Yes. Yes I do.

Misinterpreting social cues, impulsively blurting things out before thinking them through, getting distracted and making a series of annoying mistakes - yes, all part of ADHD. So is the resulting anxiety about looking silly and making more mistakes.

I find a little preemptive self-deprecating humor sometimes defuses the social tension a bit.  That being said, we are harder on ourselves than anyone else. Be kind to others, yes, but be kind to yourself too…

I am currently seeing a therapist to see if perhaps there’s an explanation for all of the stupid things I say and do in and out of work that hinders my ability to grow as an individual. Since seeing this therapist, its also helped me discuss other issues from childhood to this very day. Initially I was happy to find a someone that can help bring some clarity to the problems I am facing with regard to my inability to concentrate and poor organization but there’s always this scary possibility that there is no other reason for why I struggle with the very basics of life. What if I’m just slow? That’s something that I don’t think I would be able to handle very well.

Yes this is familiar to me!

I do that all the time, crud I put my foot in my mouth a lot and sometimes I’m just blank!

We all do things we’re not happy about or seem to fall into a trap of having a day where things continually go off track.  I think anyone can, with or without ADD/ADHD. 

I do impulsive things that may not be deemed by others (without ADD) as “mature” or “respectful”.  If I get mad and, for example, curse when I’m driving because another driver is an idiot, then my husband says my comments “aren’t very Christian” (he LOVES to throw that back in my face sine he doesn’t go to church).  It seems I allow others to make me feel as if I have discounted myself.  This is often followed up by periods of profuse apologies and I’m embarassed that I have to apologize for every dang thing I do.

I never knew why this was a pattern in my life until I recently learned that I’m ADD.  I just hope I can teach myself to think before I speak/act.  This will be an exercise in self control.

OMG yes! I called my husband the other day at work…I heard something, a noise, down stairs and was nervous for a few minutes…silly me forgot that just 20 minutes earlier I had thrown in laundry!! LOL Talk about “forgetful” He laughed and asked if I had taken my meds yet! This is just one incident of many that occur weekly. Some days I feel like I’m losing my mind, can’t remember crap, misplace things, forget why the microwave it beeping…LOL…but in the end, I figure it out, and all is well again.

Yes, yes, yes… and it is aggravating… but I believe, as reader “and I” said above, people do these things whether they have ADD or not.
  However: 
1. We may do these things more often because we are distracted/impulsive.
2.We may be less patient with ourselves when it does happen as a result of feeling that we are constantly making mistakes. 
3. We become more self-conscious about it, thereby causing ourselves to have lower self esteem .. this cycles into more doubt and more distraction from any task at hand.

We may be able to interrupt the cycle by being cognizant of the our own everyday habits and stopping just one thing we normally do when going through these “stages or steps” of the cycle. 

I think I am going to try to document my cycles of making these silly mistakes, what I think or how I feel about it, and then make a diagram to see where I can interrupt it.

I am sure this probably sounds silly to any of you, but if you want to, you can show me your diagrams.. it might help me with my own… (darn, one of my problems is procrastinating… someone is going to have to show me their diagram, or I’ll forget to do mine.. hahaha).

You all must think I am nuts already, huh…

OMG Yes! I do crazy things all the time!

Once I was walking my two dogs and talking on the phone with my daughter. All of a sudden I went into a panic mode because I couldn’t feel my phone in my pocket any more. I thought it had dropped out. When my daughter asked me what was the matter, I snapped back into reality and started laughing. I was holding my phone next to my ear talking to her! I felt soooooo stupid. lol.
As far as putting my foot in my mouth, I’ve done that a bunch too, but I think taking Straterra has helped my to focus on what I need to say instead of blurting out something. Sometimes I just don’t say anything.