You start cleaning the kitchen...find something that belongs in the office. You go to the office to put it away, sit down to check your email, go on Facebook instead, decide to write a poem and several hours later realize that the water in the sink is cold.

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cyberhyper said: my favorite has always been you know you're add when you look like you're on drugs, but you're not. . .but you should be, and if you were-you wouldn't look like you were.

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The best about ADD is being ten times more organized compared to everyone else - for example I'm ADD & my partner jeremy is ADHD , now you would think I would be the one who has a hard time being organized , wrong Jeremy my other half looses his phone & wallet 10 times a a day - to say the least I am the one in the relationship who keeps him organized & myself but every time I organize him - he always finds ways to become un organized again for the 18th millionth time . The other best thing about being ADD is - I have a memory like an elaphent- I'm a list maker so I never forget anything except when i'm tired & hungry - The best thing about being ADD - My attenton span is better Jeremy's ( my other half of 8 yrs) he can't stay focused for more than 5 minutes

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But two I have done today

Heated the same cup of tea 3 times because I kept forgetting it was in the microwave

Replied to a post, on this forum, had to open the same post in a second window just so I could remember what I was replying to

So glad I'm not alone.LOL

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you have to climb in the window at least once monthly becuase you locked yourself out of your house....

have to call the locksmith because you have locked your keys in your trunk for the THIRD time....

your paperwork piles from your current colloege classes are as messy as your 5 year olds Kindergarten paperwork pile(s) (what, now I have to "organize paperwork for 2 people? HELP!)......

You frequently get trapped in a thought pattern while driving and realize you don't know where you are/ or where you are going/ how you got there...

You want to cover your ears and scream when 2 people try to talk to you at 1 time... overload!

And you have to get off the computer NOW because you've been hyperfocused on this website and for the first time feel understood, but Oops, your son's school gets out momentarily.. so you better run over there!!

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OMG I needed that laugh, I'm there with all of you. This is my life! You know your ADD: - when you are thinking so quickly that words come out so jumbled that a snow flake becomes a flow snake. - when you are 40 years old and realize that you have 10 years worth of paper clutter stacked in your home office. - when your closet is full of clothes you don't wear. - when you are driving home from a Christmas party in a snow storm and panic because you don't recognize the surroundings. - when your friends stop coming to your house to visit and your co-workers rather have you work from home. - when multi-tasking means getting nothing done. - when you finally get started on a project and you either stop and leave it, right where you left it, "For Years" or you don't stop until it is completely finished sometimes "Days Later" - when on one of the most important days of your life, you can't find your only hair brush to dry and curl your hair and spend 2 hours looking for it, to remember that you forgot to charge the cell phone the night before, so you stop your searching to plug in the phone, call your neighbor because you are in a panic and try to explain to them you lost your brush and the significance of it, then an hour before you have to leave you find your brush under the clothes your going wear. So finally able to leave you drop what your carrying, while picking things up you realized that you forgot to lock all the doors to the house, you go back and lock the doors, get into car and remember that you forgot your cell phone that you had to put on the charger earlier because you had forgotten to do it the night before, come back inside get the cell phone, look around to try and remember if there is anything else you forgot, go through a check list in your head, say to yourself nope got it all, go back get into car and go OMG.......I'm never going to get out of here...I forgot the directions on the printer.

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When everyhing in front of you seems like a priority, even the little things that could wait and you try ro do them all. You know it when you overschedule.

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I could totally follow everything in your post. That is Exactly how I think! It drives everyone around me crazy, including myself! .... I am so glad I found this site! I'm felling a less like a crazy person with every post I read. It's nice to know I'm not the only one like this in the world:)

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For weeks after my son was born we kept on finding the formula jar in the mircowave. I accused my BF and of course he swore he wasn't doing it so no big deal to me. I just decided it must be a ghost, since that's all the ghost was doing it was nothing to worry about. My BF wasn't to thrilled with that response. Finally one day he actually watched me but the formula in the microwave and busted me. Never once do I remeber doing it but at least he figured out who the ghost was:)

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Who thought she put the kettle on and when she realized it wasn't on the stove went looking for the kettle... and found it in the fridge....

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One day when my daughter was about 5-6 weeks old I needed more diapers so i decided i'd run down to Target and get some. So i pack up her diaper bag and go start to car to get it warm and i go back in and grab the baby carrier. I lock the carseat to the base and we are on our way. The whole way i kept thinking, " I know i'm forgetting something... probably my wallet." I get to Target and reach into the backseat to snap Maddy out of her carseat to my complete horror she wasn't there. I drove home at 80mph crying the whole way and yelling on the phone to my mother what a horrible mom i was. When i got in the house there she was all bundled up ready to go, sleep in her play pen. ( i laugh now, but back then i was convinced i was a failure)

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You know you are ADD when..... Looking at books on ADD symptoms in a Borders bookstore to see how I measure up. I focus on the comments relating to forgetfulness and I decide I am definitely not a forgetful person like the people listed in the books.

Of course, my decision totally changes when I realize I cannot pay for my books because I left my purse in the ADD book section while I wandered off to other parts of the store!

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You pick the dog up from the groomer and drive home, then three hours later your husband asks where the dog is and you panic, thinking you've forgotten to retrieve the dog from the groomer, which is now closed. By the time you remember that you did, in fact, pick the dog up, your husband has found the dog, asleep in the back of your SUV, in the dark garage, patiently waiting for someone to find him....bad doggy mommy!

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You spend an hour searching for your set of keys one morning making everyone late for school and work, since you can't drive anywhere without your keys, and you can't remember what ever happened to the spare keys you put in a safe place. After rummaging through the kitchen trash can (while wearing a new white blouse) because you are afraid you've thrown the keys away on accident, your nine-year-old opens the front door and finds the keys dangling from the door knob where you left them the day before.

I'm new here, looking forward to getting to know you all....got the add diagnosis about two years ago....

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You know you're ADD when you wind up putting in a frantic call to the Poisen Control Center because without thinking, you got out of bed in the morning, took your morning dose of Adderall, got distracted by a phone call, but still having the Adderall bottle in one hand, remember you need to take your pill and take another one. You only realize you double-dosed yourself after swallowing the second pill but can't remember what milligram strength you take when the Poisen Control Operator answers, and you can't look at the bottle because you put it down somewhere and now you can't find it, and now you are becoming concerned that maybe you picked up the wrong bottle in the first place and may have taken your husband's cholesterol medication. You don't mention this to the operator, though, who has been asking you questions for five minutes but you haven't a heard a thing she said because you are tearing the house apart looking for the Adderall bottle that you, in fact, put back in the medicine cabinet prior to calling the Poisen Control Center in the first place.

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Man, I have totally found a good site for me.

I am just cracking up reading these and like someone predicted I skipped about 3 pages of the thread, I swear I'll go back sometime though this is sooo funny!! I've done most if not all of these things...

I'll see you around on the boards I'm sure

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graciejones said: two of the biggest challenges in life with ADHD - lost items. I lose everything - some things I like to think of as being 'misplaced' because some are found - weeks or months later - I just forgot where I put them or did not even realize I had it in my hand and put it in the shelf in the closet or under the bed looking for something else. If kept within the house - chances are I will find it ..... someday (unless it was put in the trash - and I have spent many days sifting thru the trash). I walk around from room to room with items in my hand doing 10 different things putting things down in a spot that it will take me days to find later on.

when your brain is so far ahead of the words you are speaking - jumping subject to subject - people that do not know you looking at you as if you are nuts (and you thought you just had an incredible enlightenment but you cannot get people to understand). Sometimes I talk in mid-conversation because my brain is so far ahead that I think people know where I am coming from......and they are not even talking about what I am because they said one thing that sent me on 8 different tangents. Or maybe it is just me that feels this way...

This is so me...I think it was last night, I emptied the mail, and found a magazine I was interested in, I was totally exhausted and started getting ready for bed, then I went to pick up the magazine and go to bed....no magazine! I disparately looked at my husband (also ADD of course) and start to desparately beg him to please just help me find the magazine, because I'm so sorry, I know I was only in 3 rooms since I last had it and for the LIFE of me I can not find it.

It was on the floor next to where I was sitting.

My other one to add is this:

When your Husband/closest co-worker regularly gives you a kind of quizzical look and just says, "Context, need context".

Kristin

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You know your ADD when you leave with enough time to be early for your ADD Doctor's appointment but are thinking of other things and drive to work instead and end up late.

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I'm new too, (not diagnosed) but my 2 boys are recently diagnosed. Those apples probably didn't fall too far from this tree. I find that I start reading newspaper and magazine articles in the MIDDLE or end and then backtrack if I'm truly interested. Anyone else do this? Today I parked a block from the post office, walked through freezing rain and had left my letters in the van--D'oh! Then proceeded to drive past the bank (my next stop) so had to turn around when I was almost home. I'm very tempted to try meds for myself. Learning a lot here. (laughing a lot too!)

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You know when you're ADD when ... I would rather have my purse stolen than my planner! I can replace the stuff in my purse - it would be a hassle, but it can be done. But my planner - that's my life!!

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Sounds pretty harsh I know...BUT it happened to me! I was busy going through paperwork, when I absent mindedly put my 20 month old son down for a nap. 10 Minutes later or so I come out the office and into the living room where my son normally is playing with his cars or blocks and don't see him. I went into immediate pannick! I begin running up and down the halls calling for my son, run to my neighbours yelling at her "I lost jacob! I lost jacob!" she comes running to my apartment with phone in hand ready to dial 911 and while we're going from room to room in my "messy" apartment, she finds my son sound asleep in his bed. I have never been SO embarrassed in my life. Of course, we laugh about it now....haha.

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wifemomstudent said: You start cleaning the kitchen...find something that belongs in the office. You go to the office to put it away, sit down to check your email, go on Facebook instead, decide to write a poem and several hours later realize that the water in the sink is cold.

This is SOOOOO me! I'm not the tidiest person, so for me to even get the water started in the sink to get the dishes done is a miracle in the first place. Then for me to wander off and find something else to do ie. facebook...is very common! hahah

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InITwithADD said: You read the first few responses, then skip directly to the end of this thread to post this response :)

I totally just did this!! LOL

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You guys are so right, I am the worlds WORST housewife, I'm ADHD & so is my son. However my daughter is a neat freak, she's 9, she balances me out so much, my husband just rolls his eyes a lot, but he's used to me & he still loves me. I asked him once what was the best part of being married to me (11 years now), he said "it's always interesting". I do often wonder how much of my disorganization is just my age 43 or my ADHD. Here are some sayings I found on the internet that I found particularily funny, one day I'll put a few on a t-shirt, but then again I have a few other projects to get to first, which generally means I won't do any of them, but find a good book instead. I hope your holidays are entertaining. What was I doing again? Things may be complicated at my house, but at least they're unpredictable. Team ADD keeping the world interesting. ADHD Life outside the box. ADHD living life one distraction at a time. Distractable. Attention Deficit Disorder means never having to say your bored. Let's face it everyone, WE"RE NEVER BORED !!!!

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You know you're ADD when you are in line with your two daughters (then age 5 and 2 y/o) at the grocery store and you look down to only see one little face instead of two! Then you panick and have everyone in line looking for the littlest one who is missing. Everyone that is except the older (even then, totally organized non-add) daughter who gives you that look of (I am so embarressed..again) as she tells you in a hushed tone "you are holding her" ..(the youngest one) on your hip as you are walking around looking for her with everyone who was in line. Again..except the oldest one who is the only one who knows you don't have a third daughter that everyone else just assumed had to be the one missing SINCE ONE IS ON YOUR HIP! So why not go with what works and pretend to remember the "third" (mind you.. who must now be the oldest) one "must be already in the car with Daddy". As you ignore the blank/confused stare of the real oldest..gather your groceries... and exit stage left!

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2jacks&ajill said: I find that I start reading newspaper and magazine articles in the MIDDLE or end and then backtrack if I'm truly interested. Anyone else do this?

I have always done this, from magazines, newspapers, textbooks, everything. When I got the ADHD diagnosis I figured it was related, but had never heard anyone else mention it before.

It's kind of nice to have a child who's not ADHD, but I'm worried about becoming a burden to her. She was 2 when she started keeping track of me. Whenever we would leave the house she would stop in the kitchen and say, "Mommy, do you have your watch?" because we'd come back for it so many times. When she was in Kindergarten I went to school to pick her up and got involved in conversation with another mother, we had been standing outside the building a couple of minutes when my daughter asked where her 2 year old sister was. She was still playing in the the Kindergarten classroom where we had been several minutes before, one of the other parents was standing in the doorway watching her, waiting to see if I was going to come back. I never lost the first child, ever (or rather, she never lost me). The second one I think is more like me. She's looking one way and I'm looking another and before you know it either she's walked into a tree or I'm in a panic wondering at what point I lost track of her.

It is definitely good to know you're not alone. This all sounds soooo familiar. I don't allow myself to check my e-mail more than about twice a week because I always end up spending 4 hours on the computer doing things like trying to find recipes and printing them out even though I'll never use them because they'll just get lost in the mound of other things I print out and never look at again. Oh, yeah, I came out here to get my daughters MP3 player off the charger...

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