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Page 3 of 9 Recently, I was diagnosed with Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.
This is how it manifests:-
I decide to water my garden. As I turn on the hose, I look
over at my car and decide it needs washing.
As I start toward the garage, I notice mail on the table that I
collected from the letter 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 rubbish bin
under the table, and notice that it is full.
So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the rubbish
first. Then I think, since I'm going to be near the post-box when I take
out the rubbish anyway, I may as well pay the bills first.
I take my cheque book off the table, and see that there is only 1 cheque
left. My extra cheques are in my desk in the study, so I go inside the
house to my desk where I find the can of juice I'd been drinking.
I'm going to look for my cheques, but first I need to push the juice
aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over. The juice is getting warm,
so I decide to put it in the fridge to keep it cold.
As I head toward the kitchen with the juice, a vase of flowers on the
worktop catches my eye -- they need water. I put the juice on the worktop 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 worktop, fill a
container with water and suddenly spot the TV remote control. Someone left it on
the kitchen table. I realise that tonight when we watch TV, I'll be looking
for the remote control, but I won't remember that it's on the kitchen table,
so I decide to put it back in the lounge, 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 control 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 juice sitting on the worktop
- the flowers don't have enough water
- there is still only 1 cheque in my cheque book
- I can't find the remote control
- I can't find my glasses
- and I don't remember what I did with the car keys.
Then, when I try to work out why nothing has got done today, I'm really
baffled because I know I was busy all 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!!
GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY.
GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL.
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are over a billion stars in the universe, you believe
them, but if they tell you there is wet paint
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