ADHD: Open Mouth, Insert Friend

It ’s a good thing my friend isn’t easily offended. Today my ADHD took our conversation on a colorful roadtrip.I will spare you the details, but I made a gaffe today that involved flagpoles, fidget spinners, and ED. If I was headlining in Vegas, I would certainly have outdone myself for sheer, bold, cheeky humor —celebrated by the audience’s raucous laughter—but since I’m some average rando calling a friend on the phone, I got the following:“Am I the only person you have conversations like this with?”“Yes,” I said while laughing. “You are theonly person I can openly talk to this way. ”“Let’s remove one person from that equation, and I think we can solve your problem.”I don ’t know if I got the quote right. We were both laughing. It is common for us to zing each other. However, part of my refined, adult mind started working on what he had said. I suddenly realized that I had stepped over a line.“Well, I may have been excessively colorful.”“Oh, you think?” he said while laughing.My friends respect me —hold on, maybe “respect” is too strong a word here. Let’s say they find me entertaining like a dancing monkey on top of a car wreck. This dynamic usually works out alright, but there are times I go too far. The problem is that sometimes I don’t think before I speak. Otherwise, I wouldn’ t have tread down that saucy path today. I can’t remember how we,or should I say “I”, got on the subject of ED ads, or why I didn ’t stop...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - Category: Psychiatry Tags: ADHD Goodreads Source Type: blogs