You know you have ADHD when...

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You often forget to pack your tools away at the end of your shift, even if the tool cabinet is right next to you

You feel emotionally perked up after work

You have to check to see if you have shut the fridge door because you don't trust yourself

You have a calendar on the wall but you forget to write anything down on it

You put your hairbrush on the nearest surface to you instead of putting it back where you got it from or where it should be

Whenever you enter your home, a big mess of your stuff appears without you meaning to make a mess, and you only notice when other people complain about your mess

Bump

Your bookshelf is full of books you bought but have never read.

You do your big homework project the end of the night before it's due the next morning.

You comenonto the internet to check the weather and end up spending an hour looking at news websites, Facebook, YouTube videos and Wrongplanet.

Here's a fun test

When you have a backpack full of half used notebooks and spontaneously decide you need to buy a new notebook

When you get your phone out of your pocket to check the time and two hours later you've amused yourself with videos of insects attacking pets and people falling over, you've gained a degree in paper-making, learned everyone else's lives inside and out, responded to five wrong planet posts and completed 3 levels on candy crush.... and yet you still have no idea what the time is.

When you end up with four sugars in your tea instead of two because you forgot if you already put sugar in.

When you put something down next to you and turn away for a second and when you go straight back to it, it's not there because within that second you looked away you somehow managed to find yourself wandering to the fridge for a snack and you finally find the item in the cutlery drawer because when you went to get a spoon for your snack you decided the cutlery drawer was a mess and needed cleaning... and it isn't really a second that passed, it was half an hour.

When you write something down so that you don't forget and end up forgetting anyway because you forgot that you wrote it down

You are writing 5 stories all at once and all of them are unfinished. Now you are finding it hard to keep focused on which story to finish.

Your boyfriend can sit still and watch TV for a whole evening, and you can't sit still and watch TV for 5 minutes.

When you literally forget whether you took your meds...
And you literally took it like ten minutes ago....

^ I'm buggered if I don't have days of the week on my meds ( I still miss doses though )

you almost burn the house down every other day

"Can you repeat that question?" is your signature quote.

[QUOTE=Gallia]you almost burn the house down every other day[/QUOTE]

Literally lol'd

I like Rick Green. He's quite funny. Looks like he has quite a few ADHD videos on youtube, I shall have to peruse. Thanks

I guess he's also responsible for the website. Dammit. I was going to go do something, now I'm watching videos. I hope you're happy!

He has a talk scheduled in Toronto upcoming. Tempted to go, except that I hate Toronto and find it very overwhelming.

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Last edited by Gallia on 04 May 2018, 3:58 pm, edited 1 time in total.

my housemates will know I'm cooking when the fire brigade pops up uninvited