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Age Activated Attention
Deficit Disorder.
Recently, I was
diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D. This is how it manifests:
I decided to wash my car. As I start toward the garage,
I notice that there is mail on the hall table. I decide
to go through the mail before I wash the car. I lay my
car keys down on the table, put the junk mail in the
trashcan under the table, and notice that the trashcan
is full.
 So,
I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out
the trash first. But then I think, since I'm going to be
near the mailbox when I take out the trash anyway, I may
as well pay the bills first.
I take my checkbook 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 to my desk where I find the bottle of
coke that I had been drinking.
I'm going to look for my checks, but first I need to
push the coke aside so that I don't accidentally knock
it over. I see that the coke is getting warm, and I
decide I should put it in the refrigerator to keep it
cold.
As I head toward the kitchen with the coke, a vase of
flowers on the counter catches my eye--they need to be
watered. I set the coke down on the counter, and I
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 I spot the TV remote. Someone left it on the
kitchen table. I realize 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
decide to put it back in the den where it belongs, but
first I'll 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.
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 coke 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, 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 long, 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.
Note: the author of this
article is unknown but we're sure the story will have a
familiar ring to it.
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