I hope so Steve! I want this to be a fun place to vent and joke where we all understand what each other is going through!
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Hello all. I just replied to the thread about open tabs and saw that WE ADD/ADHDers have a social group now.
I don't have much to say right now because I just put a bunch on that thread.
I am on to the zillion other things I listed that I am doing right now and have just noticed that my coffee cup is empty, I need to clean out the cat litter boxes and do the dishes, and my busiest day of the week is tomorrow and I promised myself I would get to bed early...I still have time.
vape On!!!!!
I don't have much to say right now because I just put a bunch on that thread.
I am on to the zillion other things I listed that I am doing right now and have just noticed that my coffee cup is empty, I need to clean out the cat litter boxes and do the dishes, and my busiest day of the week is tomorrow and I promised myself I would get to bed early...I still have time.
vape On!!!!!
Welcome to the group glad to have ya 
Hi! I'm Amber. I Was diagnosed with ADHD in about 3rd grade. Perscribed ritlin. Hated the stuff- it made me into a total zombie drone. Eventually my folks and I found a way for me to cope during classes without medication. I'm 33 now, I'm a student, wife, and mother of two truly amazing daughters (neither of which show any earmarks of ADD or ADHD as of yet) My father realised (after dealing with me as a child) that I most probably inherited it from him. I wouldn't live life any other way. The ability to see and appriciate the interesting shining (WHERE!?!) details of the world that most people miss is a gift. I have to edit everything I write for classes because my brain gets ahead of my hands- so this is mis spelled long winded and probably full of nonsensical run on sentences. It's so good to see a forum full of people (sort of) like me!!
It wasn't until I discovered the book "You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?!" recommended to me by a friend, that I figured out what was "wrong" with me (why I was always such an awful student, but had no problems learning some pretty complicated, technical things on my own (not to mention, a voracious reader!)
I kind of wish I had been diagnosed when I was a kid (as my mom frequently threatened to send me off to a shrink). Then again, in the 70s the only choices really were ritalin - which helps some kids, but zombiefies others.
I'm so grateful to have found a job that allows me to take advantage of my alternately-wired brain.
I kind of wish I had been diagnosed when I was a kid (as my mom frequently threatened to send me off to a shrink). Then again, in the 70s the only choices really were ritalin - which helps some kids, but zombiefies others.
I'm so grateful to have found a job that allows me to take advantage of my alternately-wired brain.
Every post will be under 100 characters.
Of course it will be but that the great part! Takes less time to read!
lol not necessarily though. My post in the other thread was pretty long... it just took me an hour to write it due to getting distracted by other things
oh yes... introductions.....
Hi I'm me. Be right.....
Excellent book!
What is your job?
I have what my friends call the perfect ADHD business...an olde tyme photo studio.
Welcome Thy!!! It seem great how we all find our niche in the world doesn't it!
I work in the Product dept. of a software company. I write specification documentation that describes to developers what we want the product to do. I go to a lot of meetings, analyze product bug reports to determine whether or not the bug report needs to go do development, and answer a lot of questions from various groups from tech support to sales.
Some weeks it's like trying to keep a chainsaw, a jack hammer, a flaming torch, and a few angry badgers in the air at the same time.
but see that's what would keep my attention just as I got bored with one thing another would come whizing by. I have to stay busy if I get bored I amuse myself in ways that are not productive.
I do not have ADHD, but I am a very bubbly happy person who multitasks well and totally forget what I'm doing while I'm doing it. I have more of a memory problem...like the attention span of a goldfish...
I always have at least 20 tabs/browsers open at a time...and I also forget what I'm doing on each and every one (like, going through the next day trying to figure out what I was looking up). My best friend teases me when I tell her my facebook chat locks up my computer, she states that it HAS to be all the windows I have open. I am one of those people that can be in the middle of a task and stand up and say WTF was I doing again? I also cannot type complete sentences and paragraphs without including a ... where was I again?
So, if you all will take me as I am...then I shall stay!
Funny story time about my memory. At the ripe old age of 19 (newly married) I had a tizzy about how bad my memory is and began to freak out. I told my new husband that I must go to walmart this instant and get some Ginko Biloba because my memory is so dang bad I can't remember what I ate for lunch. So, we go out and get said pills that are supposed to help the memory. Well, I can tell you now, they did not work. Six months later, I had the same hysterical rant...freaking out and crying about how I can't remember anything and I had just recently heard on the radio that Ginko Biloba is great for memory and demanded we go to Walmart right now and get some. My husband looks at me quite interestingly and says we bought some months ago. I say "no we didn't, I just learned about it today, so why would we have bought it?" He, now laughing, walks over to the kitchen cupboard, opens it up and hands me said bottle of memory pills. It is sealed, totally untouched, covered in dust. And I am feeling pretty stupid right about now. Guess what, I lost said bottle of memory pills...and now (5 years later) have no idea whatever happened to them. But having them in my cupboards has not helped my memory...or my concentration...in theeee least bit!
Now where am I again and what were we talking about?
I'll catch up with you all in about 6 months when I think to myself there must be other awesome, crazy, multitaskers out there just like me...who can't remember a danged thing...and I accidently stumble on this same forum! CHEERS!
I always have at least 20 tabs/browsers open at a time...and I also forget what I'm doing on each and every one (like, going through the next day trying to figure out what I was looking up). My best friend teases me when I tell her my facebook chat locks up my computer, she states that it HAS to be all the windows I have open. I am one of those people that can be in the middle of a task and stand up and say WTF was I doing again? I also cannot type complete sentences and paragraphs without including a ... where was I again?
So, if you all will take me as I am...then I shall stay!
Funny story time about my memory. At the ripe old age of 19 (newly married) I had a tizzy about how bad my memory is and began to freak out. I told my new husband that I must go to walmart this instant and get some Ginko Biloba because my memory is so dang bad I can't remember what I ate for lunch. So, we go out and get said pills that are supposed to help the memory. Well, I can tell you now, they did not work. Six months later, I had the same hysterical rant...freaking out and crying about how I can't remember anything and I had just recently heard on the radio that Ginko Biloba is great for memory and demanded we go to Walmart right now and get some. My husband looks at me quite interestingly and says we bought some months ago. I say "no we didn't, I just learned about it today, so why would we have bought it?" He, now laughing, walks over to the kitchen cupboard, opens it up and hands me said bottle of memory pills. It is sealed, totally untouched, covered in dust. And I am feeling pretty stupid right about now. Guess what, I lost said bottle of memory pills...and now (5 years later) have no idea whatever happened to them. But having them in my cupboards has not helped my memory...or my concentration...in theeee least bit!
Now where am I again and what were we talking about?
I'll catch up with you all in about 6 months when I think to myself there must be other awesome, crazy, multitaskers out there just like me...who can't remember a danged thing...and I accidently stumble on this same forum! CHEERS!
Heyo, JohnnyVapor dropping in to say hello. ADO(Attention deficit order, I refuse to call it a disorder) since childhood, boy did it piss my parents off. I was lucky to end up in IT as a sysadmin. My job practically requires me to do 18 things at once, so it works well.
hi all I'm Justin and I have ADHD. I am also in software development. I am currently going to school for game and simulation programming. (just a cs degree with honors). I always have like a million tabs open myself. I am ADDICTED to google reader...
Also I have a couple of websites. My favorite is Linkreincarnate a few inventions that I'm working on (one that had it's start here) and some indie games that I might let you play if you ask really nice like...
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