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You Know You’re ADD/ADHD If You’ve Ever Done This!!!

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You know you’re ADD/ADHD if you ever, stood above an anthill as a child and watched the ants crawling in & out….for hours! Or better yet had a magnifying glass and tried to catch one or more on fire….and when not successful (cuz they wont stand still), you go off to find a dried pinecone or something that word smoke and catch fire easy….to satisfy the problem pyro in you at age 5! Or how bout fed those huge fire ants the tabbacco horned worms you would find on the tomato vines in your papas garden…...watched them swarm around it, lift it up despite its huge size compared to the ants size, and haul it off to the ant colony….all the while you watch in silent awe at such tiny creatures…...for hours without flinching!

You know you’re ADD/ADHD if you ever actually bought that key alarm gadget off the TV for $19.99…..that will make a beeping alarm noise if you clap and alert you to where you lost your keys at from the door to the kitchen table! AND you have used it so much that the batteries have to be replaced already again! Now if they just made one for sunglasses….that would be GREAT!

You know you’re ADD/ADHD if you have 2 or more alarms set for the morning….your alarm clock & cell phone or watch…..and even then you have them set to play your fav radio station….and vaguely remember the Mariah Carey tune you were ironically singing out loud in your dreams as you drift back to sleep. Totally ignoring the alarms on purpose….end up just drifting off again to be startled and jump up halfway out of bed by your spouse suddenly yelling out from the other room, “HONEY!!! WHAT TIME IS IT ?! ARE YOU UP AND GOING?! OMG YOURE GONNA BE LATE AGAIN!!!” OHHHH man if I could just stop watching the GSN till 2am….sooooo tired…why do they gotta show Deal or No Deal so late dont they know some ppl can get addicted to Howie and his suitcases! ugggggghhhhhh!

You know you’re ADD/ADHD if you have an unusually LARGE amount of neon colored sticky notes stuck all around your computer monitor, cubicle, calendar, desk, keyboard, and you forgot where you stuck the last one at and the task you wrote down to remind yourself to do….hmmm what was it? Oh yeah to go by Office Max and buy more Post-It notes…cant ever have enough of those babies!!

You know you’re ADD/ADHD if you can remember all the words to the songs that come on the radio randomly that you dont like but cant seem to remember the words to the ones you like! Or you walk in to the grocery store not singing anything…..but walk out singing the funky 70s song that you havent heard in 20 years but still remember the words to….and could hear it playing over the store intercom speakers….and picked up the tune in your head even though it wasnt very audible! And that tune gets stuck in your head for the rest of the day…..night….next morning…..afternoon….(frustrated cuz it seems like you cant get that blasted tune out of your head and you keep singing it over and over despite the fact you really didnt like Michael Bolton)......then you walk into another store with another song playing and pick that one up and start singing it instead…ohhhhh no its Neil Diamond! NOOOOooooo I dont want to have “America” stuck in my head for two days!! UGH!

You know you are ADD/ADHD if you got to about the second sentence of this story and suddenly noticed that you need to clip your fingernail cuz its jagged….......(and then your thoughts drift off and are quite random like this…..........................

“Hmmm gotta change my nail polish to another outrageous neon color that glows in the dark…yeah and mabye some glitter…........ohhhh I gotta find that post it with all the employees lunch requests on it SOON or I’ll end up having to fake fake illness again to get out of making the lunch run today….........awww look at Pookey’s face he looks so much like daddy!............................
(as your gaze drops to the picture frame of your son next to your pc screen) ....................hmmm what is that buzzing noise I keep hearing down the hall? I hope that airhead Jenny didnt try to use the photocopier again, cause a huge paper jam and then left it for the next person to find and fix!........ Im not going down there to see what it is cuz its probably that and I will get accused of the paper jam if they see me coming down the hallway…........naw I will just ignore it and act like I cant hear anything at all and wait for someone to finally get up and go see what it is….............THEN I will take my third coffee break since 8am….......geez I wonder what my husband wants for dinner tonight…...........I dont feel like cooking…......pizza rolls again I think….........have to call him at lunch….........oh yeah SHOOT I CANT….......I got to make the lunch run..darn it…................oh nooo I got to search for that post it quick…............hmmmm ohhhhhh forget it I will never find it in this pile of post its everywhere…..............beside I HATE making the lunch run…...................there is ALWAYS someone like Joe Shmoe that doesnt give me enough money to cover hisorder…..then I gotta either use my money…...that they never pay back or use the one person of the group that gave me a $20 bill….......then they always want to know where their missing dollar went…........how do they know when I only take out a dollar from their change to cover Joe Shmoes lunch…......penny pinching morons….......what about the gas I spend to go fetch their meals…........IM NOT DOING THE LUNCH RUN TODAY…........I will fake a stomach ache again and slip out to Wendys when no one is looking again!.......Ohhhhh shoot…where was I? where did I leave off reading??? hmmm I think it was where it says, “You know you’re a ADD/ADHD if you ever…...! SHEESH….do they really expect me to read all this…...I have better things to do like…...uhhhhhh what time is it? ohhhh man its only 10:30am…this morning is just by…....and Merv the Perv was just eyeballing my legs…...SICKO….....Ewwwwww hes gonna get his burger spit in next time I make the lunch run…..muuuuhahaha…borinnnnggg…..thank god they forgot to take off the Solitare game on this computer or I would go out of my mind with boredom!! ohhhhh ok lets read the last sentence of this story so I can say I read it and then walk off really fast so they dont have time to ask me about it!!”

You might be ADD/ADHD if you’ve ever laid on your bed as a child (because you were supposed to be taking a nap for acting up at lunch but wasnt sleepy) so you stared for hours at the walls and ceiling plaster studying the shapes and coming up with what you thought the shape looked like most…..like a hippo head, a tree with a mountain behind it, a kittens eye and whiskers covered by a hand petting her, a lady in a long dressing gown standing on some rocks, half a persons face….nose…jaw….partial eye….looking away, a cotton ball….a sail boat with a bent mast…..an old lady hunched over with a bun on her head and a cane….....a kite…....THEN you come up with a story in your head of how these shapes all come to life and you give them sound effects that you make up and funny voices….like an old lady voice saying, “Heyyyy sonny….come over and push me in the wheelchair before I cane you….the kids these days…..they just have no respect…..why in my day…..a trip to the moving pictures cost a penny…...and folks would visit all the time trading stories and drinkin pop…thats right sonny one of them pops cost us half a bit less than a penny. And we would have to walk to school with bare feet, shoes was only if you were rich…in ten foot of snow…5 miles down the road in a blizzard, we would shovel are way there and back and we didnt complain. No sir-ee, we didnt dare whine about hafin to walk all that way…..we didnt have cars only horse n buggie and those was for the rich! Now be a dear and help me get my teeth out to soak for the night!”” You were content to be in your room where you could let your imagination go wild and if all the stories you came up with in your mind would be written down….you could fill a million s of pages!