Recently, I was diagnosed with
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 driveway, I
look over at my car and decide it needs washing.
As I start toward the garage, I notice 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 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 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 inside the
house to my desk, where I find the can of Pepsi I'd been drinking.
I'm going to look for my checks, but first I need to push the Pepsi aside
so that I don't accidentally knock it over.
The Pepsi is getting warm, and I decide to put it in the refrigerator to
keep it cold..
Meanwhile, as I head toward the kitchen with the Pepsi, a vase of flowers
on the counter catches my eye - they need water.
I put the Pepsi on the counter and 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 spot the TV remote. (Someone left it on the kitchen table.) I
realize that tonight when we go to watch TV, I'll 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 poured some water in the flowers, but quite a bit of it spilled on the
floor, so I set the remote back on the table, got some towels and wiped
up the spill.
Then, I head down the hall - trying to remember what I was planning to
do today.
At the end of the day:
The car isn't washed,
The bills aren't paid,
There is a warm can of Pepsi sitting on the counter,
The flowers don't have enough water,
There is still only one check left 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 damn day, 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 the new By-Tor postings....
Don't laugh -- if this isn't
you yet,
your day is coming.