It's not my fault I have a short attention spa--OOH, shiney!
So the other day at mom's house I spent hours upon hours ripping grass out of the ground and mixing soil into the florida-sand.
You have no idea how long that takes.
This afternoon I'm going back to mom's after drama to actually plant some thigns before I leave for Iowa. We bought roses and Thyme and Mint and Rosemary. Oh, and some Lilies. And maybe we'll get a little tree. Like an avacado or a little coffee tree.
Before we started our gardening project mom had me look up the kinds of plants I wanted to get and collect information about them. How much sun they like, what parts of the country they grow best in, how to take care of them, that sort of thing. After that I narrowed my list of ten down to four or five and we started construction on our herb garden.
I sat down on my bed last night with a box of wheat thins in one hand and a book in the other. Kosmo jumped onto the bed beside me and I wondered aloud "How Ironic is it that someone wrote a three-hundred page book for people with ADD and then expect me to pay attention to it?" I opened to chapter four and began to read about ADD in adults and suddenly realized the paradox of how normal my uniqueness was. When I'm driving, I find I can't get the message to my brain in time to react to the sign I saw or the car beside me. Hey, I thought I was just a bad driver... Actually, listening to music while working really does help an ADD-er concentrate and not be distracted. Well I coulda told you that. You wonder why I passed freshman science? Big hair + small headphones = easy A.
Okay, I like taking care of people. I like it so much that I look for people to take care of. Co-dependancy is an overwhelming need to have others be dependant on you. ...I'm dependant on a dependent person's dependance on me? That's like being addicted to second-hand smoke! That's just stupid.
I'm on drugs for ADD but they seem to be making my depression medication work less. Why didn't someone give me this book a year ago??
Addiction is more common in ADD-ers. They should avoid pot like the plague because it makes them feel like they're the happiest people on earth but in fact, afterwords it makes the symptoms of ADD worse.
You have no idea how long that takes.
This afternoon I'm going back to mom's after drama to actually plant some thigns before I leave for Iowa. We bought roses and Thyme and Mint and Rosemary. Oh, and some Lilies. And maybe we'll get a little tree. Like an avacado or a little coffee tree.
Before we started our gardening project mom had me look up the kinds of plants I wanted to get and collect information about them. How much sun they like, what parts of the country they grow best in, how to take care of them, that sort of thing. After that I narrowed my list of ten down to four or five and we started construction on our herb garden.
I sat down on my bed last night with a box of wheat thins in one hand and a book in the other. Kosmo jumped onto the bed beside me and I wondered aloud "How Ironic is it that someone wrote a three-hundred page book for people with ADD and then expect me to pay attention to it?" I opened to chapter four and began to read about ADD in adults and suddenly realized the paradox of how normal my uniqueness was. When I'm driving, I find I can't get the message to my brain in time to react to the sign I saw or the car beside me. Hey, I thought I was just a bad driver... Actually, listening to music while working really does help an ADD-er concentrate and not be distracted. Well I coulda told you that. You wonder why I passed freshman science? Big hair + small headphones = easy A.
Okay, I like taking care of people. I like it so much that I look for people to take care of. Co-dependancy is an overwhelming need to have others be dependant on you. ...I'm dependant on a dependent person's dependance on me? That's like being addicted to second-hand smoke! That's just stupid.
I'm on drugs for ADD but they seem to be making my depression medication work less. Why didn't someone give me this book a year ago??
Addiction is more common in ADD-ers. They should avoid pot like the plague because it makes them feel like they're the happiest people on earth but in fact, afterwords it makes the symptoms of ADD worse.
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