Adult ADHD: The Silent Killer
Sometimes I try to imagine how different my life would be if I was diagnosed with ADHD at a young age. (From the perspective of age 52, a “younger age” would be 36.) The changes that have occurred in my life during the past few years — improvements in memory; ability to meet deadlines (well…sometimes); ability to visualize the future (this is improving in leaps and bounds)
PDF How To Live With The Gift of Adult ADHD
Have you ever heard a man say, “I have the gift of prostate cancer! I can’t pee straight, sh*t straight, or get an erection! This is the best gift a guy could ever have!!” Not likely you’ll hear a man say that. Instead, you’ll hear how he is figuring out how to get around the [...]
The Fear of Time Management
Several months ago I reached out to an ADHD coach to help me with a problem that has plagued me from day one: the problem of time management. In my younger days, time management was never an issue. Youthful vigor made it possible to work insane hours. Twenty years ago I worked thirty-three hours a [...]
STFU! I Silenced My BlackBerry And Lived To Tell About It
I love my BlackBerry™. I’ve written many posts on my BlackBerry. I’ve replied to many comments and emails from my BlackBerry. But with eight different email accounts all going to my BlackBerry (and Twitter, FaceBook and WordPress for BlackBerry too!), the device can become quite distracting. Each time it beeps when an email arrives, I [...]
Hiding in Plain Sight: Adult ADHD In A Social Setting
I married into a very large family. My wife is one of five sisters. There are also two brothers. Everyone is married, everyone has children and many of those children are fully grown. When the entire family gets together the “children” bring their boyfriends or girlfriends. As a result, depending on who is “in town” [...]
Does ADHD Medication Ruin Creativity?
Short answer: No! To believe otherwise is to conflate your creativity with your ADHD as if one depended on the other. When you are diagnosed with ADHD late in life you just can’t imagine life without your ADHD and, therefore, you assume that your other qualities, like creativity, will suddenly diminish if your ADHD symptoms [...]
He Said / She Said: Examining the ADHD Life – Answering Questions About ADHD, Parts I & II
The latest in the He Said/She Said series is a set of questions with short, sometimes funny, sometimes poignant answers. After viewing the videos, you may want to tackle answering the questions and providing your answers in this post’s “comments” section. After you post your comments, you may want to see what some others said [...]
The Diabetic Life of the ADHDer
No. I am not diabetic. But I want to draw a parallel between the diabetic’s and the ADHDer’s life. If a diabetic does not admit they have diabetes, if they try to live like everyone else by eating sugars and carbs, they will literally kill themselves. To survive as a diabetic you need to alter [...]
Inspirational Quotes
Our waking hours form the text of our lives, our dreams form the commentary – Anonymous The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams – Eleanor Roosevelt What you believe you can achieve – Jeff Put off for one day and ten days will pass by – Korean Proverb A [...]
How Do They Do That?
The world can sometimes look like a very strange place to adult ADHDers. They scratch their heads and wonder, “How do they do that?” Print PDF
Sex And The Adult ADHDer: When Fantasy Meets Reality
Part I Part II Reality continues to ruin my life. – Calvin (of Calvin and Hobbes) Damn! JLo looks mighty fine!! Curves in all of the right places and she’s looking right at me!! And once she gets with me, I’ll have her screaming in ecstasy!! She’ll beg me to stop!! She’ll wonder how she [...]
He Said / She Said: Examining the ADHD Life
I’m excited to announce that I will be collaborating with Zoë Kessler (check out her blog! ADHD from A to Zoë and my post about her blog) in what we believe will be a fascinating examination of the ADHD experience. I’m looking forward to having lively discussions with Zoë and sharing them with you. I [...]
Flooded With Thoughts
Somewhere in my hip is a pinched nerve that seems to only bother me in the middle of the night.1 After shaking off my initial grogginess, I head to the kitchen for some water and then to the computer. During this physical transition my brain shifts into “philosophical contemplation” mode. That usually means that I [...]
OMG! I <3 Her Blog!!
It’s not often that you find a blog that so resonates with your soul that all you can do is read post after post after post while having a silly grin on your face as you nod in agreement with so, so many things and…yet… that’s exactly what happened to me when I found Zoë [...]
The Gift of ADHD – Ya Gotta Love It
Today I experienced the gift of ADHD. Well………..that’s not quite accurate. I experienced it last night, and again this morning. My personal computer, which is the keystone of my existence, had been getting more finicky with each passing month. Yesterday’s email from a large computer retailer had featured refurbished computers at rock-bottom prices. I decided [...]
