Hey all, I'm a rare poster and more often lurker but I was wondering if I could get some help for a presentation I'm doing on Adult AD(H)D.

Basically I'm looking for some quotes describing what life is like when you have ADD, when you first got medication, how day to day activities are, etc. Specifically I'd like to hear those metaphors or descriptions that made you smile but really got at the heart of your experience.

I'll give everyone full credit for their comments. This is for a class presentation in my Developmental Counseing class. (I'm getting my Master's degree in Counseling).
If there's some sort of policy against this, let me know and I'll delete this, but I'm really just looking for some anecdotal comments that will help my non-ADD classmates understand how ADD brains/lives/relationships etc. work.

Thanks in advance!

Drole, I give you permission to read through my posts and use material. All I ask is a copy of your PowerPoint and an email attachment of any other materials you use. I am working on learning style, personality, and temperment research independently-I have an MSED in Workforce Education and Development. I am a teacher with ADD I would be glad to share my findings with you in exchange. I just have no mental strength to write the stuff again. I have two journals in the creative writing forum and as you can see, thousands of other posts. Just click on my name and then on see all posts or see all threads.

One last request, contact me about which ones you choose, I would like to OK them. So have several more than you might need. I would not want my name public and have a pen name you could use.

RADD-PM me too.

Drole, I give you permission to read through my posts and use material. All I ask is a copy of your PowerPoint and an email attachment of any other materials you use. I am working on learning style, personality, and temperment research independently-I have an MSED in Workforce Education and Development. I am a teacher with ADD I would be glad to share my findings with you in exchange. I just have no mental strength to write the stuff again. I have two journals in the creative writing forum and as you can see, thousands of other posts. Just click on my name and then on see all posts or see all threads.

One last request, contact me about which ones you choose, I would like to OK them. So have several more than you might need. I would not want my name public and have a pen name you could use.

RADD-PM me too.
Thanks! This is a very short, informal presentation (10 minutes or so) and is just a general sort of overview of Adult ADD. I just want to liven it up with some personal anecdotes! I'll ramble through your posts :D

No problem. Ramble at will, Warning, I get long winded sometimes! LOL Could it be the ADD?

My students tell me I am wacky and they never know what to expect (not with rules, but when teaching). I laugh and tell them that is exactly how I like it. It is so ADD too.

Having ADD and being a teacher offers me a wonderful opportunity to reach out to students who struggle. I accept no excuses and they usually understand! I will work with, accommodate, help, do whatever it takes but will not accept laziness-the real kind, attitude, excuses, and whining! Oh, they can tell me if I do any of those too. What is good for the goose.....

I finally remembered what I forgot only to forget what I just remembered -Tammy original just now made it up!

Drolefille,

Please make sure you credit the ADDForums as the source of your information.

Thanks, and good luck!

Drole, I give you permission to read through my posts and use material. All I ask is a copy of your PowerPoint and an email attachment of any other materials you use.

One last request, contact me about which ones you choose, I would like to OK them. So have several more than you might need. I would not want my name public and have a pen name you could use.

I will allow the same for your report, but must ask that you follow the same guidelines my pal RADD has outlined. I plan to finish my degree and practice as a therapist, and I would prefer that my material remain my own unless credited since I may possibly add it to professional journals at some later date. I would also prefer to keep my name private to differentiate between the person who seeks support at this forum and the person who provides therapy for others.

Yes yes, will do to all of you :) My intention was to quote people by username and to reference the site as one useful to those with ADD/parents of/S.O. of, etc.

How much I end up using will depend on whether I actually finish this in advance or do it all at the last minute :) I'll post a link to my presentation on here either way as I hope it will be a nice informational overview with a slight focus on developmental issues. I'm already cutting it back because our class ran over last week and people only took about 15 minutes so I want to be sure I hit the key points!

ADD = Boredom aversion

ADD directionally challenged = I can get lost without ever leaving my chair

My brain is a 7-lane highway during rush hour & there's no speed limit.

my favorite add quotes are:

"like having 100 pounds of stuff crammed into a 10 pund container"

"Like a file cabinet that was tipped over and just hurridly shoved back in"

"world's greatest starter, world's worse finisher"

"Always having to remember that you will forget to remember something that you know you will forget but need to remember"

I am currently doing BSc in Sociology and have studied many subjects in medical care and childhood and crime. I really want to finish my degree with a disertation on something to do with ADHD (I was diagnosed ADD a year ago) I would be very glad to answer/give any information on the subject, especially if it widens peoples understanding and informs those that don't understand. In the UK there is so much speculation and many don't believe it even exists. Please feel free to email me and I will be happy to help.

my signature, of course i didn't make it up...

Basically I'm looking for some quotes describing what life is like when you have ADD
A quick 20 minute bus ride can tire me out. :faint: :D Seriously! I would nap on the way to the subway. Once I got on the subway, another nap to my stop. On the way home, nap again and STILL be tired to go to bed!

Can't read books or novels. Again, the process would tire me out after a few pages. And as if I didn't already need help falling asleep on the bus, reading + bus ride = automatic nap. Unless we're talking about short magazine articles, which maybe I could keep awake for.

Focusing woud again exhaust me. It would literally take a mountain of effort just to sit down at my desk and focus long enough to understand what the paragraph was about, nevermind trying to retain it in my brain! At most, I could concnetrate for about 10 minutes but than I'd require 20-30 minutes of "rest." And once I finished "resting" I could maybe hang on another ten minutes before I would be mentally done. Afternoons were pretty much wasted time for me because I could never get anything done between the hours of 1-4 pm.

I often described my mental state like this; you're trying to run in waist heigh mud. You've got that feeling of being dragged down, heavy..

I could not retain information very well. One of my very rare A's in school came after three days of literally writing something down fifty billion times. Even then, it was like holding onto sand. I could literally feel chunks of information sliding away.

Procrastination central. You name it, I would procrastinate on it. You could light a fire under me... nope. Every trick in the book (breaking project into pieces, give yourself a reward, scheduling time) just never seemed to take or stick.

Being on medication.. well, it's kind of like day and night. I mean, that may be a bit dramatic but it's damn well close. I remember one of my inital experiences on medication. I wasn't so tired!! :D I was able to sit in one place long enough to write up a rough draft of a paper. I started to be more efficient. I could write up a to do list.. and actually do it! :p The ideas started to flow more easily. Reading didn't tire me out...

I could think of more but that's probably more than plenty!