I’m guessing this is common amongst people with ADD…at least I hope so, and it’s not just me! I have no sense of direction. Some people have a type of “internal compass”. You can put them in the middle of a cornfield and they just know the location of north, south, east, and west. You [...]

I think people with ADD/ADHD are drawn to each other by some inexplicable force. I was at the beach today, and this dog goes flying past me. Like a blur. A guy standing near me goes, “Sorry…she’s really ADD.” And man, that dog was active. She made Toby look like he was on Quaaludes. So [...]

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The Consumer Product Safety Commission, in their infinite wisdom, is asking libraries to take children’s books printed before 1986 off the shelves. Why? They want to investigate whether the books have unsafe levels of LEAD in the ink. LEAD. Are you kidding me? A law was passed last summer that bans even tiny amounts of [...]

Continuous-performance tests (CPTs) are assessments that measure sustained attention, selective attention, and impulsivity. They can be used as part of an evaluation for ADHD. The “old school” CPTs use actual paper, pencil, and a stopwatch. The newer generation of CPTs were software applications that allowed the computer to keep track of variables. The latest CPTs [...]

I think the concept of blogging, Twittering, and updating my status on Facebook is pretty cool. I like seeing what everyone is up to, and I like the fact that I can tell everyone about the fun and exciting stuff going on in my life. Especially now with book number three coming out in December, [...]