Adult ADD Strengths

Adults with ADHD aren’t the only people who have problems with clutter, but we seem to have more problems than most people do for a variety of reasons. I.e., being more impulsive, distractable, disorganized and having more trouble than most people doing boring repetitive tasks, ie cleaning up stuff around the house.

One thing I’d emphasize is the importance of doing one room at a time. Or a portion of the room. Bite off a small sized chunk vs trying to eat the whole elephant at once. ADDers can often see the entire picture and get overwhelmed by it instead of seeing just one piece and working on that.

Here’s a cool video version of Deep Purple’s Rock classic song Smoke on the Water (based on a true story) performed by Japanese ancient and modern musicians. It starts off with someone playing a shamisen. via Beyond Robson.

I still remember one guy I knew in high school playing Smoke on the Water just outside school during class with an amp so the whole school could hear it. We enjoyed it, not sure what they did to him.

Here’s 1683 people playing it playing in Kansas City june 3rd 2007 for the Guiness World Record. Playing starts at 1 min 58 sec. Apparently the previous record was 1,323 people held in my hometown, Vancouver in 1994. Maybe we need another shot at it?

UPDATE: The event is getting very popular, make sure you register on their facebook group and show up early if you want a seat.

For my non blogging readers, WordPress is a very popular, free, open source blogging platform that this blog and many others are run on. Hopefully more people with Adult ADHD will start blogging to raise awareness of the negatives AND positives of Adult ADHD and help reduce the stigma relating to the number 2 genetically inherited condition after height.

Tazzu is organizing a free Vancouver WordPress Camp April 30th from 5.30-8.30pm at The Network Hub
3rd floor - 422 Richards Street. It is also home to the Vancouver Entrepreneur meetup run by the friendly multiple entrepreneur Minna Van.

I Want Sandy is a free web application that gives you email reminders for the things you often forget.

It was recently an Webware 100 Award Winner

I Want Sandy is an automated e-mail assistant. You simply add “her” as an e-mail contact to get started. Sending Sandy an e-mail with a small message will have the system scan what you wrote and convert into an e-mail reminder or calendar appointment that will be sent back to you at whatever time you note. It also has been designed to work with the popular microblogging service Twitter, letting users remotely set reminders while away from their regular e-mail.

You can also create RSS feed reminders and twitter reminders to your mobile phone as well.

Adult ADD Coaching Client.

Pete was a great help to me in dealing with my ADD related job challenges, and helped me confront some personal issues that I feared but could not describe. I had to get through a job loss (that I realize now is what I wanted!) and he helped me understand that all wasn’t well at home either. I feel I am now able to work through my challenges on my own. I have a roadmap and have been working through it, giving me great clarity.

There’s going to be a 4 Day Conference Focusing on Adhd and Stress in Vancouver BC.

The 2nd biennial, international conference on Brain Development & Learning: Making Sense of the Science will be held on july 12-15, 2008 in Vancouver at the Sheraton Wall Center hotel.

Two main focus areas of the conference will be ADHD (executive function and prefrontal cortex) and stress (including trauma, depression, anxiety, and resilence).

It’s an interdisciplinary conference devoted to improving children’s lives by making cutting-edge research in neuroscience, child psychology, & medicine understandable & applicable to those who work with children on a daily basis.

Although it’s focused on children, it seems that some of the topic will be useful for ADHD adults too. Here’s who they suggest should attend:

Just added Australian, Cypriot, Irish, and Israeli ADHD Support Groups to my US and International ADHD Support Groups listings. Canadian ADHD Support Groups listed here.

So far that’s 8 countries with English speaking ADHD support groups. If you know any that should be added to the list, let me know.

I have a list of medical professionals in the Vancouver BC area that are known to diagnose and treat ADHD in adults and children, but I don’t know who does it in Chicoutimi, Chicago or Canberra.

Fascinating article in New York Magazine on kids and lying where they talk about where kids learn to lie from. Their parents.

Encouraged to tell so many white lies and hearing so many others, children gradually get comfortable with being disingenuous. Insincerity becomes, literally, a daily occurrence. They learn that honesty only creates conflict, and dishonesty is an easy way to avoid conflict

They also lie a lot. on one study of 36 topics that teens sometimes lied to their parents the average teen lied to their parents about 12 of them. They talk about the many different reason kids lie.

Want to know which type of parenting produced the kids that lied the least?