A quick disclaimer... I'm no paragon of memory... I tend to tell my host or hostess where I'm putting my glasses/wallet because I will forget by the end of the night. I rarely carry a purse because that just makes the odds of losing all my stuff at once that muh higher. Because ADD (and I do have a clinical diagnosis) runs in the family I always know at least my brother will forgive me when I forget words in the middle of a sentence, because he does it too.

But there's a downside to having ADD run in the family. Watching my 6 year old (and this crops up not always, but enough that it's a recurring theme) go into the bathroom, forget why she's there, and come out again, only to (within 2 minutes) announce that she has to go. Again. Because she actually didn't go the first time she was in there. She just forgot and wandered out again.

You would think if you'd asked to go, and were already sitting on the toilet, that you'd remember to PEE, for goddsakes. Multiple times, I have watched this... it's really freaking odd. Is this actually normal for 6?

Is it normal for 30? Because I do things like that. My 100 yr old great-grandma used to joke that I was more addled than she.

I'm CONSTANTLY wanderin from room to room. I live and die by "The List"...and yes - I've put "go to the bathroom" on the list.

i should get a list. i have often gone to the loo, forgotten why i was there, brushed my teeth or something, and then wandered away again... actually i haven't done that as much since i gave birth, but that's a separate issue.

Yeah I do it too. So does Mo.

The Little Miss is fairly bad about doing anything I ask her to do. If I ask her to go get dressed, I often have to go in and remind her to do it, a minute later. Sometimes, I'll remind her and then leave. Only to come back five minutes later to find her butt naked, but hiding under the covers of her bed. *sigh*

and her potty training has seriously regressed. I mean to the point where the only way I can keep her consistently using the potty is to tell her to go, or to keep her naked from the waist down. It's very frustrating.

This is how well I pay attention - I was just trying to use my cell phone as a mouse, and wondering why it wouldn't work.

I have to anounce my reason for going into another room if I have any hope of remembering what I was going to do.

"I am going to feed the fish, now."