Check the roof! Didnt I tell you that? What about in the car?

So you think you know A.D.D. is all about forgetting things...believe it or not the worst place to loose something is the ROOF! And also for fun I have another section below this one...

I have many a story on this thing but here are my favorites:

• My mom used to leave her TEA on the roof a nice cold glass in a plastic cup (the glass was actually glass protected by plastic sorta). Now she did this several times, the cup would slid off the roof and end up falling, mom would see it and stop. But then again it didnt always turn out so well. It did break the cup a few times, she had doubles. She did this so much it was scary! But funny!
• Mel and me were driving out one day, it had been raining. I had put her "key chain" necklace that attached to her keychains but she had detached to get in the car. Well it was on the roof. It flew off, we dont know when it happened. We came home that night, in the dark we looked for a while in the rain, it was probably on the grass but long gone. All cause I put it up there.
• One time I was going to college, mom was driving our van. I put my bagel sandwhich I had just made for breakfast on the roof. Well we did our usual turn around to go the other way up the street and then I went "wheres my sandwhich?" Yeah it was still on the roof, dont know how and I got it just fine. Thankful it didnt slid off!
• Driving from the river area one day, we left my tennis shoes and socks on the roof. Not until we were outside the river area driving down the busy street did Mel see my shoes slide down the back window! Several feet up she stopped and ran back to get them. Thankfully cars were going around these costly shoes...I didnt care about the socks but she managed to get them too.
• Wheres your backpack? I said turning to Mel. We had just left the mall parking lot, her blue lego backpack was missing. We had gone to KFC when we noticed just down the street. We turned around went back to the mall parking lot. Being tired that day it had slidden of the roof and someone had nicely put it by a tree unharmed. Glad someone was so nice but sorry that we didnt check the roof and almost loose her favorite bag! Oops!

Now for those left in the car stories here you go:

• Mom went to move Mels car one day back in Anaheim. She wanted to move Mel to the handicapped parking spot so Mel would be okay when the street sweeper came. She asked Mel for the handicapped sign. Well turns out she still had it. So mom goes to the car to get it. She finds Mels club off, the keys in the ignation, and the doors unlocked! Now thankfully she didnt get her car stollen...
• So mom was bad too. Few times I would ask her things I saw already outside. One time I looked out and saw that her tea was still on the roof of the car with her in the house. I asked her where it was.
• Another time I went mom wheres your keys? Oh they were there all right still hanging in the car ignition. Mind you she did this a few times.
• Not really a car story mom once left her keys hanging in the door to come in the house! Not to be beat Mel last year did the same thing at our new place. But she did it ALL night long. Our neighbor he thought it was so funny when he saw it when he got up the next day. I guess she was tired...
• Mel has left her keys in the car so many times we have an on going joke about it, where should we put her keys now? My favorite being the day that she locked her key in the car, I locked my HOUSE keys in the car all outside of our apartment laundry room. We spent a half hour trying to get in, left the car in one hour too. While she tried to break in I had to go and try to break in the apartment. I decided to see if the window still broken and open, it was. I pushed my way in and got my phone still at home, and opened the door for Mel. She had to call about the car key of course seeing mine was still in the car too along with my house key. Whos geneous idea was that one?
• One day Mel was doing her usual locked key in car thing, she was like where is it, yes locked in the car and where else? In the ignition!
• So one night in Oceanside I went in the house and left the back of Mels car open all night long. We were only too glad that the car was still there the next day (same one as the one mom found with more invitations then this to be stolen!).
• This isnt a car story, its a garage story. A few times while living in Oceanside we would leave the garage door open. Not just us, our parents too. Back in Anaheim came home in the middle of the night to find dad had turned off the garage light but left the door open. Ah how nice way to get in the house and steal stuff!

So lesson learned here with ADD check the roof, check the car and make sure if you are going in for the night nothing important is in the car, or in some cases the keys arent still in the house door!! :))

Oh thats right, no thats right, oh it is right, oh...

One of the worst things I find about having A.D.D. is this stupid feature. I have a name for it. Its the OH THATS RIGHT feature. This is how it goes, it ALWAYS goes.

You have something you know you need to do, want, have to buy, etc. So you try to remind yourself. You know you have ADD but you dont care. So you put it some place PLANNING to recall it later on. You even sometimes try to remind yourself.

Okay doing alright so far. Till you forget about it all together. I cant tell you how many things I have in my wallet that I keep forgetting to take out because the only time I think about it is I am looking through my wallet to buy something or record stuff in the check book. Its never to just get that item. It takes me weeks sometimes to recall to take out that thing!

Or we need to buy something, but the ONLY time we recall to buy it is we see the stuff that is at home we need more of and then without a list (we never make them!) we go off to the store and dont buy that item because we keep forgetting!

How many times have I looked at Mel or she looks at me and goes "where is that?" and the other goes OH I FORGOT IT. Why? Oh it was in the a spot we were 100% positive we would go to again and see it, but instead we were so trying to get whatever we were thinking about at the time we forgot it. By the door when we are leaving, on the a/c right by the door. On the bag by the door. Even if we are walking by it and running out the door doesnt matter where it is, if we arent thinking about it we forget it.

This happens a lot and its very annoying. More and more lately we have to run back inside because we have to remember that.

Oh thats right, I recall it...but dont do a thing...next time same thing...next time. Its no wonder we have to shop almost every day, we always are forgetting things. Then we turn to each other and say "remind me to get that" and then the other person forgets what was said and we still forget it.

I love A.D.D. so much!!

More to come...

Beginnings

Hi my name is Holly. I have A.D.D. You know that thing where you get very distracted...all the time. And all the fun that goes with it.

But lets just say that I didnt always think I had A.D.D. because I had a version more quiet then the normal one. And still its the same thing. More of the daydreamer, messy person in the family. Mom without even testing me (after my sister was confirmned to have ADHD) said that I had the version not everyone notices...the day dreamer.

Well when I heard that I had such a horrible thing I felt sad and ashamned. I felt like I had a disease I didnt ask for, and was thrust upon me since I was little and only now did I know. At the same time I was glad. It explained so much about me. The messy tendency, the collecting things, not finishing things, daydreaming and being distracted.

The only person to be test was my middle sister, none others. But we both pretty positive both our parents have the gene to pass it on. They just might not admit it...now they say that a lot of people do have A.D.D. and they out grow those little things after they are small kids. With drugs some that have it in adulthood can be just fine. Then comes along people like me and my sister and pretty much many people I know (who wont admit it but do have it we are pretty sure!).

We are the loud people you see tripping. The ones who get distracted so much we leave things in the oddest of places, and dont even recall doing it. I hear it gets worse when you loose things of structure such as school. It doesnt help to move out on your own. Since we left our parents care two years back we meaning me and my sister Melody have both noticed that our A.D.D. things seem to get only worse not better...and worse by everything and stress isnt the greatest thing.

Take for example in the last few weeks I have lost my California ID card. Its broken my heart to say that. Not only will I have to fork out $12 before December when it was to expire to replace it, but its the last piece of Cali that I shall have. Now I have nothing. I am hoping my school ID might be okay till then...what else can I do? Nothing! Now where is it? I dont do this kinda of thing but I cant say I never have...after all I left my 'planner' in the mall bathroom when I used work at B&N the first time in California...and the next day found someone had stolen it and used the card debit one for stuff almost $100 worth, and well lets just say that having ADD can suck at times.

I also almost overdrew my account when I "forgot" to record something in my checkbook. I have been so careful to not do this for ages now, and scold my sister for her not taking time to do so herself. Then I went and spent $2.48 and didnt realize it was not there for 2 weeks later and almost had a big problem that I didnt know I had...

Hold on...I'm getting ahead of myself. This will be a blog, that I shall hope to write in when I can. All kinds of funny, stupid and sometimes not so great stuff that I have done due to A.D.D.

If you want a fine example of A.D.D. heres one more. Few weeks ago as we left the river area after a workout we drove off...with my tennis shoes and socks on the roof! They flew off in the street Mel had to stop the car several feet away and run back to get them and thankfully no cars hit them, but went around them...

Thats ADD in action. I am not anonymous, I say I have ADD on all my descriptions so people might "get it" and maybe they wont.

Bright lights, pretty colors, the sky, the sun, the stars, and the green grass. If seen at the right time this might distract me too...but now I'm going off. Leave lots of goods for next time.

So catch me back here again and again. Soon as I recall its here, as I put up all sorts of stories of Mel, or me or both as we live out our ADD now in our adult years away from home...