Adult ADD Strengths

Dr. Ed Hallowell and Melissa Orlov’s excellent blog on ADHD and Marriage now has a new ADHD and Marriage forum attached to it. Check it out.

The section with the most posts so far on the new forum? The one on Anger, Frustration & ADHD. Not exactly a big surprise that it’s a popular topics in ADHD relationships.

In one post a man asks a question about his ADHD wife who isn’t getting her share of the household chores done despite being unemployed.

One respondent says something I think all adults with ADHD and their spouses/partners should read 3 times out loud. Maybe more.

Lifehacker has a great post on Top Ten Telephone Tricks

I especially like #1 Trick automated phone bots into thinking your line’s dead. and #4. Skip the greeting and get right to the beep with one keypress. ADHD adults are known for many things but patience in the face of inefficient, irritating voicemail loops from hell isn’t one of them.

There’s a special place in hell waiting for the person(s) who invented voicemail menus that often leave you trapped in voicemail hell. One of the worst I remember was Hewlett Packard where you spent several minutes going from one voicemail option to another for what seemed to be like an eternity only to have them hang up on you at the end.

Thanks to one of our support group members for the heads up. Dr Mate is the Vancouver based author of Scattered Minds: A New Look At The Origins And Healing Of Attention Deficit Disorder

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February 21, 2008, 5:30 pm

From Heroin to Workaholism: The Universal Addiction Process, Its Origins and Healing Dr. Gabor Maté Physician and Author. February 21, 2008, 5:30 pm. SFU Surrey at Central City, Theatre 2600.

Hopefully by now you’ve considered or created your New Year’s Theme. So often ADDers focus on what they did wrong, or what didn’t go well. I think that many people in society think that way but it seems that many ADDers seem to be more likely to focus on what they did wrong than what they did right.

I’m not suggesting you be stupidly optimistic and pretend you never did anything wrong, or that you shouldn’t look at your mistakes to try and learn from them.