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A.A.A.D.D. Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.
This is how it manifests:
I decide to water my garden . As I turn on the hose in the drive, Ilook over at my car and decide it needs washing. As I start toward the garage, I notice that the mail is on the hall table where I put it earlier. I decide to go throught the mail before I wash the car. I lay my car keys down on the, put the junk mail in the paper bin and notice that it needs to be emptied.
So, I decide to put the bills back on the hall table and take the rubbish out first. But then I think that I might as well write the cheques to pay the bills first, and then put all the envelopes and rubish in the bin at the same time.
I pick up my cheque bookand discover there is only one left. My new cheque book is in thother room in the drawer of my pc workstation, so I go to fetch it and find the can of Coke that I had been drinking earlier. I move the Coke can so that I don't accidentally knock it over. I see that it is getting warm and decide to put it in the Fridge to keep it cool.
As I head towards the kitchen with the coke I notice the plants in the Hall - they need to bee watered. I put the Coke down on the shelf and discover my reading glasses that Iv'e been searching for all morning. I decide that I had better put then back on my desk, but first I'm going to water the plants.
I put the glasses back on the shelf and go to the kitchen to fill a jug with water. Suddenly I spot the TV remote on the kitchen table. I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV I will be looking for the remote that I won't remember is on the kitchen table so I should put it back on top pf the TV where it belongs. BUT first I will water the plants. So I put the remote back on the table and pour some water into the jug but spill some of it on the floor. I get some towels to mop up the spill and head off 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 Coke on the Hall shelf, the plants aren't watered, there is only one cheque left in the book, I can't find the remote or my glasses and I can't remember what I did wit the car keys. Iv'e been busy all day and I'm really tired but I can't work why I haven't got anything done.
Now I am quite sure that 'Grapes' are not like this
but it does sound just a bit familiar.
This is how it manifests:
I decide to water my garden . As I turn on the hose in the drive, Ilook over at my car and decide it needs washing. As I start toward the garage, I notice that the mail is on the hall table where I put it earlier. I decide to go throught the mail before I wash the car. I lay my car keys down on the, put the junk mail in the paper bin and notice that it needs to be emptied.
So, I decide to put the bills back on the hall table and take the rubbish out first. But then I think that I might as well write the cheques to pay the bills first, and then put all the envelopes and rubish in the bin at the same time.
I pick up my cheque bookand discover there is only one left. My new cheque book is in thother room in the drawer of my pc workstation, so I go to fetch it and find the can of Coke that I had been drinking earlier. I move the Coke can so that I don't accidentally knock it over. I see that it is getting warm and decide to put it in the Fridge to keep it cool.
As I head towards the kitchen with the coke I notice the plants in the Hall - they need to bee watered. I put the Coke down on the shelf and discover my reading glasses that Iv'e been searching for all morning. I decide that I had better put then back on my desk, but first I'm going to water the plants.
I put the glasses back on the shelf and go to the kitchen to fill a jug with water. Suddenly I spot the TV remote on the kitchen table. I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV I will be looking for the remote that I won't remember is on the kitchen table so I should put it back on top pf the TV where it belongs. BUT first I will water the plants. So I put the remote back on the table and pour some water into the jug but spill some of it on the floor. I get some towels to mop up the spill and head off 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 Coke on the Hall shelf, the plants aren't watered, there is only one cheque left in the book, I can't find the remote or my glasses and I can't remember what I did wit the car keys. Iv'e been busy all day and I'm really tired but I can't work why I haven't got anything done.
Now I am quite sure that 'Grapes' are not like this
but it does sound just a bit familiar.
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