Recently, I was diagnosed with A. A. A. D. D .

[CanadianScroller]

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 lawn.
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 cheque book off the table, and see that
there is only one cheque left.
My extra cheques 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 cheques, 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 living room 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 lawn isn't watered,
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 one cheque in my cheque book,
I can't find the remote,
I can't find my glasses,
I don't remember what I did with the car keys,
and my neighbor called to tell me he turned off the
hose that was flooding the driveway.

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.

Do me a favour, will you? Forward this message to
everyone you know, because I don't remember to whom it
has been sent.

Laugh hard 'cuz if this isn't you yet, your day is coming!

GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY.
GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL.
LAUGHING AT YOURSELF IS THERAPEUTIC.

Notice the big print!!!

[miamw]

Carl, I'm so sorry to hear of your new diagnosis. It looks like your recent birthday has had a bigger impact on your life than you realized. Sorry to give you more bad news, but you'll have another birthday next April 9. Let us know how your condition progresses.

[PuzzledMoose]

ROTFL laughing here, Carl - but also getting a bit worried, since some of that rings true!

[Gill]

Drat... I thought I'd already posted a witty reply to this thread, but it seems that I was mistaken.

Gill

[ozarkhillbilly]

Good one Carl!! That reminds me I have to....oh never mind!

[Janette]

NOW I KNOW MY PROBLEM!! Thank you for helping me!! Just about every day is like that for me - and I can never figure out why I can't get anything done. At least I now know there's a medical reason for it.

[Mick Walker]

Carl, here is a sign you could enlarge and place on your front door.


I'm lost and have gone to look for myself. If I should return before I get back. Please ask me to wait. Thanks!

[DukeNukem]

Hey Carl that is just to funny thanks for the laugh LOL.Jerry

[utbva]

I represent that remark!! It is amazing how much I get done on the way out to my shop, but by the time I get there I forget what I went there for in the first place.

[Dragon]

I am passed the "50" mark and have noticed in past years that I tend to do some of the things mentionned in your post Carl. So I have solved the problem, partially. Bought myself a pen on a rope which hangs around my neck all the time. I bought myself a small pad which is always in my pocket. When I think of doing something I quickly write it down as I am going up the stairs. By the time I get upstairs for sure I've forgotten why I was going up in the first place. Now if I didn't put the pad down somewhere as I was thinking of something else !!!! then all is well. If I put the pad down then I spend most of the day looking for it. LOL
Diane