to hide credit cards/car park tickets and anything else that
might be needed at any given time.
how a few bits of paper can be so extremely effective at hiding keys/
cards/dollars/pens/phones is one of those mysteries of science like why
the washing machine eats socks etc. etc.
i can never find anything in my handbag --- i often wonder why i bother
with it at all.[QUOTE=terrie]
Brig & davidO: I just got unbusy & now I have to leave work. Here's what my eldest twin asked me last night:
Q: Why did Piglet look in the toilet?
Why, Zoie? I asked.
A: He was looking for Pooh!
Zoie then falls on the ground in hysterics & laughs so hard she starts choking.
Have a fun night, you guys . . . maybe if I can distract my husband from World of WarCraft long enough I can join in the twilight fun! Otherwise, see you tomorrow when everyone's in bed & I'm at my desk. Ciao for now!
[/QUOTE]
kids are hillarious! very smart to think of that ....isnt it crazy with the things they say and come up with? too funny...
[QUOTE=chjones]i don't carry that much that's useful - no flashlights or anything (i have to
rely on a man being in the near vicinity)
my 'handbag' as i call it ---- is filled with loads of rubbish that is patently
useless - old receipts/bits of scribbled on paper, whose only purpose in
life it seems is to hide credit cards/car park tickets and anything else that
might be needed at any given time.
how a few bits of paper can be so extremely effective at hiding keys/
cards/dollars/pens/phones is one of those mysteries of science like why
the washing machine eats socks etc. etc.
i can never find anything in my handbag --- i often wonder why i bother
with it at all.[/QUOTE]
its the washing machine that eats sock? i just thought there was a crazy sock monster that was hungry...lol
i don't carry a purse. i can't even find money in my pockets when i need it. or anything else. even when it's there.
funny how things disappear when you look for them and then reappear when you don't need them.
i still can't find a can of deodorant i used 3 wks. ago. i looked everywhere, incl. the fridge. fortunately, i keep spares of just about everything. it wasn't in any of my pockets either.
[QUOTE=seeker63]i don't carry a purse. i can't even find money in my pockets when i need it. or anything else. even when it's there.
funny how things disappear when you look for them and then reappear when you don't need them.
i still can't find a can of deodorant i used 3 wks. ago. i looked everywhere, incl. the fridge. fortunately, i keep spares of just about everything. it wasn't in any of my pockets either.
[/QUOTE]
seeker, i think it is an adhd....i also have to keep spares of everything around the house as i cant ever find it....then i give up and ask my hubby to and he finds it in 5 seconds. pisses me off especially since he knows i am ready to pull my hair out. i put my purse in the fridge b4 and the gallon of milk in the cupboard and the bag of groceries where i keep my purse. i just chalked it off to a bad moment. lol
its definitely the washing machine --- its a well documented fact.and scientifically proven by the fact that people who handwash never lose
their socks....
yup - that's up there with quantum physics, testing the great minds daily
as they scrub around looking for the other half to the pair.
yup - that's up there with quantum physics, testing the great minds daily
as they scrub around looking for the other half to the pair.
yep i have done that. but never find the other pair...lol
[QUOTE=brig]yup - that's up there with quantum physics, testing the great minds daily
as they scrub around looking for the other half to the pair.
yep i have done that. but never find the other pair...lol
[/QUOTE]
Never mind the other pair, I never pair the other mind...
[QUOTE=Davidornado][QUOTE=brig]yup - that's up there with quantum physics, testing the great minds daily
as they scrub around looking for the other half to the pair.
yep i have done that. but never find the other pair...lol
[/QUOTE]
Never mind the other pair, I never pair the other mind...
[/QUOTE]
do you mean you just forget the other pair and go out and buy new? that is what i do i buy everyone here new socks at least once a month
perhaps you could buy david a new mind (or me for that matter) when welose ours aswell as some socks once a month!
that would be handy - or is that what the meds are for?????or while brig's purse is out, contribute to the save brookelea foundation.. solely dedicated to keeping brookelea in the gluttony lifestyle she so enjoys.. i have all of my llife been a competitor...i get the same addrenaline rush thaat you would if you just went bungy jumping. i hate to lose. especially if someone tells me i cant. by the way that really pisses me off so i make sure i can do it or i make sure i winWhereas I don't think I'm more competitive than the average (whatever "average" is)....I do have a question to pose....my 16 year-old son has been diagnosed as extremely OCD. It has become the joke that I'm the only one that will play Monopoly with him (and I haven't in about a year) because he won't let you have the dice until you agree to sell him Park Place or two of my green properties. The games sits STILL until you make the deal...and he will cheat! Which is pretty easy since he insists on being the banker everytime. My husband, who is FAD (Focused Attention Disorder) read my post regarding my son and monopoly.....he said I failed to "ask the question...." My question was has anyone else dealt with this type of competitiveness?????I will not play RISK for the same reason. A good friend betrayed me 8 years ago, and I've never played again. He ceased to be a friend, too.
[QUOTE=chjones]perhaps you could buy david a new mind (or me for that matter) when we
lose ours aswell as some socks once a month!
that would be handy - or is that what the meds are for?????[/QUOTE]
that is what the meds are for...but what the hell do i no as i am a new found member of the adder club..
[QUOTE=Brookelea]or while brig's purse is out, contribute to the save brookelea foundation.. solely dedicated to keeping brookelea in the gluttony lifestyle she so enjoys.. [/QUOTE]
dont worry brookelea, brig's purse has everything in it except money.....lol
spend to much on my kids
[QUOTE=Auntie][QUOTE=Davidornado]Hey Fallen,
Where do you play the blues? I've been draggin my sorry ess to a blues group every Thursday, a Ron Thompson. Last Saturday Mike Piazza was in town and met a lot of my friends there. Never been into blues b4, but it's a unique scene.
If I only had a brain! I stumbled into (litteraly, he fell into me) my ex-brother in law there and he was introducing me to some fine ladies, and one was rustling around my purse and said, ohooh! Are those condoms? And I said, no! Why would I carry those? She turned cold and said "you don't use condoms?". I said no, why would I? She said cuz it's dangerous! And I said what kinda wOman are you (with echoes of Brookelea's sugar plums dancing in my head - don't fornicate - it's still adultery)? I finally caught on and LMAO and said, sorry, I don't do that! And she goes "are you gay"? . And I go no, I"m involuntarily celibate. She wanted to defrock me after that. So that's my blue story.
It's a different world there. I prefer spanish dance, but now I like the blues.
[/QUOTE]
Ya know what I got outta all that...you carry a purse???
[/QUOTE] Now Auntie, I know you said you wanted a side-kick that doesn't carry a purse, right? Am I in? DavidO'Bacon & his Man-Purse will be fine." . . . Yeah! An' I let a w0man go through it..."--davidO'bacon: You sound just like my husband! Oh, wait, you are one of my husbands . . .
B-Lea: Anytime for the funnies--like I said, I'm full of it. There's nice "unrepostable" one on the Voodoo Lounge as of about 1/2 an hour ago . . . something about a 9O year-old woman's . . . ?
[QUOTE=terrie]" . . . Yeah! An' I let a w0man go through it..."--davidO'bacon: You sound just like my husband! Oh, wait, you are one of my husbands . . .
[/QUOTE]
In my dreams!
Hey, when'dya switch to blue? My FaVe...
[QUOTE=terrie]B-Lea: Anytime for the funnies--like I said, I'm full of it. There's nice "unrepostable" one on the Voodoo Lounge as of about 1/2 an hour ago . . . something about a 9O year-old woman's . . . ?
B-Lea: Anytime for the funnies--like I said, I'm full of it. There's nice "unrepostable" one on the Voodoo Lounge as of about 1/2 an hour ago . . . something about a 9O year-old woman's . . . ? How do you know it was a woman? Well, that depends...
[/QUOTE]And PSA (PS Again?): No carrying purses!!! I refuse to be so girly--looking like one is bad enough! There's nothing like walking down the street with just you & your buttermilk biscuits, especially when they're more like Otis Spunkmeyer's Muffins. No carrying ANYTHING!!! I can't be bothered to remember to pick it up after I set it down on a shelf in CostCo or some other remote location.
How To Not Carry Anything Check List:
No carrying:
Cell phones: Way too bulky for pocket plus I hate talking on the phone; leave in the car where no one can reach you.
Umbrellas: No need for a bath/shampoo later!
Tupperware from Lunch: Discard immediately--ewww, stinky!
Jackets: Restricts motion & prohibits arm flailing during frustration. Donate to someone needier by "accidentally" leaving in a shopping cart or in front of the Safeway.
Children: Use a dog collar & leash--my dad did--we got to pick out our own! If you're a real stickler, use one of those Baby Necklaces.
Just attach wallet to key ring & go! (Shoes/Flip-flops suggested Jan-March). You'll feel liberated in no time!
My Helpful Hardback edition out this fall. . .
[QUOTE=Davidornado][QUOTE=terrie]" . . . Yeah! An' I let a w0man go through it..."--davidO'bacon: You sound just like my husband! Oh, wait, you are one of my husbands . . .
[/QUOTE]
I didn't/don't know how (to switch)--you(-r font hue) just rubbed off on me!
In my dreams!
Hey, when'dya switch to blue? My FaVe...
[/QUOTE]davidOBakey: Not to say that you made me blue; like I inadequately posted above, you just rubbed off on me (or would that be on me?)
Will this meet your approval?
I can be competitive if the topic is right. I always feel that I know what I know, ya know? I guess that makes me more of a know-it-all than a bona fide competitor.[QUOTE=Brookelea]terrie, whats the voodoo lounge?? [/QUOTE]
Yesterday's Topic "Voodoo" Thread, where Lilith
, Medea
, Medusa
& Persephone were neglected . . . :http://www.adhdnews.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=11183& ;TPN=21
I was teling david-O-bacon to go there & have a drinkie-poo!
but you are right, shame on neglecting the others.. i was thinking of persephone too but just couldn't find anyone to fit her image..
Tell me--I just love her name--what was her image? I totally cannot recall & since I use her name for a password I should at least do her the honor of pretending to remember . . . Persephone is the goddess of the underworld in Greek mythology. She is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, goddess of the harvest. Persephone was such a beautiful young woman that everyone loved her, even Hades wanted her for himself. One day, when she was collecting flowers on the plain of Enna, the earth suddenly opened and Hades rose up from the gap and abducted her. None but Zeus, and the all-seeing sun, Helios, had noticed it.
Broken-hearted, Demeter wandered the earth, looking for her daughter
until Helios revealed what had happened. Demeter was so angry that she
withdrew herself in loneliness, and the earth ceased to be fertile.
Knowing this could not continue much longer, Zeus sent Hermes
down to Hades to make him release Persephone. Hades grudgingly agreed,
but before she went back he gave Persephone a pomegranate (or the seeds
of a pomegranate, according to some sources). When she later ate of it,
it bound her to underworld forever and she had to stay there one-third
of the year. The other months she stayed with her mother. When
Persephone was in Hades, Demeter refused to let anything grow and
winter began. This myth is a symbol of the budding and dying of nature.
In the Eleusinian mysteries, this happening was celebrated in honor of Demeter and Persephone, who was known in this cult as Kore.
The Romans called her Proserpine.
Her names means something like "she who destroys the light."
http://www.pantheon.org/articles/p/persephone.html
thats where the article in the above post is from ..
Bless you , my child! You are too cool--thx! I can definitely relate with getting in trouble for eating something. I even have childhood shame from it & weight was never even an issue. Poor Persephone.
you should of chosen aphrodite then.. much cooler, and much nastier
I'll have to refresh my myth-memory. Wishing you sooper-stawberries!danke terri..
[QUOTE=terrie]
davidOBakey: Not to say that you made me blue; like I inadequately posted above, you just rubbed off on me (or would that be on me?)
[/QUOTE]
Or the wrong way?
Never wrong.
especially when you don't like to lose, that way you're the only one who ever knows
The English Teacher in me is Emerging . . . With Her RULER to smack knuckles--oh, wait that was the nun from Catechism encouraging me not to talk to my cousin because he was a boy . . .
Competitive. Competitive! CompetItive!
Okay, English Nun Teacher is going home now--see you all Monday . . .
Never wrong.
What wrong?
 [QUOTE=mullaru]
This is the most random thread ever... I was trying to look at the adult ADD stuff, and I may have found something I can always look back on to chuckle about...
(I'm 17) At least I know I won't loose that randomness that I, my parents, and my friends find so interesting!
[/QUOTE]What randomness?
 [QUOTE=terrie]
I feel like I'm ANYTHING but random.
Let's see if I can step on toes/pulverize soles: I get a penny for every time people spell the active verb form of the word "loss" "l-o-o-s-e", yes BaconOrn-Eggo?
Apparently, I need something to do . . . like one of those Blue Queensland Heeler Dogs that if you don't give them a flock of sheep or toddlers to herd they go to town on doing a really good Bad Job on chewing up your sectional.
[/QUOTE]I represent that!
Leggo-my-Eggo!
[QUOTE=mullaru]what is this smiley for? was it in a smiley fist fight?
Just to say something about competativeness. I'm sort of competative, just with myself. Although, sometimes when other people call me dumb or lazy, I get really angry and competative with them.
[/QUOTE]Hey Mull!
I'm competative with myself, too!
And I always win!
 [QUOTE=terrie]
The English Teacher in me is Emerging . . . With Her RULER to smack knuckles--oh, wait that was the nun from Catechism encouraging me not to talk to my cousin because he was a boy . . .
Competitive. Competitive! CompetItive!
Okay, English Nun Teacher is going home now--see you all Monday . . .
OH! I GEt it!!!
Cometitive:
Compete, I Live!!!
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This is the most random thread ever... I was trying to look at the adult ADD stuff, and I may have found something I can always look back on to chuckle about...
(I'm 17) At least I know I won't loose that randomness that I, my parents, and my friends find so interesting!
I feel like I'm ANYTHING but random.
Let's see if I can step on toes/pulverize soles: I get a penny for every time people spell the active verb form of the word "loss" "l-o-o-s-e", yes BaconOrn-Eggo?
Apparently, I need something to do . . . like one of those Blue Queensland Heeler Dogs that if you don't give them a flock of sheep or toddlers to herd they go to town on doing a really good Bad Job on chewing up your sectional.
what is this smiley for? was it in a smiley fist fight?
Just to say something about competativeness. I'm sort of competative, just with myself. Although, sometimes when other people call me dumb or lazy, I get really angry and competative with them.
Yeah, but then you always win, and no one knows...And what I like about winning are the parties afterward...
let's just have the parties instead?
read "this" by davidornadog??
all the past works are relevant to our society, our society just isn't relevant to us
Like concerts loud music
dashing and dancing,
prancing and vixens,
omits and stupids,
dawners & Blitzing.
he gave Persephone a pomegranate.....
hey Brooklea - i remember reading that story as a child but the
version we got was that Zeus told Demeter that he could have
Persephone back as long as she had not eaten any food in the
underworld.... but she had eaten six pomegranate seeds which
meant that she had to stay in the underworld for six months of
the year.....
it's interesting how the myths vary from place to place. i guess
it is a little like chinese whispers they just get changed slightly
with every re-telling. yours makes more sense cos winter isn't
exactly six months i suppose, far more like three.
have you ever read Ovid's Metamorphoses ---- i think they are
great and Ted Hughes (a British poet) did an amazing updated
version of them which i think is cracking.... if you are interested
in that sort of stuff.
every time i think of the amount of literature we lost from ancient
greece with the destruction of the alexandrian library it makes
me want to cry...... all that knowledge and wisdom!!!!ah yes chjones.. the burning of the great alexandria library.. still brings tears to my eyes..
another thing that brings tears to my eyes is my current state government's changes to the english curriculum - strip books!! only read 1 book for the year 12 certificate.. and naturally strip all classics..
ovid's work - have read!! haven't read ted hughes' version though.. must put that on the 'must read' list..
oh do! i am such a fan of ted hughes (despite all feminists
apparently hating him cos of sylvia plath) --- another great
work of his which slightly covers his relationship with sylvia
plath albeit in an unobvious way is his Birthday Letters -
cracking.
i don't read a lot of poetry either just a few grab my interest:
Shakespeare, Donne, Wordsworth (cheesy i know but for some
reason i do like him and Frost from US - i like the whole
delighting-in-nature thing i guess) and surprisingly Ted Hughes
despite his very modern style an' all.
i never got into Byron or Yeats but perhaps i should revisit ---
sometimes one's taste can alter radically and what seemed
impenetrable and alienating previously suddenly becomes
entirely relevant and makes perfect sense in ones life at that
time! who knows?
strip comics!!!! i think they were banned when i was at school.
hahahaha how time changes - i love being an old fart! i can't
wait till i am seventy and yakking on about how you could get a
whole meal and a pint for under a tenner in my day!!!
it does seem a shame though for people not to be introduced to
some of the great thinkers through literature at school......
even if they are too immature to enjoy it or it is not the best
environment (i still can't stand 12th night only because we had
to study it for my O'levels and we massacred it just by having to
learn it by rote --- oooh, malevolio!!!! you are sick of self-
luuuurve)
but if you know it exists you can go back to it later ---- and there
are so many people who began a life-long love of literature etc.
through being introduced to it by their school.
well, i guess we missed a lot too. they studied all the ancient
greek texts when my father was in school - he can still read and
write in ancient greek and latin whereas i have to read in
translation - which i guess he would consider a shame for me.
there is so much more today that is relevant - with computer
technology an all i guess it is hard to fit everything in. i am just
a dinosaur..... read 'the clouds' by aristophanes??
all the past works are relevant to our society, our society just isn't relevant to us
Davido >
How about this one ' you stupid moron ' .
I used to use that on myself, until I realized it was
an oxymoron.
FYI: I was. Were you?
Hey, and leach some of those ideas to me, eh? hehe
You'll leave me speechless, otherwise. Or unwise...
[QUOTE=Davidornado]Hey Fallen,
Where do you play the blues? I've been draggin my sorry ess to a blues group every Thursday, a Ron Thompson. Last Saturday Mike Piazza was in town and met a lot of my friends there. Never been into blues b4, but it's a unique scene.
If I only had a brain! I stumbled into (litteraly, he fell into me) my ex-brother in law there and he was introducing me to some fine ladies, and one was rustling around my purse and said, ohooh! Are those condoms? And I said, no! Why would I carry those? She turned cold and said "you don't use condoms?". I said no, why would I? She said cuz it's dangerous! And I said what kinda wOman are you (with echoes of Brookelea's sugar plums dancing in my head - don't fornicate - it's still adultery)? I finally caught on and LMAO and said, sorry, I don't do that! And she goes "are you gay"? . And I go no, I"m involuntarily celibate. She wanted to defrock me after that. So that's my blue story.
It's a different world there. I prefer spanish dance, but now I like the blues.
[/QUOTE]
Ya know what I got outta all that...you carry a purse???
Youngest twin, Sarah, this morning:
Q: What do you do when your nose goes on strike?
What, Sarah?
A: Picket!
. . . A thicket of her imagination, davidO? Are you awake, yet?
Hey terrie! Where y'all been? For the rest of my life? Hey, can you tell seeker I can't, b/c I can't seeker63. How did you ever read heirm?
i have the tendency to be competitive, but in most things you have to stay on track and be focused against people who are good at that sort of thing.
i gave up trying to be a 'winner'.
however, if there is a disagreement i'm part of, then i am a badger. i get my teeth into an argument and do not let go. at that point my would-be opponent is well-advised to relent or suffer my sharp little teeth until they 'get the point' !
seeker--don't you dare! Never give up trying to be a winner! You probably already are & just don't recognize or acknowledge your own success. You're probably an overachiever like I. To me, sometimes just being "right" is being a winner. I'd be willing to bet you are just a very modest person with a ferocious loyalty to those you love--am I right?I too am very very competitive, with others and with myself. If I don't get an A in one of my college courses, I get very upset with myself or I think the teacher is a jerk.uhhhh, pardon my naivitiegh, but what are chinos? what are bras? what are condos? Things you live in?
terrie, here's where I got stuck last night
http://www.adhdnews.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=11080& PN=1&TPN=3
Why not just wear a condom on the outside of your chinos & save yourself the trouble? I wear my bra on the outside. Extra support. It looks like one of those Sun Shade Shields you put in the windshield of your car![QUOTE=terrie]Why not just wear a condom on the outside of your chinos & save yourself the trouble? I wear my bra on the outside. Extra support. It looks like one of those Sun Shade Shields you put in the windshield of your car![/QUOTE]
sorry terrie but that had my laughing....thanks for the laugh by the way
Any time--I'm full of 'em. I mean, it.Hey Fallen,
Where do you play the blues? I've been draggin my sorry ess to a blues group every Thursday, a Ron Thompson. Last Saturday Mike Piazza was in town and met a lot of my friends there. Never been into blues b4, but it's a unique scene.
If I only had a brain! I stumbled into (litteraly, he fell into me) my ex-brother in law there and he was introducing me to some fine ladies, and one was rustling around my purse and said, ohooh! Are those condoms? And I said, no! Why would I carry those? She turned cold and said "you don't use condoms?". I said no, why would I? She said cuz it's dangerous! And I said what kinda wOman are you (with echoes of Brookelea's sugar plums dancing in my head - don't fornicate - it's still adultery)? I finally caught on and LMAO and said, sorry, I don't do that! And she goes "are you gay"? . And I go no, I"m involuntarily celibate. She wanted to defrock me after that. So that's my blue story.
It's a different world there. I prefer spanish dance, but now I like the blues.
I can't play anything musicial, but I've had dreams where I was playing some Wicked JAZZ organ ! Man, I was GOOD.
Now if I had just recorded it. HA HA
[QUOTE=Brookelea]what happened brig?? [/QUOTE] i got hit by one of daves land mines....lolhey, he likes to play dont you david honey.......wanna play now or later.
brig, you are a saint
saint bridget....thats me...lol
i try, but you help me alot..thanks. we are both saints
[QUOTE=Davidornado]hey! how come I wasn't invited! Sorry i missed the party. I was planting land mines somewhere...[/QUOTE]
i think i just got hit by one
I dont find Im competitive with anyone, but I am driven to be the best - on a personal level.
I generally go into something with the idea of becoming the best at something I can, that generally means aiming for perfection and never reaching it.
In some things thats great: Im a great prowrestler/manager, Im rapidly learning skydiving skills. I start mechanics school this evening so I can learn how to rebuild a car.
In some things its bad. I went from being an excellent guitar player - 15 years of playing, the first 7 as a semi-pro and playing 10 hours a day. Now I can barely play because it's become so over-intellectualized that it's no longer natural for me. When I write music it's usually on a keyboard, simply because I dont know how to play the keyboard properly so the music flows without me thinking about structure and technique. It sucks tho, I really miss playing guitar. Sometimes I play shows with my friends (we have a blues band that plays professionally a few times a year for certain clients), and instead of it being an easy and fun time it's always depressing because Im not GREAT!
The weirdest thing about that is the fact that I can, and have, totally blown certain spots in wrestling matches and it doesnt bother me. I hit one wrong note when I [play guitar and it'll spin me into depression for a few days.
I wonder why I can approach everything else in my life with a beginners mind but expect perfection with music - it's not that i'm even a great musician, just a guy with some talent who's a great guitarist when he relaxes.
It does spark something else though. I recently took a flight course with Scott Miller. In the course you do 4 parachute jumps. He tracks your progress and videos everything you do for review later.
Jump 1: almost perfect landing. Scott liked it. I critiqued it by saying I put my foot out of place by about 6".
Jump 2: not quite so perfect landing, Scott critiqued it, I hated it.
Jump 3 and 4: just crash landed. Nothing injurious but it just got worse and worse.
The irony is that since my first jumps I have been able to land perfectly every time EXCEPT if someones asked me to do something, at which point my intellect takes over and screws up my natural abilities. Not that it takes away from it all being fun. As my therapist says: we just have to shut my damn brain down occasionally.
hey! how come I wasn't invited! Sorry i missed the party. I was planting land mines somewhere...I often woke up kicking myself as the awesome music I'd written while asleep evaporated the moment I woke up. At least I got one or two decent songs out of it. [QUOTE=Davidornado]
uhhhh, pardon my naivitiegh, but what are chinos? what are bras? what are condos? Things you live in?
terrie, here's where I got stuck last night
http://www.adhdnews.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=11080& PN=1&TPN=3
[/QUOTE]
David.
she said condoms not condos.....
Terrie: keep em coming i like the laughs
[QUOTE=Davidornado]Hey Fallen,
Where do you play the blues? I've been draggin my sorry ess to a blues group every Thursday, a Ron Thompson. Last Saturday Mike Piazza was in town and met a lot of my friends there. Never been into blues b4, but it's a unique scene.
[/QUOTE]North and South shore of Massachusetts. Usually a handful of shows a year. I'm not much of a blues scenester myself. Musically I tend to play rock, but have played pretty much everything over the years (I spooked myself and realized I've been playing for almost 20 years now). I like this band because we never rehearse, we show up one evening at some function (usually run by a motorcycle club of some renown) and play for 4 hours and sound insanely good (since everyone else in the band has been playing for at least 20 years as pro or semi pro).
stupid moron isn't an oxymoron - clever moron would be or clever david, or witty david, or sweet david
i'm only kidding!!!
competitive - i am, child is not.. i think adhders need to be competitive if they want to survive in this world.. if not, the south of france is another attractive option..
u r correct, I bow to your wisdom.wisdom pilgrim?? naa, i've just been hanging out with dear david too long, his wisdom has rubbed off on me
That was awfully nice of you, Mrs. Brookelea!I'm absolutely unsure how that could have not happened.
I'll turn a blind eye on that, unless it was a deliberate mistake.
If you're doubting believer's, I've got some diet ice cream that'll make you feel numb.
Well, I'm drawing a blank here, as your droning silence reminds me of my domestic bliss.
This dry humor reminds me of some dull acupunturists who skied on dry snow while their friendly attorneys ambiguously declared to expect the unexpected as the dull roar of the steamrolling avalanche reminded the (as they lay gasping for oxy) morons that dying is a part of life...
I see! Said the blind man, to the deaf man.
[QUOTE=Brookelea]stupid moron isn't an oxymoron - clever moron would be or clever david, or witty david, or sweet david
i'm only kidding!!!
competitive - i am, child is not.. i think adhders need to be competitive if they want to survive in this world.. if not, the south of france is another attractive option..
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Sounds like you're trying to cover something, here, Brook! What'd ya do now? You used bad grammar, teacher. Should read "competitive - i am "a" child"...
Hey, and what's with ADers and hot climates? CHILL OUT!!!
no, read the comma.. grammar is fine!! read the pause.. golly gosh, what is it with americans and pronunciation??are you telling me to chill out?? watch yourself old man!! you don't want to mess with the alpha adhder!!
[QUOTE=Davidornado] [QUOTE=brig]i have all of my llife been a competitor...i get the same addrenaline rush thaat you would if you just went bungy jumping. i hate to lose. especially if someone tells me i cant. by the way that really pisses me off so i make sure i can do it or i make sure i win[/QUOTE]
Hey brig,
You CAN'T do THAT!
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watch me smart ass....lol i did you didnt i.......
brig, seriously we can beat the old man by just spelling correctlywe don't even need to think about it!!
[QUOTE=Brookelea]brig, seriously we can beat the old man by just spelling correctly
we don't even need to think about it!!
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yeah, but when i am on my night meds i dont spell too good either and then he would get me good.
i could beat him by cutting him off during the honeymoon....ok i wouldnt beable to do that but i would think of something great. we could team up on him.. tag teaam..he he
watch out dave here we come.
brig, as bad as you think you may spell when you are on your night meds, at least you are coherent.. i can understand it!! much more than what i can say about 'you know who'!!
i'm sorry davidornado.. i didn't realise that you would be so upset.. i was only joking..david you rock!!
david you rock!!
la la la la di di da
david you rock!!
old man? what ol' dude?
ADDerall, I only see ADDrs round here
an' yule beet me? yule and who's mother of all armies?
david dearest, good boy!! i'm glad that you are back and not so hurt with me anymore.. i will be more aware of your feelings.. i loved it!! it didn't make socrates look weak but instead presented him as strong and in control of his fate..davieboy's anthology of poetry - they would institute all adhders after it was published!! it would be a 'oh no, look dear, another adhder!! lets stone her!!'
oh cool --- i'm gonna read it again. it's been a while.
i'm currently reading a collection of essays by george orwell.. i think he may of been borderline adhd as well
all the best people are!without a doubt
and without a doubt, they have all gone through what we are going through..
i think its so inspirational..
i tell my daughter all the time how blessed she is to be an adhder.. she feels special now
you should publish a book, davido... why not? the ADDers poetry
anthology. that'd show 'em and given that there are a fair few of us,
could be quite successful why not, eh?
yeah, Brooklea i read the clouds but i think i was so in love with Socrates
at the time i read it that i slightly took offence by its Socrates bashing so i
can't remember thinking that many good things about it. but i'll have to
read it again - i was going through a fairly 'precious' stage at that point in
my life....??????? oh dear.
what did you think? it was quite funny as i remember too.
big kiss to all
[QUOTE=chjones]you should publish a book, davido... why not? the ADDers poetry
anthology. that'd show 'em and given that there are a fair few of us,
could be quite successful why not, eh?
yeah, Brooklea i read the clouds but i think i was so in love with Socrates
at the time i read it that i slightly took offence by its Socrates bashing so i
can't remember thinking that many good things about it. but i'll have to
read it again - i was going through a fairly 'precious' stage at that point in
my life....??????? oh dear.
what did you think? it was quite funny as i remember too.
big kiss to all [/QUOTE]
Hey, didn't you know? I publish books like I read them: 10 at a time, and never finish!
See! I told ya so! ADDers ARE competitive!''Workers with ADD need to be challenged or feel competitive,'' Dodson generalized. ``They like the new, the novel, the fleeting. They need ADD-friendly jobs -- not accounting.''
Very good. Keep it up. I think music is good for the soul. It can cause a reaction in my head where it sends me into catatonia. Drifting the Riff...
Brig & davidO: I just got unbusy & now I have to leave work. Here's what my eldest twin asked me last night:
Q: Why did Piglet look in the toilet?
Why, Zoie? I asked.
A: He was looking for Pooh!
Zoie then falls on the ground in hysterics & laughs so hard she starts choking.
Have a fun night, you guys . . . maybe if I can distract my husband from World of WarCraft long enough I can join in the twilight fun! Otherwise, see you tomorrow when everyone's in bed & I'm at my desk. Ciao for now!
That was a figlet of her imagination![QUOTE=sabina]why compete with other people? seems more natural to compete w/yourself
especially when you don't like to lose, that way you're the only one who ever knows
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I agree!