Re: What truly inane activities do you waste time on?

[Anonymous]

Wow. I’ve never heard other people share the same kinda stuff. This cite is the first time I’ve really seen anyone share about the daily implications of ADD. I have no diagnosis, but am seriously wondering if I might have ADD and relate to the hyperfocus thing. Last night as soon as DH came home, he had a cranky look on face and said something wrong, so I decided to unburry my piano and set it up in another room. Of course w/o asking for his help to even move the darn thing. It was covered in music. I cooked diner and had a cup of coffee and spent 7 hours unburrying and moving piano bc I am sposed to start teaching private music lessons again next week. Not safe for small children to be near towering boxes in spare room, must move piano to dining room. While reading a book on “organizing” week by week, a book on “where women create” (the inspiration for the piano move-a-thon, and cleaning and preparing place for piano and music cabinet to go. Oh, and cleanign up the supper dishes. Totally ignored everyone bc of really odd focusing on this “monumental” task. Is coffee related to kicking me into a hyperfocus session?? I had 2 cups and have been wasting time on the internet this AM while knitting and making copies and doing dishes at the same time. Hmmmm.

Oh, ps. When My MIL to be met me, she asked my DH if I had ever been medicated for this? For what? Chronic disorganization, difficulty following conversation at times, unless I can interrupt to clarify details, jumping from activity to activity and a great strength of creativity? Why would I need meds for THAT? I was really shocked why my best friend (we ended up marring brothers, so my MIL is her MIL) said she had wondered the same thing over the years, but just figures that I am who I am. I was blown away, totally shocked.

Then I started doing an internet search about 2 years ago, did NOT find this cite, and everything I ran across stated that bc I am not normally hyperactive (I have my moments, but I think my dad lovingly ‘trianed’ it out of me) that nothing applied to me.

I’ve never been hyperactive, but it does seem to take a great deal of effort to sit still and listen. I remember getting in trouble a lot for doodleing while teachers were lectureing and I think that’s why I started taking notes. BC they didn’t yank your pens and paper away when you were parroting part of what they said on paper. Hmmm. And yes, I’ve just wasted an hour and 34 minutes on the computer, according tothe chronological timer on my watch, without which the people in my life would likely go insane. Grin.

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