I don't know how I got this..............

[Nvreloader]

Apparently, per the Dr's information I just received,
I have a condition known as A.A.A.D.D. (Age-Activated Attention Deficit Disorder).
This is how it manifested.

I decided to wash my car. As I start toward the garage, I notice that there is mail on the hall table. I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car…

I lay my car keys down on the table, put the junk mail in the trash can under the table, and notice that the trash can is full.

So, I decided to put the bills back on the table and take out the trash first,
but then I think that since I’m going to be near the mailbox when I take out the trash anyway, I may as well pay the bills first.

I take my checkbook off the table and see that there is only one check left.
My extra checks are in my desk in the study, so I go to my desk where I find the can of Coke that I had been drinking. I’m going to look for my checks, but first I need to push the Coke aside so that I don’t accidentally knock it over.

I see that the Coke is getting warm, and I decide I should put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold.

As I head toward the kitchen with the Coke, a vase of flowers on the counter catches my eye–they need to be watered.

I set the Coke down on the counter, and I discover my reading glasses that I’ve been searching for all morning.

I decided I’d better put them back on my desk, but first I’m going to water the flowers.

I set the glasses back down on the counter, fill a container with water,
and suddenly I spot the TV remote. Someone left it on the kitchen table.

I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV, we will be looking for the remote,
but nobody will remember that it’s on the kitchen table,
so I decide to put it back in the den where it belongs, but first I’ll water the flowers.

I splash some water on the flowers, but most of it spills on the floor. So,
I set the remote back down on the table, get some towels and wipe up the spill.

Then I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do.

At the end of the day; the car isn’t washed, the bills aren’t paid, there is a warm can of Coke sitting on the counter, the flowers aren’t watered, there is still only one check in my checkbook, I can’t find the remote, I can’t find my glasses, and I don’t remember what I did with the car keys.

Then, when I try to figure out why nothing got done today,
I’m really baffled because I know I was busy all day long and I’m exhausted.
I realize this is a serious problem, and I’ll try to get some help for it, but first I’ll check my e-mail.

Don’t laugh – if this isn’t you yet, your day is coming!
I am going back to bed............

 

[PedalUma]

Wow. Okay. I also have some of this and always did. Firstly, stay away form the TV. Pharma commercials and all commercials are toxic. TV is intended to be addictive and make you feel bad, less than. Go for a bike ride twice each day. Meet new people. You will feel better. More centered. Read. A good new book is 'The Myth of Normal'. A diagnosis is a way of taking away your power to get better. Be creative in anyway every day. You are in relationships, have always been and this is not just biology. Be kind to yourself. And get angry at the Dr. for trying at taking your power. I am just a bike guy, but these are my honest thoughts. Go into and witness nature, and allow time to free play in it.

 

[tomjasz]

Apparently, per the Dr's information I just received,
I have a condition known as A.A.A.D.D. (Age-Activated Attention Deficit Disorder).
This is how it manifested.

I decided to wash my car. As I start toward the garage, I notice that there is mail on the hall table. I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car…

I lay my car keys down on the table, put the junk mail in the trash can under the table, and notice that the trash can is full.

So, I decided to put the bills back on the table and take out the trash first,
but then I think that since I’m going to be near the mailbox when I take out the trash anyway, I may as well pay the bills first.

I take my checkbook off the table and see that there is only one check left.
My extra checks are in my desk in the study, so I go to my desk where I find the can of Coke that I had been drinking. I’m going to look for my checks, but first I need to push the Coke aside so that I don’t accidentally knock it over.

I see that the Coke is getting warm, and I decide I should put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold.

As I head toward the kitchen with the Coke, a vase of flowers on the counter catches my eye–they need to be watered.

I set the Coke down on the counter, and I discover my reading glasses that I’ve been searching for all morning.

I decided I’d better put them back on my desk, but first I’m going to water the flowers.

I set the glasses back down on the counter, fill a container with water,
and suddenly I spot the TV remote. Someone left it on the kitchen table.

I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV, we will be looking for the remote,
but nobody will remember that it’s on the kitchen table,
so I decide to put it back in the den where it belongs, but first I’ll water the flowers.

I splash some water on the flowers, but most of it spills on the floor. So,
I set the remote back down on the table, get some towels and wipe up the spill.

Then I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do.

At the end of the day; the car isn’t washed, the bills aren’t paid, there is a warm can of Coke sitting on the counter, the flowers aren’t watered, there is still only one check in my checkbook, I can’t find the remote, I can’t find my glasses, and I don’t remember what I did with the car keys.

Then, when I try to figure out why nothing got done today,
I’m really baffled because I know I was busy all day long and I’m exhausted.
I realize this is a serious problem, and I’ll try to get some help for it, but first I’ll check my e-mail.

Don’t laugh – if this isn’t you yet, your day is coming!
I am going back to bed............

Life at 71, good to have a friend.

 

[Saratoga Dave]

Jesus, I’m 71 now and I feel like someone’s got a camera set up in here. Sounds alarmingly familiar!

 

[6zfshdb]

I wanted to reply last night but I forgot my EBR passcode. Then I forgot where I put the passcode list. Luckily things are much clearer this morning.

 

[dodgeman]

Don’t feel bad, like others, I’m similar. The bad part is I hate losing stuff, I spent 45 minutes looking for bike shorts before a ride. I finally gave up and found them the next day where I had set them down to stop and do something.

 

[AHicks]

I don't know how I got this either, but the search is on, so maybe I can put it back and move on without it!

 

[Gordon71]

I wanted to reply last night but I forgot my EBR passcode. Then I forgot where I put the passcode list. Luckily things are much clearer this morning.

There's an EBR passcode?

 

[tomjasz]

Don’t feel bad, like others, I’m similar. The bad part is I hate losing stuff, I spent 45 minutes looking for bike shorts before a ride. I finally gave up and found them the next day where I had set them down to stop and do something.

At least you weren’t wearing them. Been there too…

 

[Handlebars]

Wow. Okay. I also have some of this and always did. Firstly, stay away form the TV.

Very good advice. Also stay away from the TV.

Go for a bike ride twice each day.

Good advice unless the road conditions are too dangerous.

A diagnosis is a way of taking away your power to get better.

That is false. A correct diagnosis is the best kind of information to help you decide what to do about a situation. You try to fix a bike problem by trying to diagnose the reason or source of the problem - same for humans' problems.

 

[Handlebars]

Apparently, per the Dr's information I just received,
I have a condition known as A.A.A.D.D. (Age-Activated Attention Deficit Disorder).


Don’t laugh – if this isn’t you yet, your day is coming!
I am going back to bed............

Make to-do lists. Anything vital, or time-sensitive, put a note on the door you use to exit the home.

 

[duggie]

Yes, to-do lists is the key, but taken to a high level. Have pens and paper all over the place such that you can be in reach of this equipment, literally within reach, wherever you find yourself to be at any time. Then just jot it down, whatever is in your head, whatever the task, anything, just get it down within one second or it will go from your head, and it will have been important and need to be done, so to not get it down would be to duplicate.

Then collect all these scraps of paper, a bundle of them and put your glasses on and a good lamp and go through them and transfer them all onto A4 sheets, all random, as they come. Then discard the scraps of paper jottings to keep tidy and in order.

Then go through all the tasks and try to put them into and order such that one journey will along the route encompassing many of the tasks. So put a number next to each task for this, and you can keep adjusting the numbering until you get the right order.

Example: 1, put stuff in bag for tip. 2, put bag by door. 3, get tape measure ready in coat pocket. 4, Shopping list and credit card in pocket. 5, check tyre size before setting off, and put glasses in pocket. 6, take old wood stain can in a bag with mirror measurements. 7, check oil level. 8, take hand shovel and old bag for chippings. 8, rear wiper blade. 9, pick up at post office. 10, call Craig. 11, diesel. 12, joss stick box for Gemma. 13, wipe oil off floor. 14, pay van ins. 15, wash van knife and fork. 16, wellies in van. 17, copier paper. 18, check garage drain. 19, Put old security light bulb in DIY bag. etc, etc, etc.

Then go through all them again and renumber them into a more efficient running order, and then new sheets of A4.

When you get back, any you couldn't do, transfer onto a new sheet for in a few days when you do the next one.

Whatever you do is to NOT take a break from this or it will just mean you become totally overwhelmed. The build-up can be extremely rapid and then everything starts falling apart.

Also, try and 'get stuff' down because soon you will not have the stamina for this list of task stuff, preparing for very old age and death. Get stuff sorted whilst you can. Good Luck

 

[tomjasz]

Yes, to-do lists is the key, but taken to a high level. Have pens and paper all over the place such that you can be in reach of this equipment, literally within reach, wherever you find yourself to be at any time. Then just jot it down, whatever is in your head, whatever the task, anything, just get it down within one second or it will go from your head, and it will have been important and need to be done, so to not get it down would be to duplicate.

Then collect all these scraps of paper, a bundle of them and put your glasses on and a good lamp and go through them and transfer them all onto A4 sheets, all random, as they come. Then discard the scraps of paper jottings to keep tidy and in order.

Then go through all the tasks and try to put them into and order such that one journey will along the route encompassing many of the tasks. So put a number next to each task for this, and you can keep adjusting the numbering until you get the right order.

Example: 1, put stuff in bag for tip. 2, put bag by door. 3, get tape measure ready in coat pocket. 4, Shopping list and credit card in pocket. 5, check tyre size before setting off, and put glasses in pocket. 6, take old wood stain can in a bag with mirror measurements. 7, check oil level. 8, take hand shovel and old bag for chippings. 8, rear wiper blade. 9, pick up at post office. 10, call Craig. 11, diesel. 12, joss stick box for Gemma. 13, wipe oil off floor. 14, pay van ins. 15, wash van knife and fork. 16, wellies in van. 17, copier paper. 18, check garage drain. 19, Put old security light bulb in DIY bag. etc, etc, etc.

Then go through all them again and renumber them into a more efficient running order, and then new sheets of A4.

When you get back, any you couldn't do, transfer onto a new sheet for in a few days when you do the next one.

Whatever you do is to NOT take a break from this or it will just mean you become totally overwhelmed. The build-up can be extremely rapid and then everything starts falling apart.

Also, try and 'get stuff' down because soon you will not have the stamina for this list of task stuff, preparing for very old age and death. Get stuff sorted whilst you can. Good Luck

As long as I don’t forget my pen…

 

[tomjasz]

Make to-do lists. Anything vital, or time-sensitive, put a note on the door you use to exit the home.

Years ago a fellow in NH was selling repurposed early 1800’s slate roofing framed with wood from the same structure as chalk boards roughly 12”x24”. Mine hangs at the primary exit.

 

[AHicks]

I focus on the daily "have to's". Anything else I get done is a bonus....

But I DO make shopping lists. NOTHING more frustrating here than getting home from a shopping trip and realizing you FORGOT the original reason you decided to go....

 

[sc00ter]

I make list for almost everything. Mostly because its something I don't really want to do and I'll subconsciously try to avoid the task at hand. Do I really want to go and buy a garage door and install it or go play pinball and make the door issue go away for the day? The garage door is still on a list, the pinball doesn't ever go on a list. I love playing pinball.

My wife forgets things sometimes and her doctor has her playing brain games on a Nintendo Switch now. Then my wife tricked me into competing against her. My wife also discovered the "steps taken" app in her phone and is now trying to reach all her exercise goals. Now she's trying to get me to turn the same app on in my phone. But the Switch games and the exercise have made a marked improvement in her mental and physical reflexes.

 

[Handlebars]

So already the to-do list worked. I put the "dentist visit" note on the door and I see it all the time...and so I just noticed that the day and the date do not match up.

 

[Handlebars]

I tried a memory aid years ago and it worked pretty spectacularly. This is it: any structure that you are very familiar with, will work. Say it's your living room. Now you are going to remember a series of numbers for one week without writing them down. You attach each of the numbers to some physical attribute of the living room...as you would enter it...say first, there is a picture on the hall wall at the entry. You picture the first number written on it. So you attach a number to each of ten geographical locations in the room and you then have a geographical memory as your story goes from place to place, and you picture it as if you are actually walking from the hallway into your living room. Make it a story. Then you can miniaturize that living room and put it as in a dollhouse of your house, sitting on a table in your living room. You can do multiple layerings in that way. Geographical memory aid.
wiki:
"The method of loci is a strategy for memory enhancement, which uses visualizations of familiar spatial environments in order to enhance the recall of information. The method of loci is also known as the memory journey, memory palace, or mind palace technique. This method is a mnemonic device adopted in ancient Roman and Greek rhetorical treatises (in the anonymous Rhetorica ad Herennium, Cicero's De Oratore, and Quintilian's Institutio Oratoria). Many memory contest champions report using this technique to recall faces, digits, and lists of words.

The term is most often found in specialised works on psychology, neurobiology, and memory, though it was used in the same general way at least as early as the first half of the nineteenth century in works on rhetoric, logic, and philosophy.[1] John O'Keefe and Lynn Nadel refer to:

... "the method of loci", an imaginal technique known to the ancient Greeks and Romans and described by Yates (1966) in her book The Art of Memory as well as by Luria (1969). In this technique the subject memorizes the layout of some building, or the arrangement of shops on a street, or any geographical entity which is composed of a number of discrete loci. When desiring to remember a set of items the subject 'walks' through these loci in their imagination and commits an item to each one by forming an image between the item and any feature of that locus. Retrieval of items is achieved by 'walking' through the loci, allowing the latter to activate the desired items. The efficacy of this technique has been well established (Ross and Lawrence 1968, Crovitz 1969, 1971, Briggs, Hawkins and Crovitz 1970, Lea 1975), as is the minimal interference seen with its use.[2]"

 

[tomjasz]

f*ck it, roll a one paper and enjoy the freedom. Almost true…

Sadly my lungs no longer tolerate it. On a serious note, accepting the change makes it ok. Chasing my tail denying the new reality just adds frustration. I sleep better knowing I won’t get fired, I’ll probably wake up in the morning, and there’s at least one more ride every morning I do wake up.

 

[Handlebars]

So already the to-do list worked. I put the "dentist visit" note on the door and I see it all the time...and so I just noticed that the day and the date do not match up.

and this morning I phoned them to find out which day the appt is on...neither. That was an appointment card from last year .
Note to self: "Remember to throw out stuff that is already over." or at least mark it "done".