I've a funny picture for mind states of 2e-people:

It's like driving a Ferrari with insufficient brakes... It's really hard to regain courage to drive fullspeed, and it's really hard to learn to throttle early enough. Especially as the windows are often a bit... (dirty, because you never clean them :D:D:D ???)

hey, anyone else on the motorway, the kamikaze driver is coming.... :faint:

Or it's like being very hungry (you know you want to perform/ achieve and how to do that) but you can't eat, because you are imprisoned in your very body.

And sometimes I have the feeling I'm doing whitewater rafting AAAAAAAHHHH... can't steer my boat....

Little alien between frustration and laughter, me :eyebrow:

Kinda like not being in 'full control', huh, Pia...

"My brain is like a big-block hemi with transmission problems..."
-- aforceforgood

Like a Porsche, fast and powerful, but needs a lot of maintanance.

Crazy :cool:

nahh... a `56 Oldsmobile is what you want.. with a bumper like that you can hardly lose.... gangway!!!!

Me :D

:eyebrow: 1947 Knucklehead, if ya wanna be like that!

Crazy :cool:

I totally 'gityamind', HF. (0:

Both 'safe' from impact, LOL !

:D:D:D:D:D

or lots of "horsepower", but unfortunately going to all directions at once...

or- maybe most true- like a chained racing horse ... I want to run, but I'm chained by myself... something like that...


I'm happy I have some mental ressources, as I can compensate for some ADD problems...
On the other hand, giftedness is not only a "gift" one has for solving problems, like a tool, but also a need... Maslow said... together with the insatiability of ADD, the mind can become a hungry beast.

A hungry beast one cannot feed, because of ADD :faint:

And I'm a driver who has to handle
INTENSE emotions,
risk-seeking behaviour,
INCREDIBLE vulnerability,
a hungry mind,
too much stubbornness and willpower,
childish playfulness

with very limited energy ressources

in the middle of a huge chaos I just created

:faint::faint::faint::faint::faint:

The second law of thermodynamicy says, that the entropy (something like Chaos) in a closed system will always rise...:D

I'm an entropy catalyst... I can create chaos in one second without any effort and without meaning it...
:D:D:D

So. Enough venting. My brain, my Id and me will start to work now, I'll hand in my Thesis today (first time, raw version, but still...)

And of cause, I forgot some crossreferences and charts and quotes and and and... and the "aim" part is still missing AHHHHHHHH:eyebrow::eyebrow::eyebrow:

i was once told that a dyeaxila brain works 10thunds times better than norm but it has to work 9 thounds time harder todo the same things..> must be the same for the add type an sub type .........>two see all things at once its a great gift but sometimes it works agaisten us......with each step we go forwades into a brave new world dorm

I told my son that we're like Cyclops from X-men in the X-men 2 movie when his shades get knocked off causing him to lose control of his laser beam that shoots out of his eyes. I gave him the analogy of the glasses being our ritalin. He thought that was pretty cool.

Going back to car analogies.

It's being a manual in an automatic world and everyone wondering why you have to use your left foot so much.

or you've got it screaming at red-line, and ready to shift, and it's a very close, you're gonna win, you shift -
but the engine stalls cuz you're in the red, and you didn't make it...

... and you didn't make it...check again ... you did (you know) ...

s.

Love the avatar - kinda' reminds me of this guy ...
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/RIC/1500-14489%7EThe-Scream-Posters.jpg

:eyebrow: 1947 Knucklehead, if ya wanna be like that!

Crazy :cool:
Yep, and I am not leaking brain-fluid, I am just marking my territory...if I have to explain it, you wouldn't understand...if you can read this, I fell off...

that guys the scream<<by a viking guy lol dorm

wow - SB, I know that guy!!!

Quote: Originally Posted by Crazy~Feet
:eyebrow: 1947 Knucklehead, if ya wanna be like that!

Crazy :cool:


Yep, and I am not leaking brain-fluid, I am just marking my territory...if I have to explain it, you wouldn't understand...if you can read this, I fell off...



http://home.att.net/~knucklehead-47/

http://home.att.net/~knucklehead-47/knuckle2.jpg

http://www.vikingmc.org/images/events2.jpg Every fall in September we host our giant swap meet at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds, in the North Parking Lot. Make plans now to buy, sell or just browse. In any case, you'll have fun.

This is the closest I could get to a Viking, Dorm...
And I can't seem to get my harley on here....
I own Harley Davidson stock and it's been pretty good...

I own Harley Davidson stock and it's been pretty good...

Hmmm now if they would just put decent mufflers on those things we could all be happy!

I think I am not a car of any sort my mind feels more like a glider, that jumped off a high cliff. I see a lot of scenery but have a hard time figuring out exactly where to land this crazy thing. My mind is silent like a glider no one really knows it is there, nor are they aware of what I can see. I am not a quiet person but many aspects of my mind are hidden behind what is seen. My mind quietly glides my views which in turn affects my attitude, while making no actual noise in and of itself!

Hmmm now if they would just put decent mufflers on those things we could all be happy!
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y92/kzrainbow/icon_bbadmood.gif Oooooh what you said!

I think I am not a car of any sort my mind feels more like a glider, that jumped off a high cliff. I see a lot of scenery but have a hard time figuring out exactly where to land this crazy thing. My mind is silent like a glider no one really knows it is there, nor are they aware of what I can see. I am not a quiet person but many aspects of my mind are hidden behind what is seen. My mind quietly glides my views which in turn affects my attitude, while making no actual noise in and of itself!I like this image of you :).

Crazy :cool:

I like this image of you yes, very much so.

I told my son that we're like Cyclops from X-men in the X-men 2 movie when his shades get knocked off causing him to lose control of his laser beam that shoots out of his eyes. I gave him the analogy of the glasses being our ritalin. He thought that was pretty cool.
I love the analogy McGuffey. After watching the first two movies in the X-Men series, I really saw them as an analogy for people with ADD/ADHD, learning disabilities, and other hidden disabilities.

I know some days I feel a bit like a freak, especially when my non-ADD daughter gets embarrassed and just can't understand me. Being gifted, as so many of us are, it's another dimension to our differences. Knowing that both of these have a genetic basis, makes it easy for me to equate my ADHD and giftedness with being a mutant. At least I can hide some of my mutant qualities behind the persona of me as an artist-it is okay for artists to be a little bit wacky, spacey, disorganized, and were usually considered highly talented. But once I'm outside of that protective sphere so to speak, I do feel like an outsider.
Wouldn't it be cool to have a school for people like us? In fact, I think it's a secret dream I have way down deep.

I haven't seen the third episode of X-Men yet-am renting it this week-but the trailer presented the premise, if you have the option, would you give up your mutation to be normal? That made me think, would I give up being ADD, to be more accepted, fit into society, not feel like such a freak? I wouldn't want to give up the gifted. But then I have to ask the question, who or what would I be without my ADD?

So based on my avatar perhaps I'm an incredible X-woman.
Becky