You know you are ADD when you have worked your butt off all day and when you stop to look at the results nothing is done or finished.

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You know your ADD when you get bored with foreplay after a few minutes.

....if you skip the long stories on this page and read the short ones.

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I had set up an appointment to discuss how my ADD was affecting my job. When I arrived, the therapist said, "You know your appointment was at 10 and it's about 25 after, so we won't have as much time today." Dang, I was so happy when I thought I had arrived 5 minutes early for the first time in like .... ever!

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Oh my goodness, ADDAWAY, your posts crack me up!!! I can totally relate to so many of the things you mentioned. Sometimes I'll be driving somewhere and all of a sudden I have no clue where the heck I am for a moment, then I remember. "How did I get HERE?" lol

A couple of my ADD things are a little annoying to me tonight. One, I've STILL got some Christmas presents sitting here in my computer room that I have not only not mailed yet, but I haven't even finished making them yet! And it's February already...argh. I made and gave all the "local" gifts a long time ago, but got tired of making stuff so I've been putting off finishing the gifts I need to mail out.

The other--I gave my little daughter a bath this evening, and started folding laundry in my bedroom while the kids watched a DVD. What a surprise to see my naked daughter run in to greet me when the DVD ended...I forgot to put her pajamas on!! lol

Ah, there are definitely LOTS of surprises!

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Ray I relate to this one very well.

{QUOTE]Ray said: You know your ADD when you get bored with foreplay after a few minutes.

....if you skip the long stories on this page and read the short ones.

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Hilarious....you depicted perfectly a typical five minutes in my mind. I may have to print your post out just so I can make people understand how we think and why I am mentally exchausted everday by 11 am. It is wonderful to know I am not alone. Thank you!

As for me...I just finally threw away the Christmas cards I had put in envelopes and addressed to family members in November. Ironically, I had put them in my day planner/organizer so I would not forget to mail them. Obviously I forgot a bunch of times. I should have kept them and just mailed them next year, but I knew I would completely lose them way before then.

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you spend hours cleaning,, and 10 minutes later it's worse then when you started

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I'm not sure wether to laugh or cry! Actually I am doing both! I've been reading all of the "You know you are ADD when..." Posts. I have been sitting here laughing out loud. I got to this one, and just roared....and now I find myself crying...because I soooooo understand that whole post...It is my life! I am 39, and was diagnosed very recently, so I am just a basket of emotions right now. I am so glad I found this site Looking forward to getting to know all of you! Cherub

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Donza said: You know you are ADD when..... going shopping takes 3 attempts. I normally leave my shopping list behind and have to go home and fetch it, on returning home I then put my handbag down to pick up my list, and then arrive at the shops with my list and no bag!

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kelsey said: you spend hours cleaning,, and 10 minutes later it's worse then when you started

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You are looking for sunglasses and they are on the top of your head. Have your math tutor say you can't be taught because you ask question such as if it is an abstract number why do i need to know it. Tell your future father in law That the world may think he is telling the truth ; but you won't believe anything he say the very 1st time meeting him!!!! State the obvious to your co-worker and look around when they all act shocked that you actually said it Put the car key in the freezer and run around looking for them the next day until your father finds them and ask is there a reason you needed the keys so cold. God there is so many things. All I know you better have a sense a humour which thankfully I do.

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I forgot and missed my appointment to talk to the doctor about getting me diagnosed with ADD!

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You know You're ADD when you wander about the weird sound "everyone else's" cars are making only to realize 15 minutes down the road that you've been driving with your parking break on!!

You know you're the least ADD of your ADD family when you have to set up a chore chart ... with your parents names on it. I did that in high school... none of them ever got done... We forgot where we put the chart, and then forgot to do them anyway, and to make a new chart.

You know you're ADD when buying a gallon of milk and a loaf of bread takes 3 hours in the grocery store and you still forget to buy bread.

You know you're ADD when you call someone to say, "I have to tell you somehting important. I forget what it is now, but it's really important." ..this also works with walking into other people's offices at work, and professor's offices on campus... they all think I'm crazy.

You know you're ADD when it gets quiet in an elevator and you start asking people what their favorite color is... okay, everyone in a 6 hour radius thinks I'm crazy.

You know you're ADD when you are given a book on ADD from your doctor when he diagnoses you and you laugh for three days, because you don't have the attention span to read through the chapter names, much less the chapters!! 2 years later? I have read 45 of 200 pages... but I looked at all of the pictures!

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your colleague taps you on your shoulder and asks you to put your glasses back on so you can hear them....

FYI - I strongly suspect everyone in my family (with the possible exception of my father) was/is ADHD.... we had company once that came in sat down for a cup of tea with us, and announced after 10 minutes she had to leave, because she couldn't take us anymore. We were verbally bouncing off each other and talking in almost a short hand. <G>

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Well, see my 14 year old son thinks he knows all........but you know you are ADD when you are getting upset with your 14 yr old for doing the same thing you do, what do you mean you forgot your homework.......what you mean you forget to take your meds.........here I am trying to be a good Mom who has learned to work around some of my ADD and I want him to do that right now...........my classic is when I am searching for my glasses, my son saying he what are you going crazy over, I tell him what the problem is and he says nicely(laughing his butt off), Mom they are on your face! Thank you God I am not alone...........

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I'm an adult with ADD and am so unorganized that I have a hard time doing anything constructive. I have a small interior design business, but let it go three years ago to study online for my MS in Design. I should be finishing this Sept. with the BA, but haven't even finished the first two courses. It takes me so long to gather what I need for one assignment and go around and round in circles that I get nowhere. . I'm getting dizzy just thinking about it! I have tried a couple of medications, but they make my heart race and then leave my extremely tired. Anyone have constructive advice? I really should be going to the gym, studying, cleaning house, taking the dog out, etc.... NOW...instead, I feel as if I need help and am looking to you for support.

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... I forgot to bill my clients last month. I have only recently been diagnosed and can't start my meds for a couple of weeks so I am hoping for an improvement before my kids starve!

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When you find the $200.00 dollar you hid and find it when looking for a needle so you can sew on a button you lost . Never find the needle but find the $200.00 and go to the store to buy a new shirt but instead buy a new pair of pants return home to find you have nothing to match. So run out to buy a new shirt . Now get home to find out you have 15 minutes to wash shower and change and be at the place you are not suppose to be late too that takes an hour to get too. Looking for the key to the car can't find them because they are in the freezer; not sure why you put in there......................................

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Then by the time they answer you forget who you called and have to look at your phone or ask them.......lol

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You get strange looks while walking/running/singing/talking-to-yourself down the street in NEW YORK...

When you pitch paper ideas to professors and they go "huh?"

When your mom sends you a travel coffee mug to replace the one you just lost in the office, and you manage to lose the new one in the library TWICE within three weeks.

When you have conversations with yourself....daily

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you know you're ADD when you're reading a paragraph in "Driven to Distraction" and you suddenly pause to contemplate what you want for lunch the next day. Then, you try to find where you were on the page but end up flitting your eyes towards paragraphs that haven't even come up yet.

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You start off washing the dishes, and find yourself half an hour later cleaning fly spots off the ceiling...

With a sink still half full of dirty dishes...

And a half cleaned saucepan sitting next to the sink, with the dish cloth in it...

sigh

:^D

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1# - you forget you're brewing coffee. I was working as a school librarian and ducked into my office to make a quick pot of coffee; however, the pot wasn't brewing fast enough for my addled brain so I slipped a mug under the brewing coffee and then proceded to leave the library when I remembered I needed to ask someone a question.

20 minutes later I returned to a fully brewed pot of coffee all over the carpet in my office.

2# - you can't find your cell phone. I had been talking on my cell phone on my way home from work. I was getting my stuff together and walked into the house, still talking on the phone, and then started looking for my cell phone only to realize that I was still talking on it.

3# - you constantly lose keys. Long story, but I ended up having to drive my husband's standard truck 20 minutes on a major highway into Memphis, TN and had only driven a standard once when my husband had tried to teach me. I found out the hard way that people are not very understanding when you stall out a stoplight 5 times. I got all sorts of gestures and honks. What should have been a 20 minute drive ended up taking me 45 minutes.

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Firecracker said: When you have conversations with yourself....daily

(the reason im up at 5 am!)

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You know you have ADD when you realize you have 5 years worth of Christmas cards nicely printed, stuffed, addressed, and NEVER mailed!!!!

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