Adult ADD Symptom Test:

My daughter said that I have ADD... That it's from my genes that she developed the same, as well as her children, my grandchildren. Admittedly most of her children have really active minds and are very intelligent, but I never thought of them as needing treatment for something that in my generation was not even considered a problem. So, she recommended I take a test by Googling up ADD/ADHD and see how I did by finding a list of symptoms.

From my opinion, most of the people I know would be checking off many of the things in this list, so anyone who sees this and knows me personally, next time we speak, I'd like to know if you think that if I had more than ten of these symptoms, would it be a sign of Attention Deficit Disorder? In a way it's nice to put a label on something to blame for my lack of attention to details and my forgetfulness I've merely attributed to age, but it seems like many of these things were a reason for my
struggle whether in grade school or in traffic as an adult... today... on the route where they were fixing the road... why did they keep me waiting for so long... Had to turn on the radio so I wouldn't get too antsy.

Here's the test. The website where I got it is below the test. Good luck, and if you score more than ten, "Welcome to the human race!"

If you experience more than 10 points on this adult ADD self symptom test, Attention Deficit Disorder is likely present.
An internal sense of anxiety
Impulsive spending habits
Frequent distractions during sex
Frequently misplace the car keys, your purse or wallet or other day-to-day items
Lack of attention to detail
Family history of ADD, learning problems, mood disorders or substance abuse problems
Trouble following the proper channels or chain of commands
An attitude of "read the directions when all else fails"
Frequent traffic violations
Impulsive job changes
Trouble maintaining an organized work and/or home environment
Chronically late or always in a hurry
Frequently overwhelmed by tasks of daily living
Poor financial management and frequent late bills
Procrastination
Spending excessive time at work due to inefficiencies
Inconsistent work performance
Sense of underachievement
Frequent mood swings
Trouble sustaining friendships or intimate relationships
A need to seek high stimulation activities
Tendency toward exaggerated outbursts
Transposing numbers, letters, words
Tendency toward being argumentative
Addictive personality toward food, alcohol, drugs, work and/or gambling
Tendency to worry needlessly and endlessly
"Thin-skinned" - having quick or exaggerated responses to real or imagined slights

from: http://www.mental-health-matters.com/index.php

Maybe I'll post my results... but then, maybe I won't. Interesting to see how one rates, but what they do with that information is their business.
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Another neat site [couldn't find it again today] shows how to cope with it:

Break large assignments or job tasks into small, simple tasks. Set a deadline for each task and reward yourself as you complete each one.

Each day, make a list of what you need to do. Plan the best order for doing each task. Then make a schedule for doing them. Use a calendar or daily planner to keep yourself on track.

Work in a quiet area. Do one thing at a time. Give yourself short breaks.

Write things you need to remember in a notebook with dividers. Write different kinds of information like assignments, appointments, and phone numbers in different sections. Keep the book with you all of the time.

Post notes to yourself to help remind yourself of things you need to do. Tape notes on the bathroom mirror, on the refrigerator, in your school locker, or dashboard of your car -- wherever you're likely to need the reminder.

Store similar things together. For example, keep all your journals in one place, and tapes and cassettes in another. Keep bills paid receipts in one place, and bills in holder on desk.

Create a routine. Get yourself ready for a.m. walk or work at the same time, in the same way, every day.

Exercise, eat a balanced diet and get enough sleep.
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I think this is how to deal with problems... find out how to cope.

THE CORIOLIS FORCE AND MY POLE BEANS:

My Beanpoles After the deer and before the frost:


When I took Human Biology in college, I found out about the Coriolis Force. Why in Human Biology? With all the twists and turns of our inner workings, even our digestion is subject to the Coriolis force... so I was taught. Our professor's lectures were memorable in so many ways. He had a story for them all. When it came to this Force, it was of his dog loving to pop balloons, but then he'd eat them. If a dog swallows something that remains unchanged when defecated, one can determine which end of the stool came out first if you know that the Coriolis force is counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere. He'd have a balloon "party" with the dog the day before he had one of his classes come up to his back yard for a picnic and a quiz for guessing the direction of the dog's stools. That was the link with human biology and turning of the world... a force of nature. In Googling this force up, it didn't get into the intestinal, but quibbled about the direction water goes down the drain. It as been tested to go either way in sinks, but I believe it was in force when it came to my bean plants...

This morning when I got back from my walk with the dogs I wanted to take down my frostbitten bean plants. Last night when the temperature dipped to 22 degrees, zapping the leaves. I thought I'd take carefully take the poles down, and unwrap the tangled vines. When I took the first pole down, I noticed something I hadn't before. All the bean plants circled the pole from the right side of the pole, twisting up from that direction from bottom to top. When the plants first started growing, it looked haphazard to me... their tendrils just blindly searching for something to grow on. Little did I know that some Force was causing them to catch the bean pole on the right side, and twist on up from there once it blindly found the pole. The leaves quickly covered the main vine, and I hadn't noticed the look of them while taking the pole out of the soil. I thought unwrapping the vines would be a chore if I cared to keep them intact rather than to just tear them off the poles. However, it was an easy task, as they were so evenly wrapped it was as if someone with OCD had carefully wrapped them.

Well... for me the Coriolis force explains why the pole beans wrap themselves so nicely, but how did they find the pole? Now... if it had been Black Eyed-Peas, I could understand it. ;-)