Friday, May 02, 2008

A.A.A.D.D.

Recently, I was diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D. - Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder. This is how it manifests:

I decide to water the garden. As I turn on the hose in the drive, I look over at my car and decide It needs washing. As I start toward the garage, the postman arrives so I take the mail
and go inside I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car.
I lay my car keys on the table, I decide to put the junk mail straight in the waste bin but notice that the bin is full. So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and empty the bin
first But then I think, since there is a post box on the road outside I may as well post the bills when I go to empty the bin so I decide to pay the bills first. I take my cheque book off the table, and see that there is only one cheque left.
My new cheque book is in my desk in the study, so I go to my desk where I find the can of Coke I'd been drinking. I'm going to look for my cheque book, 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 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 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 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:
1 the car isn't washed
2 the bills aren't paid
3 there is a warm can of Coke sitting on the counter
4 the flowers don't have enough water,
5 there is still only 1 cheque in my check book,
6 I can't find the remote,
7 I can't find my glasses,
8 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 realise this is a serious problem, and I'll try to get some help for it, but first I'll check my e-mail....
Don't laugh -- if this isn't you yet, your day is coming!!

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