This is 1 reason why I don't have internet access at home, although that is ceasing to be effective...

Lindsay

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knucklehead#4 said:

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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I was just checking my personal email about a half hour ago, I now realize and somehow I got here but hey it's funny so, that reminds me I need to sign up for that improv class, but shoot, didn't that start last night?

I hired a add coach and she suggusted a book about organization with ADD so I promptly went out and bought it and I went to put it on my pile of books I know I will someday really read....and yep that book was right there second book from the top one! I better get back to work but before I forget, let me tell you about .............

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This is my first time posting, but I can't resist telling my story. You know you have ADD when you occasionally share a ride to work with your husband, and one day end up waiting 1- 1/2 hour for him to pick you up, call home, find him there, and demand to know why he forgot you! Then he sweetly says, " I certainly hope our car is in the parking lot, because you drove it to work!" That wasn't the first time I forgot I drove, but definitely the longest I forgot that I did. So many good stories, so funny, and so sadly all true! I am in the process of being diagnosed, but pretty sure the doctor is already convinced. The parts about rambling conversations, coming into them from left field (what, couldn't anyone else keep up?), and I KNEW that there was something familiar about "If you take a Mouse to school" stories. My daughter is 10 and has been diagnosed with ADHD since 1st grade. It didn't take too long to figure out where she got it from, heredity can be a burden some times. (Yep, both of us.) Needless to say, keeping house with three ADD and ADHD people living in it is a challenge, putting it nicely.

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Every month I spend time in my office sorting through papers and all the piles that have managed to build up again. I file away important papers and discard what I don't need, although I always seem to think I'll someday need but never do. The one problem I have is I can never remember what I've named the files I put things in. The funny thing about it, when they are in mounds of piles, I usually seem to remember which pile it is in.

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When you leave your house to get gas. Get on the highway instead. Yell at the car in front of you for going to slow. Mash the pedal to accellerate, to no avail.. realize your suv MUST be broken. You think oh no.. what's wrong? NO.. wait I just had it maintenanced. Oh no, why am I thinking about this? I know I'm forgeting something. What? Why am I slowing down more. Should I exit? Better. Then realize you are out of gas. Then you think to yourself. Isn't it supposed to tell me when I'm about to run out? Later.. you wonder. Did it?..

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Mymindseye said: Every month I spend time in my office sorting through papers and all the piles that have managed to build up again. I file away important papers and discard what I don't need, although I always seem to think I'll someday need but never do. The one problem I have is I can never remember what I've named the files I put things in. The funny thing about it, when they are in mounds of piles, I usually seem to remember which pile it is in.

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...you have people coming over tonight and you really need to get the house all spiffed up, but instead of vacuuming, washing the dishes, sponging off the counters and just simply getting things organized, you organize the pan cabinet. Or wash the cat. Or rearrange the hall closet that nobody will ever see. Or paint a wall that nobody will even notice. And, at the point you should be finishing up the appetizers and have dinner well underway when everyone starts arriving, but you're at the grocery store because you couldn't decide what to serve them until 15 minutes before everyone was supposed to get there. Or you're in the shower.

Or is it just me? ;-\\

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you are sitting in your office chair at work and your cell phone starts ringing. the ringing is to the right so you turn in that direction, thinking "where is that phone?" After spinning a full circle, you realize that the phone is in your coat pocket, which is hanging on the back of the chair.

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My current boss (who also happens to be a good friend of mine) urged me to see my Dr. about ADD. She was convinced I had it. After several months on missed appts, forgotten to make appts etc. I finally got in to see my Dr (because she refused to refill other meds I'm on because I hadn't been in!). On the way there I was stressing over how to talk to her about the possibility of my having ADD, so I call my friend to ask what I should say, and got her voice mail.....yep...partway through the voicemail with me saying "I don't know what to tell my Dr, what should I say" then I forgot I was on the phone leaving a message and awhile later realized I was in the middle of leaving a message.... At which point I said "oh never mind I think I know what to say to my Dr.!"

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I too have money in the bank & constantly forget the due date on my bills. The banks have helped some with email notifications as have some credit cards, but I still have trouble with that & I too have suffered credit wise because of that. Another thing I run my own business and never have customers to my office/house as if they saw it they would not believe I could acomplish anything as it looks as if we have already been robbed. Believe it or not I can usually find what I need after not too much looking. I am so visually oriented that if it is out of sight it is way out of mind and forgotten until someoe asks for it again. This does not work as we have a small house & there is only so much room to set stuff out to view before every square inch is covered with something. Ditto for my car it is a very messy moblie office & no one ever can sit in it I have too much stuff I am trying to figure out where to put it in there. It is a hassle, those that know & love me just sort of sigh; but those that do not really do judge & it is never good for me when they do. My biggest issue is papeerwork I am drowning in it & can never decide what to get rid of. That & clothes wher do you put them in a small house with even smaller closets.

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you get distracted in the supermarket, see a cart with a few items resembling yours, but isn't actually yours and don't realize it's not yours until a few aisles away. Not just once, but a few times to the point where you wonder if you should change supermarkets so people don't recognize you

need to remind yourself of everything via calendar on your Blackberry.

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You know you are ADHD when you leave work 45 minutes early to arrive at a doctor's appointment, print directions to your doctor's office you see once a month because you can't remember directions, only to get lost and still arrive 10 minutes late.

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This list is great, and many of these stories are really funny. Somehow, though, seeing them all together had a cumulative effect on me as I related to one after another. After a while, I wasn't laughing any more. Feeling rather discouraged, in fact. Oh well, I'm sure I'll get distracted again in a .......................

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You go to the bank to deposit a check you found in your wallet that you got 2 months ago in the middle of a stack of receipts that you were looking through after thinking that you should find the receipt for that dog crate and then your phone rings and you drive back to the pharmacy to pick up a prescription, get off the phone, try to shift your car into park and realize that you took the bank drive-thru tube with you.

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1. youre walking out the door and you say.... "i can't find my keys" and your kid says ... "do we have to do this AGAIN?"

2. buy a pair of $400 dollar glasses, two weeks later on way to dr. you are in car and you put glasses on your lap to look in mirror and get something out of your eye. get to dr and forget the glasses on your lap. they fall on the ground next to car, but you don't notice. drive away after doctor and run over glasses. buy a new pair of glasses. lose them a million times. find them 999,999 times. buy a thrid pair. lose them a bunch of times and then they break. buy a forth pair. this all happens in less than 1 year.

3. Lose so many coach wallets that you finally decide walmart may be a better option.

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Boy, can I relate! it's like man I have so many, SO MANY,,but can't think of one at the moment..hate that, then 20 or 30 minutes later, I'll break out with what i finally remebered, and It usually comes out wrong anyway, LOL Quote:

Persistent said: ...and laugh yourself silly, but can't remember any of your own boo-boos at the moment. Though they are multiple and public every single day.

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Firecracker said: This is 1 reason why I don't have internet access at home, although that is ceasing to be effective...

Lindsay

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knucklehead#4 said:

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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Hah, I can totally relate..takes me 10 minutes to get a glass of ice water for my kid, have to look around the kitchen, get out the 409, clean the counter, write a few things down on the list that I will totally forget to take to the store..the poor kid forgot he was thirsty! lol Quote:

JD said: Your spouse asks you for a cup of water and you go and make a peanut butter sandwich for yourself...

Happens all the time.

:)

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Syrah said: How many ADDers does it take to change a lightbulb?

So how's about a bike ride then?

...and so true!

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You know you are ADD when your kids call it an olympic event finding mom's key's. Only to have them buy you a key chain that says...THE KEYS I HAVEN'T LOST YET Which did help the orange key chain makes em easier to find You buy a cup of coffe place it on the roof of car so you can unlock the car...only to answer your cell phone then take off driving, not noticing that you have brown liquide dripping down the side window till you are at a stop and have to look for your turn. LOL or the fact you had to reread your post only to have to make changes cause you missed words...Can't type as fast as the brain works

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While loading your car, you hang your purse on the driver's sideview mirror, get in the car and drive away leaving the purse hanging outside.

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You leave the motel swimming pool, go to your room, dry off and get all dressed down to your underpants. Pickup your belongings and walk out to the car across the parking lot. I'm the mom with two young couples who invited her to join them for a weekend of fun. They were waiting in the parking lot for me. My son (one of a couple) yelled: "Mom, mom, your pants!"

"What? What?" Reaching down I felt that I forgot to put my shorts on. I was carrying them.

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Every dark night is followed by a bright sunny day. So, patience and attention is required and things will be fruitful in near future

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