[alfadog67]

“I’ll spend hours on the computer making a perfect birthday card, but almost never get it sent out on time.” – HILARIOUS and Oh so familiar!

Oh, and I read your whole post, not just the last sentence

I’m pretty much screwed without a list. I’m glad we’re in the era of hand-held devices, ’cause a paper list would get lost in my pocket.

I hope all of that changes when I get medicated

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Interesting!

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I have a few word associations – I can’t think of the word “Patronize” unless I drag it out of the word “Parent”. Also, I can’t remember names very well, but I can remember EXACTLY how many letters are in them. For instance, Sam Neil I couldn’t remember today, but since I remembered how many letters were in his name, I was able to deduce from there. Unfortunately, I have since learned that his last name is really “Neill”.

My wife and I have been playing “The Homonym Game” for about 3 years now. Every time we read or hear one, we’ll holler it out.

I thought of a quadruple homonym a few weeks ago, but I’ll be darned if I can remember it now. There were 5 letters in the longest one, though, and the other 3 had 4 letters… As a matter of fact, she’s looking over my shoulder right now, and asked me if we’ve had “hoard” yet… She’s my favorite person.

I once made a spreadsheet in excel that did something neat. I would type in a 4-letter word, and Excel would show every combination of all 4 letters, then spell-check each one, and each one that was spell-checked successfully was highlighted.

The most I got was 6: Stop, post, pots, tops, spot and opts. That was an exciting night. Also, Wifey plays scrabble alot, so I’ve been endeavoring to make as efficient a 2-letter word list as possible.

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My wife (enabler) reads directions and paraphrases to me.

Tonight we did the new power sprayer. I asked her, “Which one of these 4 spray nozzles has the highest volume?” She scanned the book for a while, only to realize that it didn’t contain that information. I love her so much!

I went to buy dog food today, and asked her which one to get… She replied “Chicken”, and after a long blank stare, she then reiterated, “The red one”. Same one we’ve been buying for several years, incidentally.

I make wrong turns frequently, too. I have lived at the same house for 3 years and change, and I will pass it by like it’s invisible on occasion. I’ve always done that. When they came out with GPS, I thought I was saved, but my wife has frequent arguments and disagreements with the GPS, so now I have to choose sides.

Since the movie, “ADD and Loving It”, I’ve used the excuse, “I’ve just got to burn that DVD real quick” to my wife when we’re about to be late. We’ve only had 3 appointments since we saw the movie, but I’ve used the “DVD” comment all 3 times.

My wife is a shrink – I don’t know if that’s a good thing or not – but she’s been calling me “ADD” since forever. I thought she was yanking my chain since we aren’t allowed to psychoanalyze each other.

I’ve noticed that my typing has started to demonstrate a sort-of “dyslexic” style over the past couple of years. I’m certainly not dyslexic, but my attention to detail has diminished for some reason, and this has made for some interesting days at the office. Brentitude mentioned above about reading books backwards as a child – I have been phonetically saying sentences backwards since I was a child. Somebody will say a sentence and I’ll spell it in my head backwards, and then speak the backwards sentence as it might sound were it spelled that way. I wonder how much this exercise has caused my “dyslexic” issues.

I interrupt people, and because of Beignet’s comments above, I now realize it’s because if I don’t interrupt, I’ll forget what my point was. Thanks Beignet!

Ok, I’ve had a rant now, so I officially feel as if I have broken in my new account. I’m worried sick about hitting the “Send” button.

I would have to be in the right mood to read a post as long as this one. This note took about 45 minutes to write, and I’m doing absolutely nothing else.

Also, I time and count everything. Dna I naem GNIHTYREVE!

I’m probably watching this thread and slamming the “refresh” button.

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Yes, I do the stereograms, not always fast though. I think they’re neat. I wonder when they will come out in movies.

Sometimes the payoff isn’t worth the effort… For instance you spend 2 minutes finding the sweet spot on a stereogram, only to find a donut or a golf ball.

A friend of mine has one across from his toilet. He still “seen” it though.

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If I focus just right, I can make out certain shapes with the spaces between the words.

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Yah, I feel your pain – I hilight my sentences with the mouse as I read them.

Usually I find myself merely reading the current word to myself before vacantly moving onto the next… No clue what point they’re trying to make. That’s usually my ripcord indicator…

I do like the audio books! I’m one of those “good listener” ADDers, so says my wife. She’s a shrink – talk about irony.

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Hahaha good one!

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Hi brentitude – thanks for the answer. I apologize for asking you to point out what should be obvious – I suppose I just felt like blithering a bit.

As for the painting contest – exactly right. I seem to skip completely past the posts that have more than a few lines in them.

I suppose that writing long posts as well as skipping long posts are possible symptoms, eh?

Thanks for taking the time!

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I can see the “Likes to talk” symptom has a stranglehold on many of us, eh?

I got high marks on the ADD test as well.

I’m glad to know that all of the A’s I got in school don’t give me immunity.

I was labeled “Tardy King” by my 6th-grade teacher. It’s a good thing I lived only 12 houses from the school.

I learned how to write, too. I dictate into a microphone, and then transcribe later. That helps with sentence structure you lose when it’s coming out for the first time via a keyboard.

Like a guitarist – a new guitarist concentrates on his playing, while an experienced guitarist concentrates on his song. Does that make sense? I compare it to my spoken word as the experienced guitarist, and my typing as the new guitarist.

I knew I should have used the microphone…

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