AAADD

[JohnP]

AAADD
KNOW THE SYMPTOMS......PLEASE READ!

Thank goodness there's a name for this disorder. Somehow I feel better even though I have it!!

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 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 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 Pepsi I'd been drinking.

I'm going to look for my cheques but first I need to push the Pepsi aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over.

The Pepsi is getting warm, so I decide to put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold.

As I head toward the kitchen with the Pepsi, a vase of flowers on the counter catches my eye--they need water.

I put the Pepsi 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
•   Pepsi 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 damn 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....

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!!

 

 

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[rower40]

And your driveway is now a lake, as you've left the hose running since step 1.

My preferred solution to this:
Sit down and make a list.  Then choose which item on the list to do first.  Don't do another item on the list until the chosen one is complete.  At any time you can add new items to the list as you remember them, but you can't start doing a new item.

[rafletcher]

"A high level of disractability" is a symptom of bi-polar disorder....

[JohnP]

And your driveway is now a lake, as you've left the hose running since step 1.

My preferred solution to this:
Sit down and make a list.  Then choose which item on the list to do first.  Don't do another item on the list until the chosen one is complete.  At any time you can add new items to the list as you remember them, but you can't start doing a new item.

Item #1 -- write a list

[andygates]

..and just being batty.  I suffer from it massively.  My place is a tip of half-done and just-started things.

[MSeries]

"A high level of disractability" is a symptom of bi-polar disorder....

Mrs MSeries suffers from bi-polar and she seems to  start  jobs and then realise she has load to finish

[woollypigs]

This is what I call faffing, just ask our in house champ Peliroja how her days go

[Riggers]

I sometimes do stuff, maybe a bit of woodwork, and I mean bit, not a huge amount and think, "Hmmm, I'm pleased with that, I think that deserves a cup of tea, possibly a biscuit" … and a sit down to admire it.