Adult ADD Strengths

Another famous confirmed living person with ADHD. I think the only thing he’s slightly infamous for is revealing Janet Jackson’s nipple during the superbowl.

In an interview with Collider magazine for his new movie the Love Guru, Justin Timberlake said that he had ADHD and OCD.

Question: Do you have the OCD where you have to fix everything? (he’s adjusting all the recorders that got put down in front of him)

Justin Timberlake: I have OCD mixed with ADD, you try living with that.

Thanks Jeff

again, wow.

Tonight at 7.30 PST / 10.30 pm EST, I’ll be interviewed by Tara McGillicudy, ADD coach, blogger, and internet marketer extraordinaire on her online Living with Adult ADD / ADHD Radio Show.

We’ll talk about how to start and run an ADHD support group.

You can listen to it tonight, or listen to it later when it get’s archived on the website.

Here are some of the links that I’ll be mentioning in the show relating to Adult ADHD support groups

ADHD Support Group of the Month Idea

How to Start & Run Support Groups

I thought about adding a new feature to this blog and my ADD resource website.

I used to run the Vancouver Adult ADD support group for 3 years and I’m on the board of another one, CHADD Vancouver. I have a whole section on my website on how to find Canadian, US and International ADHD support groups and how to start, run and promote a support group. I even did a teleclass on how to start one, The Imperfect Guide to Starting an ADD Support Group.

Melissa Orlov has a great post that’s a must read to help the ADD male understand what some non ADD wives want from them. Great title too, The Care and Feeding of a Non-ADD Spouse.

Unfortunately a lot of men who have Adult ADD are in denial about how their ADD related behaviors affects their wives. Or, they minimize the true impact untreated ADD has on their marriage. Some men need to be on their third wife before they begin to take their ADHD seriously, ie ADD medications are useful, but they won’t teach you self awareness and skills. Sometimes I coach men with adult ADD just around relationships, they have a high stimulation job and adequate support systems at work but are on the verge of divorce at home because they’re not managing their negative ADHD symptoms.

Adults with ADHD aren’t the only people who have problems with clutter, but we seem to have more problems than most people do for a variety of reasons. I.e., being more impulsive, distractable, disorganized and having more trouble than most people doing boring repetitive tasks, ie cleaning up stuff around the house.

One thing I’d emphasize is the importance of doing one room at a time. Or a portion of the room. Bite off a small sized chunk vs trying to eat the whole elephant at once. ADDers can often see the entire picture and get overwhelmed by it instead of seeing just one piece and working on that.

Here’s a cool video version of Deep Purple’s Rock classic song Smoke on the Water (based on a true story) performed by Japanese ancient and modern musicians. It starts off with someone playing a shamisen. via Beyond Robson.

I still remember one guy I knew in high school playing Smoke on the Water just outside school during class with an amp so the whole school could hear it. We enjoyed it, not sure what they did to him.

UPDATE: The event is getting very popular, make sure you register on their facebook group and show up early if you want a seat.

For my non blogging readers, WordPress is a very popular, free, open source blogging platform that this blog and many others are run on. Hopefully more people with Adult ADHD will start blogging to raise awareness of the negatives AND positives of Adult ADHD and help reduce the stigma relating to the number 2 genetically inherited condition after height.