Age-Activated Attention Deficit Disorder

email | 12/19/2018 | unknown

[sodpoodle]

Thank GOD there's a name for this disorder.

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 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 Diet Coke I'd been drinking.

I'm going to look for my checks, But first I need to push the Diet Coke aside So that I don't accidentally knock it over.

The Diet Coke is getting warm, And I decide to put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold.

As I head toward the kitchen with the Diet Coke, A vase of flowers on the counter Catches my eye--they need water.

I put the Diet Coke 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 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 Diet Coke 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..

Do me a favor. 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

[Red Badger]

There’s this herb that’s supposed to be really great at improving your memory.

I’ll tell you what it is as soon as I remember the name of it!..................

[AppyPappy]

When I think of something I need to do right now, I speak it out loud.
If it is something I need to do in the future, I write it down on a calendar or in a journal.

[cblue55]

I got the CRS real bad. Its exhausting!

(Cain’t Remember $h!t)

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In more advanced stages it’s called CRAFT.

[AppyPappy]

ginkgo biloba

[Iscool]

I can relate to that but it gets worse...At least when you went outside to water the garden, you didn’t forget why you went outside...And then have to go back inside to get into that ‘frame’ to remember...

[Jumper]

Haha. I am like this article too but never got to smoke ... til now.

[Red Badger]

Happy Ginkgo Bilboa to you too!............................

[Two Kids' Dad]

I’m not quite there yet. On the rare occasions when I’m home alone I can still get partial tasks done while bouncing between chores until I’ve usually gotten a pretty fair number of them completed (eventually). But I can see becoming a guy with Age-Activated ADD at some point in the not-too-distant future.

Thanks for sharing, Sodpoodle.

[no-s]

I got the CRS real bad. Its exhausting!

At least I can remember what CRS stands for...

[AppyPappy]

Wasn’t he in Lord of the Rings?

[Vendome]

That’s funny and I’ve done it too...

[Red Badger]

I think it was Lord of the Flies..................The dead Pilot..................

[LeonardFMason]

What?

[Texicanus]

Guilty. You forgot to add the “wifey” effect. When she breaks my concentration and asks me to drop whatever task(s) I’m currently involved with to take care of some meaningless task (that just can’t wait) for her.

Being an old programmer, I use stacks. My cuurent task gets suspended and placed on the stack while I endeavor to please her. If I complete the task to her satisfaction, I’ll restart my task(s) and resume whatever I was doing. If not, I have to abort everything and start over.

A simple question such as “Have you fed the cat today” can raise the hair on my back and completely break my concentration when I’m busy. If I reply “No!”, all I’ll get is a “What did you say?”. Rather than repeat “NO!” three times and receive the same response, it’s quicker to stop and feed the damn cat. (She says I mumble but I think she really needs a hearing aide badly”.)

It’s not full-blown CRS yet, but I’m getting there.

[left that other site]

Been there. Done That...and that...and that...and...

[SES1066]

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[GOPJ]

LOL - good one

[P.O.E.]

If only I could figure out how to work my phone, I could leave messages for myself:

“Self, you are going downstairs to get laundry”