I’ve blogged before about the seasonal aspects of my ADD. Unsurprisingly, things have been even worse since the return to Standard Time (ptui!) and the loss of another hour of light in the afternoon. I’ve been more tried, more hungry, more spacey … and paradoxically, less able to get to sleep at a reasonable hour.
“Attention” [...]
Yesterday I hung a light in my art studio. Just an ordinary shop light, soft wired, hung from basic ceiling hooks, with daylight corrected bulbs instead of standard florescent tubes. It’s the kind of thing that should take half an hour.
But when you have dyscalculia and ADD, it goes something like this:
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 [...]
I love coffee. Anyone who has known me since high school knows that I love coffee. I’ve always had trouble getting going in the morning, and coffee was the only thing that would get me functional. In the all-day seminars for my master’s degree, I was known for arriving with a cup of coffee, and [...]
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