A great site to start learning about Add/Adhd.

http://www.chadd.org/AM/CustomPages/home/CHADD_Home.htm?CFID=5479869&CFTOKEN=87223464&jsessionid=f2302814321191893381093

. . .you must use the one hour photo because you can't stand waiting for your pics, then the store hands you the package of pics that your son put in last April!! (His science camp)

. . .on your way from Washington to California, you pass through Vancouver, B.C.

. . .you look in your purse for the keys to your car, (they're not there) and you find they're locked in your car which is still running!!!

. . .you stage a laugh at a joke at the right place cause you know you missed something but don't want to appear to.

. . .as you're leaving the house and you remember you forgot to take your medication, you think maybe you don't really need it.

. . .you get up at 6:30 to be able to leave for work by 8:30 because although you're ready in 45 min. you won't be finished playing on the computer and you know gyou're going to leave late anyway.

. . .you can think of a hundred different things that make you ADD, but when you go to write them down you can't remember any of them.

. . .you actually make a list of 20 things to get done at work, or home and at the end of the day nothing is crossed off because you did 30 things you didn't have on you list. (Have any of you ever added those things to your list to feel better?)

. . .you think you can learn to play the jaw harp while driving a stick shift car in Chicago.

. . .you go through five family member names both dogs and the rabbits name before you get to your friends name. Then they give you that funny look, and all you can say is, "WHAT?"

. . .you find the plunger and forget what you were going to plunge. Also while searching for the plunger you find the hammer,the nails and other various objects you were looking for last week.

. . .you're making coffee and pour the grounds where the water should go.

. . .ruin the toaster that sits next to the coffee pot because you poured the water into the bread slots instead of into the pot.

. . .you send your glasses to the teller instead of your deposit at the drive-in bank window.

. . .you go to take the cake you were going to bake out of the oven, but it wasn't there . . . the pan of batter was sitting in the refrigerator, raw?

. . .you're driving at night on a dark road, suddenly"come to" after losing track and have no idea where you are and have to keep on going, hoping something will finally look familiar!

. . .while looking for your purse, someone reminds you it is under your arm already.

. . .you're in the car driving down the street when you notice you still have the TV remote in your hand.

. . .when you capitalize parts of words like ADDress, ADult, ADDed, ADage, ADDicted, ADept, ADDrenaline, ADmonish, ADhere ADmit, ADlib, ADnauseam.

. . .you go to put something away in the other room and forget to take it with you.

. . .you get a card that says the item you ordered is out of stock and you're glad because you don't know why you ordered the thing to begin with.

. . .your therapist doesn't have a clue.

. . .your new book on ADD seems to have sticky covers, and you can't seem to put it down.

. . .a dull moment seems more like a welcome reprive

. . .you spend an entire afternoon making Chili Verde and forget to put the chili's in.

. . .you make a special trip down to the basement to take the clothes out of the clothesdryer, and you beat yourself to it, because you already took them out a few hours ago!

. . .after shopping, you get all the way to my car BEFORE realizing the cart you were pushing is empty (you left your back by the cashier)

. . .the brownies you baked were gooey and you realize you left out the flour.

. . .you have to be across town by 7:00. While walking out the door at 6:39 you see a movie that has to be back by 7:00. No problem, it's on the way. Go in to return the movie and it's not in the box. Well, that's okay, I can be "fashionably late". While driving back home I realize I'm low on gas. That's okay, it's still enough. Leaving the engine running, I go in to get the movie. It's not rewound. Rewind the movie. While waiting I go ahead and put up the leftover dinner since the kids won't be home to eat. Begin cleaning the kitchen when I realize the movie stopped awhile ago. Grab movie and run out to car...that is still running!
That's okay, only have about 20 miles to go and it's not in the red, yet. Get to my meeting, told dear hubby I would be back by 11:00. 11:10 I realized I had better leave, thinking I would stop to get gas on the way home. No gas station the entire way home. That's okay, I still have a few miles left in the red. Whew! Made it home on faith and fumes.
Next day, dear hubby asks why I didn't put gas in the car. Geez, I didn't have time and I can't do EVERYTHING!

. . .your spouse finds you sitting, drinking coffee, and staring into space in the middle of a usually busy day. You explain that you have absolutely nothing to do since you lost your TO DO list and can't remember even 1 thing that was on it.

. . .you go to the supermarket, pay for your groceries, get in the car, drive all the way home, only to discover that you left all the groceries (all 4 bags) sitting at the cash register. TALK ABOUT EMBARRASSING.

. . .of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most!

. . .you cycle your digital clocks three times around because you can't pay attention long enough to stop when the right hour comes up.

. . .the alarm goes off twelve hours late because you didn't notice the AM / PM indicator was wrong.

. . .You go outside to get the trash cans on a Firday when the trash was picked up on Wed.

. . .driving by a fire station my 5 year old son said, "Mom how do the firemen known when there's a fire?" "The alarm goes off" I said in that mommie knows all voice.
"You mean the alarm goes ON" my son corrected me.

. . .your purse is stolen and you just thought you left it somewhere!

. . .you spend two hours making a complicated list with flow charts and fopotnotes which organizes your next week, including meal planning and budget... and loose the only copy.

. . .you thought you left the curling iron on and you turn around and go back to find it unplugged. Worse yet you think about it and decide no you didn't leave it plugged in and then you return after work and it's been plugged in all day!!!

. . .your son says that he lost his backpack and it's on his back.

. . .your son has ADD when you tell him to clean his room and his bed rises two feet.

. . .your son has ADD when he goes trick or treating and doesn't remember his candy until July.

. . .you're standing in your house trying to figure out what you got up for, and then the phone rings again.

Rule #1: If you are ADD, never ask another ADD person to remind you of something.

I once thought I left my purse in a pizza place. When I called they said they hadn't seen it. Thinking it had been taken I began to get upset...until I took out the garbage, that is. I had thrown it away with my drink cup.

How about when you forget what you're looking for, but continue to look for it hoping you'll recognize it when you see it.

. . .you laugh at this joke:
Question: why did the chicken cross the road?
Answer: How 'bout those Red Sox?

. . .you go to your first ADD Support Group meeting and you get whiplash from nodding your head up and down in the first 10 minutes...

. . .you make a shopping list to go food shopping, then lose the list.

. . .the stack of papers that are as tall as you are is your "to do" list.

. . .you go out to lunch and the waiter never comes to take your order because if you close the menu, you will forget what you wanted.

. . .you lose your wallet...in your purse.

. . .you're consistently 20 min late to the therapist and you're located across the street.

. . .you're going 60mph and you suddenly throw the car into reverse...just to see what would happen.

. . .your partner's breathing patterns are distracting.

. . .every fish you've owned has starved to death.

. . .you spend all day looking for your glasses and they are on they're on top of your head.

. . .you go to a flea market and no one sees you for a week.

. . .you think social cues means playing billiards with friends.

. . .you're at a party and you make an off beat joke and your spouse pinches you and you say, "Why did you pinch me?"

. . .your nickname is "the blur"

. . .your ADHD son makes it a habit of checking behind you nightly to make sure the oven and stove are turned off. You worry him.

. . .you leave your purse on the car hood and drive off . . . not once but twice within a few months.

You Know You've Got ADD When . . .

. . .you finally find your pencil in your book bag, look up and the rest of the class are no longer in the room.

. . . you ask your parents,"can I borrow the car"...and they hand you the insurace policy AND the car keys.

. . . your spouse asks if it was good and you say "What?"

. . . you have lost your cars keys more than once in the last 10mins.

. . . a fairy steals your homework out of your bookbag...EVERY day...

. . .you haven't sent out the baby announcements yet...and you're at his commencement.

. . .the stack of papers on your desk is as high as you are.

. . .your kid tells you that you gave him permission to stay out all night, but you just forgot.

. . .you don't have to buy and write out Christmas cards this year...because you just found last year's stamped and ready to mail...in the trunk.

. . .you realize that you've forgotten to schedule the sitter for tommorrow night and your 7 year old informs you that SHE took care of it yesterday!

. . .your very ADHD child looks at you with a concerned look on his face and says, "Mom, sometimes you pay less attention than I do."

. . .you find the peanut butter in the freezer and you have no idea how it got there.

. . .the car is never parked where you think you left it.

. . .one little patch of poison Ivey turns into cortazone city because you can't stop scratching it.

. . .you suddenly realize that you're girlfriend has left the room ... one hour later.

. . .you return to your desk only to realize that you forgot what you went for in the first place.

. . .you can't remember what you got up for until you sit down again.

. . .with 6 of us in this house, 5 of us diagnosed I keep threatening to put a sign up next to the front door:

 

PLEASE IGNORE THE MESS
WE ALL HAVE ADD!!

. . .you lose your car keys before you even get out of the car!

. . .you can't remember the thing you were not supposed to forget, or the key word you thought up to remind yourself with.

. . .you tell your child it's time to organize his room and he tells you NEVER to use the "O" word in his presence.