Friday Twitter feed
I would consider myself a “darkly sardonic geek girl.” How about you? http://bit.ly/emZsXJ
@LatoyaPeterson Similar to doppelganger week on FB. As thin white woman w/femme hair I had a new one 2X daily. Not so easy for other folks.
RT alecmichod Just got an email from Joe Biden that begins, “I want to tell you about a family in Minnesota.” #JoeBidenSecretlyWroteFreedom?
FB friend on use of L&O as alibi on L&O: “In NYC nobody is home watching it. They’re all too busy working in it as extras.”
Can anyone recommend good articles/books on adult AD(H)D?
On “Law & Order,” some suspect’s alibi ought to be that they were home watching “Law & Order.” It’s on 24 hours a day.
@tvsoundoff Kate Winslet, Guy Pearce, *and* Melissa Leo, directed by Todd Haynes? Sorry, that’s a buzz you can’t kill!
Ooh, can’t wait for “Mildred Pierce” on HBO (or, more accurately, DVD): http://bit.ly/hYA4j9
Surprising # of my female friends have ADD. Now working on sitcom proposal on urban female friends called “Sex & the Oh Look a Butterfly.”
RT AbielleRose If the zombie apocalypse ever happens I’m just going to surround my house with outward facing treadmills… I should be fine.
RT RichardWiseman Sooooo hoping google will airbrush out pic of Houdini and just leave chains by the end of today!
RT GeorgeTakei SNL’s Victoria Jackson thinks Glee is turning boys gay. Frankly, I think Victoria Jackson is more to blame for that.
@Margoandhow I’m so sorry you’re leaving Twitter! I always looked forward to your sophistication and wit.
Great. Leggings on cute outfit ripped. Now I got nothin’.
RT BorowitzReport Dear Ancient Mayans: I thought you said next year.
QOTD, from @peacebang: “The world makes me despair, but I have a really cute outfit on today. We do what we can. Lord, hear our prayer.”
I’m curious about babysitting customs, economics, and etiquette. Help a childless advice columnist out? http://bo.st/eSZhfF
Suspect homophobia isn’t caused by disgust, but by envy that some people can get intimacy needs met w/o dealing w/opposite sex.
http://beautytipsforministers.com/2011/03/21/this-shoe-makes-jesus-cry/
RT ebertchicago Sir Isaac Newton died in 1727. Remember, it was only a theory. Teachers should be free to introduce other views in their classrooms.
RT pourmecoffee Locking windows, doors in preparation for tonight’s Super Moon, but I already thirst for the blood of the innocent.
RT MarcAbrahams Scientists are socially inept, and here’s what they should do about it, says an author on the Women in Wetlands blog http://bit.ly/hYB4Hw
Title for a Homeric porn film: Rosy Fingered Dawn.
@fatemehf @vspomegranate PC = plain courtesy!
RT HalfPintIngalls Spring Break is also when SOME girls take part in those shameful Wet Shirtwaist Contests! But I’m not naming names. Right, @Mary_Ingalls?
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Robin, your blogging on women with AD(H)D is fascinating! You asked for resources on adult AD(H)D and I have a couple to recommend. The first is the Hallowell Center:
http://www.drhallowell.com/
This is a good place to start for any adult who thinks she may have AD(H)D. The information there is current, tested, accurate, and helpful. A more general website that also has a lot of good stuff is
http://www.chadd.org/
My partner was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult. She is incredibly smart and articulate, but was failing out of graduate school. Once she got the right diagnosis and the right treatment, her GPA rose to 4.0. Her whole life changed and it was hard, but rewarding in every way.
Lots of girls and women who have AD(H)D are never properly diagnosed. Instead of hyperactivity, in girls AD(H)D can manifest as dreaminess and difficulty engaging because the girl is very busy thinking about and imagining other things. In adult women, AD(H)D is frequently diagnosed as depression, or doctors treat symptoms (such as irritability, headaches, and anxiety) and fail to see the underlying cause. There is a genetic component to this condition, so if you have AD(H)D, it’s likely someone else in your family (parents, siblings, children, cousins, aunts & uncles) does as well. Most importantly, doctors are now learning that there are all different kinds of ADD and ADHD. It is NOT the same condition for everyone, so please see an expert (not just an internist or PCP) and don’t give up until someone listens to you, believes you, and sticks with you until you get the treatment you deserve! For some people, medications are necessary, for a limited or longer time. For others, exercise and diet and other environmental changes are enough.
And why does it seem we know fewer men with AD(H)D than women? I read an interesting article about this question a few years back. Especially among male white collar workers, AD(H)D is not necessarily an impediment to a successful career, as the adminstrative support traditionally provided in to executives has the added benefit of really helping someone with AD(H)D. We all know the stories about secretaries keeping track of all the details of their boss’s lives. This norm is a great assist to anyone with AD(H)D! In the article I read, the psychologist was saying that she has begun to see many adult men who suddenly aren’t coping as well in this economic downturn, as they are expected to do more of the detail work themselves, on the computer and otherwise, and share an administrative assistant with others.
Most women don’t have a full-time secretary or stay-at-home wife or self-sacrificing mother taking care of scheduling their appointments, picking up their clothes at the dry cleaners, buying clothes for them in the first place!, reminding them of birthdays and anniversaries, etc. Between this fact and the fact that female AD(H)D is terribly underdiagnosed, women’s AD(H)D may be a bit more obvious!
Wow, what a terrific comment, and thanks for the resources! An interesting point, particularly, about men with AD(H)D being “covered for” by mothers, wives, secretaries. The feeling that I’m being forced into that traditionally feminine role — oh, John’s just too much of a big thinker to be bothered by details like groceries and paying bills! — is why I don’t enjoy the company of AD(H)D men. As friends or lovers, anyway; I’m good at stage-managing life for ADD folks, which is a skill I’ve definitely used in the workplace.
Dr. Hallowell’s book Driven to Distraction changed my life. I can’t think of any other book about which I’d say that, at least not in such a clear and concrete fashion.
Maybe when I’ve gotten some sleep I’ll be able to think of others.