*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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘ADHD’
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 [...]
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.) [...]
What would you say to your 16-year old self and why
Posted: August 19, 2010 in LifeTags: ADHD, apple, class clown, cycling, dating, drinking, fashion, google, marriage, microsoft, money, peer pressure, Plinky, running, saving, southern comfort, WordPress.com
After receiving a prompt in an email message today, I’ve elected to respond here in this blog. Please feel free to do the same. In fact, I kind of insist on it. Don’t make me whip out a can of thousand-yard googily stare on you. So…what would you say to your 16-year old self? Well, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
There’s a unique sitcom TV show currently playing, called “Modern Family”. I suppose it shouldn’t be surprising that the show is an amazing success, given that one of the creators is Christopher Lloyd. Still, it surprised me. Each week, we follow at least different story threads, burped across our screens by the patriarch and his [...]
Crowded grey matter
Posted: February 22, 2010 in LifeTags: ADHD, health, Life, stupid, undisciplined
…the human equivalent of a dog with a waggy tail, just waiting for that shiny ball to go racing across the grass….
