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Old poem of mine posted especially for billy:
< ADD >
Attention Deficit Disorder is a misnomer.
People with ADD have lots of attention,
they just can't control it very well.
I used to think I had ADD,
but my psychiatrist told me that
hypomanic episodes of manic-depression
are often confused with ADD.
But my friend has ADD.
He also has a large stainless-steel barbecue.
He was cruising the web one day and found this site:
( http://www.bkinzel.de/misc/ghg/index.html )
The guy at this site used liquid oxygen to quickly ignite his charcoal rickets.
My friend has always had a problem with his.
My friend is a physicist.
He brought some home last weekend.
Did you know that many cowboys were, in fact, from other countries
and that the word "barbe-a-que", meaning "cooked from snout to tail",
is French?
Though some say (Brits, I guess) that barbecue is a derivation of the term
barbacoa from the Caribbean island of Hispaniola and that it refers not to
the meat itself but to a cooking framework of sticks set on posts.
Tom Cruise has a large stainless-steel barbecue.
He also has ADD.
But thanks to Scientology and e-meters and what-not,
he doesn't need medications.
(My psychiatrist does not believe in Scientology.)
I was once involved with Scientology
but my psychiatrist changed my medication
and I gave it up.
I guess they are right.
My burns are healing.
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We just call it a barbie, and don't care where the word came from as long as the steak is rare and the snags (sausages) are cremated.
I think it's fairly clear from your exposé, and from anecdotal evidence, that psychiatrists cause disorders.
It could be worse
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I think you got to the point very well
PS. If you can, try your hand at giving some of the others a bit of feedback. If you already have, thanks, can you do some more?
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barbie in the uk is a toy doll.
the last line is the killer (good line)
is it possible to have add and then not have it. my mind was always wandering as kid.
usually to far off place. i only listened if it were about doing things i thought i liked.
did you lose any eye brows permanently like i did
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Obviously this was a "Barbi-U"
"Look at them clams!"
Either a line from the musical Carrousel
or part of an overheard conversation at a seniors nude beach!
Dale
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
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(01-17-2012, 08:53 PM)billy Wrote: is it possible to have add and then not have it. my mind was always wandering as kid.
usually to far off place. i only listened if it were about doing things i thought i liked.
did you lose any eye brows permanently like i did
Yes on the ADD/ADHD question. While the figures are all over the place, it goes something like: 3 to 5 % of kids have it and about 40% of them will recover by age 25.
No. My friend was actually the one that got burned (poetic license and
all). I did burn myself while making gunpowder for pipe bombs. (We used
to throw them down this old well and make geysers that shot 50-100
feet in the air).
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