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Bike Musings
I’ve thought about biking or using transit more for a long time. This summer, I made a decision to explore non-car travel while the weather is nice. I’m into my second “full” week. The first couple weeks included holidays and being afraid my bike was unrideable, and being out of town so they’re being “dismissed”. [...]
Reflections on Time Management
This seems ironically relevant today. Time management is making my head spin out of control this morning. I feel like there are so many deadlines and so many interesting projects that I want to work on, taking the time to know where to start seems almost counter productive to just starting. There are so many [...]
I’m Not Broken-Why the Label ADD Makes Me Angry
Do I tell my friend the accountant that she doesn’t think creatively enough? Do I tell my friends who envy my ability to sit down on the floor in the middle of Barnes & Noble that they’re too inhibited? Did I scoff at my friend who was awed at my ability to run a community [...]
Getting Organized
We’ll see how this goes. I’m always printing papers or directions to take to meetings and have misplaced them by the date of the meeting. Today, I bought 30 pocketed dividers and labled them with days of the month. My plan is to stick anything I need for a day in the corrisponding pocket.
ADD and Thoughts on Personality
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t. -Eleanor Roosevelt I took a risk last night and brought up issues in a discussion. Some might have called [...]
Computers, Distractability and ADD
Sometimes I can be hyperfocused. Sometimes I can be distracted as a five-year-old on Christmas morning. There are days when my computer helps me do both and today it seems to be a love/hate relationship. However, my computer certainly did not remind me that I was cooking lunch when I left the house to go [...]
Journeys Through ADDulthood–Sari Solden
I checked this book out from the library earlier in the week. Interesting to see something that was focused beyond the initial diagnosis and deals with roadblocks and plateauing once you get beyond the initial diagnosis, release, and acceptance of ADD. I appear to be somewhere in what she terms Journey Two: Crisis of Identity, [...]
Get Dirty, for Less Depression
Why I am going to go garden after work to alleviate frustration with technical glitches: Some researchers have proposed that the sharp rise in asthma and allergy cases over the past century stems, unexpectedly, from living too clean. The idea is that routine exposure to harmless microorganisms in the environment—soil bacteria, for instance—trains our immune [...]
You’re Too Smart to Have ADD
I was actually amazed when my doctor took my self-diagnosis at face value. I expected to hear “you’re too smart/well organized/put together to have ADD”. We did in the following weeks formalize the diagnosis. Of course, I’d come to the appoitment with 30 or 40 pages of material culled from the 150+ pages I’d read [...]