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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You know your ADHD when...well, my best stories were the two I sent to Terry Matlen when she was gathering material for her new book, Survival Tips for Women with ADHD. Mine are signed "Mary Kay L., Batavia, IL."

So I rush to school, needing to be early for a staff meeting. I ducked everyone in the library, threw my coat and things in my office and snuck into the meeting.

When I went home that night I put on my off-white Eddie Bauer down coat, and lo and behold there was a BRA DANGLING DOWN THE FRONT OF IT!! I had whipped my coat out of the dryer that morning as I rushed to leave. A bra had stuck to the velcro on the front of the coat...AND I HADN'T EVEN NOTICED!! Of course I was talking to a colleague as I pulled my coat one... well the story continues to circle even though I left that school district 6 years ago!! LOL

Story #2 - It was at that same school where I arrived and realized I had NO SHOES. My sandals had been in my hand as I rushed out to the car, but I turned around and went back in to grab something from the fridge for my lunch. I took a plastic store bag and threw a yogurt and apple into it and left for work. Ok well, I'd set my sandals down to do that. I had to walk into school bare-footed, and of course, my principal was giving some new parents a TOUR OF THE SCHOOL! I kind of ducked into a classroom and one of the teachers had a spare pair of sandals under her desk....so I was saved for the rest of the day. But I'll never forget that feeling as my principal looked down at my bare feet.... ARRGGGGGGG!!!!!!

Mary Kay

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You Know You're ADD When... you have enough money in the bank to pay bills yet simply forget to! My credit is horrible because of this.

I have so many more: going to work with my polo shirt inside out; having a pr of glasses on my head, a pr hanging from my necklace and still looking for my glasses; buying a PDA to schedule appts and bill due dates and forgetting to input the data; showing up for work on the first day of my vacation... geeeesh!

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How many ADDers does it take to change a lightbulb?

So how's about a bike ride then?

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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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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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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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She was in the car with me as I rushed to and from many small errands, went home twice to get other things I'd forgotten...Got to the home improvement store, told her to stay in the car and be a good girl, was gone 5 minutes, came back to find her gone. I yelled all over the parking lot for her, called the local police and informed them in case they saw my large German Shepard. Wandered the neighborhoods near the store asking people if they'd seen her. Handed out my phone number to anyone I saw and asked them to call if they saw her. In tears, I finally drove home, knowing that I'd have to tell the kids that their beloved dog was lost. Got out my key, opened the door to the house and there she was. Not only had she managed to get home, but she'd even gone in the house and locked the door...what a good dog!! Of course, I'd forgotten that I'd left her home on one of my many trips in and out of the house. This is one of the stories I told the doctor when she asked me, "What makes you think you have ADD?"

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Here's the other story I use to demonstrate to doctors who don't believe I have ADD...Again, running a zillion little errands and all excited because we are going on vacation in the morning. I decide to gas up the car. While I'm filling the tank, I decide to check the oil, and then I wash all the windows with that squeegee thing. Then I get in my car and start to drive away. A loud metal scraping noise makes me slam on the brakes. I look in the side mirror and see the gas hose stretched much further than anyone would think it could stretch. Gas is spraying out of the coupler connectors on the hose...there's pretty much a big puddle starting to collect under my car. I pull out the hose, returning it to the pump. I enter the gas station and say to the high school aged clerk, "Oh my God, I've just squirted gas all over out there. I'm so sorry. What can I do? Isn't there something I need to do?" He responds slowly and thoughtfully, "No, I think you've already done enough! Go home!" And I did. The week the kids come home from school and say, "Ma, some guy at school says that you are a real piece of work! He says you drove away with the hose attached to the car. Says it cost his boss about $500!" I assured the kids that it must have been some other crazy lady. It really was a different lady...it was me before I got on meds!

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You're always getting told to stop and listen, and you turn around and add your two cents in anyways, just because you couldn't get your words across because someone was interupting you for not listening to them.

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