1. when you're trying to get some cheese curls for your grandma and three times you find yourself walking to the computer to post something on ADDitude..

2. I'm a waitress and we have to swipe a card before putting orders into the register. You're supposed to keep the card on you at all times, and I ALWAYS leave my card sitting by the register after I'm done with it... and I attached the card to a huge pink lanyard so it can be spotted from anywhere when (not if) i lose it.

3. When you start boiling water for some tea, you have to swear to yourself that you will stay in the kitchen so you don't forget. Then an hour later you get up from the piano and start smelling something funny... hmmm is something burning? Let me smell around and see where it's coming from... oh, its the pot burning because all the water has evaporated....... but i still want some tea.. let me put some water on..

4. You forget what you're talking about in the middle of a sentence

5. I dont feel like writing this anymore, i want to watch tv.. turns on radio

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lol....

Good one

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roneydapony said: you know you're a.d.d when you're talking on the phone and have a moment of panic where you ask 'WHERE IS MY PHONE!" and tell the person on the other end of the line that you've lost your phone

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You've been up and doing work in lab for more than 24 hours. You get home, and are dead tired and your stomach won't allow you to eat anything. Yet when you lie down on bed, you can't fall asleep because the brain MUST THINK ABOUT SOMETHING!

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YOU KNOW THERE'S NO WAY IN HELL YOU'RE FINISHING ANY OF THESE PARAGRAPHS....so you skip to the end to type this...:)

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kristinkat said: When you're thinking about the task at hand, and something else that should be attended to grabs your attention, and you don't even realized you've switched tasks...until later on when you come back across the first one and it was like six attention changes ago.

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you identify with almost, if not every, message on this thread, and that is why you love it so much it could be bedtime reading.. Anyone thought of publishing a compilation??

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i don't mean unlocked, I mean wide gaping open. And I live in the city, Montreal to be precise. This happened more than once, usually on recycling day, I would have my hands full with the bin going down the stairs, think I would come back up to close the door, and then forget to go back up. The worst is when you get home and think you've been burglared!!

Thank god it never happened in winter.

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... when you heat up your coffee six times in the same morning, only to find it four days later, molding in the microwave.

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How about...when your child asks for a sandwich and an hour later he has to ask if it's done yet! My poor starving children! My son knows that mommy has to be reminded several times.

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Is it just me or do most of you speed read because you CAN"T read slowly? I just read these post at lightning speed!

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ADD4life said: YOU KNOW THERE'S NO WAY IN HELL YOU'RE FINISHING ANY OF THESE PARAGRAPHS....so you skip to the end to type this...:)

That is soo true and maybe one of the best ones I've read (if not the only one :P)

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when you fail your favorite teacher's class (the one who's convinced you can do no wrong) by being completely unable to read more than 3-4 pages a night, no matter how much you want to. That's part of what finally convinced me to get medicated...that and graduating & finding the real world less ADD-friendly than school was.

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scrapperluv said: Is it just me or do most of you speed read because you CAN"T read slowly? I just read these post at lightning speed!

I have the opposite problem...I [I]can't[/I] speed-read. If I don't force myself to read every tiny detail, I "speed" through the text by virtue of not reading it.

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I just joined this forum ( I think) and wanted to send you a quick note to let you know that your story about making a pb sandwich when you orignially went to get your husband some water made me LAUGH OUT LOUD. I am so glad I am not the only one who does those things! Thanks! :)

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You know you're ADD when...

You find the milk in the cabinet, the salt and pepper in the fridge, and your keys in the freezer... Seriously, keys, in the FREEZER? Why I thought that was where they needed to be I have no idea

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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...

graciejones: I laughed so hard it hurt when I read your (my life to a tee) post. Today is the 1st day that I have laughed about this. I don't feel alone anymore, I don't feel stupid any more. All of the posts here have made such a difference in my life.

One of my "You Know You Have ADD stories is : getting in the car for a reason like appointment, work, to pick someone up and as I am driving on the interstate all of a sudden nothing looks familiar (I have only gone maybe 2-3 miles) and I forget why I am in the car in the 1st place. I have to pull over, park the car and collect my thoughts. And at times I have had to go home (once I figured out where I was) to find the note I had written to remind me of where I needed to go.

Your comment of brain thinking faster.....I have been working on my dissertation proposal for 2 years now........The comments back from the chair and committee are always "doesn't this belong in Chapter 1?" or why is this information here? I am sure they all think "How in the world did this person get through her classes and exams to get to this point in her PhD program?

Thank you! Than YOU! Than you all for sharing

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...you walk away without paying. I have walked away from a bar with a round of drinks without paying and have left the vets office without paying. I have walked out of stores without my purchases because I was so preoccupied with getting my card back in my wallet, and my wallet back in my purse and trying to find my keys, I swear my purse becomes Mary Poppins bag when I am trying to find my keys that I actually put in my pocket so that I would not have to search for the in the black hole purse because it is so cold outside, and I get home and my husband asks how I did at the grocery store and I have nothing. When I have one task to accomplish in a day and I start 10 other tasks that are never comleted because I finally remember what I wanted to do that day. When I have so many thoughts swirling in my head that I can't keep up, can't keep, can't...

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when you call someone and you're having a conversation and a minute later ask them "so what did you call me for anyway?"

when you're asked if you can do something quick for someone and you say yes and then walk away, and they say "I guess I'll do it myself!" and you have no clue what they're talking about.

when you're banned from cooking anything without supervision.

when you decided to play with the fire extinguisher and find it empty the next day when you actually need it.

when you have to decide between asking a person what they just said and looking stupid or acting like you know what they said and looking stupid later.

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...you get so into telling someone a story...and you get caught up in the details of it...and then just as your wrapping up you realize...you completely lost the point of why you were telling it in the first place & exactly what you were getting at!

...you call someone...and after the hello's...you are left telling them you can't remember why you were calling!

...someone asks you to do 1 task...and because you can't IMMEDIATELY leave (they're still talking to you figuring you'll remember what you need to do when they're done)...when you eventually do...you have NO CLUE what they asked you to do & are left looking like you weren't paying attention because you have to go back & ask them again what they'd said...that you heard...and then you'd forgotten!

I could go on & on...but have to say that it is SO good to read that I'm not alone!

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Your add when you singe part of your hair because you forget to turn off the burner and lean over it to get something else. Or when your cooking dinner and your at the stove and realise you need a green pepper. You take two steps to the right, open the fridge and have no idea why your in the fridge. You turn back to the stove and think, "oh ya, I needed a green pepper" So you take two steps to the right, open the fridge and make an irritated face as you wonder why the heck you just opened the fridge again. Repeat this cycle 2 more times. Or when your talking to your kid's doctor about his ADHD and mid sentence you forget entirely what you are saying. You sit there for at least 30 seconds mentally panicking because by this time you haven't got a single thought in you your head anymore. Lets not forget leaving your purse in a shopping basket in the parking lot. Or Forgetting half your groceries in the store all bagged up. Or going to bed only to get up in the morning to find you left every light in the house on and the door unlocked. Or getting to the day care and you only have two out of three kids in your car. You rush home, feeling like the most awful mother in the world and find him sitting in floor with every pop tart in the box out of the box and scattered EVERYWHERE. At this time he was 3yrs old. It's a miracle he's made it to the age of 11. Shall I go on?......

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Quite often I find myself going to the corner-store for milk or bread and I come home with ice cream or a candy bar. Do you ever watch TV and on commercial you don't remember what show your watching. My husbands pet name for me is Space Cadet. My husband repeats this phrase quite often with his head in his hands. "Rhonda, oh dear lord Rhonda, Why?" or "Holy sht, how can you not see THIS?" (its something like kool aid spilled in the bottom of the fridge)

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...you have to tell yourself, out loud, in the shower that you've already washed your hair or you'll forget and do it again... And maybe even AGAIN. (Same for shaving legs... Otherwise you'll do one and forget the other.)

...you pause at the top steps of your porch and touch your leg, just to make sure you remembered to actually put on pants, before leaving the house.

...you don't open your soda at your desk until your medication is in-hand, so you don't forget and accidentally take it again.

...amidst the piles of papers and magazines in your house lies a stack of to-do lists.

...your phone ...

Wait, what was it about my phone? I blanked.

Oh well. :)

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-- you have to remind your husband that he has 5 seconds to make his point or he'll lose you to that pretty red bird out the window making a nest in the gorgeous blooming plum tree you forgot to prune last fall, and where are those clippers, any way?

-- while searching for that shopping list, you uncover 200 to-do lists all over the house, written on school permission forms, deposit slips, gas station receipts, corners of newsprint ripped from articles on how to get organized ...

-- you're so proud to have trained yourself to quickly redirect your focus when approaching an intersection by repeating the mantra, "RED means STOP, GREEN means GO."

... you have to remind yourself to glance at the clock every 2 hours or so when you're doing a "quick" lookup on Google. (Man, can we relate to those Bing commercials or what?)

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...when you were so well known for forgetting your keys that your mom made you a t-shirt for christmas that said "Got Keys? Please Ask!!" ....and this was several years BEFORE being diagnosed...

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You, without realizing, slap the laptop so hard while reading a funny post that your computer shuts down and restarts.

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MR_ADD said: You've been up and doing work in lab for more than 24 hours. You get home, and are dead tired and your stomach won't allow you to eat anything. Yet when you lie down on bed, you can't fall asleep because the brain MUST THINK ABOUT SOMETHING!

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