Recently, I was diagnosed with A. A. A. D. D. - Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.
This is how it manifests:
I decide to water my garden.
.... As I turn on the hose in the driveway, I look over at my car and decide my car needs washing.
..... As I start toward the garage, I notice that there is mail on the porch table that I brought up from the mail box earlier.
.... I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car.
.... I lay my car keys down on the table, put the junk mail in the garbage can under the table, and notice that the can is full.
.... So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the garbage first.
.... But then I think, since I'm going to be near the mailbox when I take out the garbage anyway, I may as well pay the bills first.
.... I take my check book off the table, and see that there is only 1 check left.
.... My extra checks are in my desk in the study, so I go inside the house to my desk where I find the can of Coke that I had been drinking.
.... I'm going to look for my checks, but first I need to push the Coke aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over. I see that the Coke is getting warm, and I decide I should put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold.
.... As I head toward the kitchen with the Coke, a vase of flowers on the counter catches my eye -- they need to be watered.
.... I set the Coke down on the counter, and I discover my reading glasses that I've been searching for all morning.
.... I decide I better put them back on my desk, but first I'm going to water the flowers.
.... I set the glasses back down on the counter, fill a container with water and suddenly I spot the TV remote. Someone left it on the kitchen table.
.... I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV, I will be looking for the remote, but I won't remember that it's on the kitchen table, so I decide to put it back in the den where it belongs, but first I'll water the flowers.
.... I pour some water in the flowers, but quite a bit of it spills on the floor.
.... So, I set the remote back down on the table, get some towels and wipe up the spill ... Then, I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do.
.... At the end of the day:
* the car isn't washed
* the bills aren't paid
* there is a warm can of Coke sitting on the counter
* the flowers don't have enough water,
* there is still only 1 check in my check book,
* I can't find the remote,
* I can't find my glasses,
* and I don't remember what I did with the car keys.
.... Then, when I try to figure out why nothing got done today, I'm really baffled because I know I was busy all day long, and I'm really tired.
.... I realize this is a serious problem, and I'll try to get some help for it, but first I'll check my e-mail. -------------------- Have a nice night eh?
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Life is short..Live it sober to the fullest...One day at a time...
Is that what you call it??? ( I do have to say, when I was reading it, I said a silent Prayer that my friend Phil was only kidding) HaHa.
If there was a lot of truth to it, time to fly up and have a visit, get you a live-in housekeeper, and then come back home. Tehe!
So when it comes close to some of the days I have, at least I will know that this is a Real Disorder, and help is available. I alway thought it was called "DDNCAAT". (Dots Do Not Connect At ALL Today) for which there is no treatment.
Have a good nite, find the remote, and sit down, and don't get up for anything, ask you girls, say your having a back ache.
um..Baloney? Some of that post...is very true some days...hahaha
Live in housekeeper? nope....dont need one, thanks...I keep this place pretty clean.....I just loose things a lot....my mind...my sanity...emotional balance..brain cells that keep running away from home....a cat that goes into isolation mode...and wont openly comunicate, anymore.....usual stuff...
Dots connecting? Welll..some days are better than others...and there are some things, that just dont change. Acceptance is the key....:)
And Sober? Where do I get some of this? You havent had the privilege, of living in Cana du, have you...??
This part of the country is the weed capital of the world....we dont breath air, here...
We hafta go to the store and load up on munchies at least once a day....
And everybody giggles a lot...and nobody knows why....
All the people....having to do with mental health services, are in hospitals... with bars on the windows...eh...
But we cant complain....We have paid medicare....hockey...and ice cubes...
Have a nice night eh?
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Life is short..Live it sober to the fullest...One day at a time...
Must go and see my doctor though, I think I got AAADD at the age of 30!
Bye for now.
Best wishes
Chris.
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"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989"
