You might suffer from ADHD if...

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... you have ever uttered the phrase, "I'll be there as soon as I find my shoes."

I know there are many attention-challenged folks on this site and we all know that we have to laugh at ourselves just to survive, so I thought this would be a fun thread. A highly frustrating recent experience prompted me to post this one. Feel free to reply with your contributions.

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You cannot remember where you parked your car when you go grocery shopping...

I call it "sometimers".

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Specializes in Cardiac/Tele/Step-down.

You know that you have ADHD when. You get up @ 5am for clinical's and take your Adderall and FORGET that you already took it and take it again. So within only 2 hours @ the hospital, you have filled all water pitchers and made 18 beds and refilled the linen carts!!!!!! Oh! and everyone wonders why you are walking so fast!

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You know that you have ADHD when. You get up @ 5am for clinical's and take your Adderall and FORGET that you already took it and take it again. So within only 2 hours @ the hospital, you have filled all water pitchers and made 18 beds and refilled the linen carts!!!!!! Oh! and everyone wonders why you are walking so fast!

Wow, Holly. Sounds like some experience! :lol2:

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Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

Eric, your siggy lines crack me UP!!!:lol2:

I like to call my random neural firings "midlife moments" or "sometimer's disease". I have a lot of them. Just today I spent at least 20 minutes running out from under the staff schedule I was working on, retrieving it, then leaving it in some other place, retrieving it yet again, and then forgetting it in still another place.:uhoh3: With stimuli coming at me from all directions at times, I get so distracted that it's a miracle when I actually get something done!!

This is why I've become the Post-It Queen. I just carry those little sticky notes everywhere and write stuff down, because if I don't, I'll forget it like it never happened and then look at people like they're crazy the next time they mention it.:imbar

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Specializes in Theatre.

My problem is not ADHD but more of 'forgettory'. I frequently have those 'what am I doing here' moments' and then I have to recite the phrase I learnt from Sesame Street which my kids used to watch when they were little (over 20years ago!) ' walk backwards through your mind' - unfortunatly I often also have to physically walk back to where I had been earlier to figure out why I was where I was when I couldn't remember why I was where I was!

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