Our nephew has ADHD. Our sons have ADHD. I have ADHD. Our daughter said she realizes now she has it, but has struggled past it. My dad had ADHD, his 9th grade teacher remembered him as a “day dreamer”. My mom has ADHD, she is in her 90s. She always did things like going to a baby shower on the wrong day. And at 92 it isn’t getting better, but not really any worse. I walk into a room and don’t remember why. I have to go back to the room I came from and look around and try to remember.
I did take Visual Basic computer programming and it helped my brain A LOT! I could finally think of things one at a time, instead of jumbled into a mess in my head. I retrained my brain to think of things one line at a time like in V.B.
But I am an elderly grandma now and often I am thinking of saying or doing something and it totally vanishes from my mind like in a POOF! I need to carry a notepad and jot things down!!!!
I do remember what they did TO NIXON and they tried to do to Reagan and “W” and what they are trying to do to Trump!!!!
“....often I am thinking of saying or doing something and it totally vanishes from my mind like in a POOF! I need to carry a notepad and jot things down!!!!”
I call that “poof” thingy “losing the bubble”. Notepads helped for awhile but increasingly found myself trying to de cypher either my handwriting or 2-3 three word shorthand.
My ex-wife keeps a notebook by the telephone.
She writes down the conversation so she won’t
forget, plus she uses her notes in future
conversations. I finally quit calling.