AAADD

[Monika]

Do you suffer from.

AAADD - 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 front veranda table
that I brought up from the letter box earlier, just after the mailman
had been.

I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car. I put my car
keys on the table, put the junk mail in the garbage bin beside the
table, and notice that the bin 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 post box when I take
out the garbage anyway (and the mailman picks up the mail at noon) .

I may as well pay the bills first. So, I take my cheque book off the
table, and see that there is only 1 cheque left. My spare cheque book
is in my desk in the study, so I go inside the house to my desk where I
find the cup of tea I'd been drinking earlier this morning.

I know I going to look for my cheque book, but first I need to push the
cup of tea aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over. The tea is

cold, so Idecide to put it in the microwave to heat it up.

As I head toward the kitchen with the tea, a vase of flowers on the
dining room table catches my eye -- they need water.

I put the tea on the dining room table 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 put more water in the flowers. I
set the glasses back down on the table, go to the kitchen sink to get a
jug and fill it with water and suddenly spot the TV remote on the
window sill.

Some-one left it there.

I realise 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 window sill, so I decide
to put it back in the lounge room where it belongs, but first I'll
water the flowers. I pour some water in the jug, but spill some on the
floor.


So, I set the remote back on the kitchen bench, 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 cheque's aren't written for the bills to be paid

- there is a cup of cold tea sitting on the dining room table

- the flowers don't have enough water,

- there is still only 1 cheque in my cheque book,

- I can't find the remote,

- I can't find my glasses,

- the garbage hasn't been taken out

- 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 now.

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.

Do me a favour. Forward this message to everyone you know, because I
don't remember who I've sent it to.

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

GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY.

GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL.

LAUGHING AT YOURSELF IS THERAPEUTIC.





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[Rowan]

[dejavou]

How true,

[Monsy]