21 Quotes on AD/HD
April 2, 2008 by writingimpromptu
Ever wanted to get inside the head of someone with A.D.D. (Attention Deficit Disorder) or AD/HD (Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder)? These quotes come directly from people who have A.D.D. or AD/HD or care for someone who does. It is a light-hearted way of looking at a frustrating disorder. They are taken from the book, Survival Tips for Women with AD/HD: Beyond Piles, Palms, and Post-Its by Terry Matlen, M.S.W., a book I highly recommend.
Doctor: “Are you indecisive?”
Patient, turning to her husband, “I’m not indecisive, am I?”
When a mom is asked how she knows her 20-year-old college student is inattentive, she answers, “She stops at green lights.”
“My brain is like a washing machine stuck on the spin cycle.” -Woman with AD/HD
“She has a piling system, not a filing system.” -Husband of an AD/HD woman
“I talk so fast sometimes I say things I haven’t thought of yet.” -Businesswoman
“I get to the end of paragraphs more.” -Newly treated AD/HD college student
“It’s like there’s no background noise; it’s all foreground noise.” - 28-year-old mother
“I even lose interest in the stuff I’m interested in.” - a 24-year-old college student
“I’ve got piles and piles of piles in piles.” -Businesswoman
Regarding coordination: “I trip over lint.” -Security system worker
“I have moments of clarity in my world of obscurity.” -38-year-old woman
“I have the want-to; I just don’t have the stick-to.” - 35-year-old AD/HD patient
Doctor: “Are you much of a packrat?”
Patient: “I save dust.”
“Pardon me, doc; I was just doing a little brainsurfing.” -AD/HD teenager
“I think I know what I want to do, and then the committee in my head starts talking.” -Dental assistant
“There are days when I work and days when I try to work.” -College professor
“When I zone out, my brain goes to ADDland, and my body goes to the refrigerator.” -College professor
“My son’s more AD/HD than I am. I’m a human being; he’s a human doing.” -40-year-old RN
“Trying to hold him as a child was like trying to cuddle a four-wheel-drive truck.” -Mother of AD/HD child
“I live in a Post-It note hell!” -AD/HD patient
“At the ripe old age of 52 I attended my first conference on AD/HD….everyone around me was spilling coffee, losing their hotel key, and getting lost. I was home!” -AD/HD patient
