ADD / ADHD means Piles!

You always can spot someone that has to live with Attention Deficit Disorder pretty easily. He is the one with the piles of stuff all around his space. It doesn’t matter where. Just about every space, place or location that an ADD-afflicted individual has any degree of control over will be covered with piles of stuff. At the office are piles of papers, manuals, folders, and reports. At home are clothes, dishes, junk and all sorts of stuff. In the garage, on the bed, across the floor, in the closet, everywhere you look… piles.

Why do we make piles? Well it’s simple and it’s complex. The simple reason is, we get distracted while handling or carrying things in our hands and once distracted then we just put that thing down wherever we are at that moment on any nearby accommodating surface. The complex reason is, even if we were not distracted, and we almost always are, we still would make piles because we fail to know, recognize and fully understand the one important premise that truly organized people know and understand: “A place for everything and everything in its place” I feel distraction setting in, so I will have to continue in my next posting.