19. You Know You Have ADHD When…

• You forget you take sugar in your own tea
• You leave your shopping on the bus
• You dump your fella and post your own (last) key through his letterbox, instead of his
• You mix Jerry Adams up with Jerry Hall in your university interview – but still get in
• You charge for postage after weighing your item on Ebay, before you’ve wrapped it up
• You turn up a day early for a job interview
• You have to pay the taxi fare in postage stamps
• You don’t have any right angles on the bathroom cabinet you made in Woodwork
• You turn your house upside down looking for the sunglasses that are on your head
• You charge a customer £1.19 for a £119.00 camera
• You look up a word in a dictionary, get distracted by other words, and forget the word
• You become a photographer because most books on the subject are full of pictures
• You omit two pints of vegetable stock from your home made vegetable soup
• You have to sit on deck on the cross channel ferry, in the rain, watching the horizon
• You have to buy a replica of your expensive camera because you lost the charger
• You get 240 mph when working out the speed for the 4 minute mile
• You’re caught tucking toilet rolls in the door of the fridge – I was being harrassed, OK?
• You can’t find your time management book; ‘Getting Things Done’
• You write down the patient’s name from a Hand X-ray; ‘RT Scaphoid’
• You crash into an empty, parked police car and tell them it was a stupid place to park