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AAADD
KNOW THE SYMPTOMS!

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 turned on the hose in the driveway, I looked over at my car and decided it needed washing.

As I started toward the garage, I noticed mail on the porch table that I brought up from the mail box earlier.

I decided to go through the mail before I washed my car.

I lay my car keys on the table, put the junk mail in the garbage can under the table, and noticed 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 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, and 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 to 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 today, I'm really baffled because I know I was busy all 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.....

Don't laugh -- if this isn't you yet, your day is coming!!

Seen it before but it's still a good one. Till I get there.

I'm the poster boy for that malady. It hasn't become fashionable just yet but after a few tele-thons the cash will be rollin' in.

That fits my wife perfectly. Me, not so much.

so things arent looking good for me when at 29 i get off the couch, walk ten steps to the kitchen only to realize i dont remember why i went to the kitchen?

Sheridan, it's all downhill from here. Watch out for the bumps on your way down.

dammit and i dont bounce as good as i used to upon landing

i drive my wife nuts cause she will tell me to remind her to do something the next day so immediately repeat to her what she told me and say "there i reminded you"......she gets mad but i remind her after 8 years together she should have figured out by now her chances are better at winning the lottery than me remembering to tell her to do something the next day......

Is better to have A.A.A.D.D. than A.A.A.B.D.*



* That "B" stands for Bowel for the imagination challenged among us.

What was the post about again????

Happens to the best, easy to forget what you went after when you had made that beer trip twelve times earlier in the day. Wives are untrainable for beer fetching, but dogs train without difficulty when you give them a portion. That way you wont forget what you went after and can remain on the couch and keep control of the remote. GW

I plan on replying to this post as soon as I remember where my computer is.

This is me: "You know, Honey, I was just going to do that...just as soon as I remembered what it was".

I'm the guy standing in my shop saying, "What did I come in here for?"
Also applies to grocery stores and driving down highways.

Ticks me off when I'm driving down the road on the way to town and I forget where I'm headed..."Should I have turned there? Dam it!"

Mickey, not only did might my wife and I laugh, we also cried.
But, like you we were both relieved to "KNOW" that there is a
name for our condition. I'm tired....think I'll go reload
some 6.5 X 47 Lapua for my Coleman Rifle(If I can remember where I put the loading data.)

i used to watch my dad go through that all day long and laugh about it........now i do it all the time, and im only 44...
...sorry dad.

In the real world, mine, my 93 year old Aunt with dementia tried to put her hearing aid in her nose yesterday. They told me she had it in her mouth the day before.

Count your blessings!

Can't remember how many times I've driven down the block and can't remember if I closed the garage door.

As a person with Adult ADD, I take offense to this....



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