Re: ADDer's Susceptible to “snow jobs?'

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Your quesitons:

How typical is this with ADD?

I have ADD pretty bad. I’m often tricked, I don’t get pranks or jokes played on me easily. So yes, I’m rather easily “snowed” in that way. It’s a known issue with ADD that we don’t get the body language hints that non-ADD adults do. Check typical symptoms, that’s usually among them. We miss the subtle clues in facial expressions and so on (in fact it’s so bad with me, I have great difficulty with facial recognition, and can’t see “family resemblances” that others can easily see.

I’m sure this happens to others with ADD, but I’m really wondering how MUCH of a problem this really is.

For me, it can be a big problem – more in ordinary life than business. I tend to check things out in business, but I can easily be fooled by a prank or a joke. I take things literally and seriously, so miss a lot because of that.

Do others with ADD feel as strong a need to have important things in writing?

YES – my first response to almost anything – “write it down”.

Do most, if not all, ADDers have that much trouble with verbal communications? In the same way I do?

I sure do! I prefer written, and pictures. Even the doctor in my reasonable request forms for work said “written communication” was best.

Do most ADDers experience feeling as if they’ve been “snowed” on a regular basis?

I can’t speak for most, of course, to do so would be quite assuming, but I can speak for me……… not on a regular basis, but FAR far more than almost anyone else I know.

Funny – my youngest son is VERY VERY ADD – he’s a heck of a con artist. He’s conned his entire family, including ME, however, I never lent him money – my brother lent him a few thou a few years ago even though my mother and I both warned my brother NOT to trust him or loan him money. He did anyway…………

So my son isn’t easily conned, but he sure cons others easily. Including all of the levels needed to leave this country undetected.

>>When I see or hear things I used to know, I remember that I knew them, but in the normal course of the day, I would not remember those things at all.<<

I often see things I’ve done in the past as if someone else did them. I can’t believe I did them, can’t recall HOW I did them, or even knowing how I did them or how to do it. I seem to know what I need to know at the moment, then it’s gone and I move to the next set of things I need to know. Like a box that can only hold so much info, I seem to slip things in and out as I need them, and I look back in sort of a “third person” view.

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