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Post by Mouse on Apr 12, 2016 1:24:21 GMT
Sleeping tablets
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Post by Mouse on Apr 12, 2016 1:06:56 GMT
oh just spotted i missed last post. Was going to say Mud - Tiger Feet (I can't say I miss the seventies) So will go for :
The Beat - Mirror in the BATHroom,
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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 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 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 9, 2016 12:43:53 GMT
Moving to music is happiness but mine depends on where I'm dancing or the type of dancing.
I'm rubbish at,say, 'disco dancing'in public (as we used to call it back in my day) - way too self-conscious! I prefer to look ridiculous in the privacy of my sitting room with all curtains drawn! ☺
But show me to a barn dance and I was happy beyond words... I have no co-ordination or memory for sustained repetition of sequences of moves so I used to find myself being manouevred about by friends and/or going the wrong way - but I was giggling myself totally senseless ☺
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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 Mouse on Apr 9, 2016 6:08:39 GMT
I hate questionnaires... they tie you down to a few options and you have to select one option when really you want to circle them all or choose a point somewhere between two.
Online questionnaires are the worst because you can't annotate them with rude comments about the idiocy of particular questions.
Our Union distributed a questionnaire at work few months ago about proposed changes. One question, the most important one, was so poorly worded that you weren't sure whether you were voting for or against! I wrote so next to the question and asked 'what is the chuffing point of filling this in???'
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Post by Mouse on Apr 9, 2016 5:47:36 GMT
" I spent my entire childhood interested in one thing only - drawing. And it frustrated the hell out of me when i saw kids my own age who would colour outside the lines - to the point of arguments!" Read more: aadduk.proboards.com/thread/9092/where-all-creatives#ixzz45IppztkqHope it's okay to resurrect old thread but this made me laugh out loud at my own take at colouring in between the lines. I was a very timid and quiet child (where has she gone, I wonder?) but I have a very vivid memory of being in my first year of infants school and of a drawing incident. The task was for each of us to draw, within a dinner plate-sized circle, a spiral. When we had finished colouring it in we were to cut out the circle then cut along the spiral line to create a snake shape that we could hang up. I was totally absorbed in the job at hand when I was rudely interrupted by a bossy classmate telling me loudly I was "doing it all wrong" and she was going to tell on me!! My 'crime' was that I was colouring over the lines. Which was partly true. I'd coloured between all the lines very neatly except for around the outer edge of the circle! I was telling her that it didn't matter because we were cutting the circle out, so it wouldn't show, but she wouldn't accept that! Fifty years later I'm quietly impressed that I'd worked out when I needed to follow the rules, and when I didn't!
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Post by Mouse on Aug 9, 2015 21:23:14 GMT
I am not growing anything at the moment. At my last house I had four vegetable beds 6 x 3 feet and a few pots. But over the last four years I grew less and less as other interests took over and I was not often home at weekends. I plan to have a couple of raised veg beds in this new garden.
The garden currently has no flower beds in it at all and is covered in v patchy weedy mossy stuff with remnants of grass. I don't have any garden at all at the front but a large garden at the back. There is also a patch of wild land to the side on the other side of the fence and I plan to clear a bit of it and grow fruit in there!! Guerrilla gardening out of sight!
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Post by Mouse on Aug 3, 2015 6:05:57 GMT
I have really good hearing when I need to be alert to danger (being caught by security when urbexing) but in daily life I pick up all background sound and hate social situations such as being in a pub or at a party or worst of all a modern restaurant with music and a hard floor.
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Post by Mouse on Aug 3, 2015 6:00:07 GMT
Ooh. He sounds past it. Regret I can't write a proper reply now . I'm sure someone better qualified to advise will do so soon. I don't know what the protocol is but personally I'd be going back to the psychiatrist to explain the treatment I'd received. Maybe they could recommend a sympathetic GP in your area.
What advice did MIND give you?
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Post by Mouse on Jul 5, 2015 21:16:30 GMT
LOL knowing my luck I'd probably find I was unintentionally making a rude gesture...
But it's interesting.. wonder if it works.
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Post by Mouse on Jul 5, 2015 10:56:23 GMT
Well... tell us about yourself first!
You mention you've spent a lot of time on ADHD. Is that because you've been diagnosed with it? Or because you're a student or researcher?
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Post by Mouse on Jul 5, 2015 10:27:07 GMT
What sort of problem is it, if not related in any way to adhd? A wonder word answer will do, like, relationship, work, finances.
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Post by Mouse on May 28, 2015 21:29:42 GMT
I think you will find you are focussed on getting across your experience of living with adhd (past and present)and you won't clam up! I'm sure it will go well!
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Post by Mouse on Apr 12, 2015 9:10:03 GMT
And sitting here I find I have... 2 mugs of cold tea next to me. Not too bad oops, make that 3 hahaha, I only have one next to me, I don't dare look in the kitchen. Earlier I freaked out thinking that the house was going to burn down, turns out I had not only turned off the oven I had also eaten the food, no memory. LOL everytime I'm out and I see a fire engine with lights flashing and siren sounding I automatically think, 'Is that going to my house???'
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Post by Mouse on Apr 12, 2015 8:29:15 GMT
When you've moved house two weeks previously and spotted the iron once in that time. I was reallllly stressed when I needed to press my work trousers. But, as I ran my improvised iron up and down the legs - taking care to avoid the strip of packing tape holding the hem in place (sewing kit not found either) - I started laughing as I wondered how many other women were going off to work with one trouser hem held up with red and white packing tape bearing the word 'Fragile' and trousers ironed with a little copper-bottomed sauce pan! I thought to myself, 'This is the life of a true Adder and it ain't going to change anytime soon'
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Post by Mouse on Mar 1, 2015 14:47:00 GMT
My toes are v bendy. Never thought about it as hypermobility. When I compare my toes to most other people's they lie flat down stick out from my feet like piglets in a row suckling on a sow! I find walking any distance bloody painful and only relieved by scrunching my toes up like I am wearing a pair of Dr Scholl's clogs.. ooh I used to love my clogs and my clog sandals!!
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dreams
Mar 1, 2015 14:38:48 GMT
Post by Mouse on Mar 1, 2015 14:38:48 GMT
I had night terrors as a child (and also walked in my sleep), and extreme nightmares as an adult. Caused my husband a degree of stress too as I also had a habit of screaming out in terror. I still get them but much less often in the years since dx. I wonder if they are the outcome of a brain constantly trying to make sense of things and dx meant one major subconscious worry answered.
My dreams are also vivid and odd ... and if they are funny odd I wake up laughing (don't know if I'm laughing out loud when I wake. I used to think I was but I can't tell now.)
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Post by Mouse on Mar 1, 2015 13:55:52 GMT
or maybe... Alternative Dimension, Hopelessly Demented.
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Post by Mouse on Mar 1, 2015 13:49:26 GMT
I thought it was 'Absolute Damned Hell Daily'
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Post by Mouse on Feb 26, 2015 23:13:20 GMT
At primary school I chewed my pencils right down. I was always being told off for it. I remember struggling to write with about an inch of pencil for as long as I possible ... too scared and avoiding the inevitable - asking the teacher for a new one. (We had to hand in the old pencil before she would hand out a new one.) But obviously if you chew long enough you get to a point where there's too little pencil to write or sharpen!
I don't chew pen ends now in case someone else has already had chew before me!
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Post by Mouse on Feb 25, 2015 2:44:12 GMT
I go 'mute' when when I know that whatever I say will be the wrong thing and will be ripped apart. Even then, I'm in the wrong for not saying anything. (I might not be saying anything but my mind is racing).
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Post by Mouse on Feb 18, 2015 1:49:28 GMT
I like the Science of Laziness too - must watch The Science of Productivity !
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Post by Mouse on Feb 18, 2015 1:39:32 GMT
I cannot be doing anything in the kitchen without the radio on. It's the equivalent of the sugar that helps the medicine go down! Generally not music but Talk, Radio 4 and 4 Extra for the stories. Quiet or silence is too sterile for me to concentrate. It has got me through many all-nighters finishing of cakes (that's making them, not eating them).
Interesting link - disturbing tho.
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Post by Mouse on Feb 18, 2015 1:23:31 GMT
When you know you have to be up and alert early the next day but find your self in the small hours on the 'puter unable to get to bed even though you know you ought to. It's like there is still so much more stuff to look at on the net.
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Post by Mouse on Feb 18, 2015 1:13:46 GMT
I regularly forget myself and throw coffee at my face in a 'let's get this drunk quickly' moment. Just as well my coffee's always cold by the time I remember to drink it. I've done the same with a cap of mouthwash. Slept through my alarms and woke up with 7 minutes to get to the gp surgery around the corner. Threw a cap of mouthwash at my mouth. Didn't have time to put socks on, couldn't find a bra and hadn't brushed my hair... but I got there dead on 8.30 and fairly refreshed with a tingling face. I don't know if its an adhd thing... for me it just feels like brain forgot to engage.
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Post by Mouse on Feb 14, 2015 13:13:52 GMT
When you watch a documentary about criminals and the main feeling you're left with is just how do they manage to be so organised and lead double lives? LOL Totally agree with this... I just don't have the memory to connive and con!!
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Post by Mouse on Feb 12, 2015 11:21:29 GMT
:)Decisions decisions about gettng dressed. I struggle to keep to a getting dressed routine on non work days (and tbh on some work days too).
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