[Robbo]

Rite arn!,

Good job you guys, I was feeling alil bit down today. Just growing pains. They happen when we finally get around to trying to act more like a grown-up.

It happens.

We act like a grown up long enough. We turn into one!!

I know. Yikes!!!. it’s scary stuff indeed. But rest assured. I will remain my same old self.

Warts n all.

But today I had the good fortune to read all of this thread without having my own child-like (not childish…) impatience force me to jump to the end… [forget the fact that I didn’t read the first 9 pages] This is a reasonable amount of maturity for a 48 year old man.

Notice I said “A Man” and not just an ADDer. yes indeed I have been officially diagnosed with ADHD. But… Well, the truth is that I stopped taking the Ritalin because I got too much dang flack from some of the good people in my life. Their opinion does matter to me. Some of them are real grown up ya see. So being a good young man. I listen to them.

I take other people seriously these days.

I’m growin up indeed.

Slowly, veddy veddy slowly indeed.

But I am.

**turning to present my back** cuz sometimes a high five just doesn’t fill the empty casm of neediness inside my aching soul… I wish I could tell ya that I’m being sarcastic.

I ain’t

I’m afraid a friend of mine has died. He just could not see his way to doing the work that it take to become a grown up.

That’s all I have to say about that. ***in my best Forest Gump voice***

Thanks for being so real, so good, and so now you guys.

This is encouragement. Please drive to the next window…

7.99 please.

Thank you please come again

Robbo-

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Oh cool, an online HTML course. Do they have a WYSIWYG code writing program? I used to really dig on using Netscape Composer. It was all “mouse-work”, and just writing in a word processor n copy paste… super easy, n fun. Open up the HTML page in a text editor, then copy n paste some Java Script into the code. Presto!!! annoying pop up windows to mess with yer friends… N then piss off others cuz they need a dang sense of humor.

It was my computer playground. My Internet folly-land, windows95 play toys.

A veritable cornucopia of self expression and Ego-maniacal bliss. Mostly it just kept me from climbing the walls in my lil cell.

 

 

Wow, those’re some freaky spaces, ya got there Evelyn    hehe

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.. . .  .. (-;0   (slobber chops)

“what you see is what you get”

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[Robbo]

Good questions. If you ask your doctor, will ya tell us what you find out?

I didn’t notice any difference in the long run with cutting back on the thyroid medicine. I didn’t cut back much, of for long though.

It’s extremely sketchy finding any easy enough to understand info on the Internet about thyroid function or medications. It’s like, super complicated man! totally…

If I were you I wouldn’t hold my breath about getting any specific info here. But I ain’t you. So heck, do what ya want bro. ummm. Or gal?… welp, it don’t matter.

Good luck

R-

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LOL, that’s funny! @pigmonkey

 I wonder if life would be any easier being one of the mouth breathers.

Not even all that harsh.

 

Nope

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I’m really glad I came to your post first donkey gal 🙂

I’d rather get lost for two hours watching a dung beetle roll one of my donkey’s poops away (yes, I did do that once!).

Sounds fun, It’s great entertainment watching bugs do their jobs.

You’ve really said a lot of what folks in this camp need to hear. We’re going over the same information over and over in this camp. The trick is to keep it interesting. Interesting is absolutely key. And ya do that well. I hope ya keep it up too.

I like to select the text and then click on “copy” just in case I have a finger spasm and make my post disappear!. It’s cuz I sometimes can type almost as fast as my brain, some days. I look down and it’s just a blurr!. okay, not really. But it’s fun to exaggerate, huh?.

Other times I go ahead and just open a work processor document. It’s a pain in the ass though.

The block quote above [about selecting our text] ain’t from this thread. I can’t remember where… or actually I’m just not willing to look for the post it came from. It’s relevant cuz I’m writing my post as I read yours. (lot’s of y0u cats’ stuff, plus I remember good ones as I write…).

So, in that sense, I am grateful for the good side of this, um disorder. I still don’t like calling it a disorder  But it is, regardless. It’s made me who I am and to heck with anyone who doesn’t like it. Mind you, that doesn’t mean I don’t see a need to continue working on weaknesses and finding ways to work around my weaknesses to get along in everyday life. But I recognize the need to also find people, places, and times to celebrate the good parts.

The people n places are here. It takes some time to sift through the mental dump posts from folks like, well. Me! lol. But it may have been necessary for folks like me to endlessly pontificate about… um, everything under the sun. In order to feel like I’m allowed to really be myself.

Then grow…

And when I was aloud to do this and I wasn’t flamed at by the hateful folks I’ve found in other forums. I eventually got around to caring much more about keeping what I say here more organized and legible. Sorta… I’ve improved. N that’s good enough.

I found I could relate to the folks in this camp better that just about everywhere else on the”nets”. I really like using that term [nets]. I first learned it over 16 years ago. Reading Orson Scott Cards “Enders Game”. What an awesome Awesome book. I read it twice, just started reading “Enders Shadow” last night. I got through chapter one and stopped!! That’s miraculous!. It ain’t a miracle.

I’m much more careful than I used to be about using the word “miracle”. But if you want to talk about miraculous things that happen. Just read here, all around TotallyADD. This web site is full of miraculous signs and wonders.

Yep. I said that. Mmhhhmm. Uhuh, (I’ve gone there…).
R-

PS, of course I’ve got more to say. It’s just that I’ve got a ridiculous amount of stuff to get done in my life. So If I’m not around all that much for the next week or so… It’s mostly cuz I’m reading about “Enders Shadow”, It’s an excellent book. And getting lot’s of the stuff I didn’t get done in the last 48 years.

It’s gonna take another 48 years. So I’m also taking good care of my body. Also so I can come back here n read a bunch more. CuZ Iforget…

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Right arn! @mulegirltx, I just realized that I spelt your moniker wrong above here. But I spell lots of things wrong. It’s hard to spell jackass wrong though 🙂  hehe.

If I believed in reincarnation, I think I would want to come back as a jackass. I’m already real good at acting lak one

Thanks for the encouragement mulegirltx. At least not I know you’re a female. I was wondering, just didn’t want to risk lifting up your tail for a look…

My dad used to sing this sound about “A horsefly and an old grey mare”….  flying around….

guess I better say gnite.

 

PS dang… I’m getting punchie, had a good snicker after singing my dad’s little song after that last post, then had something else I was gonna say. But the edit thing disappeared.  So that freaked me out a lil. I tried to log in… jus didn’t work. Actually I just got to tired to wait! I wonder if what we call “neurotypicals” have that happen?  but it’s not the software. I’m just having trouble with my tired boney fingers.

I’m sure lot’s of folk get that even if they got no diagnosis of anything other than when their boss called them a dork.

ADD (A dork disorder)

Thay’re not werking vary well… so the boss called em a dork.

 

Must be tired.

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[Robbo]

Oh right on!, I’m pretty sure that 4 hours should be almost enough time to fix any typos folks don’t see the first fifty seven million thousand hundred… um, times they edit a post.

Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum… habemus editorem functionem!

And just in case that don’t mean thank you.

Thank you.

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We like your sense of humor, Administrator  

 This is another topic here I found this link in your profile. Cute!.

 

 

 

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[Robbo]

Great story @mulegritx, so basically. What you’re saying is that you’re a jackass? A “very very very big one” lol

 (very, very, very big donkey), was so excited and wiggling all over the place that he wound up knocking into my ex. I think that particular donkey was very ADD and much like me.

Because you have ADD? and so… seeing as how guilt is sometimes rendered so just by association. The rest of us are jackasses just as well huh?.

Oh, okay. Good to know…

Jack-

(-;  [standing on my head waving smiley, got the idea from what’s his name]

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LOL, I used to cook in a restaurant out on Santa Cruz wharf  It was a lot of fun. Never boring!!!, cuz I got to watch Steamer Lane all day long…  https://www.google.com/search?q=steamer+Lane&hl=en&rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS523US523&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=xa9DUcSHMeb4yQGv0IDoDA&ved=0CDYQsAQ&biw=1282&bih=575   When the surf got big I had a heck of a hard time concentrating on cooking… Also it was [***joke alert***}difficult to not drool in other peoples food!

Standing there with my mouth wide open again… dazed at the massive surf exploding off in the horizon… That’s when the drool would come pouring out into your lunches…  (I warned ya)

One of the other cooks used to say to me “I always wonder which one of the “many faces of Rob” I’ll be working with when I take off for work”. but he said it with a smile on his face. Most of the characters were clowns of course. Unfortunately people will sometimes take us too seriously when we talk about these kinds of symptoms. We’re not saying that folks with ADD/ADHD are gonna have multiple personalities. Well…

Nope, we’re not saying that at all. Although it’s possible that some of the less fortunate folks with this wide spectrum disorder containing many other disorders and often diagnosed incorrectly… often end up totally bat shit crazy as a result. But not me.

Nope

This is beside the point we’re trying to make.

We just make the best of the fact that we’re experiencing life as if it was much more dramatic than it actually is. It’s cuz when we’re living a life, It’s a very dramatic thing!

That’s all I’m sayen…

Just a lil nutty sometimes.

R-

Wow!!! make sure you take a look at that link to Steamer Lane… Beautiful Pictures!!

 

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[Robbo]

Wow, this is really a rich thread. Thanks :-)~

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[Robbo]

Yes it is… going back to bed

🙂

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Good reading you guys. Very good reading. I got reminded of another real cool thread while reading through this one. Take a look  http://totallyaddconnect.com/forums/topic/work-in-progress/

I’ve found that it’s a good idea to bookmark certain threads here. I don’t always feel like reading the longer ones. But the truth is, when I do get into the right frame of mind to read them. I find them just as satisfying as curling up with a good book.

It’s the folks here that really start to grow on me. Which is better than a book. Huh?.

I’ve found that I’m much more acceptable to myself as a result of making friends with my own little mixture of ADHD symptoms. They’re much less of a problem for me these days.

There’s no cure for ADHD, but I know this for sure.

We can love it(?!). I especially love my ADHD quirked out imagination. And my ADD creativity.

As time goes foreword. I’m realizing that my ADHD symptoms don’t separate me from the rest of humanity the way they used to. I don’t feel like I’m socially unacceptable… just awkward! lol, I can live with that. There are a lot of truly crazy people in the world. We’re just um… very artistic!. yep.

I don’t have such a strong desire to tell the people in my life about my diagnosis. I guess I’m secure enough with the rest of my personality. It’s because I’m much more than just an ADDer.

I bet taming the worst problems that came with diagnosis, as well as no longer being MIS-diagnosed… is a big part of why I’m so much more comfortable in my own skin.

I’m no longer feeling the need to justify my own existence. Like Evelyn, I really know I’ve got a right to the oxygen in my lungs.

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Thanks @Trashman, haven’t seen ya for a while. I’m glad yer sticking around.

It’s a very fortunate thing to find something to laugh about. I’ve been reading a book about discipline lately. The truth is that it’s been doing me a lot of good. But it’s a little bit dangerous for me to let myself become too serious. This morning I got my first taste of the depression that can come with “taking myself too seriously”. Fortunately I’ve got this community to come back to.

So of course I’m taking good care of myself about that. It’s simple. I just lighten up.

Truly simple.

I too look foreword to the social contact here. Maybe because I can relate to so much of what folks talk about here. Even though we’re talking about struggles. The struggles do become smaller. What’s important, and what I look foreword to the most is the solutions I find here. You guys have struggled with all the same things I’ve had trouble with. And found solutions…

It’s the best stuff!!.

I do my best to share as many of my solutions as I can here. When I’ve got them.

Not everything that works for me will work for the rest of the gang here. But I know folks are sometimes trying what works for me, and having success. The trick is to remember we’re dealing with extremely forgetful, and very absent minded pholks here.

that’s why I don’t understand the missing edit feature… maybe each of us is waiting for someone else to harass Jimi about it? We all like this place so much we don’t want to complain? It’s more likely we like this place n think it’s just plain good enough, huh?. Yep. Mostly.

Real live air heads!… that are also bona a fide genius’. A very strange combination of perplexities indeed. But I like us.

Yep, just a weird weird bunch of blokes.

Weird.

A bunch of nuts.

But truly loveable, warm hearted, and funny! best of all. I get a kick in the butt out of lot’s of the funny “characters” in this community. They’ve got character. We go character. I know I shouldn’t pass judgement. But that’s just what human beings do.

I have judged this community, and I’ve found it to be truly inspirational, warm, and absolutely genuine and real. The reality is the best characteristic around here.

Really… um, interesting :-p (Interesting is about the coolest thing there is to be…)

DGMS

My shadow syndromes are that I’m sometimes just plain ridiculous . lol. It’s a fun way to be though. Like Ace Ventura Pet detective… Sorta… just in my own way, without the pets.

 

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[Robbo]

Hey!, good job @Tiddler. That sounds great. I bet if you just keep plugging away at it, you’ll find it much easier to navigate this ol place.

TotallyAdd’s a huge web site, but it gets smaller the longer we keep surfing around in it. Even though it keeps expanding. Just like the rest of the Internet.

TTYS

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LOL, thanks @Faequine some days I get a lil bit long winded.

I do appreciate the feedback though. I thought a lil bit about re-writing it. But some days I just don’t have the ability to communicate the way I need to or want to, or at all.

I can’t even think of any good smart alec cliches I can use to blame ADD for my goofiness.

Hopefully you will get encouraged to surf around some more in these forums. That’s the general idea… mostly.. And other stuff…

I woke up this morning with a grand central head. So I waited for the sun to come up, then went out and took a tour around my block. Burning off my ADD energy like I’m 5 years old again.

:-)~

I’m sorta growing up here. I’m taking the long way. No doubt, huh?.

We will get there.

Soon, or just eventually.

 

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