He put a couple of slices of bread in the toaster for his breakfast. And then climbed a ladder to the roof. To remove a brick from the chimney. While his bread was toasting.

This is ADHD.

• He could not just stand there and wait for the toast to be done.
• He was distracted from the toast by thoughts of another task. 
• He anticipated it would only take “a minute” to get the brick.
• Ultimately he may have even forgotten he put bread in the toaster.

I happened to enter the kitchen and smell the toast about to burn. I decided to take it out and butter it. Then I went looking for the toastee or the toaster or whomever.  And I found him outside, kneeling on the ground with a chisel and hammer trying to get the mortar off the brick.

“You put bread in the toaster, then went up on the roof??” I asked.  ”That’s hilarious! I’m curious. Did you underestimate the time it would take to extract a brick from the chimney top or did you simply forget you were making toast?”  

“I thought it would only take a minute to get one of the bricks loose”, he replied.

This is adult ADHD in action. It is such a superbly unique and comical example that I just had to share it with you. 

Got one of your own to recount?

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