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Post by smogz101 on Mar 22, 2016 20:31:08 GMT
when you sink into the bath and realise that once again you've accidentally left your socks on
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Post by tessaract on Mar 30, 2016 10:50:37 GMT
When you're late and race to your evening class in a taxi you cannot afford and discover the college is closed for the easter holidays - oh well, better safe than sorry. Another classic me move!
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Post by aardvark on Apr 3, 2016 22:32:12 GMT
when you need to buy ready meals to last the two days you have left to frantically finish your dissertation (that you've already had an extension for) so you nip to the shop and come back with just one ready meal, and inexplicably, one lime.
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Post by Mouse on Apr 9, 2016 7:01:23 GMT
Nothing new here... (This was on Wednesday following my first appointment at the adhd clinic)
When all you had to do was drive the journey in reverse to get home and you've set up Waze when, really, you know know it isn't necessary for such a simple straight line trip of 12 miles.
Until you find yourself taking the wrong exit off the motorway heading 180 degrees wrong way. 'No problem'. Come off at next junction. Make a total lash getting into lane on the roundabout so end up going cross-country. 'No problem'. It's all villages you've known all your life. But you feel like you don't have a clue where you are and you're glad the speed limit's 30 because you're so addled you can't think fast enough and the decision making at junctions does your head in.
You get home, park, take phone from dashboard clip and realise you didn't think even once to look at sat nav. Get in, lie down on sofa and sleep for 3 hours solid.
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Post by marionk on Apr 9, 2016 18:57:09 GMT
Motorways have got to be THE worst place to take wrong turnings on.
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Post by Mouse on Apr 10, 2016 16:25:45 GMT
Not too bad around here unless from Reading you end up heading towards Newbury because it's 13 miles before you can get back on ☺ I know that from experience!
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Post by Mouse on Apr 11, 2016 5:19:10 GMT
When every time your eyes pass over that post in the general forum 'The four purposes of AADD-UK', you read, 'The four purposes of ADHD', and think "I didn't know there was a purpose"
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Post by Mouse on Apr 11, 2016 11:36:08 GMT
When you burst into tears at work because you realise that today is the 11th and not yesterday - so you would have had time to submit a job application after all. And even worse, you knew your brain also knew that yesterday was your sister-in-law's birthday, the 10th. Today, I hate my brain. I could scream.
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Post by marionk on Apr 11, 2016 12:09:51 GMT
Sadly, knowing what day it is, doesn't always make us remember things that need to be done by that date. And even if we remember that something is supposed to happen on a certain day, doesn't mean we will remember what either! Some time last year I heard about a really fun event the next week-end that I could get to, and as far as I could remember it didn't clash with anything either. Unfortunately, I didn't have access to my calendar or even any kind of media for taking a note on. I tried to keep reminding myself, so I would remember to check the calendar as soon as I got home . . . In the week following, I had the distinct feeling I was going to go somewhere on Saturday, but I couldn't find anything mentioned on any of the usual places I look at to see what's on, in fact nothing remotely interesting was happening at all that week-end. It wasn't long after the event that someone mentioned how much fun 'it' had been, and the penny dropped. THAT was what I was vaguely remembering I was going to go to.
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Post by Babble on Apr 11, 2016 15:04:46 GMT
When you go to write information down, but between looking away from the webpage and looking down at the paper, you forget what the hell you were meant to be writing - and if you manage to remember any of it, it's usually a jumbled up version. So 14 Attlee Road becomes 16 Attlee Way, or Wessex Royale becomes the the Royal Wessex Hotel.
Every time you look up and see the correct version, it's like 'Damn it, brain! Sort yourself out!'
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Post by random on Apr 21, 2016 6:50:32 GMT
You wake up in night and manically try and hunt down the sleeping tablets
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Post by hanonymouse on Apr 21, 2016 12:28:37 GMT
when you set off for a weekend braking, wondering fi you've got everything and say, "Don't worry if I haven't, I'll buy it when i get there".... and then forget your wallet!
Seriously though, reading this thread, even though I'm diagnosed and have a "high score", I realise that I'm really not all that bad.... it seems I've evolved coping strategies over the years that mask some of the signs
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Post by marionk on Apr 21, 2016 13:58:32 GMT
Been there, done that, got the T-shirt
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Post by hanonymouse on Apr 21, 2016 14:49:04 GMT
Been there, done that, got the T-shirt Didn't get around to the t-shirt, something else caught my eye, then something else, followed by some random thought... squirrel
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Post by Babble on Apr 22, 2016 8:09:08 GMT
Been there, done that, got the T-shirt Didn't get around to the t-shirt, something else caught my eye, then something else, followed by some random thought... squirrel I got the t-shirt, but then I lost it
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Post by justsawasquirrell on Apr 22, 2016 8:26:26 GMT
....You go to the shop with a shopping list of 4 items, but come home with 7 and only 3 of them are on the list
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Post by Mouse on Apr 23, 2016 13:40:22 GMT
When you make a list of jobs to get done today and you've only really done the ironing*... and now it's 2.30 and you're in your dressing gown because every time you went upstairs to get a pair of knickers you did something else instead. I feel like the Oozlum Bird... going round in ever-decreasing circles. At about 4.00 I anticipate a mini crisis along the lines of where did the day go??
* finished all four loads worth tho!
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Post by Mouse on Apr 24, 2016 18:35:42 GMT
When you've agreed to meet your sister at a garden centre and you set off without your phone. You realise when you go to text her to tell her you'll be near the Acers. You can't remember what her new car looks like. It's silver, but it seems like all the parked cars are silver.
You hang around for over half an hour walking around the place calling out her name every so often as you are a shorta*se and can't see heads/faces in neighbouring aisles. You ask at the tills if they have a tannoy system. They don't. You ask a couple of members of staff if they could look out for her!
You decide to go back home and are heading off when you see your sister walking towards the entrance. You toot the car horn urgently to catch her attention and then suspect you have caused a man putting plants in the boot of his car to hit his head.
When you catch up with your sister and explain you've been there a while and ask what kept her she explains she called into Tescos on the way because she figured she had 'plenty of time because you're always really late, you never arrive anywhere at the agreed time'.
That was me told.
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Post by justsawasquirrell on Apr 24, 2016 22:15:42 GMT
...when you don't want to log into the forum until your name is half way along the top line of ' users online ' history list in case people think you are hyper focussed on this forum
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Post by Mouse on Apr 30, 2016 8:27:11 GMT
When you get a match to light a cigarette and put it between your lips and then pick up a lighter to light the match! He can light his own from now on. ☺
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Post by Mouse on Apr 30, 2016 8:27:58 GMT
...when you don't want to log into the forum until your name is half way along the top line of ' users online ' history list in case people think you are hyper focussed on this forum When you did 't realise there was a 'users on line' thingy. When you are trying to edit your post but keep tapping on the like button instead of the settings/function button...
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Post by Mouse on Apr 30, 2016 9:08:08 GMT
You reply to posts but frequently go off at tangents☺
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Post by shiningbright on May 24, 2016 6:34:53 GMT
You make sure to have a pen and note pad in every room. Yet when you go to look for one you end up writing on an oldletter incrayon cos that's all you can find. And that's if you are lucky. I can always find paper but pens! I swear they must grow legs when I'm sleeping and abandon me lol. I buy so many pens that my local shop much make a living off me lol
As for cooking I love it. Bu t it's always pot luck. My kids enjo y my food most of the time but my oh is more careful. Hrs got a heart of gold and eats whatever I give him - only once has ggge ordered takeaway instead lol. But I do have a tendency to put something on the stove and forget about it. And I've lost track of how many times I've sent the smoke alarm ringing cos I was so Bush I forgot about the food. And I avoid making chapattis where possible because A they rarely come out right (often more like popadoms) and B cos they make me cry (seriously- how hard is i t to make blasted flat bread that I've done wrong more times then is possible to count! Sick of being told how easy it is lol) :-)
When your kid is better and remember the chores then you are - and is the only thing that can reach you when you're 'zoned out' or hyper focused.
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Post by Babble on Jun 9, 2016 9:32:19 GMT
When you do a 15min walk to work on autopilot because you're stuck in your head thinking about a book you read, then end up freezing on the spot just outside of work thinking 'Shit, where am I again? How did I get here?'.
When your trust in your memory is so poor, that you sometimes legitimately have to check that you changed out of your pyjamas that morning. You're sure you did but... was that today or yesterday? *surreptitious glance down*
When someone says 'matching cups' and it strikes terror into your heart. Bad enough trying to remember what everyone wants, now I have to remember which cup is which!? How!?
When a 10 page list of transactions might as well be an abstract painting, or one of those stereogram things, because every time you try to concentrate on it, it seems to blur into a big block of grey-on-white, or your gaze seems to just slip off the page. I suspect magic. Like the Leaky Cauldron and muggles, only with paperwork lol.
Words are your enemy. By the time they're coming out of your mouth, your brain has long since moved on, and conversations either trail off in the middle of a sentence because you can't remember what you were going to say or what you were even talking about, or between one sentence and the next you switch topics completely, utterly confusing anyone who's still listening. Also, I forget words a lot. I'll think it, go to say it, then draw a blank. I'm left questioning my sanity, and everyone else is questioning my intelligence.
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Post by Bee on Jun 9, 2016 9:40:54 GMT
when you sink into the bath and realise that once again you've accidentally left your socks on Similar to yours smogz101When you're in the shower and realise you haven't taken off your glasses when they start to steam up and you find it increasingly difficult to see.. It had got to the point that I actually COULDN'T see before I realised what was going on lol
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Post by shiningbright on Jun 9, 2016 9:59:06 GMT
You spans ages carefully making a shopping list only to find, when you reach the shops, that you forgot the blasted list! Again... >_<
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Post by smogz101 on Jun 9, 2016 16:45:15 GMT
lol I love this thread
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Post by Bee on Jun 14, 2016 22:20:06 GMT
when you throw your debit card and NUS card in the bin with your lunch rubbish
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Post by longstocking on Jul 18, 2016 7:18:32 GMT
You know you belong here when:
You read books with titles like "Goal-free living", "Banana slug migration", or "How to build an underground home" even though you hate large wolf spiders and for some inexplicable reason you must now spend days online learning all about advanced couture draping techniques because everything you buy off the rack is so boxy-looking. (No really out of nowhere I'm just going to learn bespoke tailoring techniques within a month.)
Sigh..
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Post by shiningbright on Jul 18, 2016 8:19:54 GMT
....You go to the shop with a shopping list of 4 items, but come home with 7 and only 3 of them are on the list Wow- 3 of the things on your list? That's awesome- I'm lucky if I get even half what's on my list and even with a list I still get so song uses once in the Shop. And where do I get this t-shirt every is talking about? Today i found the fairy in the fridge and the milk on the window sill - again! >_< And I'm super stressed out over going to the shop as I've got so much to do and don't have anything to give my OH for his lunch. Also when tidying I put the shoes in the toy box and the dirty clothes behind the sofa for some reason, Then found myself about to out unused nappies (which normally live behind the sofa) in the washing machine and stepped in toys in the hallway (where shoes live) and told my 3 yr old off before realising I did that. Roll on big hugs for my lad.
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