Re: Examples of inattentativeness

[Curlymoe115]

Well I have had just about everyone of these experiences. I make a list for the grocery store and forget to take it, or forget to take it out. I am forever losing bank cards and keys and now I try and check to make sure I have them before I get to the store and find out it isn’t there. My best example happened a few weeks ago when I was on the train. It was experiencing some major problems and was stopping everywhere. It was stopped at the mall and they announced that we would be here for a few minutes. I went back to my book and then a few minutes later I looked up and started to panic and wondered how long we had been at my stop. I grabbed my stuff in a panic and rushed out the door of the train only to realize that we hadn’t moved from the mall. So I had to sheepishly get back on the train and resume my seat. I am forever leaving burners on or forgetting to turn them on. I have stood over food on the stove for ten minutes stirring and wondering why it was taking so long only to realize I hadn’t turned it on. I will turn on the oven and forget to take stuff out. I have put dishes in the fridge and food in the cupboard. I put the roast in the slow cooker and set the timer confident that when I got up in the morning it would be ready. Got up and didn’t smell the roast cooking, get down to the kitchen and I hadn’t turned it on. Can’t tell you how many times I have driven somewhere, put my keys on the seat beside me or leave them in the ignition, gather up the stuff I need for the store, grab my purse and exit and lock the car. Complete my business and go to the car, hunt for ten minutes for the keys and then look inside and see them on the seat. Used to have to call the AMA to get them to open the car. Now I keep an extra set of keys on me. Got the extra keys when it happened 3 times in one week. I will put everything I need to take with me beside the door and walk out without them. My DH is also ADD and he has a horrible habit of zoning out when he drives. Especially if he is under a lot of pressure. When I was in labour with our oldest he drove to the mall instead of the hospital. If we are together I become the GPS and remind him where we are going. Both of our girls are also ADD and they are forever losing things and so we spend hours every day searching for items. When we lose track of words we use words like “you know that thing I told you I had to take”. I get books out of the library and just about every time I misplace one book that I spend days searching. Last time it was in the van between the seats. I forget appointments if I have more then one thing on the go. When I was going to college I would forget an assignment and then remember minutes before it was due. I would quickly dash it off and have someone else proof read it and hand it in with everyone else. Good thing I am so verbal.

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