Forum topic: ADD/ADHD is Like ...

Thu Feb 20th, 2014 - 12:26pm by Freaking ADD

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Support for the ADHD Partner

I don't know if this has been done in other threads, and I don't have time to go find out. Along the lines of Ned Hollowell's great article — in which he tries to explain what it's like to have ADD/ADHD — I thought it'd be interesting to hear how other folks explain their experiences with ADD/ADHD. So finish one of the two statements below:

1.) Having ADD/ADHD is like ...

2.) Living with an ADD/ADHD person is like ...

Comments

Submitted by Freaking ADD on Thu Feb 20th, 2014 - 12:30pm

... running a race in knee-high mud, while everyone else is running on grass. Sometimes you do amazing things, but it feels like it's just a matter of time before you fall on your face in the mud.

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--- If you wanna live life on your own terms, you've gotta be willing to crash and burn.

Submitted by sunlight on Thu Feb 20th, 2014 - 5:26pm

.. flailing around in my own little puddle of mud.  Gazing fixedly at the sunny grasslands, I begin to pull myself out and then - THWACK - out of a clear blue sky this ADHD person lands on me and THUD, I'm laid out face down. AGAIN!

Thanks for the opening, couldn't resist :)

Submitted by Freaking ADD on Thu Feb 20th, 2014 - 8:17pm

... but is it you with the ADHD? Or you're the non-ADHD person that got landed on? LOL.

--- If you wanna live life on your own terms, you've gotta be willing to crash and burn.

Submitted by Freaking ADD on Thu Feb 20th, 2014 - 8:20pm

Having ADD/ADHD is like ... having a bunch of strings tied around your fingers, to remind you to do stuff ... but not remembering what each string is supposed to remind you of. Or, even ... knowing what the strings are for, but having no idea how to organize a plan to get the damned strings off your fingers! Next thing you know, you're tied up in a chinese finger puzzle knot from hell, wondering why you didn't just use post-it notes.

--- If you wanna live life on your own terms, you've gotta be willing to crash and burn.

Submitted by copingSAH on Fri Apr 4th, 2014 - 7:53pm

Having ADD/ADHD (according to spouse) is like.... having hot acid pouring on the grinding wheels of your brain all day long.

Living with an ADD/ADHD is like....trying to communicate with someone who speaks a foreign language. It just takes monstrously long to be understood. Except it feels like an insidious alien is messing with my head. Like the Twilight Zone episode "Nightmare at 20,000 feet".

Submitted by Lindberg on Wed Oct 15th, 2014 - 6:07am

ADD is like ... the mother of all walking contradictions ..

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i don't have a short attention span , i just ... Hey look a squirrel ! !