# ADD dopers: what is your hardest control issue? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 23, 2011, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/add-dopers-what-is-your-hardest-control-issue/575742 "2011-03-23T17:35:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![surrounded\_by\_literalists](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8baadc/32.png) [@surrounded\_by\_literalists](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/surrounded_by_literalists)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/add-dopers-what-is-your-hardest-control-issue/575742/21 "2011-03-25T18:08:51Z")
You. Are. My. People. I cannot look up anything in a phone book or dictionary without getting ‘lost’ because of something I come across while looking for what I needed. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/add-dopers-what-is-your-hardest-control-issue/575742/22 "2011-03-25T18:14:25Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > Planning anything at all. I am down with actually doing stuff, but to put together a program and schedule of work (and actually stick to it) is like putting pins in my eyes. > > And remembering stuff. I’m not very good at that. To clarify, I remember in absolute detail stuff that interests me, and the rest just disappears instantly. Even when I’ve gone “ha ha, I must remember that, and it’s so obvious that I don’t need to write it down - there’s no way I’ll forget _that_”. Within seconds, it’s gone\*. > > What do I find it difficult to stop? Posting shit to the internet. > > If you haven’t read it before, **Zyada** you may appreciate [this blog post](http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/06/this-is-why-ill-never-be-adult.html). > > \*ETA: I make up mnemonics, but I can’t remember them either. This. And I love Allie Brosh (Hyperbole) more than anyone else I don’t actually know. She is amazing, and that post is perfect. _clean ALL the things…_(that’s when I know I’m in total avoidance-when cleaning becomes compelling.) ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/add-dopers-what-is-your-hardest-control-issue/575742/23 "2011-03-25T18:16:16Z")
I grabbed a quote from something Zyada posted that just sums it all right up: ADD people do best when they can keep slaying the dragons while someone else cleans up the mess, does the paperwork, and orders more dragons. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/add-dopers-what-is-your-hardest-control-issue/575742/24 "2011-03-25T19:02:23Z")
> [@surrounded\_by\_literalists](#): > > You. Are. My. People. > > I cannot look up anything in a phone book or dictionary without getting ‘lost’ because of something I come across while looking for what I needed. Hah! That’s how I learned the words googol and googolplex. (good lord, do you know how hard it is to spell those words now?) ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Woo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@Dr.Woo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Woo)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/add-dopers-what-is-your-hardest-control-issue/575742/25 "2011-03-25T21:24:09Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > Planning anything at all. I am down with actually doing stuff, but to put together a program and schedule of work (and actually stick to it) is like putting pins in my eyes. > > And remembering stuff. I’m not very good at that. To clarify, I remember in absolute detail stuff that interests me, and the rest just disappears instantly. Even when I’ve gone “ha ha, I must remember that, and it’s so obvious that I don’t need to write it down - there’s no way I’ll forget _that_”. Within seconds, it’s gone\*. > > What do I find it difficult to stop? Posting shit to the internet. > > If you haven’t read it before, **Zyada** you may appreciate [this blog post](http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/06/this-is-why-ill-never-be-adult.html). > > \*ETA: I make up mnemonics, but I can’t remember them either. Good lord, that made me laugh till I cried. Clean ALL the things - that’s an actual quote from one of my many many lists. Also, I think I look like that character. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/add-dopers-what-is-your-hardest-control-issue/575742/26 "2011-03-26T01:05:35Z")
> [@Zyada](#): > > However, Bob read [this one](http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2009/10/i-am-not-drug-addict-so-stop-thinking.html) to me, starting with “So I got a check in the mail” God. That’s me summed up, completely. I am now totally in love with Allie Brosh. [shallow] Not just for her ability to express my situation in ways that make people who are not like this understand what it’s like - also, because she’s gorgeous. [/shallow] By the way, I have learned to be on time. I am always on time - almost perfectly (if I remember to go in the first place). Because it is an incredible effort for me to be so, I get really irritated with people who aren’t. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/add-dopers-what-is-your-hardest-control-issue/575742/27 "2011-03-26T02:08:44Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > God. That’s me summed up, completely. > > I am now totally in love with Allie Brosh. [shallow] Not just for her ability to express my situation in ways that make people who are not like this understand what it’s like - also, because she’s gorgeous. [/shallow] I don’t know, don’t you think her limbs are awfully skinny? 😃 I’ll be forever in the debt of the doper who linked to the Alot post last spring, because Allie makes me feel more stable in comparison. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/add-dopers-what-is-your-hardest-control-issue/575742.md?page=1)