You Know You Have ADHD When... - Having ADHD

Written by Sarah-Jayne Bass

You know you have ADD when.....

you can do just about ANYTHING, if it interests you!

You know you have ADD when.....

you are adaptable, creative, and intelligent

You know you have ADD when.....

nobody could EVER call you boring! ;-)

You know you have ADD when.....

you finally make it to your car, and then have to go back in the house 2 more times for things you forgot.

You know you have ADD when.....

you lose your debit card and can't find it for days, only for it to turn up in your tracksuit bottoms when your at work and can't remember how it got there

You know you have ADD when.....

you lose your mobile phone in the house and you try to phone it with your home phone only to realise that its on slient and you can't hear it ringing

You know you have ADD when.....

you find it extremely difficult to catch public transport and end up running to the bus station and trying to get the bus to stop for you...lol

You know you have ADD when.....

when you send your kids on an egg hunt but even YOU cant rememeber where you have hidden the eggs!

You know you have ADD when.....

when you forget to give your child a birthday present and find it in a cupboard a week late!

You know you have ADD when.....

you buy a memo board to remind you about appointments etc, only to find either you forget to look at it or forget to add the information onto it!

You know you have ADD when.....

you get a letter from a dentist saying you have to pay a fine for not attending the appointment, you swear blind you never made the appointment and argue with the receptionist, protesting that there is no way would you ever make an appointment 6 months in advance, until rather embarrassingly you reach to the depths of your bag to find the appoinment card.

You know you have ADD when.....

you do something as embarrasing as having a go at a loan company over the phone, making out you paid such and such when actually the money never left your bank account and you accidently spent all of it without even realising....lol

You know you have ADD when.....

You book the cinema tickets online.... when you get there to find theres no tickets, you have a real go at the customer services until they let you in without the tickets....Only to get home and find it was the wrong cinema!!! hahaha

You know you have ADD when.....

Windows[tm] brings up the offer of disability assistence when you've had to stop typing mid-flow to remember a name for something and got as far as holding the Shift key down

You know you have ADD when.....

u r really good n write a list n take it WITH u 2 the shop but get home and realise u only got 1 thing on the list (ketchup) and there is still a bottle unopened in the fridge,,DUUUUUHH,,,,,,

You know you have ADD when.....

You send a message to friend sla*ging ex off and then send it to ex. DDERRRR

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