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I might have a bit of syrup and then I might one of those …. yum…. donuts…. golden… OMG! ADD!

Well, back to my inbox.

For those that don’t know, ODD is oppositional defiant disorder, basically I do things to purposely irritate people, I defy logic with my own common sense, and I apparently am very good at arguments, the odd part about ODD, is that by definition it’s optional, which is defiant in itself, cause.. when have you ever heard of any disorder being optional? Plus, I don’t like arguing so it’s not that I chose to have this. Another thing many people don’t know about is EI, Emotional Impairment, this basically means that I have emotions like everyone else, but in some ways I feel them a lot more strongly, or in some cases, I don’t know how to control the intensity of how I express my emotions, for example, if I found something funny, people without EI would just laugh slightly and continue their day, people with EI (mostly depending on their sense of humor though) may not laugh at all, may laugh histarically, even to the point of not being able to breathe and so on, if something worrying us, a normal person would just feel worried, a person with EI can “over exaggerate” but not on purpose, it’s just how they feel.

Now a lot of people confuse (ADD+EI=Bi-polar) this is not true, Bi-polar is completely different, ADD may make you lose concentration in something, and EI can overly express your emotions, but Bi-polar, has absolutely NOOOOO control over their emotions, not even what they may feel next. EI has some control on what they feel, just now how they express it.

I deal with all my disorders, (try to at least) one at a time, if I have something that desparately needs to be done, well, mostly I’m nagged at till I do it, but if it’s something that I want to do, I do it right then and there, and that way I don’t have to be constantly reminded, if there are things that need to be repeatly done, like chores? I set a day out of the week to do nothing but those, this clears up the rest of my week, to do other things, and keeps people like my mother from nagging at me all the time. Some things I can easily make a schedule for a one month schedule that I can just easily print out per month, not mentioning any days or anything like that just a sunday through saturday schedule.

This way, I have all the repeated stuff on the same days every month, and anything else i can fill in with a pen or pencil, I even save all my records in a notebook due to my short term memory lost, and a past complication that involved my ex, being a hacker, and the police, and lost of 4 days cause my ex hit me to the head.. I really started keeping notes on what I did everyday, cause that was a nesseccity to find out what was going on those four days and court issues and yeah it was hecktic… But because I also keep a daily journal, incase something like that happens again, or if some other random reason I wake up from a coma, or whatever, I have records showing what I did, and what happened, and even in some cases what I thought, last thing I need is some random stranger telling me they are my BF… I know, this sounds paranoid, but it also keeps track of how sick I get, from what things I tend to end up possibly being allergic to, how often I pay bills, on average what I spend each month so I know what to save for the next month, it helps with organizing a lot, and prevents future questions.

So, I have one “calendar/schedule” that I write in every month and follow, and I have a daily journal that I write in to keep track of everything i have done, accomplished, future goals I’ve made, and yes, even things I’ve failed. (god news is, I seem to be achieving more than I fail at things, so this keeps me in check) The one thing an ODD person hates, is being proven wrong… and being OCD as well, it’s very hard to prove me wrong when I write everything in such detail. I also keep a “back-up” journal on the net, so that incase a: my journal ends up missing, I can write in it later, but with the hand journal b: if the net goes out, or I forget my passwords, my hand journal will be my back-up, so the are a benefit both ways.

I also say depending on if you’re having problems with money and what not, only save all your bank records, and bill/receipts for up to 2 years. any Job information I keep in a separate file on it’s own and let that collect up as long as I think it’s needed. this may even be more than two years, you never know when you need to prove your employment for something, or taxes, or even if there’s some random court case, and they have info on you, but yours may say something else. and also invest in a good shredder, or, learn paper-mache, I think doing that would garrentee any info you don’t ever want to be found in your garbage, will no longer even be readable at this point, if you wait the two year time, more often than not, the info that is found anyway is completely out of date and useless by now. Okay, well, my ADD went off on a tangent here and went more into how to be paranoid, than how to be organized, sorry… well that’s all the tips I have.

Sincerely,
Max