ADHD: It ' s Not Always Your Fault

Come explore with me the strange intersection of pants and ADHD.Last July, I lost three pairs of pants.As usual, I posted to social media to make light of it, but just between you and me, I stayed up fairly late searching the house like a ninja in search of those pants. Hiding my presence, I moved into almost every room in my home, making no sound as I lifted things, rearranged them, and rifled through them hoping those pants would turn up.I didn’t search the fridge —because that would have been silly—but I searched everywhere else except my roommates’ rooms. It was possible that somebody absconded with my pants, but it was more likely I put them somewhere stupid, right? Besides, I could just imagine the conversation when I accidentally woke my roommates up as I searched under their pillows and bedsheets.“Douglas, why are you dressed like a ninja?”“Go back to sleep. You’re dreaming,” I’d say while making ninja-like hypnosis motions with my hands.“I’m calling the police.”It turns out that one of the roommates did indeed make off with my pants. This could have been scandalous, except that they politely returned them in the morning —folded—and apologized for accidentally forcing me to run around half naked for…well, no time at all. I eventually stopped looking for my pants, put on my PJs, went to bed, then woke up and got my pants. As far as scandals go, this one was fairly benign.Except for the hours I ...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - Category: Psychiatry Tags: ADHD Goodreads Source Type: blogs