OK to help get this thread back on track:

Add IS having fun cleaning the garage when you know an asteroid is coming to destroy the earth....because you forgot the asteroid is coming and for once remembered to clean the dang garage!

yeah, and ADD is also cleaning the garage, whether or not you forgot about the meteor, and only getting to work stopping it 20 seconds before it's going to hit. But we do get the b******, even if we beat ourselves up for how close to disaster we have to be to act...

Substitute anything with a deadline for the meteor, and anything else for the garage, and that's every day of my life. Even with Adderall.

Oh, well. Maybe it's an attitude thing.

I would agree with you on that Stabile! I think it an ADDitude thing! I always say that I do my best work under pressure. Because I've always waited till the last minute to get the job done and it usually ends up better than they asked for!

"Too many tools...not enough time!" LOL
I have to agree with that ...my wife always seems to have some type of remodelling project going for me..as a matter of fact I plan on trying to finish one some day...anyway, I can't say how many times I have spent hours looking for a tool..I can actually picture it in my mind (having seen it when I was looking for some other lost tool) before giving up and just going out and buying another one. I have about 5 hammers, 3 caulking guns and who knows how many razor knives. Then I come home from buying one and it takes a few minutes to remember what I needed it for any way.
I have plans on one day rounding up all the tools I own and putting them all in the same place. huh...maybe tomorrow ;)
I think I could fill a large binder with these ADDisms...lol

I'm impressed that you're organized enough to put them in a binder. LOL! ;)

ADD is having a stack of school-related papers taller than the child they relate to, and never having the time to file them all.

Just had another one last week..I was going to a Soccer board meeting and had something in the back of my truck that needed to be taken into the meeting. I got the paackage out and while I was walking toward the building was looking for my keys..put the package down and looked in the back of the truck...hmmm, no keys there...looked to see if I left them in the ignition..hey, there they were and even better, the truck was still running...geez

See the doc wednesday for my first attempt at ADHD meds...still not sure what to try but I definately need to try something ;)


Of all the things I've lost....I miss my mind the most..

http://www.addforums.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=29969#post29969

hmmm, a dangerous pattern is beginning to be established....

again with the garage door, this time i was parked under the garage door (but hadn't pulled all the way in), so, half-in and half-out of the garage.

i went inside, did some stuff, went back out an hour or so later, hopped in the car and closed the garage door ... but, i hadn't backed out yet!!! :rolleyes:

the kids were quite concerned about the noise, and, if the car was damaged. i reassured them that the car was fine because the last time it happened, the car was fine... :o

thank goodness for the safety mechanism that reverses the direction of the door when it hits something!

Now this didn't happen to me personally, but to a family friend who could have been the ADD poster child.

My friend had a souped up Toyota Landcruiser with the lift kit and Corvette engine in it etc. He was off roading and had come upon a tree limb blocking the trail. He stopped the vehicle and jumped out to move the limb. As he was standing out front, the 'Cruiser lurched forward and ran him over. Had he not been a BIIIIG man, he might not have survived. Had he put the thing in park and/or shut the engine off he could have avoided the whole thing to begin with.

Believe me people, I saw the bruises left by the tires across his back. He had a fleet of guardian angels for this was not the first time ADD nearly killed him. :)

PershingD

Well, this was in no way life threatening but . . .

I was recently diagnosed with ADHD and went to the library and took out like 5 books on the subject.

Then I read through them and returned them . . . . 6 days late! :rolleyes:

Wonder if the librarian saw the connection? ;)

hehe! Kimo! Late fees are too a big part of my life!




ADD is also...............


Joining online writing communities, and being the only one not who is not picky about grammar, spelling, nor syntax.

My most recent ADD moment happened last Saturday. The family and I went to the library and decided to get my brakes fixed the same day. Well, when we got the car back Doug asked for the key's and I told him I don't have them and rolled my eyes. So, he goes back inside and him and the man who fixed my brakes tear the shop apart looking for my key's, they come out to the car and start tearing everything in it apart looking for the stupid keys. Then very lightly I feel a tap at my hand and look down there's my Lexi with a "big ol naughty my momma's a dumb
*** smile on her face" pointing at the key's I've been holding the whole entire time. EEEEKKK!!!!!!!!!! Luckily, Doug forgave me for rolling my eyes after I bought him a big steak for supper lol.

ADD is.... well.... I had something to say but by the time I pressed the reply button....it was gone!:bowl:

lol!

I hate it when that happen's.

Originally posted by Nucking_Futs
I hate it when that happen's.

When what happens? :D

*shakes head and laughs* Your bad!!!!!!! lol

I seem to be really slipping up lately. I just got a disconnect notice for the gas company and a repossesion notice for my car. Turn's out I mailed the car payment to the gas company and the gas payment to the car company. Luckily, they were really understanding and actually found it funny. I'm sure in my next lifetime when I got all my duck's in a row I'll find mix ups like that hillarious...But, then they'll be happening to other people and not me.*rolls eyes*

Nucking,

In my next lifetime, I want to be rich so I can pay someone to be organized for me. As for the ducks, feeding them at the pond is way easier than trying to get them in a row, :)

I hear that...I'm just cranky today is all I got way too much sleep last night.

Originally posted by Nucking_Futs
I seem to be really slipping up lately. I just got a disconnect notice for the gas company and a repossesion notice for my car. Turn's out I mailed the car payment to the gas company and the gas payment to the car company. Luckily, they were really understanding and actually found it funny. I'm sure in my next lifetime when I got all my duck's in a row I'll find mix ups like that hillarious...But, then they'll be happening to other people and not me.*rolls eyes*

Online payments!

My wife got a job and turned the bills over to me. (I was working part time so I had the time). So, in order to keep track of them better I made everyone of them an online payment if that option was available. Most of them allow you to send alert emails. So I get the emails and pay the bills.
The ones that I don't care about viewing the statement every month I set to bill to a credit card 2 days before the bill is due. So it automatically pays the bill and I send that money to the credit card company.
ALL credit card companies have email alerts now. Heaven forbid you should not remember to send your payment to the almighty credit card company.......

Try the online thing.

Also, if you want to refinance your car at a lower interest rate (depending on what rate you have) try peoplefirst.com.
I've been using them for 5 years and they are great! They even give you a 1/4 point lower interest rate for doing auto debit from your checking account to pay the payment.

ADD is procrastinating going to the pharmacy for a month (for natural helpers) getting there and forgetting why I am there, leaving and going back to the pharmacy and forgetting the name of the herb I am looking for.
Looking for the expert pharmacist and forgetting his name and trying to describe at least whom I am looking while being p.c.
Comming back home and not finding where I wrote the name of the herbs.

Originally posted by tryn-optmsm
ADD is procrastinating going to the pharmacy for a month (for natural helpers) getting there and forgetting why I am there, leaving and going back to the pharmacy and forgetting the name of the herb I am looking for.
Looking for the expert pharmacist and forgetting his name and trying to describe at least whom I am looking while being p.c.
Comming back home and not finding where I wrote the name of the herbs.
you need an 8.5 x 11" dry erase board hung up in your kitchen!
I have used this to save myself exactly what you posted!

Good thought but I highly doubt it will help at the pharmacy or grocery store. I believe I'll tie a rope to it and hang it around my neck so the next time I go to the grocery store for milk I won't be coming home with ice cream.

ADD is....

...missing an appointment with the psych because you forgot about it -- only an hour after you had last reminded yourself

...knowing you bought bananas, tear the kitchen apart looking for them and then discover that they're still in the grocery bags -- which are sitting in the living room where you left them two days ago after going to the grocery store.

Note: Its a terrifying moment to realize that you have lost bananas somewhere in your house and cannot locate them.

Note: Its a terrifying moment to realize that you have lost bananas somewhere in your house and cannot locate them

I can certainly understand this one. Two years ago on Easter it was raining ( I don't mean your nice spring rain--I mean torrent's of water pouring down on you). Anyway's we had invited both our children's classmates over for an Easter egg hunt and party. So, there we are deciding whether or not we're going to waste 20 dozen colored eggs and other party favors or just have the party inside. Well, being a true ADD'er I WANTED to have the party darn it I planned it and was ready for once I'm having the darn party.

So, we make maps of everywere we hid the eggs. I mean detailed maps--two eggs behind the t.v., 3 eggs behing the love seat and so forth.

Well, the party was a huge success and after everyone went home my husband and I decided to make sure all the eggs had been found. Well, I kind of forgot to count how many eggs had been collected so the search for my trusty map began. The map was never found but ummm all the eggs have been found.:sad: There hard to miss after a few weeks.

Oh, I have SO been there done that... I hope you don't mind me quoting you for my signature...

The other night I was going downtown to meet my friend and her mother at a little theater to see an opera. I got my directions from the website and took off. I parked my car in the parking garage across the street from the theater and waited out front for them. I couldn't believe I was the first one there. I waited....and waited....and waited. About 15 minutes went by and my cellphone rang:
"Where are you?"
"I'm standing in front of the theater"
"So are we. I don't see you"
"Well, the security guard said that there are 3 different entrances so maybe we're at different ones"
"Theres only 1 entrance to this theater"

Finally, I looked at the sign to the theater and realized I was at the wrong theater. The security guard told me the theater I wanted was a block and a half down the street. So I walked in my heels to the theater and met up with everyone just in time for the opera to start.

After the opera, we went seperate ways to our car. When I walked the 2 blocks to the parking garage, I saw that it was all dark and the gate was locked. I saw the sign inside that said it closed at 9PM. It was now 10:45PM. GREAT!! So I dialed my friends cellphone but since we just came from the opera, she still had it on "silent" mode. I walked to a nearby hotel and grabbed a cab. $35 later, I was at home. I still had to figure out how I was going to get to work the next day and pick up my car without having to pay another $35. That sucked big-time.

I ended up (the next morning) walking 2 miles to the light-rail station and taking it to the parking garage. I had to pay $8 to get my car out (they said they were going to tow my car soon) and drove to work.

I swear, sometimes I don't even know how I function. At least, I take all of this in stride. Before I knew I had ADD, I would have been so angry at myself for being such an idiot. Now, I just sort of laugh and focus on how to fix my mess in the least stressful way possible and realize that this won't be the last time something like this happens to me.

Hey Z (love both your beautiful name and your "bananas" quote) -

At least you GOT the bags home from the grocery store. Ask me where mine still are.

As a public service, I need to tell you that potatoes can raise a mighty stink too, especially if they accidentally get stuck in the wrong box while you're packing to move, and they go down into the basement, and you have an open floor plan so that the stench can gently waft up the stairwell and drive you nuts. :o

ADD is not putting your trash out the night before (as your linear spouse would have done if he were home), but telling yourself that since the trash truck never arrives before noon anyway, you can do it in the morning. ADD is deciding to hop on the net for a minute before taking the cans out. And ADD is knowing and saying a lot of curse words two minutes later, as the trash truck drives right by your house! :mad:

Ya know I'm feeling pretty lucky that Doug hasn't left home anywere near trash day because I'm pretty sure I would be in the same boat.

And then, ADD is also .... having the reality sink in, hours later, that all of the neighbors' trash cans are still out .... hopefully putting your own cans out too .... joyfully watching the trash get picked up .... and then, feeling silly for jumping to conclusions, convincing yourself that you just displayed great cognitive flexibility! :rolleyes:

I forget to take trash down all the time. I put a reminder in my now defunct PDA, and while that worked well enough, the wife was always sure I'd forget to do it coming back from the second job, and I'd get home and it was done already. Of course, I could simply have run them down that morning but, it seemed to me, to make more sense to move the event foward a matter of six hours rather than back 24.... In anycase, without the little reminders, I only remember when it occurs to me that "Hey, it's Thursday! I better get the trash barrels down tonight." I'm rarely more than briefly aware of what day it is. I can usually figure it out if asked, or it comes up in paperwork or the like, but it's a momentary awareness.

I'm convinced that the former owners of our house had undiagnosed ADHD. The neighbors tell us that they used to put their trash can out several days ahead of time, but it had no lid, and they didn't bag their trash, so trash would be blowing all over the neighborhood. By comparison, we look really good. :D

Well, there's your silver lining. The people that used to live in my house were.... Destructive. We've done a lot of work fixing things.

ADD is... being unable to chew my son out for losing his Gameboy at the park, because my watch went missing there on the same trip... :( :( :(

Originally posted by waywardclam
ADD is... being unable to chew my son out for losing his Gameboy at the park, because my watch went missing there on the same trip... :( :( :(

I hear ya.. halfway to a soccer tourney my daughter realized she had forgotton her soccer spikes. What could I say..lol..there was a Nike outlet within 15 mins of the tourney so I just went straight there, no scolding from me. My wife, on the otherhand(who is perfect ..ask her) was not so understanding...:( and my daughter got a little of what I get from her most every time I forget something.

Love the Benjamin Franklin tactic, I will have to use that.

Regarding the online payment idea, Citibank has free billpay through their free checking account, which I believe will write a paper check automatically and send it to whoever you designate, and will also send emails or even text messages to your cell phone a day or two previous to the due date, will warn you likewise if you don't have enough funds to cover upcoming payments, etc.

Way cool. Now all I have to do is pay off the credit line that went to collection in order to get that account... sigh. Typical ADD catch 22.

Some others;

I need to be medicated to remember to take my medication

I need a job with health insurance to get diagnosed to get the medication that will enable me to concentrate enough to get (and keep) the job with health insurance...

My medical benefits kicked in about an hour and a half ago, my first doctor's appointment to get diagnosed is next week, so life is getting better...

I think Westcom credit union has the free billpay thing too, but without the text message warnings.

Ohhh, here's another one.

Finally made it to my seventh doctor's appointment (missed the first six because I forgot about them). Was five minutes late (no problem there at least, they keep you waiting a minimum of half an hour anyways) and then sat BORED TO TEARS in the waiting room panicking every time someone's name was called, POSITIVE that when they called mine I was going to be spaced out and miss it, causing me to have to schedule another half a dozen Dr.'s appointments in order to make it to just one more.

Finally get into the Dr.'s to be referred to the ADD specialist... find out he has a six month waiting list. He will contact me. *sigh*

Get outside the clinic, only to realize he has no WAY of contacting me. I forgot to leave my phone number. *grrrrrrrrr*

ADD is:
Running around the house for 10 minutes, looking for a pencil, only to realize that I've been holding one the whole time.
Making macaroni and cheese, adding the milk, cheese, and butter...BEFORE draining the macaroni.

ADD is: Skipping immediately to the 20th page of the thread.

Missing a doctor's appointment for a Rx refill because you can't find your insurance card after arriving 15 mins late.

Leaving your trash bag by the door so you don't forget to take it out, and walking right past it in the morning.

Seems like the only non-Add moments I have are when I am sleeping. My latest was about 20 minutes ago when I tried to log in. After using the wrong pass word for the right forum, then hitting the "forgot my pass word botton" I went to eat. Only after I finished eating and in mid conversation with resident male partner I remember my pass word. He's telling me about tractors and I'm mumbling about forums. He thinks I am nuts.

Speeking of trash left by the front door, every time I leave it there I fall over it and then say" who put this here" only to remember I did.

Oh and does anyone know why the have a next post botton at the bottom of the last post. When I clicked it I was told there were no more post? :bowl: Tammy

It's there just to mess with you.

I'm particularly proud of one answer I gave today to the psych interviewer;

When asked "Do you see things that others don't see?"

I said; "I see things that are really stupid that other people seem to accept as perfectly reasonable..."

^ Amen to that, brother!:D

Here's mine:

I wanted to know the exact mileage from the interstate exit to my street so I could explain it to friends trying to find my house. I would set my tripometer on my truck while leaving the highway but then would forget all about re-checking the mileage when I got home 5 minutes later. This actually went on for months! I even wrote myself notes on post-its and stuck them on my instrument panel to remind myself but a day or so later I would find the note and curse myself. I never actually found out what the mileage was....and now I've moved.

I know you have all heard this from ADHD women, but I swear, it really does happen to the best of us. I actually tucked my dress in my pantyhose and went to work like that. I really thought I was the only one in the World that it happened too. Then I met all of you wonderful folks! :)

I walked into work...said hi to everybody lined up at the cash office. Of course there was a line. When I passed the secretary, she told me her husband said I had nice legs. I was flattered!

Then she informed me to untuck my dress from my pantyhose before I go out to the floor.

My gosh...I was sooo humiliated. I was a young 19 and I was still getting over high school. It was before my diagnoses at 30. I thought I was gorgeous and I felt really good that morning. Of course my self-esteem plummeted....again. I took it really hard.

I thought, "Well yes, it figures. It WOULD of course happen to me. I am always the victim of Lucille Ball moments."

There are many more unfortunate ADHD events, but that one was classic.

Ever exited a public bathroom with the toliet paper "following you" as it is tucked inside the top of your pants ??? Embarsing!!!! Funny if it would have happened to some one else... funny 10 years later when writting about it in the past tense....

I have also worn my uniform pants to work inside out and backwards. It was lunch time before I noticed, and only because I was looking for my money.. I figured out something was amiss when I couldn't find my pockets!!!

Tammy

LOL my mother always said it was good luck if you wore your shirt inside out by accident. Might explain why I have always been so lucky at card games. :D :D :D

Will getting toliet paper stuck in a shirt that is inside out double your luck,(or just the bra size) might be worth the embarassment!!

I entered Ft. Wood earlier this summer, and one of the things we have to do is show picture ID. I handed the MP my mother(she was w/ me) and I's drivers licenses. When he handed them back I just popped one in my wallet and handed the other to my mom. About 2 weeks later I pulled my driver license out to find I had my mother's. Neither one of us noticed the error. Any one want to argue about ADD not having a genetic component?

ADD is galavanting about on the internet for the past two days at work, knowing full well I have stuff to do.

Or all night, knowing damn well you have to work in the morning. :sheepish look:

You realize you keep interrupting....
YOURSELF.

(meds have run out...)

1. You MUST have your cd's in order....not alphabetical, but some sort of bizare order that makes sense to NO ONE but yourself.

2. You MUST have a GPS system in the car, because you don't believe the car's own readings.

3. It takes 4 or 5 trips to even leave the house. First time, you forgot your phone, second, your wallet, third, you set down your keys to get a drink, 10 minutes later when you realized "Oh s*it, I'm trying to leave" then it takes you 10 MORE minutes to find the keys, which were probably in your pocket anyways.

4. Your bouncing leg bothers everyone but you.

5. You make lists for everything....the problem is not losing them!

Would these be considered "ADD Moments" ? (I'm still on denial that I'm ADD)

1. Cutting your fingernails and forgetting 1 of the 10 so that just one nail is long.
2. Frantically looking through a pants' pocket for a paper and then realizing you wore a different pair the day before.
3. Having to make the number four with your fingers because by the time you walk inside the gas station you forgot what pump you are parked at.

How about:

1) Leaving little notes for yourself to remind you to make a drug log to take in to the shrink, then not being able to make sense of the little notes you've stuck everywhere!:confused:

2) remembering to DO the @%#% drug log, then promptly walk out of the door, get in the car, get 1/2 way to the doc and realize you've FORGOTTEN the stupid thing.

3) Returning home to get the drug log, then after walking back to the car, standing staring blanky at your vehicle because you realize you've left your purse w/ car keys in the house!

4) Going BACK into the house, getting the purse and the keys and the drug log, heading back to the doc's office only to find out your appointment is TOMORROW and not today.:mad:

5) Then somewhere between the car and the doc's office losing the drug log!! Swearing profusely, you arrive home to realize you left your HOUSE KEYS in the house when you went back for the *******' purse/car keys the last time.

6) Having to cut a screen, break a window and climb your big butt in through the window to get into the house to put an ice pack on your head and cry!:(

It's been a LOOOONG day and it's only 1345!!

Ouch - tough to top that one. Hope your day went better.

1. Earlier this summer, I set my cell phone on the hood of my truck and ran back in to get my meds and a Pepsi. Came out, jumped into the truck and took off to wherever it was I was going. After traveling 10 miles or so, I realized what I had done. I figured that it couldn't have stayed there past my driveway (war ravaged villages have smoother roads than my driveway). Came home a few hours later and searched for phone - no luck. Decided that it had stayed on past driveway and retraced my path so at least I could identify the remains. Drove slowly for 5 miles searching one side of the road, turned around, and started searching the other side. I gave up after 2 miles and just after I came back up to legal speed, something caught my eye. I slammed on the brakes and pulled quickly over to discover my phone, intact, and still working.

2. Posting this story while wondering the entire time if I haven't posted it once before while not being concerned enough to search the threads enough to find out.

Smiles!
David

ADD for me is:

Reading all these posts and laughing because it is my life.

Never doing anything right the first time.

ADD is forgetting to put the bananas in a banana split.
ADD is forgetting to put the hamburger meat in your hamburger.
ADD is making lists to "get organised" and lose the lists.

I was on the grade 9 basketball team and i was so hyperfocused on what my friend was trying to say about the upcomming game that i forgot to put on my basketball shorts. I didn't notice untill i was out of the change room and well on my way to the gym, had to walk through a small portion of the school in my boxers.

Chemicial Method --- that is not only an ADD moment is it another great moment in Brain Dead History!!! (lol) I have a personal history book of those!!!

<quote>I'm particularly proud of one answer I gave today to the psych interviewer;
When asked "Do you see things that others don't see?"
I said; "I see things that are really stupid that other people seem to accept as perfectly reasonable..."[/QUOTE]



Like the thunder storm warning that they call attention to with an annoying beep that the weather people insist on putting there AFTER IT HAS BEEN RAINING HEAVELY FOR OVER AN HOUR!! ..........or.........

The brail put on key pads on DRIVE THREW AMT's

Or......

After completing a food order at a fast food joint you say "and that will be all"

ONLY to be asked "will that be every thing?"......maybe it's

Cell phones can hold a million numbers, recieve and send text messaging, even access weather, and e-mail but SIMPLY REFUSE to work after being left in the rain, fall from pocket into toliet, or dropped into a large glass of tea!! Talk about messed up priorities!!!!

ADD is...what thread is this again? Wait what? Hold on....no seriously wait, what? Ok wait...what's going on? Ok wait I need to take five...

ADD is having a 2:05 flight and getting there at around 2:05 and being shocked that the flight has left!?

In the I'm particularly proud of one answer I gave today to the psych interviewer;
When asked "Do you see things that others don't see?"
I said; "I see things that are really stupid that other people seem to accept as perfectly reasonable..."

category;

Or the fact that the geniuses at the phone company can't seem to understand why it would be a good idea for fax machines to have their own area code so that people wouldn't get called repeatedly at 3am in the morning when some dumba** dials the wrong number into the fax machine...

or that there are a lot of people who use the earpiece/microphone with their celphones who would appreciate it a LOT if the BEEEEP!! that signals you may now leave a message were changed to something mellower and more pleasant and a little less eardrum splitting/brain hemorrhaging. What, has there been some ongoing problem with people in the middle of a hurricane not being able to leave messages because they couldn't hear the beep?

ADD is losing your cell phone and borrowing an aquaintance's to call your number and having your pocket light up and trying to act like that's what you wanted to happen...AWWW yes see my light isn't burned out yet. *blush*

... busting my a** to do everything possible to get to my neice's wedding on Saturday. Being almost sick for not being able to go, then calling my sister on Sunday to ask how the wedding was...

...her reply. I don't know, the wedding is NEXT Saturday!!!!

I am _SO_ thankful that I didn't just "give up" and buy an expensive plane ticket!!!!

:)

perlguy