A friend in Falmouth Mass sent this as a possible age-linked ADD example:

I decided to wash my car. As I start toward the garage,

I notice that there is mail on the hall table. I decide

to go through the mail before I wash the car. I lay my

car keys down on the table, put the junk mail in the

trash can under the table, and notice that the trash

can is full.


So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and

take out the trash first. But then I think, since I'm

going to be near the mailbox when I take out the trash

anyway, I may as well pay the bills first.


I take my checkbook off the table, and see that there

is only one check left. My extra checks are in my desk

in the study, so I go to my desk where I find the can

of Diet Pepsi that I had been drinking.


I'm going to look for my checks, but first I need to

push the diet Pepsi aside so that I don't knock

it over. I see that the Diet Pepsi is getting warm,

and I decide I should put it in the refrigerator to

keep it cold.


As I head toward the kitchen with the Diet Pepsi, a

vase of flowers on the counter catches my eye--they

need to be watered. I set the Diet Pepsi down on the counter,

and I discover my reading glasses that I've been searching for all

morning.


I decide I better put them back on my desk, but first

I'm going to water the flowers. I set the glasses back

down on the counter, fill a container with water and

suddenly I spot the TV remote. Someone left it on the

kitchen table. I realize that tonight when we go to

watch TV, we will be looking for the remote, but

nobody will remember that it's on the kitchen table,

so I decide to put it back in the den where it belongs,

but first I'll water the flowers.


I splash some water on the flowers, but most of it

spills on the floor. So, I set the remote back down on

the table, get some towels and wipe up the spill. Then

I head down the hall trying to remember what I was

planning to do.


At the end of the day: the car isn't washed, the bills

aren't paid, there is a warm can of Diet Pepsi is sitting

on the counter, the flowers aren't watered, there is

still only one check in my checkbook, I can't find the

remote, I can't find my glasses, and I don't remember

what I did with the car keys.


Then when I try to figure out why nothing got done today,

I'm really baffled because I know I was busy all day long,

and I'm really tired.


I realize this is a serious problem, and I'll try to get

some help for it, but first I'll check my e-mail.


Do me a favor, will you? Forward this message to everyone you know,

because I don't remember to whom it has been sent.

That was great, it was a good laugh and unsettleingly familiar.
I don't think that's a word. unsettleingly
you know what I mean though.

unsettleingly

my iespeller didn't balk at it so it must be a word

Yup unsettlingly familiar to me too! Thanks for sharing that with us:)

P.S. Falmouth, Mass., huh? Cape Cod -- one of the most beautiful places on this earth. :D