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KidsHappen

KidsHappen

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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 & 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 check book off the table,

and see that there is only one check left.

My extra checks 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 checks,

but first I need to push the Pepsi aside

so that I don't accidentally knock it over.

The Pepsi is getting warm.

 

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 had 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..

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 check in my check 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,

I'm really baffled because I know I was busy all darn 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....

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purplebrooklyn

purplebrooklyn

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Thank you! This is just what I needed to read today!!! I was working with my husband in the yard this weekend when he told me that he was worried because I kept getting distracted and couldn't "focus" to finish a job. He said I kept wondering off....... Well, I really was working, but I guess I was doing exactly that A. A. A. D. thing. I really think it is a stay-at-home/homeschooling mom thing with WAY too many things to ever get done be the end of the day, too many projects, etc.

This really gave me a good life. I am going to copy it and send to my husband. He will really enjoy it.

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dirty ethel rackham

dirty ethel rackham

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I have a similar disorder, but instead of being activated by age it is actually activated by having children.

 

Me too. Okay, to be truthful, I have both. With each child and had the CFL - childbirth frontal lobotomy. After I passed forty - I began to suffer from DND - Deficient Noun Disease. My family is tired of me asking them to pick up the "thingy" and move it to the "whatchamacallit."

 

I am assuming that AAADD is just another acronym for this myriad of symptoms.

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