AAADD-Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder - You got it?

[southerngale]

Recently, I was diagnosed with A. A. A. D. D. - Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.

This is how it manifests:

I decide 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 Coke that I had been drinking.

I'm going to look for my checks, but first I need to push the Coke aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over.

I see that the Coke 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 coke a vase of flowers on the counter catches my eye--they need to be watered.

I set the Coke 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, I will be looking for the remote, but I won't 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 Coke 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 condition is serious ... I'd get help, but first ... I think I'll check my e-mail.

[breeze]

LMAO, Kelly - I GOT that - really!

I start multiple chores, and, get side-tracked
into something else - they tell me there's NO
medication for this....

Thanks - that was hilarious!

[Islandgirl]

That is an excellent description of it and also my world!!! I am exactly the same way and both of my children are also. We drive my husband crazy. I recently took my son to the doctor to try to salvage the 9th grade,[he was failing] , and they started him on Strattera. I am very impressed with it, even being opposed to the whole epidemic of the Ritalin thing. But we really did see progress in my son's grades and he said he felt better. He was also on the heavy side, and the bonus is, he lost about 20 pounds. So, I've been thinking about getting some for myself. If I could pay attention, focus, be organized, and lose weight, what a wonderful world it would be.

[Pburgh]

I didn't think it was an age thing ------- I just thought I was really good at multi-tasking!!!!!!lol

[Stephanie]

That was a good one!

Islandgirl - I'm glad to hear about the success your son is having with Ritalin.