Not me...but it's a bit close for comfort.

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7 years ago

last modified: 7 years ago

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 it needs washing.

As I start toward the garage, I notice 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 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 1
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 I'd 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.

The Coke is getting warm, and I decide to 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 water.

I put the Coke on the counter 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 water the flowers.

I set the glasses back down on the counter, fill a container with
water and

suddenly spot the TV remote. Someone left it on the kitchen table.
I

realize 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 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 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 cheque in my cheque 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, 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.

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monicakm_gw

7 years ago

That's my daily life. When DH asked me what I did today, I must sound pathetic :( I know I was busy but I don't have much to show for it. I feel like a ball in a pinball machine just bouncing wildly about lol

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roxanna
7 years ago
This sort of behavior started when I was in my late thirties.... I am now 70. lol.
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OllieJane
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A little too close for comfort for me too! However, I went back to work three months ago, now I have an excuse for not getting things done. I think I've always had it, but got through highschool and college and life-somehow.

I am always told I'm happy and smiling and bubbly and talkative. I would say friendly, but everyone is friendly in Oklahoma. I don't like to concentrate on one thing too long-never have, unless, it is something I am very interested in, like decorating or landscape design-I'm more on the creative side. See, I'm all over the place!

But, I am a lot of fun! LOL
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eld6161
7 years ago
This reminds me of the joke about the difference between men and women when it is time to go to bed.

When it's time to go to bed, the woman: finished up in the kitchen, check emails for the following day, make sure her clothes are ready for work, on and on etc.

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dedtired
7 years ago
Just once -- just once! -- I would like to go upstairs and do what I originally intended to do before I come back down having done three other things, but not the original task.
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I know what you mean. I just looked up a cake recipe to compare it to one I'm getting ready to bake. Read the recipe, started reading the comments to see if maybe that's a better recipe than mine. Next thing I know, I'm reading this. I say to myself "How did I end up here?" Website with recipe is gone from my screen and I can't remember how I found it since I closed the tab.
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nhbaskets
7 years ago
Wow, this describes DH perfectly. I get home from work and he's exhausted from a day exactly like this.
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aok27502
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Is that how all men go to bed? I thought it was just mine. Me: take pill, check garage door, check front door, check fire, go up brush teeth, etc. DH: go up, undress, get in bed.
eld6161
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Exactly.
monicakm_gw
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DH and I were just talking about this last night. When I start to get ready for bed, I tidy the kitchen, divvy my night and morning pills, a shot of insulin, take bath, nighttime facial routine, apply hormones, brush teeth, spritz purfume, check on dog and then go to bed. DH...gets in bed forgetting to take his meds so he asks me to bring them to him. Oh well, I'm glad for my role and thankful I'm not the one trying to make a living.
Oakley
7 years ago
I read it a couple of years ago and realized that's how I've been all my life. I found it funny until I came to an intersection where my light was red. I was the first car in the left turn lane. I stopped because the light was red. Then my mind went God knows where and I just pulled out to make my left turn. While in the middle of the turn I heard all of these cars honking and then I started looking around wondering what was going on, until I realized it was me they were honking at. LOL. I was very shaken for days because I could have been killed or killed someone else.

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Not me...but it's a bit close for comfort.

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