12 Responses to “Absent-Minded Tales from Facebook – What does it FEEL like to have AD(H)D?”

  • Darlene Steelman

    Found this post from Ginger’s blog.. Thanks so much for posting this. I kind of make a lot more sense to myself now. Wow.

    Gotta make a doc appointment.

  • Mercedes Moody

    I can describe life with AD(H)D like working at a bakery on a Saturday morning! All morning long thinking about what donuts need to be refilled, coffee having to be made before the old people take it off while it’s brewing and you will have to clean up the spilt coffee, having sufficient money in the register for the next sale, tables needing clean, counters needing clean, and all the while im thinking about how in the very back of the bakery, there is a pile of bags that need to be refilled and im just getting more and more frustrated when people come in for no apparent reason, because I CANT STOP THINKING ABOUT THOSE STUPID BAGS! Even though they have no relevance to what I am doing at the moment, and I don’t need them, I feel desperate to have everything perfect to continue on with my day normally. So I instead get frustrated with the nice customers who have done nothing wrong to me, and frustrated by the fact that I run to the back to get something, forget what I was doing, look at those damn bags again run back out, then remember what it was! So by the time I finally can refill those blasted bags, I feel incredibly guilty over the fact that I got mad at those customers for absolutely no reason. That is the best way I can personally describe life with AD(H)D! (Though I think it can be argued that I more told of how my typical day goes, but still! I like to think it counts!)

  • Hal Lewis

    In some ways its like driving on the highway and pressing the scan button on your car stereo and trying to tune find a station to listen to. Sometimes it will stop for a short period of time and then jump to the next station. Other times you will get a great signal and hear your favorite songs for hours on end, and then sometimes you will get static and nothing comes in.

  • Christy Martin

    I was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 6 I am now 32 and for quite some time now I have compared my life to Sisyphus the king who was forced to spend an eternity in hades pushing a giant boulder up a steep hill only watch it roll back down the hill just before he reaches the top, follow it back down and do it all over again. Through out my life I have always worked harder and put more of myself into what I am doing both in school and at work, but it never seems to make a difference I am always so close to finally having something good happen so close I can taste it, and just when I start to beleive i just might make it, something happens to knock me down. But I keep trying, I keep pushing that rock up the hill because I am just stubborn enough to think hey I just might make it this time. Sounds pesimistic and I am a glass half empty kind of girl I can not help but to be a life full of dissapointment will do that to you. But at least I keep trying because I owe it to myself and those who love me and have put up with me and my shenanigans for the past 30 years to keep going until I get there

  • mklmsw

    Wow. Yes, yes and more yes. All I can say is that I disagree with those who say ADHD it is a “gift.” I’d love to return it. Even if that would change my personality and perhaps even all I’ve been able to do with my lie, I’d still return it. I’ve been kicked in the face by my ADHD too many times to appreciate having it. Meds or no meds, matters not. Just give me a centimeter of someone’s executive functioning ability… :/

  • Diyana

    My brain is like New York! And I realized after being recently diagnosed why I love NYC so much!

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