A day in the life of someone with ADD

[Tasmaniak]

I suffer from ADD and a friend of mine who also suffers with ADD sent me this...I couldn't believe how true it rings for me.....infact I don't think it is a joke and could very well be taken from a day in my life.


I decide to water my garden. As I turn on the hose in
the driveway, I look over at my car and decide it
needs washing. As I start toward the garage, I notice
mail on the front verandah table that I brought up
from the letter box earlier, just after the mailman
had been.

I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car.
I put my car keys on the table, put the junk mail in
the garbage bin beside the table, and notice that the
bin 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 post
box when I take out the garbage anyway (and the
mailman picks up the mail at noon) ...

I may as well pay the bills first. So, I take my
cheque book off the table, and see that there is only
1 cheque left. My spare cheque book is in my desk in
the study, so I go inside the house to my desk where I
find the can of Coke I'd been drinking earlier this
morning.

I know I am looking for my cheque book, but first I
need to push the Coke can aside so that I don't
accidentally knock it over. The Coke is warm, so I
decide to put it in the refrigerator to make it cold
again.

As I head toward the kitchen with the Coke, a vase of
flowers on the dining room table catches my eye --
they need water.

I put the Coke on the dining room table and 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 put more water in the flowers.
I set the glasses back down on the table, go to the
kitchen sink to get a jug and fill it with water and
suddenly spot the TV remote on the window sill.

Some-one left it there.

I realise that tonight when we go to watch TV, I'll be
looking for the remote, but I won't remember that it's
on the window sill, so I decide to put it back in the
lounge room where it belongs, but first I'll water the
flowers. I pour some water in the jug, but spill some
on the floor.

So, I set the remote back on the kitchen bench, 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 cheque's aren't written for the bills to be paid

- there is a warm can of Coke sitting on the dining
room table

- the flowers don't have enough water,

- there is still only 1 cheque in my cheque book,

- I can't find the remote,

- I can't find my glasses,

- the garbage hasn't been taken out

- 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, and I'm really tired now.

I realise this is a serious problem, and I'll try to
get some help for it, but first I'll check my e-mail.

[soulyouth]

HAhahahahaha

GOLD!!!

[DavidPartay]

That is really quite funny

[sparky]

hahahahahahahahaha that is pretty f***ing good

[maxy0987]

you also didnt water the garden :P

[Tasmaniak]

maxy, yourr quite right....I also forgot I posted this earlier today.

[xlr8_87]

sounds like me

[Patrio7]

12v, does that mean when you go to add a sub to a car you end up getting three out?

[MzTomboy]

lmfaoo thats so true about people with ADD!!

[Shounak]

As an ADD sufferer.. It's the truth...

[Stretchomatic]

wow i must be borderline ADD...never get anything done...i think i'm more a mix of procrastination and lazy though...

[Tasmaniak]

12v, does that mean when you go to add a sub to a car you end up getting three out?

No it means that I will walk 4-5 times from my desk to the stock room because for the life of me I can't remember which sub I was supposed to use. So I walk back to the PC...to the stock room...forget...walk back to the PC...repeat.

[TheForgotten]

As an ADD sufferer.. It's the truth...

yep I agree. I've torn my shed apart over the last week or so while I
*modify and paint some new interior plastics
*peel stickers off my scooter
*help lil bro fix his POS sillycar
*fix a chair
*build shelves
and a few other things and nothin's been finished and the shed needs cleaning

[Tasmaniak]

yep I agree. I've torn my shed apart over the last week or so while I
*modify and paint some new interior plastics
*peel stickers off my scooter
*help lil bro fix his POS sillycar
*fix a chair
*build shelves
and a few other things and nothin's been finished and the shed needs cleaning

LOL it's only ADD if you attempt to start it all in one day jk

[TheForgotten]

wanna fly back and witness a day in the life? should have said it was a week ago, not over a week
I keep goin to finish at least one thing and only find more to do

[Tasmaniak]

LOL it's only ADD if you attempt to start it all in one day jk

Sorry buddy, I think you missed th JK at the end of it LOL

[maxy0987]

Would writing shit down help?
I mean, if you had a notepad with you and as you found something to do you wrote it down to come back to later.

So back to our original story - You'd write down that you needed to wash the car, you'd water the garden, then collect the mail (otherwise it might get wet).
Then as you go inside you put the mail down and write down 'pay bills'.
Wash the car, then go to pay the bills.
You see you need a new cheque book, as you go get that you see the remote, put the remote away and once again see 'pay bills'.
That reminds you to get the cheque book.

In 12VK case - write the flapping part number down :P

[Tasmaniak]

Maxy....thats all well and good. But you see the issue is...I never remember to write things down. I usually get distracted in my search for a pen or a blank peice of paper.

[maxy0987]

lol, well keep a pen and paper in your pocket :P

[Stupa]

and then you put the pad down somewhere....

[Tasmaniak]

yes, I either put it down or need to write a note to remind myself to carry it.

[vh-holden]

according to that i have ADD too

[Tasmaniak]

75% of cases are undetected. Not sure how they figure that one out...but what the heck!