Diagnosed with ADD. Sewers and Comedy.
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Recently diagnosed myself. What a revalation! So, THAT'S why:
my apartment looks like it needs to be bulldozed. Cleaning it up seems useless because the next time I actually NOTICE, it will look the same. When I do get motivated enough to do it, it is like punishment - EVERY speck of dust and streak MUST be completely eradicated and it takes HOURS on end.
I've always tested high IQ but couldn't muster a decent GPA.
my boss tells me I am smarter than the whole office and her combined but I can't seem to ever finish a project (to her satisfaction, at least, there are some PHB issues here, too =)
I've always been told: "If you would just apply yourself...." HELLO, I'm not deodorant, maybe there's a basic REASON you keep telling me this
and many other things.
The most telling thing for me was reading that it takes much MORE effort for an ADD or ADHD person to get something they can't hyperfocus on done. Wow, maybe I wasn't just some damaged, lazy human! Maybe there was a strategy that would help overall!
I am amazed at how much easier it is to focus/unfocus and actually accomplish things with methylphenidate (generic of Ritalin). I would like to try a few other of the common drugs and see what works best but for now it has been a revalation - at least I have a basic answer now for many previously inexplicable problems....
Exercise is enormously helpful too - but it took the brain chemistry adjustment to have the energy and ability to perform it consistently.
I loved the post about Age-related AD and "oh, look, there's string...." Not because they are so terribly funny, in general, but because they are so funny to ME - that IS my brain in action and part of why everyday life can be so exhausting. Just because its an anomoly that benefits from drug treatment, doesn't mean it can't be funny.
This is probably not exact but Mel Brooks said something like this (imagine a sanitary sewer with the manhole cover missing): "Tragedy is me falling down a sewer and dying. Comedy is you falling down a sewer and dying."
Laughing at the fact I can't remember if that bottle of medicine is sitting in front of me right now because I need to take one or because I already have....
Hey, finally, someone even bin Laden and Saddam would probably refuse to be seen with.
Mozilla Rules! (Except that rev that would turn the entire ABCnews.com site into a endless repeating mega-pop-up)
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my apartment looks like it needs to be bulldozed. Cleaning it up seems useless because the next time I actually NOTICE, it will look the same. When I do get motivated enough to do it, it is like punishment - EVERY speck of dust and streak MUST be completely eradicated and it takes HOURS on end.
I've always tested high IQ but couldn't muster a decent GPA.
my boss tells me I am smarter than the whole office and her combined but I can't seem to ever finish a project (to her satisfaction, at least, there are some PHB issues here, too =)
I've always been told: "If you would just apply yourself...." HELLO, I'm not deodorant, maybe there's a basic REASON you keep telling me this and many other things.
The most telling thing for me was reading that it takes much MORE effort for an ADD or ADHD person to get something they can't hyperfocus on done. Wow, maybe I wasn't just some damaged, lazy human! Maybe there was a strategy that would help overall!
I am amazed at how much easier it is to focus/unfocus and actually accomplish things with methylphenidate (generic of Ritalin). I would like to try a few other of the common drugs and see what works best but for now it has been a revalation - at least I have a basic answer now for many previously inexplicable problems....
Exercise is enormously helpful too - but it took the brain chemistry adjustment to have the energy and ability to perform it consistently.
I loved the post about Age-related AD and "oh, look, there's string...." Not because they are so terribly funny, in general, but because they are so funny to ME - that IS my brain in action and part of why everyday life can be so exhausting. Just because its an anomoly that benefits from drug treatment, doesn't mean it can't be funny.
This is probably not exact but Mel Brooks said something like this (imagine a sanitary sewer with the manhole cover missing): "Tragedy is me falling down a sewer and dying. Comedy is you falling down a sewer and dying."
Laughing at the fact I can't remember if that bottle of medicine is sitting in front of me right now because I need to take one or because I already have....
Randal
Hey, finally, someone even bin Laden and Saddam would probably refuse to be seen with. Mozilla Rules! (Except that rev that would turn the entire ABCnews.com site into a endless repeating mega-pop-up)