ABOUT the Top Tens

by mgh on March 18, 2011

Top Ten Lists are pretty much what they sound like –

Quickie sketch of a piece of paper with lines on it - representing the text of top tenslists of 10 items in a particular category that stand out as the top tier of a possible bazillion items for consideration.

Tone generally varies, depending on mood and functional level of the day, as does format.

Some of my Top Tens here on ADD-and-so-much-more will consist of bullet-points without much explanation or context.  Others will be augmented by comments of some sort, and a few will be more like articles with ten points.

Top Tens and ADD brains are made for each other:

Lists with ten items provide the perfect combination of flexibility and structure — with permission to vamp.

(Oh yeah, and because ADD Top Tens are generally written by ADDers, we can’t afford to be too literal about “top” or we’ll be ruminating over the pros and cons of inclusion ad infinitum.)

The subject matter of any particular ADD Top Ten List is limited only by the particular ADD mind of the author (which is like saying “limited by infinity”).

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About LOL

by mgh on March 1, 2011

Cartoon of Felix the Cat laughing (HA HA actually written above his head at clock position 11:30 and 1:30Laughing Out Loud . . .

you know you’re ADD when . . .

This little ditty began in the early 1990s on the AOL ADD forum, at a time when America on Line was one of the few places with a vital and rapidly growing community of ADDers. JIMAMS, the official leader of the ADD on-line group, was like the Energizer Bunny in his dedication to AOL’s leadership in the ADD online community.

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Menage a Moi

March 1, 2011

The ADD Poster Girl says Hello! I’m a fascinating woman.  Really.  I can jump inside my brain and fascinate myself for hours of eternal NOW.  Mentalist and empath, visionary and myopic, the sanest person I’ve ever met with the craziest life: a self-aware, self-assured stuttering wonder of more-than-a-mess. In the days when I was a [...]

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Sherlocking Task Anxiety

March 14, 2012

Task Anxiety 101 – part 2 Part of a Series of Articles from my upcoming book, TaskMaster™ – see article list below Watson, we need to review IF you’ve been playing along . . . . . . prior to the three most recent segments (introducing inner three-year-olds, bribery, reward and acknowledgment),  in Task Anxiety [...]

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Building to Boggle

March 12, 2012

Deja Vu all over again Excerpted from my upcoming Boggle Book ©Madelyn Grifith-Haynie-all rights reserved. Sherlocking Boggle Build-up In this section you will begin to pay attention to the unique way that YOU build to the Boggle point. Unless you are brand-spanking-new to the idea of ADD, you probably already know some of your Boggle [...]

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Remembrance of Selves Past

March 11, 2012

A not-so-new form of Self-advocacy Practically all of us here in ADD-land have what the neuropsychs call “short-term memory deficits.” Not only does that make it tough to run our lives, day to day, it also has a negative effect on what we are able to remember about our past. Since one’s memories become the [...]

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ABOUT ADD Comorbidities

March 8, 2012

Link dense – links become obvious on mouse-over Cormorbid or Co-occuring? Wait!  Doesn’t comorbid mean co-occuring? Not exactly. Comorbidity refers to a specific KIND of “co-occurance.” A comorbid disorder refers to additional conditions or syndromes or disorders frequently found in a specific diagnostic population. In other words, we’re talking about accompanying conditions that are not part of the diagnostic [...]

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Boggle: Cooperation & Support

March 4, 2012

Dealing with Others Excerpted from my upcoming Boggle Book ©Madelyn Grifith-Haynie-all rights reserved. Reasonable Accommodations Whether you have been doing the work or not, simply by reading the articles in the Boggle series, you have begun the process of taking responsibility for your ADD in some brand new ways. Congratulations. A major tool is the [...]

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Alphabet Soup

March 2, 2012

EFD, ADD, ADHD, HRT, MBD – WTF? Hold onto your hats everybody, there is discussion afoot toward yet another renaming of ADD – and the front-runner seems to be (at the moment, at least), EFD. I wouldn’t block consensus on EFD. However, as illuminated in an earlier article on this site [ADD - What's in a [...]

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ADD Empathy – 101

February 26, 2012

ADDvice for non-ADDers  TOUGH LOVE Those who can SEE will never really “get” the struggles of those who cannot - but hey, could you at least TRY to believe what they say is difficult for them to do? Could you at least TRY to stop offering advice from your sighted paradigm, especially in that tone of voice that might as well be adding, “Listen, you idiot, wrap [...]

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Boggle: To Design is to Decide

February 25, 2012

Onward and Upward Excerpted from my upcoming Boggle Book ©Madelyn Grifith-Haynie-all rights reserved. Now you are ready to design your Boggle Space. Re-read through the lists you have created (in that notebook I hope you took the time to create). We want to work with externally stored information that will allow you to work with [...]

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When the Game is Rigged

February 24, 2012

Reward and acknowledgment, part 3 Part of a Series of Articles from my upcoming book, TaskMaster™ – see article list below Don’t be STINGY! Think back to my earlier reminder that, during the training phase, you make good with those cookie bribes frequently. Remember that I said that you can reconsider what has to be done [...]

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Boggle: The TBZ

February 18, 2012

The Temporary Boggle Zone Excerpted from my upcoming Boggle Book ©Madelyn Grifith-Haynie-all rights reserved. There is no reason to go another day without a Boggle Space. While you are preparing your very own Boggle Space, there will be many times when you will need a place to go NOW. When those times arise, the Temporary [...]

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