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Ridiculousshit your ramblings are fascinating! It does intrigue me that those of us with this ADHD thingy are generally ‘oddballs’, but rather than being horrified by it we seem to embrace it! I dunno, that too might be yet another one from my bottomless reservoir of generalisations 🙂
Larynxa, your post was superb! I muddle so much, but eventually get around to doing something, and you gave me some great ideas. My mind whirrs so fast that I can have so many ideas, thoughts, and tangents crashing into one another for that fleeting nano-second of rumination that the result is invariably a form of paralysis, and I sit there lost in the fog of something like a turbo charged demolition derby of those thoughts, tangents etc. Ah well, we all know what that’s like…on the positive side I gave up smoking 5 weeks ago, and still going strong! I’ve also persisted with an ad hoc exercise regime! I’m bored now, and forgot what I was initially going to put in here, so I’ll be back if and when I remember what bullshit I was going to unload here… 🙂
REPORT ABUSEG’day Ridiculousshit!
Nice post, thanks for sharing your candid post! ADHD is a tricky hat to wear, eh? The older we get the more difficult it is to blend the hat in with all of the other hats, no? 🙂 My immaturity is as strong as it ever was, and that habit of blurting out inappropriate comments hasn’t abated, but all in all, I have found that endeavouring to understand ADHD is like going around in circles….tea anybody? 🙂
REPORT ABUSE*gulp* The real world is a brutal unforgiving place, eh? If only the world could somehow be aligned to my little dreamworld, that’d be perfect. There’d be no need for money, or for the financial institutions to have hitmen tracking me down, or for my name to induce cardiac arrest from the Bad Debtors Robot Reporting Corp! Down the track when I find a nice cosy park bench to live under I’ll give you the location and I’ll squeeze you in… 🙂
REPORT ABUSEI’ve got heaps of car stories. Nearly broke my own nose changing a tyre, I abandoned a car at least twice, blew a few up by not doing things like putting oil in the engine, run out of petrol countless times, and did silly experiments like seeing if I could drive without having the lights on when it was pitch black etc. etc.
It’s scary to think that I might be getting a taxi licence, huh? I can’t get a job doing anything else….
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Okie dokie, dishes to wash.Anybody got any funny car stories? I’ll share the one about the time I ended up in hospital with my fingers stuck together and a tube of superglue stuck to my hand. I was going to ‘fix’ a leaky radiator.
Another time I drove down the wrong way of a freeway for about 10 klms.
I should have been killed when I first started driving a car. I was doing 120 kmh in the right hand lane of a dual carriageway of a highway as it joined with three other lanes of traffic. I wasn’t wearing a seatbelt. Radio full blast. I was watching lambs jumping around in a paddock and daydreaming when I turned around, and I was a nano-second from hitting the cars ahead that had come to a standstill. I didn’t have time to hit the anchors. All that I could do was scream, let go of the steering wheel and cover my eyes as I made myself into a ball in my seat, all done in a heartbeat. From that day I learnt to believe in miracles…
REPORT ABUSEWe are very intuitive though 🙂 Even as a tike I could ‘sense’ things about people no matter how hard they tried to conceal whatever it was… 🙂
REPORT ABUSE*gulp*
I was going to type in something profound, I really was, but I’ll just have to wait for somebody that actually has an answer or suggestion to solve the riddle, for I’m bloody useless…*runs away*…
REPORT ABUSEAh Carrie!
If only I lived nearby I’d rush around and help you clean up! I’d insist that you took all of the credit, but I’d secretly pat myself on the back for helping somebody out of a jam. It’s easy helping other people slay their dragons, eh? That way I can avoid wrestling with the legion of dragons that prevent me from fighting my own battles…
You’re a sweetie, and you’re amazing. I always enjoy reading your posts, their quirkiness, their uniqueness, and your bold refreshing candour always encourages me, and maketh me smile! You are awesome you little star! Drowning you say, eh? Nah, you’re just on a unicorn that sometimes forgets how to swim…*KISS*…
If you ever need an essay on ‘drowned’ then give me a prod with a cyber stick…I’ve been scuttling amongst the seaweed down here for so long that I breathe through gills and not lungs…. 🙂
REPORT ABUSECrikey, that sounds intriguing! It is fascinating how the ADD’er seems to have a different perspective to those around during a crisis, or present as utter chaos is erupting, no? It’s almost as if a sub-conscious auto-pilot kicks in and one has a matrix-like ability to know what to do, when to do it, and how to do it, often in a nano-second! After the crisis/emergency/pandemonium, or whatever has passed, and one’s mind considers what was averted, negotiated, or dealt with that we begin to realise that we really are ‘Critical Incident Experts’ lol….it’s almost as if we’re always sleepwalking, and it takes something dangerous, exciting, or harrowing just to jolt us into action, eh? Weird…ah well, at least you now know that in the event of a very serious situation that your ADHD, for once, is not an impediment, but is in fact a strength, and a formidable one at that! Take care 🙂
REPORT ABUSEG’day Robbo! Thanks mate, it was an amusing interlude while it lasted! Next! *yawn* Robots and ADD’ers just aren’t a ‘good fit’, eh? Ah well, it wasn’t the first job that didn’t have a happy ending, and I suspect that it won’t be the last. I couldn’t even hazard a vaguely accurate guess at how many different jobs that I’ve had over the years…would almost certainly run into the hundreds, and that’s no exaggeration! *yawn* Bored with that topic now…how have you been Robbo? Making any progress? I’ll have to fire an email off to you one of these years lol
REPORT ABUSEG’day pigmonkey!
I hope that your meds were helpful! They’re not a magical formula that will dramatically transform your life, they’re just another tool to give you some respite from the chaos 🙂 Good luck with the process, and I’ve really enjoyed reading your posts! Your observations are delicious 🙂
REPORT ABUSEYep, I’m with you shutterbag! Nearly every word that you’ve typed has resonated with me…I too see ADHD as a curse. If we’re brutally honest we can think back to the time when it registers in our minds that we’re ‘different’, and we devote years and years clumsily attempting to hide, or at least disguise, the dreaded curse. It’s like a dirty secret that can’t be shared. We can get away with much of the mess when we’re younger, but as we age there becomes less and less places to hide, until even we can’t bothered trying to hide behind the diminishing blades of grass and we’re like exhausted fugitives that can’t even muster the energy to pretend that everything is okay anymore, that things will get better tomorrow etc. Then the ADHD boulder is dropped onto one’s lap, and we’re told that we’re mentally impaired and to deal with it! *yawn* Where was I again? Hey, look over there, aren’t the butterflies so colourful and capricious?
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*runs away*Whilst out enjoying my morning ciggy and cup of tea surfing a variety of thoughts, one piqued my interest and amused me for a few minutes: imagine an ADHD nation! Or, at least an indepedent ADHD community! The only pre-requisite for admission was the dreaded ADHD! It would be interesting if nothing else, no?
This utopian refuge would have no clocks. No hassles. No bores. No robots. No bureaucrats. If rules were deemed necessary they would be by consensus. We’d not abide by dreary superfluous statutory nonsense, and we’d rally to help one another when the need arose without seeking recognition or glory. There would be no judgement or hatred. No condemnation, just acceptance for how one is…we’d be able to edify one another to such an extent that we’d be confident enough to commute to the nearest robotic community and participate in their exchange of filthy lucre for effort program if we had the inclination…if not, we’d spend the days in idyllic bliss following our whims without feeling shame or guilt!
My most recent job lasted 4 days. I could not abide the bellowing oaf that was my supervisor, and we clashed from our first meeting. I could not yield to this stentorian imbecilic grunting primate, and despite my best efforts I was unable to prevent provoking him with with well directed conveyances of contempt. I resented the way that he spoke disparagingly to everybody, so there was a degree of inevitability that we’d have a bit of a showdown…I’d got myself so annoyed with this gorilla that I was fantasising about which of my fists would land the first blow, and I relished imagining giving the great lump of crap a few kicks once I’d knocked him to the ground…I told them to stick that job up the rectal passage of the aforementioned grunting troglodyte, and that I’d try and see my final day out before being subjected to a hasty round of meetings etc.etc. In the end I left around lunchtime, said my farewells to my fellow danglers at the bottom of the food chain there, and with a merry heart I left! The other guys were pleased that I’d stood up to this dimwit, and even though I wish the guys well I don’t understand how they can tolerate being treated with such overt blatant naked contempt. I hope that things improve for them anyway… 🙂
How good would it be though to have an ADHD village, eh? Imagine the laughter! It’d be a hoot wouldn’t it? It’d be like being on a school camp or something for as long as one wanted to stay there! Friendly robust debate, no rancour, no lingering resentment! Is it just me or do you guys find it very easy to let things slide? I don’t nurture grudges. Even if I’ve been wronged, if I see a willingness to forgive and forget I can easily do it too, and the matter is soon forgotten!
Hmmm, still quite early here. Time for another cup of tea and ciggy!
Allan 🙂
REPORT ABUSEOops, I missed a page! Hey Robbo, good to see you! I’ll settle in and read that novel of yours! 🙂
REPORT ABUSEWowee, you guys are high achievers! Gee, I don’t have anything to boast about! 🙁
All that I’ve being doing lately is the same that I’ve always done :screwing things up! Anyway, well done all of you! One day soon I’ll have a triumph to share! 🙂
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