Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.

Suffer from AAADD?



This is how it manifests:


I decide to water my garden.

As I turn on the hose in the driveway, I look over

at my car and decide my car needs washing.

As I start toward the garage, I notice that there

is mail on the porch table that I brought up from the mail box earlier.

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 garbage can under the table, and notice that the can is full.


So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the garbage first.

But then I think, since I'm going to be near the mailbox when I take out the

garbage anyway, I may as well pay the bills first.

I take my check book 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

inside the house to my desk where I find the can 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 realize 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, I will be looking

for the remote, but I won't 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 pour some water in the flowers, but quite a bit 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 driveway is flooded

the car isn't washed,

the bills aren't paid,

there is a warm can of Coke sitting on the counter,

there is still only one check in my check book,

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.


Don't laugh -- if this isn't you yet, your day is coming!