After reading over a bunch of the old posts, and responding to a few…I thought it’d be fun to share some of the funny stuff about ADD. Some of it might not seem funny at the time, but most of it is later on. Here are a few examples.
You know you’re ADD when:
You think about how ridiculous aliens would think our way of transportation was if they were ever watching us.
You put the salt in the microwave instead of the cupboard, causing others in your abode to be perplexed for days about the “mystery salt-shaker”.
Laughed at yourself for putting said shaker in the microwave….only to do it again an year and a half later…in a different microwave, of course.
You go to say something (even just one word), open your mouth, and utter the something so ridiculous that it even surprises you….earning yourself the nick name of “Boomer” in the process.
You break a bone (while drunk) because you were doing that thing you used to do when you were a kid where you hook arms and go back to back, taking turns flipping each other up in the air……on cement, because it was like “BEING ON A ROLLERCOASTER!!!!!!
You decide to move across the country after living in the same area since you were a baby within a span of 48 hours.
Feel free to add your own…..
Living w/ adult ADD
I am a special ed teacher and I love what I do, even though my students have anger problems and problems controling their emotions I still seem to be able to move with the punches. My problem is that my memeory is so bad. I have to write down everything, and then when I look for my memeory notes I can;t find them. I am so unorganized and I am convinved that as soon as I straighten up someone comes behind me to destroy my progress. I sit down to type a paper for my masters program, I remember that I was cooking dinner, I go back to the computer to finish my paper, then I remember that I was supposed to pick my son up from practice in just 5 minutes. I am not taking any meds, and although I was diagnosed by a friend who is a psychologist, I knew what it was even before she told me. She said that I should go through my own doctor and receive some in dept testing. But even if I did get meds, could I even remember to take them?
Trying to hide my ADD :(
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when you put peanut butter in the fridge and a water bottle in the pantry.
when you can spot something a mile away, but can’t see what’s right in front of your nose
when you get pissed off easily
when you make a gazillion typos in two seconds
when you’ve graduated from college, you hate the job you have had during college (and still do ONLY because you don’t have a decent one yet) and still don’t feel motivated to job hunt, despite the fact that you’d also like to move out of your parent’s house asap!
when you lock your keys in your car.
When you literally drop everything
when you misread words
when you have trouble talking, trip over your words so much that the thing you actually did say (as opposed to what you intended to say) was quite hilarious. To both yourself and others.
when you run around like a headless chicken going berserk trying to get everything done.
when you are so overwhelmed you just wanna scream
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when you put peanut butter in the fridge and a water bottle in the pantry.
when you can spot something a mile away, but can’t see what’s right in front of your nose
when you get pissed off easily
when you make a gazillion typos in two seconds
when you’ve graduated from college, you hate the job you have had during college (and still do ONLY because you don’t have a decent one yet) and still don’t feel motivated to job hunt, despite the fact that you’d also like to move out of your parent’s house asap!
when you lock your keys in your car.
When you literally drop everything
when you misread words
when you have trouble talking, trip over your words so much that the thing you actually did say (as opposed to what you intended to say) was quite hilarious. To both yourself and others.
when you run around like a headless chicken going berserk trying to get everything done.
when you are so overwhelmed you just wanna scream
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Sorry for repeat post. I thought of a few more:
You don’t want to bother with details on simple emails to friends
You loose track of time
You are in a trance
you have to keep moving
can’t even concentrate on a tv show
you’re depressed
you’re sleepy
you lock your keys in your car TWICE
It’s easy to forget the simplest little thing
No matter how hard you try, managing time is impossible
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[quote=”bb”]You know you’re ADD when:
1) you go to the refridgerator and stand in front of it for five minutes, then close the door and walk away, only to return five minutes later to do the same thing all over again.
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hhahahaha
YeS!!
I even have done this at my friends house.. I’m like “umm. i’m probably going to do this more than once, i’m just curious or something”
I always find myself looking in the fridge.. i don’t know what it is.. its like
one of those places that i’m drawn too, i’m not even hungery, just its something to open.
I also do this with the coburaord cupboard, yesterday i wanted something,
so i was going to make tea, and then i was going to make hot chocolate, and then tea and then hot chocolate, i kept opening and closing the cupboard
and the thing that had the chocolate and then putting it back.. and then i was like “WHAT AM I DOING.. to my roommate.. ” “your making tea”.. oh
ok.. then i made the tea, it heated up most of the way, and took it upstairs and drank half of it and then had some cold this morning.
glad someone else looks in the fridge.
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You know you are ADD when….
You try to recall the name of a person/place/thing, just can’t remember the name, then 3 or more hours later you blurt it out. If you are lucky, the person you were talking to is still there, and it isn’t 2am!
You have 12 craft projects going on at once.
Your cat has to pee on your favorite magazine before you remember to clean his box.
You have had 5 different jobs doing 5 different things in about as many years.
You have to have a friend with you when you go anywhere so they can “translate” for you.
LOL! I read some of these to my husband and then asked, “How do you live with me???” He told me that I’m not really that bad, just have a common sense issue! LOL! My mother used to call me the absent minded professor. I could quote to you from a text book I had 4 years ago, but don’t ask me where my keys/wallet/shoes/purse is.
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After reading all these pages (including the post I JUST put up there), I have to say that I am a very lucky woman. My husband understands that I am NOT like other women. He realizes that most days, if he wants a hot meal, he needs to cook it. He realizes that I will not think to clean a room until *I* would feel embarrassed to have someone in there. He realizes that if our son is going to have clean undies, someone needs to do the laundry. And he doesn’t hold any of this against me! He even laughs when we start talking about it. “There’s nothing wrong with you, you just have no common sense and the memory of a gnat!” God I love that man!
Was just feeling very happy for myself and wanted to share.
gotta add my 2cents worth
You know you have ADD when,
…as you begin to clean the bedroom, you take a dirty glass off the night stand and head to the kitchen to put it into the dishwasher. Along the way you stop to gather another glass from the living room as you pass through. While you’re there you straighten the sofa cushions and find the cordless phone that’s been missing for 2 days. You go to the kitchen to hang up the phone, forgetting to take the dirty glasses with you. You feel compelled to wipe the counter while you are in the kitchen, but you can’t because there isn’t a clean dish cloth. You leave the kitchen to get one from the laundry room and discover clothes that are soured in the washer. You restart the washer and decide to gather dirty clothes to start another load so you head for your …OH yea, I was cleaning the bedroom.
…you go to the grocery store for a loaf of bread and a gallon of milk but after paying for them you walk out of the store and go home leaving them sit at the check-out counter. You only realize you’ve forgotten them an hour later when your daughter asks where the milk is.
…you lose the dishtowel you were holding while fixing breakfast only to find it when your co-workers want to know why you have worn a dishtowel over your shoulder to work.
…you either can’t focus on anything at all, or get so completely consumed by one thing that you can’t stop until you are finished—or next week, whichever comes first.
… you eat dinner with your plate in your lap because over a month ago you found a box of old photographs and decided to categorize them and put them into albums. Now they sit in a hundred neat little piles all over the kitchen table until you can remember to buy albums.
…you have a larger craft supply than the local craft store but not a single finished project.
My husband just asked me how long I’ve been online….(several hours)But I only stopped cleaning the living room long enough to check my e-mail. :oops:
you might be add if...
You might be add if you lost your phone card, only to have it turn up in the freezer after two months.
You might be add if you buy a new computer, and when a friend calls to see how you like it, you explain it is a piece of junk with no software. You don’t bother calling her back three days later when you find the set-up disk under the microwave. You might be add if, when the doc ask how the adderall is doing, you proudly reply, “Wonderful, I made my bed in only three hours today.” And my oldest son’s favorite “You might be add if yours is the only phone you know with Triple A on speedial” Great fun, Thanks All
what a great post
Okay, I read the very first post then decided (half way throug) that i need to go buy a microwave right away. I so relate to many of these things
You have unfinished projects all over the house.
I mean all done except for a face plate on an outlet.
I built an addition with basement and porch on our house while completing my Masters degree and working a full time job this before I new I had ADD, but I told my advisor for the course to hang with me cause it took 20 years to finish my bachelor’s degree. I finished the degree but don’t use it now, I finished the addition but each room has an unfinished piece of trim or faceplate or something. I’m in a different job but have trouble doing my work for answering emails and getting on intereesting sites like this one.
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Leaving the house for a family trip, my brother age five and me age three. My father said “Is everyone ready?” and brother answered “No, Mommy hasn;t even started looking for her purse yet.”
In a store, me age seven, the salesclerk asked mother for her phone number, and she turned to me and asked “What’s our phone number?”
You know you're ADD when...
You know you’re ADD when…
You sort through which post to read by determining if it’s too long for you to make it through
You realize that what you just said really makes no sense to anyone else around you but makes perfect sense to you
When you feel motivated enough to clean, you make your roommate designate small tasks for you to tackle one at a time
i dunno..and other stuff… damn there went my mind again :-) hehe
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Heeheeheehee! My boyfriend and I are only in our early 20s and we sometimes have what I call “senior moments” even though we’re nowhere near that age. He went into his basement for something only to find out that he was halfway (or all the way) down the stairs and he didn’t know what he came down there for! I tend to do similar things and usually some association will make me remember, but it really drives me nuts sometimes. I can get forgetful even if I remember my pills, which I almost always do. Oh man, what’ll we be like when we get old?
you know you are ADD when...
You know you’re ADD when:
>you are doing a master’s thesis on ADD, but don’t finish on time!
>no matter how hard you try, for the life of you, can’t pay bills on time.
>you live in a rats nest, because organizing seems like hell on fire
>you haven’t worked in 3 years, because you know eventually you’ll get reprimanded or fired; always late, your fate in ineviteable, so it seems
>you have 3 friends and none of them call- talking to you is like picking up radio signals in space
>for today’s meal: end of a loaf of bread, microwaved hotdog, and water
>lost the gas cap 4 times in one month
>playing on team sports: off in your own contrived league in a made up sport; you aren’t sure why everyone is yelling at you to focus: focus Daniel-son
>you love playing with fire (wait, maybe that’s just me)
>you can spend all day on-line, watching bad movies, and forgetting to eat, but you can’t do one thing that produces beneficial results
>you constantly make lists, detailing what to do tomorrow- then you forget where you put the list, rendering yourself helpless: back to the tv
>memorizing things for exams is nearly impossible
>you are slow to move and talk, however inside you feel like a hampster on a treadmill
>oh sh#!, that bill was due yesterday! How many $’s in late fees/month?
>when you are a guy and your guy friends break up with you, you know you have ADD! Trust me. you said something impulsively that was stupid
>you have been dumped more times than yesterday’s garbage
>being in a noisy room makes you feel like you are in the monkey cage at the city zoo.
>being called on in class: anxiety of being chosen and trying so hard to focus leads you to concentrate on nothing but the pounding of your own heart, sweat glands, facial blushing, the girl next to you, the heater, that bird chirping outside, all that peripheral movement, the way your teacher’s hair is parted, the kid that farted, what’s for lunch?, that dream last night was cool (what was it again?), oh please don’t call on me!!
>Driving: A) you don’t know how you arrived at destination. B) you are an anal checker of speed, mirrors, etc. because of extra adrenaline C) you can’t follow verbal directions past, “turn right!” D) you really suck and shouldn’t be on the road.
>Today you had big plans, but like many days, you turn on the computer and all hell breaks loose.
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ahhhh, is this going to the right place??? :S :S i hope so heehe.
umm, when you watch the ‘fast’ version of movies on dvd and things.. coz you can’t stand now knowing what happens next. fast forward :D woohoo. and you probably k now about as much as you would have if you saw the whole thing.. not much. and when you have to look further in a book in case you can find out quicker what happens.
you put things in your shoes which of course you don’t hav time to put on till you get in the car, so that you don’t forget them. and then realise later that there are random items in your shoes which you have to extract embarrassingly in public coz they become painful.
aaand you get sick really quickly of writing a post hehehehe. can’t hink of andyhing else :D sryyy
this might possibly end up in the right place, thread maybe..
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You might be ADD if:
You look at your oldest child and spit out all 3 siblings names before she says “Cayla, mom”
You look at your oldest child and call her by your own name… (sigh…)
You laughed so hard at these posts you had tears pouring down your face and thought you might wet yourself…
Still have to pee so bad you’re wiggling in your chair but can’t go until you read ALL the posts and add yours!
Nice thread… I gotta run!! :shock:
Just a few thoughts.
You might have ADD if…You look like you’re on drugs but you’re not, but you should be, but if you were you wouldn’t look like you were.
Drain bamage-An example of getting your mords wixed up.
If you wrote a book about travelling would it be entitled “Around The World In A D Daze?”