Ooh ooh! Purple puts her hand up. Me too!! I'm paralyzed and can't START Christmas shopping because there's so much else I have to do. The list never gets frickin smaller!!
h rolls his eyes (there you go, you're not alone) at my need to write lists. The busier I am, the more I have to write lists. If I don't have lists, nothing gets done, whether they're mental or on paper doesn't matter - though i do much prefer on paper so my I part doesn't forget what I thought was important 10minutes ago.
Yeah, well I write a list and forget the list, or don't get the list out, or lose the list. Or have the list IN MY HAND and don't do what's on it. But the medicine is helping and I'm not even up to the full dose yet.
I like to shop online...it doesn't take as much organizational work simply to GO...and they send it to you. But I always wait til the dead last minute.
I read in one of Hallowell's books that to the person with ADHD there is only now...and not now. So if something needs to be done say, by next Wed, all I hear is not now...and forget about it til Tue night and I have an adrenaline surge that allows me to focus. Worked GREAT in college. I could write my papers in one night and get A's...crammed for all my exams at the last minute and got A's...but running regular life doesn't work like that.
