I’ve been watching the threads on ADD and ADHD with great interest, but didn’t have cause to join in until this past week. Last Wednesday, at the age of 34, I received a tentative diagnosis. I’m ADD, and probably have been for most of my life.
I feel this great sense of euphoria, for some reason. It’s like guilt is lifting away. On Saturday, I got this book, Driven to Distraction. It may as well be called The Sugaree Handbook: a guide to the secret inner workings of Sugaree’s mind and a map of her personal and professional life to date. I can open the book to any random page and find something that speaks to me.
Okay, instead of playing Tontie for an hour, I am going to take care of ten things from the massive TO DO pile stacked up like Jabba the Hut next to my desk. In the meantime, any ADD-ers, parents thereof, psych profesionals, or educators have any advice?
When I was in college, my GF found an especially sadistic way to make sure I finished my homework. While I sat working at my desk, she would crawl into my bed, pull the sheets up to her neck, then take off her clothes. If I didn’t finish, no nooky. I won’t say that my homework was of the highest possible quality, but dammit, it got done.
Not that this kind of solution is bound to work particularly well in an office setting…