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@Priestrada, your body may be 19, but your brain is more like 13 or 14. Really!
There’s something called “the 30% factor”, for ADDers. It means that our socio-emotional age is about 30% younger than our physical age. This is pretty cool when you’re 44, and everyone thinks you’re only about 29 or 30. Not so cool when you’re 19 and trying so hard to show that you’re An Adult.
We ADDers have a lot of trouble with abstract concepts. And “time” is about as abstract as it gets. To us, Time is “sun up = wake up”, “night = sleep”, “hungry = eat”. But to the rest of the world, Time is these arbitrary things called “seconds, minutes, hours”, and you have to “wake up at THIS time”, “work at THAT time”, “eat at THIS time”, etc.
So, we need to take those abstract concepts and make them REAL. We write things in calendars and notes, set timers and alarms, and put everything we’ll need for the next day at the front door the night before.
It’s a pain to have to do it, but it’s a much bigger pain to deal with what happens when we don’t!
After your “ADDventures” with getting to work, I think you’ll appreciate our poster-boy, Bill’s, ADDventure when he tried to go “Off to Work”: http://totallyadd.com/off-to-work/.
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