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16 years ago @ Jeff's A.D.D. Mind - How My Father Died · 0 replies · +1 points

Unfortunately everything points to the nursing home. They failed to keep him hydrated which, as a result, had a cascading effect.

16 years ago @ Jeff's A.D.D. Mind - The Power of Positive ... · 0 replies · +1 points

My old business partner (who is, himself, ADHD) tends to be a positive thinker. Some of it has rubbed off on me. However, it's one thing to think positively...quite another to be delusional in ones positive thinking. I think aspects of my life will improve...that's not delusional. But to think Michelle Pfeiffer is going to come knocking on my door...no matter how much positive thinking I do...that's delusional.

16 years ago @ Jeff's A.D.D. Mind - Advice for the Adult A... · 1 reply · +1 points

Thanks! Believe it or not...that post came out of an email I sent to someone. Someone who was recently diagnosed with ADHD sent me an email asking for advice. The contents of that email became the post. When I was cleaning out emails I came across it and realized that it was worth saving and sharing. The sad part, for us, is that we probably need to read and reread and reread that post again and again. It may sink into our thick skulls for a day...a few days...maybe a few weeks...but eventually...it starts to fade. Oh well...that\'s what it\'s like to have \"a gift.\"

16 years ago @ Jeff's A.D.D. Mind - Hacking Wordpress: Use... · 0 replies · +1 points

Thank you! It's always good to hear that someone has found a post to be of use. I have not used Register Plus but, theoretically, you are correct, namely that if the form field names match...then it should prefill the data. I would probably just make sure that the field names are absolutely unique so that there no collision with anything else that may be in the tables.

16 years ago @ Jeff's A.D.D. Mind - The Metamorphosis · 1 reply · +1 points

I feel like my WHOLE LIFE is on "Delay." ;) No doubt that something is penetrating our thick ADHD skulls...but...boy...being an ADHDer sometimes feels like being a toddler who is learning to walk...it's supposed to become automatic and it kind of does and yet, sometimes, it just falls apart and doesn't work.

16 years ago @ Jeff's A.D.D. Mind - The Broken Escapement ... · 0 replies · +1 points

ADD is like a gefiltefish...it's all mushed up. ;)

16 years ago @ Jeff's A.D.D. Mind - "Shoot Me Now" - The "... · 0 replies · +1 points

Yesterday I was listening to The Doors and wondering...what the heck is the first line to L.A. Woman? To my ears...it's incomprehensible..so...of course...I would sing "Diddle diddle diddle diddle hour ago." It ain't the words...but it's funny (at least in my mind). Turns out the first line really is, "Well, I just got into town about an hour ago."

16 years ago @ Jeff's A.D.D. Mind - The Metamorphosis · 0 replies · +1 points

"I read somewhere, ten years ago or so, that a sense of Time is one thing that isn't improved much by medications; not as much as, say organization." I think the medication makes you aware of Time's existence (which is essentially your observation) but it can't effect a physiological change so that we would have a sense of how much time has passed between event X and Y. What's missing physiologically is our escapement ( http://jeffsaddmind.com/the-broken-escapement-459... ) which internally measures time. That's why we need all these darned lists and reminders and so on.

"My only wish? That I didn't have ADD. " Absolutely!! I wish I was religious so I could tell God to take this gift and shove it.

16 years ago @ Jeff's A.D.D. Mind - The Metamorphosis · 0 replies · +1 points

Thanks so much, Gina. And I'm in agreement with your prediction. My only wish? I wish I was diagnosed fifteen years ago.

16 years ago @ Jeff's A.D.D. Mind - The Metamorphosis · 1 reply · +1 points

We don't exactly know the future but...we gain an increasing measure of control over the future over time...or that's what we believe. That's why the economic crash was so devastating and will have a profound effect on so many people. So many thought they COULD predict the future and, certainly, their economic future. That turned out to be an illusion.

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