As yall know I am pretty new here. I had found some sites on adult ADD and it sounds like me but I was wondering what yall thought.

I don't wanna see too much into what I deal with. I made a list. It is long but I numbered stuff to section them out. You don't have to read the whole thing but just tell me what you think. It would be much appreciated.


1.I never stay at a job. Longest job was 9 months

2.My short term memory is very bad. I will forget instructions right after I am told them

3.I loose interest in things and people very quickly. I have over 200 pc games and 30 playstation games because I love to play them but not for very long.

4.I can get angry at times really quickly and say things that I later regret.

5.I lose things all the time.

6.When I have to look for them it takes forever to find them and I hate to even start looking feels like my mind is not taking in what I am looking at and I look right over it. Feels like I'm looking fast but I'm not. It's had to explain.

7.I have very poor social skills but great people skills

8.When I go to a store it feels like I go into overload and my eyes feel funny and my head starts to hurt. I have to walk away and close my eyes to get a handle and usually that does work.

9.I buy on impulse. If I see something I want and have to money for it, it is very hard not too buy. I lose alot of money that way. I will even stop what I am doing to go buy something I saw online in houseshoes..lol.

10.I am very messy. I forget to put stuff back where I got them and end up having stuff everywhere.

11.I daydream alot and talk to my self.

12.I feel that I can’t control my thoughts sometimes, things just come in and out without my control.

13.Often when I am talking my words don’t come out right or I forget the word I was about to use. I end up saying things that sound stupid and not being able to complete a thought.

14.I have to write everything down like appointments and stuff because I never remember them.

15.Often I have something I want to tell someone but when I see them I don’t remember what it was I was going to tell them.

16.My daughter is ADD and my son is in the autistic spectrum.

17.When I read, the words seem like a jumbled mess. It seems like my eyes and/or mind is trying to take it in faster than I can understand it and I get very little out of it.

18.I start alot of things but never finish them. The momentum is gone shortly after it begins.

19.When I an writing or typing I will omit words and I could have sworn I wrote or typed them. Also when I type I omit letters alot

20.Left and right stumps me. I have to think “which hand to I write with” to remember. And that damn clock....

21.I get lost alot because I have NO since of direction.

22.When I write or type I am thinking of a word but I type something else and correctly. So spell checks don’t always work for me.

23.It is very hard to read long paragraphs because I tend to skip around, I get anxious.

24.I only go to social outings around other people when I can drink there. Alcohol helps me to not say stupid stuff so often and helps me keep track of my words.

25.I took my daughters Concerta to see what would happen and it helped alittle.

What I think is this: from your post you seem very well spoken. If items 1-25 are causing you to feel very badly, I suggest you print out your post and bring it to the attention of a professional in the mental health field.

By the way, I love what you said about social skills/people skills. I think I am the same way and I have never been able to put it into such a few, clear words. Some people may not know what the difference is between the two, but I know what you mean.

Anyway, welcome!

i love fg's idea of printing out your list and taking it into someone for a second opinion (the first one being yours).

i can also really relate to "I have very poor social skills but great people skills."

so, i guess that's two "dittos" from me ;)

I have all the problems you described, in some cases to lesser degrees.

I am not diagnosed professionally, but plan to.
I have learned a lot of tricks to deal with my ADD through the years.
I am very good at finding things I lose because I am very good at misplacing things. I stop and make associations via brain pictures, I think back to the last thing I remember about that item and go from there, retracing my steps mentally or/and physically.
I am proud that I can do this. It is worth the effort. Trying to teach my son to retrace his steps, he just short circuts about it usually.

I can't tell left from right either. But have a good sense of direction or luck.

Originally posted by Jellybean
I am very good at finding things I lose because I am very good at misplacing things. I stop and make associations via brain pictures, I think back to the last thing I remember about that item and go from there, retracing my steps mentally or/and physically.


My memory is crap. I will forget from one moment to the next. It's like I try to remember but get a block I can almost feel. It drive me crazy!!

I would agree to print it out and take it to a professional.
By the time I got to number 8 on the list I was pretty much thinking you have ADHD.

Keep reading and posting here. You will find it uplifting and even pick up some tools to put some of the pieces of your puzzled day together.
I say puzzled "day" as opposed to days because you gotta look at life one day at a time especially with ADD. For examplel Yesterday, maybe I was a useless mess, today I'm on top of my game and revered like a God (at least by me! :D), tomorrow.... well.... is later. No time for prognosticating!

It also helps to keep a sense of humor about it all.

Originally posted by blkqueen075


My memory is crap. I will forget from one moment to the next. It's like I try to remember but get a block I can almost feel. It drive me crazy!!

Oh yeah, I meant to say, there is a saying; "whatever you say you ARE or ARE NOT, you are right".

It means every comment you make about yourself drives your subconcious to make you RIGHT. For example; If you say I'm a klutz your subconcious will trip you walking a flat surface; but you'd be RIGHT.
If you say, I'm a happy person, your subconcious will dredge up all of the reasons you have to BE happy; and you'd be RIGHT.

My suggestion is, start talking yourself up. If you say your memory is great it will begin to get better! I have done this!
And if nothing else you will feel much better about yourself.

There is a downside to beating yourself up all the time...we ALL know it.
There is no downside to being upbeat to yourself all the time!