Present Day

So far, the posts on this blog have been very school-centric.  That meaning, everything I’ve written about to this point has had to do with how ADHD affected me with regards to school.  Well that’s mainly because ADHD stops becoming an issue once you’re out of the classroom and it doesn’t really matter anymore.

Ha.

That’s about as far from the truth as possible.  

ADHD doesn’t affect me anymore in the “oh, you forgot to turn this paper in? You’re going to fail” sort of way.  Now its more like, “oh, you didn’t pay your gas bill, have fun in your 47 degree apartment the next few days!” sort of effect.  I have “ADHD moments” almost once a day.  Some of them have become normal and mundane (to me at least), while some others are too “good” (read: embarrassing) not to share.

First of all - and I mentioned this before - I planned on starting this blog in May.  But it’s not like I thought about it once in May and then just forgot about it for three months.  No no no. I forgot about it nearly every single weekend.  Almost every saturday morning, during some down time (or sunday during church) I would tell myself, Ok, it’s time to start that blog today.  I have free time this afternoon.  And every saturday or sunday, that thought shortly turned into, Whelp, now it’s midnight. Guess I’ll start that blog next weekend.  This kind of thing happen all the time.  For a person with ADHD, every thought is so fleeting.  As fast as it comes, it goes.  People with this disorder:  WRITE STUFF DOWN!!  The only reason this blog got started when it finally did was that I actually sat down and wrote out a bunch of ideas I could talk about, and, at last I had somewhere to start, and something to remind me.

Remember that forgetting to pay the bills example I gave earlier?  Yea... totally true.  My friend David and I recently started renting a condo together, and it was decided that I would pay the bills (I’m not sure why we ever thought this was a good idea). He would in turn pay me his half each month (Seriously, this is just a disaster waiting to happen) About a month in, I came home from work one afternoon and opened my computer.  “Unable to Connect, Check your Internet Connection”.  Ok, don’t freak out.  This has happened before.  You can live without internet for a few hours.  Just watch some tv.  Click.  NO SIGNAL.  OK, ok, ok.... you’re starting to get a little panicky.  Just breath.  Maybe just watch something on Netflix.  Open computer.  OMG YOU NEED THE INTERNET TO WATCH NETFLIXTHEWORLDISENDING!  I managed to find a paper bag to breath into and decided to call comcast.  I entered my account info and heard, “Your service has been temporarily discontinued due to an outstanding balance.  You may pay over the ph....” annnnnd facepalm.  Lesson learned, you know, until next month.  ADHDers?  Either set up automatic bill payments through your bank, or marry some OCDer and have them pay the bills.

A few of you may have noticed that the URL for this blog changed last night between the first and second entries I posted.  No big deal.  It’s only because I spelled the word “business” wrong in URL of my OWN BLOG.  In my rush to get this thing up and running, I didn’t even spell check the name of the website!  That would be pretty funny on any blog, but a blog about the effects of ADHD?  Somebody call Alanis Morrisette and ask her to explain irony again.

Anybody remember that time I put a movie in the DVD player and then proceeded to never turn the movie on?  Because I do.  

All this to say: ADHD doesn’t just end when school does.  It’s something that affects the everyday life of those who deal with it, long after that final schoolbell rings.

That’s all for now.  I gotta post this before my internet gets turned off again.