I’ve gained a fashionable disability label. I am an adult with Attention Deficit Disorder or ADD. For me this means

• I usually have about 20 tabs open on my Browser at any given time. Today my tabs are: webmail (1), Internet marketing-related sites (3), writing (2), blogs that focus on topics I write about (10), Indian food and Indian recipes (1), my writing blog dashboard, and the “write a post” admin page - one tab each. Oh, and another whole Firefox page with sites I searched from bloggers in my state (12) and Google (2).
• I am missing all DNA paired sequences related to organization.
• I can’t break down a task into steps, and suffer easily from overwhelm. Everything looks important.
• When someone points out a system, I am awed by how simple it sounds, yet know I struggle just with what label to put on a file folder.

I share these characteristics with tens of thousands of other people, and those who are women, live as I do, ashamed that we don’t have it “all together.”