Thank goodness there's a name for this disorder. Somehow I feel better, even though I have it!!
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 drive, I look over at my car and decide it needs washing.
As I start toward the garage, I notice post on the hall table.
I decide to go through the post before I wash the car.
I put my car keys on the table, put the junk mail in the waste bin under the table, and notice that the bin is full.
So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the rubbish first, but then I think, since I'm going to near the post box when I take out the rubbish anyway, I may as well pay the bills first.
I take my cheque book off the table, and see that there is only one cheque left. My extra cheques are in my desk in the study, so I go to my desk where I find the cup of tea I'd been drinking.
I'm going to look for my cheques, but first I need to push the tea aside so I don't accidentally knock it over. The tea is getting cold, and I decide to put it in the kitchen to wash up. As I head towards the kitchen with the tea, a vase of flowers on the worktop catches my eye - they need water.
I put the tea on the worktop and discover my reading glasses that I've been searching for all morning. I decide I'd better put them back on my desk, but first I'm going to water the flowers. I put the glasses down on the worktop, fill a container with water and suddenly spot the TV remote. Someone left it on the kitchen table. I realise 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 sitting room where it belongs, but first I'll water the flowers. I go to pour some water in the flowers, but most of it spills on the floor; so I put the remote back 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 car isn't washed
The bills aren't paid
There is a cold cup of tea sitting on the worktop
The flowers don't have enough water,
There is still only one cheque in my cheque-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 darn day, and I'm really tired. I realise this is a serious problem, and I'll try to get some help for it, but first I'll check my e-mail.. Do me a favour: Forward this message to anyone you know, because I don't remember who I've sent it to. Don't laugh... if this isn't you yet, your day is coming!!!
