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ADHD and Attempted Home Improvement

I’m someone who really enjoys puttering around with home improvement.  I have a powerful drill and I enjoy using it to put holes in things.  I feel a sense of competence when I hang a shelf or a towel bar, or build something useful out of scrap materials.

I also always, always find a way to [...]

You know you have ADD when …

For the entire month of April, you’ve only posted once to your blog about ADD … but you have half a dozen drafts sitting around dated throughout April.

And that’s not even getting to the drafts from previous months.

I’ve really got to do something about that offline life

SquidNews! I won the “Animals and Nature” contest at WiWon.

Last week over at Well-Ordered Chaos I wrote about perfectionism and ADD.  I had spent 20 hours writing a lens for a Squidoo contest, even though I deliberately picked a topic that I thought would be easy and quick.

Well, my perfectionism was not in vain, because I won the contest!  Yay!  You can check out [...]

What is it with ADD and perfectionism anyway?

Yesterday at <a href=”http://www.wellorderedchaos.addaptabilities.com/?p=318″>Well-Ordered Chaos</a> I blogged about heading out the door, needing to catch a train, and realizing literally at the last minute that I needed to set out donations for a pick-up.  Even though I was successful — I set everything out, taped signs to it, and even made my train — I [...]

Sugar Bad

I overslept this morning and didn’t have time to eat breakfast.  I had to gulp down a nutrition bar on my way to the gym.  A nutrition bar with lots of sugar.

Nutrition bars are a good thing when you’re out hiking and you need energy.  They are not a good thing if you have ADD [...]