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 my car needs washing.

As I start toward the garage, I notice that there is a parcel and other mail outside the front door that the postman left as it wouldn't all fit through the letterbox.

I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car.

I lay my car keys down on the garden table, put the junk mail in the dustbin under the table, and notice that the bin is full.

So, I decide to put the bills back on the garden table and take out the rubbish first.

But then I think, since I'm going to be near the mailbox 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 inside the house to my desk, where I find the can of Coke that I had been drinking.

I'm going to look for my cheques, but first I need to push the Coke aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over. I realise the Coke is getting warm, and I decide I should put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold.

As I head toward the kitchen with the Coke, a vase of flowers on the work top catches my eye--they need to be watered.

I set the Coke down on the work top, and I 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 work top, fill a container with water, and suddenly I spot the TV remote control. Someone left it on the kitchen table.

I realise that tonight when we go to watch TV, I will be looking for the remote control, 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 pour some water in the flowers, but quite a bit of it spills on the floor.

So, I put the remote control back down 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 driveway is flooded, the car isn't washed, the bills aren't paid, there is a warm can of Coke sitting on the kitchen work top, there is still only one cheque in my cheque book, I can't find the remote control, I can't find my glasses, and I don't remember what I did with the car keys.

Then, when I try to work out why nothing got done today, I'm really baffled, because I know I was busy all day long, 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, will you? Forward this message to everyone you know, because I don't remember who I have sent it to and you might strike lucky on my behalf...!


Oh and don't laugh too smugly -- if this isn't you yet, your day is coming!

[Edited on 2-3-07 by RazMan]

Thank God it's not just me then!
Should we get some T shirts made?
What for?

My doctor gave me some pills for my memory, but I kept forgetting to take them.

My late uncle Bob, author of "It takes me all night to do what I used to do all night" AND "I'm so broke I can't pay attention"

Isn't that the perfect description of what wimmin refer to as Multi Tasking

ATB

Simon

OK, wheres the camera????