I don’t know why it’s so hard for me to do the things I need to. My laundry needs doing, my dishes need doing and now for cripes sakes the grass already needs mowing! I can get focused on my art or a web project to the exclusion of everything. I’d like to turn that trick towards the everyday things in my life that need doing. I get depressed, then I get judgmental, then I just plain get mental about it.
It’s all part of that ADD thing. They talk about the focus problem but what they don’t tell you is your focus can get totally stuck when it’s something you’re interested in. Then the rest you can’t seem to force yourself to deal with.
I don’t know any women with ADD. Except myself and my kids. I’m sure they’re out there. What I have noticed is that the men with ADD that I know all married women who pretty well picked up the slack on everything. The job, the house, the kids. Maybe instead of kicking myself all my life for the way I am I should have just blithely gone about being myself and found some poor shmuck that would take care of all that trivial crap for me. Yeah baby, that’s my plan for my next life! :p
Hey Anita,
You said in this post you’ve never met any women with ADD….well, congratulations, now you have, and I have exactly the same problems you do focusing on things that don’t hold a high interest for me.
Do you get highly stressed when you’ve made a plan for something, and then circumstances change suddenly? For me, it’s all the sudden input that starts flooding in….I really hate that.
See you in the blogging class.