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  • in reply to: Untapped potential? #125779

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    I can relate to the know everything/do everything.

    I once took some gourmet cooking classes.  One time while making Chicken Kiev, I started thinking of how I was not only cooking the supper, but had made the cabinet housing the built in oven/stove from wood I had taken from the ceiling while I was restoring the house in which we were living.  As well as building all other cabinetry, installing the wiring and plumbing to the kitchen and house, the insulation and sheet rock and painting, not to forget the roof or leveling of the house and repointing the piers.  I even fathered the children who would eat the meal and made the cradle in which they slept as infants.

    Same story with the cars I drive.

    Gardening?  Texas Master Gardener

    Sailing – Graduate Westlawn School of Yacht Design

    The list goes on .  .  .

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    Soooo . . . ADHD??

    That’s where little kids are hyper all the time, probably from eating too many Twinkies or something, and they run around like wild Indians till they crash.  They are given drugs to calm them down, probably some sort of tranquilizers . . . What? . . . they give them speed?  How weird is that?  I don’t know, this just doesn’t make sense.  I don’t think people know what they’re talking about.

    That’s what I used to think.  How about you?

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    in reply to: Humor section #125522

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    I was in Sam’s to get dog food for my son’s Doberman, Tex.  He and the golden eat a lot, and we went to the store to buy a large bag of dog food. We were in line to check out and a woman behind me asked if we had a dog.

    I told her that no, I was starting The Purina Diet again although I probably shouldn’t — since I had ended up in the hospital last time after losing 50 pounds. 

    I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet and the way that it works is to load your pants pockets with Purina nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry. The food is nutritionally complete so I was going to try it again.

    Horrified, she asked why I ended up in the hospital — had the Purina made me sick? “No,” I told her, “I stepped off the curb to sniff a poodle’s butt and got hit by a car.”

     

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    in reply to: Humor section #125511

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    I finally got around to going fishing this morning but after a while I ran out of worms.

    Then I saw a cottonmouth with a frog in his mouth, and frogs are good bass bait.

    Knowing the snake couldn’t bite me with the frog in his mouth, I grabbed him right behind the head, took the frog and put it in my bait bucket.

    Now the dilemma was how to release the snake without getting bitten.

    I grabbed my bottle of Jack Daniels and poured a little whiskey in its mouth. His eyes rolled back, he went limp, I released him into the lake without incident, and carried on my fishing with the frog.

    A little later I felt a nudge on my foot.

    There was that same snake, this time with two frogs in his mouth.

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    in reply to: Setting up desk space #125293

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    Here’s an article on how to “make more time in your day”  Everyone is going to like this:

    http://blogs.psychcentral.com/sex-addiction/2014/05/5-surprising-ways-to-make-more-time-in-your-day/

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    in reply to: ADD and College. #125279

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    I got a computer science degree 40 years ago.  I started in mechanical engineering, switched to math (the then way to get a CS degree), and graduated in computer science.  I’m sure the curriculum is vastly different now.  I found it interesting mostly, so I could hyper focus a lot of the time.  Also, things could become extremely interesting the night before due.

    Having a high IQ helped me slide through in a way similar to the way many slide through high school, just getting by.  But I did graduate.

     

    @Blackdog has some good points for you to consider.  By now from your reading, you should know what coping strategies are.  Sit down, figure out what gives you problems, and develop your own strategies.  Don’t come up with something “impossible”, just something that pushes you in the right direction.  Something do-able.

    For money management and impulse buying:

    http://totallyaddconnect.com/forums/reply/re-does-anyone-here-have-impulse-to-buy-things/

    Time to pet the cat, good luck.

    Oh, if anyone read the link, the ships are still in the boxes.

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    in reply to: I know parenting isn't all about me, but…….. #125278

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    @AbbyNormal

    Well, I got lucky too, my kids are awesome.  It’s still like being pecked by chickens.

    Once, I had to speak to the parents of my daughter’s classmates.  At one point, I said that some kids are like a toy train, you send them off, know where they are, when they’ll be back, etc.  (My daughter)  And others (my ADHD son) are like a RC model plane.  You have to watch them every second, don’t know where they’ll be next, and if you take your eyes off them, they’re upside down headed for the ground.  And sometimes, you just have to let them crash because it’s the only way they learn.

    My son had typical ADHD problems and behavior.  Bad enough, but nothing from which could not be recovered.  College a bit of a (continuing) disaster.  About a year ago, he got a new girl friend.  I am at a loss for words to describe the change in him, how happy we are with her and her family, and they with him.  There is hope.  And as hard for me it is to believe it, she has ADHD too.  That Vyvance must work wonders.

    I hope your son is so lucky.  In the mean time, hang in there.

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    in reply to: Setting up desk space #125249

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    Thank you very much ladies and gentlemen, you’ve been a great audience.

    And now let’s hear it for Larynxa performing her new smash hit, “Taking Off Your Clothes.”  🙂

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    in reply to: Setting up desk space #125241

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    If different locations works to keep sex more interesting, why shouldn’t it help to keep work more interesting.  It’s a no brainer.

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    in reply to: I know parenting isn't all about me, but…….. #125240

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    Raising kids is like being pecked to death by chickens.  My experience is that it should get better for you in about .  . .  (23-16) .  .  .   seven years.  Having comorbid aspergers can be a benefit during these years.

    Just try to take it one day at a time, and sleep through as many of those as you can.  Scatty is right, the social/emotional maturity for a 16yo I would reckon at around 12.  It should catch up to his age in about ten or eleven years.

    Any “tangible”  advice you get here will probably not do you a whole lot of good since each situation (kid) is unique, the rules change from day to day, and when things seem to start going well, it’s like the calm before the storm and all hell breaks loose into your life.  Sound familiar?

    I know from your previous posts that you are a kind, caring, and thoughtful person.  These traits will serve you well.  And feel free to come back here for more of my bullsh*t advice or just to vent.  🙂

     

    Oh, I forgot intelligent.  You’re intelligent ,too.

    Imagine me forgetting that, you would think I had ADHD or something.

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    in reply to: Feeling Stupid #125096

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    @catlover79  Your posts reminded me of this:

    http://totallyaddconnect.com/forums/topic/the-mysterious-rules-of-the-friendship-game/

    (I hope it has some relevance.  I didn’t go back and   . . .  squirrel!  Gotta go!

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    in reply to: Dating sites for people with disorders? #125095

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    Yeah, you sure wouldn’t want me showing up at your door.

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    in reply to: Feeling Stupid #125062

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    I suspect your story sounds really familiar to many on this site which explains why we avoid people and opt for friends of the four legged kind that don’t want small talk, don’t judge us, and don’t need an apology.

    Mine accept me for who I am and think I’m God.

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    in reply to: New Approach to Old Symptoms #124978

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    We love a good rant.  🙂

    Some of the better ones, we plagiarize.

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    in reply to: Low Self Esteem and Work #124977

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    I have employees in a situation perhaps similar to yours.  I want my employees to be efficient so that customers don’t get impatient, sociable so that customers will want to come back, and build customer loyalty and sales.  I realize that that can be a lot to expect and that everyone has a bad day occasionally.

    I would say that if you are friendly to customers and don’t make a lot of mistakes costing time or money, you have nothing to worry about.

    One thing I heard once that has stuck with me is that most people think they are working for somebody else.  Not so, you’re working for yourself, selling your services to your employer.  Do the best you can and that ethic will follow you to your ultimate goal.  Think about making the customer smile and by doing so it should get your mind off being stressed.  Think of nice things to say to the customers like “I really like how your spider tattoo looks like its crawling into your ear.”  (You can say this to them even if they don’t have a tattoo.  🙂 )

    You’re not a machine, don’t get stressed because you’re not perfect.  Let us know how it goes.

     

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