Finding Your Busy-ness Level
The summer after I got out of high school, I got a job at a bank as a teller. I enjoyed the work, and I was good at it. One of the things that tellers have to do is to balance out at the end of the day. You start the day with a certain […]
Control
Are you a control freak? Do you feel that you are in control of your life most of the time? Does it make you crazy when you lose control or people throw a wrench into your plans? Have there been times when you thought you were in control, only to discover you weren’t? In my […]
ADHD Lost and Found
The other day when I went to the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to renew my driver’s license, I had to bring a lot of different documents with me: my social security card, my old driver’s license, my birht certificate, and a bill with my name and current address on it. If you had to come […]
ADHD and Procrastination
My birthday is this week, and that means that I need to renew my drivers license. I’ve been putting it off for way too long (I don’t want to say how long in case any law enforcement types are reading. Oh, it isn’t expired, just from another state.) I had my reasons for putting it […]
The Secret Life of ADHD
Do you keep secrets? I don’t mean the kind other people tell you; I mean the ones you try to keep people from finding out about you. I think everyone has a secret or two, but I think that people with Attention Deficit Disorder have more than most. That’s because we spend our lives trying […]
The ADHD Homemaker
Last night, my oldest daughter and I had a discussion about housework and organization. I don’t remember what brought it up, but we were talking about a specific time in our family’s life when everything just seemed to work. My family remembers the house that we lived in at the time as their favorite home. […]