AAADD – KNOW THE SYMPTOMS….. (translated from American English)
Thank goodness there’s now a name for this disorder!
The recently described condition AAADD – Age Activated Attention Deficit
Disorder manifested itself today in this way:
I decide to water my garden.
As I turn on the hose in the driveway, I look over at my car and decide it
needs washing.
As I go to the garage to collect the washing gear, I notice letters on the
hall table that I picked up from by the front door earlier.
I decide to go through the letters before I wash the car.
I lay my car keys on the table, put the junk mail in the waste bin under
the table, and notice that the bin is full.
So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and empty the bin first.
I find the bin is full as the rubbish wasn’t collected yesterday and decide
that I will take all my rubbish to the tip myself.
But then I think, since I’m going to be near the Post Office when I take
rubbish to the tip, I may as well pay the bills first and put them in the
post.
I pick up my cheque book, and see that there is only one cheque left.
My new cheque book are in my desk in the study, so I go up stairs to my
desk where I find the can of Coke I’d been drinking.
I’m going to look for my cheque book, but first I need to push the Coke
aside so that I don’t accidentally knock it over.
The Coke is getting warm, and I decide to put it in the refrigerator to
keep it cold.
As I head toward the kitchen with the Coke, a vase of flowers on window
ledge catches my eye because they need water.
I put the Coke on the window ledge and discover my reading glasses that I’d
been searching for all morning.
I decide I should put them back on my desk, but first I’ll water the
flowers.
I put the glasses back down on the window ledge, go to the kitchen, fill a
container with water and spot the TV remote.
Someone left it on the kitchen table.
I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV, I’ll be looking for the
remote, but I won’t remember that it’s on the kitchen table, so I decide to
put it back where it belongs, but first I’ll water the flowers.
I pour some water in the flowers, but quite a bit of it spills on the floor.
So, I put the remote back on the table, get some towels and wipe up the
spill.
Then, I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do.
At the end of the day:
the car isn’t washed
the bills aren’t paid
there is a warm can of Coke sitting on the window ledge
the flowers don’t have enough water
there is still only one cheque in my cheque book
I can’t find the remote
I can’t find my glasses and
I don’t remember what I did with the car keys.
When I try to work out why nothing was done today, I’m really baffled
because I know I was busy all day, and I’m really tired.
I realize this is a serious problem, and I’ll try to get some help for it, but first I need to
check my e-mail
Oh dear!
Please do me a favour.
Forward this message to everyone you and I know, because I don’t remember
who else I’ve sent it to.
Don’t laugh — if this isn’t you yet, your day is coming!
Makes a change from boring ADD!