I got a 30, but I wasn't really sure how to answer some of the questions. I kinda figure MOST people could say "sometimes" or "often" about most of those questions. And who DOESN"T have trouble paying attention to a boring task, or buckling down to do something unfun?

...that said, I do think the internet has destroyed my powers of concentration. But not sure how much is that and how much is attempting to not be forgetful. I tend to be doing eight different things at once on my work computer because if I don't start that email as soon as I realize I need to send it, I'll forget, and if I don't also have the travel department tab up I'll forget I needed to book that trip, etc etc. I try to open tabs to what I"ll need to be working on even if it's not right this second, so I don't look at my open browser and go "why did I need this open again?"

I got 36 - and I do not think I am adhd. I think I should have hit rarely more often. And I have trained myself not to sit for too long a time period - Partly because it is bad for my health - and I rarely get more thn 1 to 2 hourds to do any one thing at my job. and one or two things happened before 12 - but most didn't ....

Ok, whew. My docs think I might be ADD, but medication had no effect on me, except to jack up my anxiety attacks. I'm oddly comforted to see it's not that hard to score high on that test.

Scored 19. I have a sudden flash of a long known problem of mine (my seventh grade science teacher calling me out on my glazed-over eyes) where I space out while people are talking, so I'll chant in my head "pay attention pay attention" and then the only thing that registers from the conversation is me thinking "pay attention".

I got a 31 on that ADHD test and I am most certainly NOT AD. Maybe a teeny bit hyperactive technically but I think of that more as excess nervous energy and being excellent at multi tasking. I may be fidgety as all get out and have trouble sitting still for any amount of time, but I've never had any trouble at all focusing on detailed tasks. I get shit done, and the only time I 'zone out' is during boring lectures or civil court cases. Like any human being. I kinda feel like anyone with a significant online presence is gonna score rather high on that quiz.

eta: I mean seriously, have ya'll seen what I do for fun? Try teaching pysanky-making to someone with ADHD. So not gonna happen.

No but see, ADHD--or at least, ADD people, of which I am one (definitely *not* ADHD) often have hyperfocus. Pysanky is perfect for somebody with the ability to concentrate fiercely on a task for hours and screen out all externals.

With me it's can't concentrate at all, or hyperfocus. Pick one. I just try to pick the one that best suits the occasion.

I had such scarring forced gardening experiences as a child, I hadn't ever wanted to try growing things in actual dirt. I had a container garden on my deck, and we have another container garden here. I am thinking of a raised herb bed maybe next year, though.

Our front yard -- the summers for the last two years killed it. It is a desolate wasteland of dead crabgrass. It looks awful, and it's kind of embarrassing, but I think watering lawns is terribly wasteful and expensive. The backyard is a hot mess, too, but at least there's some greenery there.

I'm just going to have to be satisfied with doing the tiny little patch in the front yard that's a fallow garden patch, and herbs and flowers in pots, because we can't spend money on re-doing the yard right now. Neighbors just gonna have to hate.

I love gardening. I'm not much into lawns, but if you make the gardens big enough that doesn't matter. Depending on how you set them up, once you get them established, gardens can be pretty low maintenance, with just a few weekends of major effort in spring and fall. Yay mulch, soaker hoses, and perennials!

We're having issues with the mortgage; the ex-wife is still on the house, and refinancing is a...waiting game. We won't really know if we'll be able to refinance in D's name only until September.

It's all a big complex mess -- so we don't really know if we'll be able to keep this house, therefore no money goes into the yard/house until we know more in the fall. So...planters and the wee garden plot in front will be what I can work on. Nothing huge.

It's really stressful and quite the PITA.

Going way back, whenever anyone leaves this house, they have to kiss me and say goodbye, but we're all either related or married, so maybe that's a bit different from roomies.

IONews, thanks to this thread, I've diagnosed myself with ADD (not ADHD, which is too bad, because I have some memory that ADD is no longer a diagnosis). I then scored 32 on Teppy's quiz, but some of my answers to those questions (waiting on line, fidgeting), have more to do with my panic disorder than anything else.

With me it's can't concentrate at all, or hyperfocus. Pick one. I just try to pick the one that best suits the occasion.

Beverly, me too, but some of this is (for me, I mean) my personality. Like my house is immaculate or an embarrassment. I seem to be an all-or-nothing person as an offshoot of being a procrastinating perfectionist.

Thanks for the good vibes and well wishes, everybody. It's a type of cancer that doesn't metastasize, so as long as we caught it before it got too invasive, surgery should be simple. It'll be in a couple weeks, right after the semester ends. As for anesthesia, turns out I'm very sensitive to it, so it can make me pass out. Luckily it takes a much smaller dose to medicate the area too. But still, makes me nervous when I know they need to use it.

Burrell, is this a local anesthetic? I just ask, because I'm nosy, and because my dad had some basal cell carcinomas removed and didn't need to be knocked out (and when I read your first post, "knocked out" was how I was parsing 'anesthetic'). Either way, I'm glad this cancer is so treatable and hope your doc finds an easy way around your trouble with anesthesia.

ION, a very busy day today. It started with the eye doctor, and I'm tentatively scheduled for cataract surgery in 4 weeks. The upfront cost is nearly half that quoted by the clinic we went to last year, and I can get a lens that will negate the astigmatism in that eye. The doctor's suggesting I'd only need reading glasses for that eye afterwards, which makes me nervous about coping with my other eye still needing a strong prescription, and with the delay before I could get a new lens or new glasses altogether.

Connie, my mom (who was quite nearsighted and had astigmatisms in both eyes, but also needed a reading prescription after age 50 or so) just had her cataracts done. She opted for the lenses that would correct her astigmatism. Everything is pretty well and fine, now. That said, the time between surgery on the first eye and the second drove her crazy. If it isn't financially impossible for you, maybe you can ask your eye doc if, between surgeries, they can swap out the lens in your glasses on the corrected side, so that it is bifocal, with clear glass up top and your reading strength on the bottom. I should know how to word this better, and would, were my coffee not broken.

I got stuck in the "go for drinks" era.

Being in my forties, I want to agree with Kat, but find I'm right there with Ginger.

I always say "let's get coffee" even though I drink tea. Weird.

Especially since you really mean "cake," Amy.