ADD dopers: what is your hardest control issue?

[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.

[Stoid]

@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.

*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.)

[Stoid]

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.

[Zyada]

@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?)

[Dr.Woo]

@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.

*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.

[jjimm]

@Zyada

However, Bob read this one 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.

[elfkin477]

@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.