*thinking* “Shoot, I’m late. Better call a cab.” “Wait. I’m not nearly ready and if I rush I’m going to forget something. Better get everything together first, then when I’m about five minutes from being ready – THEN call.” “Good.” I nodded to myself. “Smart thinking” I ignored the brightly coloured fairy lights flitting around [...]
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Whirling and whirling
Posted: January 24, 2012 in ADHD, LifeTags: ADD, ADHD, backtrack, forget, humor, Life, living, meds, shiny
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Advice to My Teenage Self
Posted: November 13, 2011 in ADHD, Life, livingTags: acting, ADHD, advice, awareness, empathy, Jitterbug Perfume, Life, music, open mind, prejudice
If you could write a letter to yourself when you were sixteen, what would you say? Joseph Galliano, an editor, has compiled a list of letters from people many of us know, and has created a book from that collection, entitled “Dear Me. A Letter to My Sixteen-Year-Old Self”. So….. What would I say? It [...]
Just Tell It To Me Quick Doc – I’ve Got Places To Be
Posted: November 10, 2011 in ADHD, LifeTags: ADHD, Chinese medicine, ethics, Indian medicine, Médecins Sans Frontières, pills, placebo, psychsomatic illness, quick diagnosis, self-diagnosis
“You’re having trouble urinating? Here’s a script for OxyContin. Won’t help the problem, but you won’t care anymore.” You wouldn’t trust a doctor who treated you this way, and neither would I. Some patients are looking for just such treatment though – and for them, a doctor who did this would be a god-send. There [...]
It’s funny: when you take pride in being unique, there are little things that poke you in the back to prove you are not. That you’re just another variation on a common theme. Like words, for example. I like words a lot, even though I find myself sometimes frustrated at the dearth of just the [...]
The Cats of Creative Invention
Posted: February 21, 2011 in ADHD, LifeTags: ADD, meditation, promotion, stress
“I’m just calling to tell you that you’ve got the job” The female voice on the other end of the line waited for the exhalation of joy. She didn’t wait long. The recipient could barely contain himself. “I did? Awesome!” Awesome? Kids use that word, not grown men. ”I mean, that’s great. Amazing.” [...]
Writing That Novel
Posted: October 31, 2010 in ADHD, Life, writingTags: ADD, Executive Function, Life, NaNoWriMo, Novel, writing
There is something a little satisfying about meeting a group of people who have something in common with you. I realized the joy of that when I attended an ADD support group recently. Having been formerly diagnosed as having Attention Deficit Disorder a few weeks ago, I’ve made up my mind to do something about [...]
Harvest Moon Howl
Posted: September 23, 2010 in ADHD, humor, LifeTags: ADHD, harvest moon, Help desk, Ozzy Osbourne, Shure
Guess what? I’ve got some new readers! And guess what else? They’re my work mates! And you know what that means: No more selling heroin in the corporate washroom No more talking about sleeping under the desk (hey Costanza: you had a great idea buddy. Pity it didn’t work out. For you or for me.) [...]
“My thoughts are like butterflies”, he said. “They’re beautiful. But they fly away.” It was a lament offered up a little boy, and quoted in the book “Delivered from Distraction”. I nodded furiously. Kind of stupid isn’t it? Nodding at something you read in a book. Sort of like clapping at the end of a [...]
Ever since Steve Jobs started talking about the iPad (well, even before that) I have drooled for that thing. Consequently, the Life Priority List changed, just a bit: 1. Food 1. a) iPad 2. Clothing 3. Shelter 4. Transportation Last Friday I walked into Future Shop. Can’t remember why. But I saw a big iPad [...]
Isn’t it amazing how mistaken a person can be? I never thought I could be so wrong about something. I’m not sure why any of it matters, really – except that it does. Probably because I’ve believed an untruth for such a long time. Learning the truth has been the equivalent of me learning that [...]
They finally caught up to me. It feels like months ago that I learned that the ADHD doc who was supposed to see me in July died. At least a month ago. I wondered back when I heard the news whether I would show up on the scheduled date, only to be met at the [...]
“Night time…is the right time….to be….with the one you love…..” That Ray Charles song resonates. There’s a life-beat to it, a drawing, a capture that won’t quit, won’t let go. Night time. Even the words amaze me. Long before I figured out that ADD had a place in my life, I knew that the night-time [...]
My stomach tossed and turned. It knew the day was early but it clearly was uncomfortable, maybe even bored. So it decided to wake me up. *RRRR* I glanced at the clock. 6:30. Six-freaking-thirty. Who the hell gets up voluntarily on a Monday morning at that awful time? Evidently I do. I ignored my stomach [...]
Appointment With A Dead Doc
Posted: April 18, 2010 in ADHD, humor, LifeTags: ADD, ADHD, doctor, Life
My motto at the top of this blog is “Awake, Aware and In Constant Movement” Well tonight’s the “awake” part. It’s 2:06 a.m. and I’m just so jazzed to be so vibrantly awake right now. In earlier blogs I mentioned that I’m getting assessed for ADD. I just learned tonight that the doctor who was [...]
Apparently, business travellers are prone to deviant behaviour. I attended a film yesterday, and the above was the explanation offered by the film’s police desk sergeant to a woman whose husband was killed in a hotel room after he apparently made raging sexual advances to a female police officer. That was only one of a [...]
I woke up this morning, startled. I could see daylight, and that never happens. Blearily, I squinted at the clock, which wavered back and forth, like a bad 3D movie. The damned thing wouldn’t stay still. “Stand still” “Um, no.” I pushed my knuckles into my eyelids, massaging the eyeballs, trying to coax them awake. [...]
