Age Activated Attention Deficit DisorderRecently, I was diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D. - I think it's very serious. If I remember correctly, this is how it manifested itself:I decided to wash my car. As I started toward the garage, I notice that there was mail on the hall table. I decided to go through the mail before I wash the car. I put my car keys down on the table, separated the bills, and put the junk mail in the trashcan under the table. Then I noticed that the trash can was full. So, I decided to put the bills back on the table and take out the trash first. But then I thought, since I'm going to be near the mailbox when I take out the trash anyway, I might as well pay the bills first. I took my checkbook off the table, and saw that there was only one check left. My extra checks were in my desk in the study, so I went to my desk where I found the bottle of beer that I had been drinking. I was about to look for my checks, but first I needed to push the beer aside so that I wouldn't accidentally knock it over. I saw that the beer was getting warm, and I decided I should put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold. As I headed toward the kitchen with the beer, a vase of flowers on the counter caught my eye - they needed to be watered. I set the beer down on the counter, and I discovered my reading glasses that I've been searching for all morning. I decided I better put them back on my desk, but first I knew I had to water the flowers. I set the glasses back down on the counter, filled a container with water and suddenly I spotted the TV remote. Someone left it on the kitchen table. I realized that tonight when we go to watch TV, we will be looking for the remote, but nobody will remember that it's on the kitchen table, so I decided to put it back in the den where it belongs. But first I have to water the flowers. I splash some water on the flowers, but most of it spills on the floor. So, I set the remote back down on the table, get some towels and wipe up the spill. (I'm writing in the present tense; when did that start?) So 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 bottle of beer sitting on the counter, the flowers aren't watered, there is still only one check in my checkbook, I can't find the remote, I can't find my glasses, not sure what I did with the car keys ... and where's the car? Then when I try to figure out why nothing got done today, I'm really baffled because I know I was busy all day long, I'm really tired, and I don't know what happened. I realize this is a serious problem, and I'll try to get some help for it, but first I'll check my email. I know the mailman brings it to me every day. Do me a favor. I hope you don't mind and I feel bad asking but... I know I was supposed to send this to someone; problem is I don't remember to whom I was supposed to send it. Maybe (just maybe), if you send it to everyone you know, eventually it will end up with the right someone who is supposed to get it. Well, I don't expect you to send it to everyone ... So please ... forward this ridiculous letter and that someone will eventually get it. My memory's really going; I think I linked the wrong words ... so please? ... linking "so please" makes no sense ... I AM in trouble. Maybe it's also the fault of all this work on the computer; it kinda (what's the expression?) ... it gets to you? ... That can happen. Yours truly, yours truly, yours truly... I know you won't believe it but I forgot my name. |