Check with your vet first, Kristin. One of the OTC systemics has caused problems, especially in cats and young puppies.

As much as I hate it, I'm the one--I'm always the one--who has to back up and sort out where our perceptions aren't meeting, and how to repair and further communication

I have a friend with ADHD and I am the one who always has to sort things out. She talks in circles and rarely uses proper nouns (her default is All Pronouns, All the Time!). Sometimes, it is a herculean effort to get a story out of her. I have to stop her, back her up, clarify names, make her fill in gaps. There are some days I just want to say, "It's too much today. Is this story really important because if not, shelve it until you have a better day."

One of the OTC systemics has caused problems, especially in cats and young puppies.

Oh crap! I just ordered some online. Ah well.

ION I found out that the friendship Grandma E had with her former preacher was really a romance. They'd known each other a long time, he was the preacher at the church I attended when I was young (buildings are named for both him and his late wife there), he spoke at my grandfather's funeral and he was a huge fixture in the community. He and Grandma E were great friends, when he could no longer drive she'd take him to nursing homes or to the hospital for him to do his ministery and they talked all the time. Grandma E always called him "Preacher" or "Preacher

I have a friend with ADHD and I am the one who always has to sort things out.

I feel horrible saying this, but living with a friend with ADD for three years has made me a better listener. When you have to reconstruct a thought process after entering in the middle, it makes context clues all the more important.

When B went on meds the first time, I knew instantly because he told me an entire story from start to finish, without hitting three other topics in the middle. I almost cried with joy. (Of course, he's gone off the meds since, but that's neither here nor there...)

Uh-oh.

Babies not as innocent as they pretend.

When you have to reconstruct a thought process after entering in the middle, it makes context clues all the more important

Absolutely. But my friend rarely even gives me context clues. She's not medicated for ADHD and there are days when it is painfully obvious.

That's interesting. I don't know that it's "deception" per se. They learn that a certain action will provoke a certain response. Deception, to me, has an element of intent to make someone believe something that's not true. The children don't consciously want the parent to believe that they're wet or hungry or whatever, they just know that crying will bring attention.

good luck,askye. whatever the solution is, it sounds like a problem worth tackling.

I went to the doctor today - because, if anything, I was getting worse. What she thought is that I have gotten viruses on top of the original virus -When my lungs got inflamed they made room for new viruses. and the teen fever - hints that bacteria are trying to take over. so antibiotic time.She gave me the option of starting the antibiotics later, but I know I getting worse.

I just Frontlined the cat.

It took a minute to shake the idea that you'd forced the cat to watch hours of PBS documentaries.

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