Last night, my oldest daughter and I had a discussion about housework and organization. I don’t remember what brought it up, but we were talking about a specific time in our family’s life when everything just seemed to work. My family remembers the house that we lived in at the time as their favorite home. [...]
Don’t you hate it when someone gets into trouble, and somehow ADD gets blamed? The other day I was watching one of those true crime shows. This one was about a man whose wife had a fatal “accident” shortly after he had taken out a large life insurance policy on her. The prosecution made a [...]
Last week I had an ADD moment. You know, one of those moments when you do something so, well, dumb, that you can’t believe you did it? Well, last week, I turned my cell phone off and told my family not to call me on it because I was at the end of my minutes. [...]
Are you creative? I bet you are. It seems that most people with Attention Deficit Disorder are more right brained (creative) than left brained (logical). When you mention creativity, most people think of artists; of paint and canvas and ability. You don’t have to be Monet to be creative; you don’t even have to use [...]
OK, kind of a weird question, and I guess not really accurate in terms of what I mean. What I’m getting at is kind of hard to describe. Let me do it this way: my ADD lives in my head and mostly in the future. That means that I spend too much time “in my [...]