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I discovered I was A.D.D. at about age 46. Not the best of times to find that out…certainly not after 46 years of having bad habits solidify. The discovery came when I read Dr. Hallowell’s Driven To Distraction
). From there started my journey. While the book read very much like a biography of my life, there was still the need to understand the full depth of the problem, to understand how to recognize the problem while it was occurring, and to understand how to modify the resulting behavior. That’s the quest that I am still on. Wellbutrin has helped wonderfully with that…Ritalin made me climb the walls. I began to realize that there were others (like my kids, my father, one of my uncles, a cousin) that have A.D.D. Interestingly I realized that my old business partner has A.D.D. And that’s probably been the most important discovery because we have become “mentors” for each other since we understand each other quite well.
This blog is an attempt to describe what it is like to live with A.D.D. I had tried to create such a blog about 2 years ago. I wrote a few articles and then put it aside. (Typical A.D.D. behavior.) I will work my hardest to assure that this blog keeps going because, if it keeps going it means that I have managed my A.D.D. and channeled it to something productive.
To contact me send an email to info at jeffsaddmind dot com.
Jeff
P.S. Here’s a condensed version of Hallowell’s list of items.
P.P.S. I apologize if, at times, the writing seems dry in an academic sense. I was a philosophy and sociology major in college and the terminology and thought patterns of those disciplines sometimes (often?) creep in when I am writing. They have become the mental structures I use to make sense of the world.
[Edited on July 6, 2007 @ 11:41pm]
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[The following was added on August 24, 2007]
Blog Ethics
My “academic” side has been concerned about changes that I’ve made to my postings. As much as possible I’ve tried to point out when changes were made. Usually, if a change is made more than 24 hours after something was originally posted, I make a note - in the posting itself - when it was edited. Any modification made within a few hours of the posting I consider to be part of the ongoing editing process (there are times when no matter how often you read something…once you see it posted some error jumps out at you). However I always wondered if there was some sort of ethical rule to follow. A bit of googling turned up this article - Weblog Ethics. In it is this rule: “4. Write each entry as if it could not be changed; add to, but do not rewrite or delete, any entry.” Unknowingly I have come close to fulfilling the letter if not the spirit of this rule. While I admit - as noted above - that I have made some changes, those are not changes of substance but, instead, are changes that clarify the original intent. And when you see something that notes a posting has been edited or material added, that’s my way of letting you know that the changes occurred some time after the original posting and that the material added (or edited) represents a rethinking of the original posting.
[The following was added on September 1, 2007]
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[updated September 6, 2007]
Missing Content
I’ve removed two food recipes from the site. They will be reposted on a new site that will debut about October 1, 2007.
[following added on Oct. 16, 2007]
The missing recipes are now on Jeff, the A.D.D. Chef.
[following added on Oct. 11, 2007]
New Feature 1: When you view a single post, you will see a small image near the bottom (it will appear below the comments). These images are added at random. My daughter had taken these photos. I added this feature because I wanted to add a bit of color to the site. Contact me if you are interested in purchasing a print.
New Feature 2: Random quotes appear at the footer of the pages. Some of the quotes are serious…some humorous.
[following added on Nov. 7, 2007]
Not A.D.D.
I don’t want to be me.
I am sick and tired of being me,
because being me means being A.D.D.
I don’t want everything I do to be an issue.
I am sick and tired of dealing with issues.
I am sick and tired of being A.D.D.
I don’t want to pre-reflect and post-reflect and self-reflect.
I just want to be.
I don’t want to be A.D.D.
I’ll be an idiot who thinks the world is great.
I’ll be a smiling fool who knows nothing of fate.
I’ll be anything as along as I am not A.D.D.
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