In the theme of Jeff Foxworthy’s, “You just might be a redneck”, I offer the following:
If you go to the market to buy milk, but come back with twelve items you didn’t need, and forgot the milk, you just might have ADHD.
If the most used app on your Apple watch is “find my phone”, you just might have ADHD.
If you put water on to boil for cooking, and you forgot, because of course you became involved in something else, you just might have ADHD.
If you leave the house to get in your car to go somewhere, but you have to return to the house repeatedly for your purse, your water, your sunglasses, etc, you just might have ADHD.
If you have a to do list for your to do list, you just might have ADHD.
If you can’t remember that you washed your hair while taking a shower, you wash your hair again, you just might have ADHD.
If you are in the middle of a conversation, and something catches your eye, you immediately focus on that thing and say, ‘Hey, look at that!”, you just might have ADHD.
If you are working on a project, and another project pops into your head, and you leave the first project to work on the second, you just might have ADHD.
If your brain just won’t shut off when you’re trying to sleep, you just might have ADHD.
If you just can’t sit still in a meeting, a movie, a class, a religious service, a concert etc, you just might have ADHD.
If writing a tedious report is like sticking a needle in your eye, you just might have ADHD.
If your mantra is, “I’ll do it later”, you just might have ADHD.
If you tell your friend, “I’ll be there in 10 minutes”, and thirty minutes later you’re just leaving the house, you just might have ADHD.
If you get bored with every job you’ve had after two years, you just might have ADHD.
If you find a new hobby every month and buy everything , and do everything that has to do with that hobby, you just might have ADHD.
If you buy something and immediately forget you bought it, you just might have ADHD.
If you need to get tasks done at your desk, but it’s so messy that you just can’t deal with it or figure out how to clean it up, so you don’t get your tasks done, you just might have ADHD,
If you’re always late because you have just one more thing to do before you leave the house, you just might have ADHD.
If you have just lost 7 hours of “doing nothing”, you spend the next hour in super focus and get everything done, you just might have ADHD
If you have superfocus on anything you love to do, you just might have ADHD
If you blurt out what you’re thinking without thinking about what you are about to say, you just might have ADHD.
If you fail, falter, struggle, and you continue to try, try again, and persist against all odds, you just might have ADHD.
In closing – the above is for comic relief and not a tool for diagnosis. Neurotypicals may see themselves in some of the statements above. Afterall, we are all human. But, if you have ADHD or think you might, and see yourself in many of the above statements, then welcome to the club! Please see your doctor for diagnosis
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