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, I look over at my car
and decide it needs washing.
As I start toward the garage, I notice mail on the table that I collected
from the letter 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 rubbish bin under
the table, and notice that it is full.
So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the rubbish
first.
But then I think, since I'm going to be near the post-box when I take out
the rubbish 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 fridge to keep it cold.
As I head toward the kitchen with the Coke, a vase of flowers on the worktop
catches my eye - they need water.
I put the Coke on the worktop 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 worktop, fill a container with
water and suddenly spot the TV remote control. Someone left it on the
kitchen table. I realise that tonight when we watch TV, I'll be looking for
the remote control, 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 control 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 worktop
- the flowers don't have enough water
- there is still only 1 cheque in my cheque book
- I can't find the remote control
- 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 realise
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. Forward this message to everyone you know, because I don't
remember who the hell I've sent it to.
Don't laugh - if this isn't you yet, your day is coming!!
GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY.
GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL.
LAUGHING AT YOURSELF IS THERAPEUTIC.
This is how it manifests:
I decide to water my garden. As I turn on the hose, I look over at my car
and decide it needs washing.
As I start toward the garage, I notice mail on the table that I collected
from the letter 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 rubbish bin under
the table, and notice that it is full.
So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the rubbish
first.
But then I think, since I'm going to be near the post-box when I take out
the rubbish 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 fridge to keep it cold.
As I head toward the kitchen with the Coke, a vase of flowers on the worktop
catches my eye - they need water.
I put the Coke on the worktop 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 worktop, fill a container with
water and suddenly spot the TV remote control. Someone left it on the
kitchen table. I realise that tonight when we watch TV, I'll be looking for
the remote control, 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 control 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 worktop
- the flowers don't have enough water
- there is still only 1 cheque in my cheque book
- I can't find the remote control
- 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 realise
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. Forward this message to everyone you know, because I don't
remember who the hell I've sent it to.
Don't laugh - if this isn't you yet, your day is coming!!
GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY.
GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL.
LAUGHING AT YOURSELF IS THERAPEUTIC.
