I have this idea. One of the threads on an ADD forum I visit asked if non-ADD people could really, truly understand what it’s like. Most of us who know we have it are pretty certain they don’t, partly because of our difficulty dealing with people who have no tolerance, and sometimes because of the comments we hear all the time. (“I lose my keys all the time! Maybe I have ADD!” “There’s no such thing as ADD, that’s just an excuse for being lazy!” “If the drug companies didn’t make so much money off Ritalin, there’d be no such thing as ADD!”) So anyway, I made a joke about how we have those glasses to simulate drunkenness for driver ed classes, and those “pregnancy bellies” they put on expectant fathers in Lamaze class, wouldn’t it be great to have a film of the things that are going through our heads as we go through what are routine tasks to everyone else, showing all the things we’re trying to process at once? Of course, being ADD, I have the entire thing all planned out – had it planned out before I even finished typing the post. But. . .making the film would involve learning how to take the film from the video camera and put it on the computer, edit in scrolling text, and learn some editing techniques to put in the associated images that flash in and out, add narration, figure out how to put it up on youtube. . .but first I have to buy the shelf for the laundry room and organize all the stuff that’s in the piles next to the computer so I’d have room, and I have only a week to finish the Renaissance Faire costumes, and if the weather cools down, I should take advantage of that and move the wood chips into the garden beds. And that has to be done a day or two before I get my nails done, because it would ruin the manicure, and I don’t want to get that done too far ahead of our trips next week, and I’ll have to get the girls up early because they want to go, too. And if we’re all going out, we’ll be near the K-Mart, and we should pick up school supplies – I hope we get the list soon – and if the shelves are organized, then I can put some of the school supplies there. When they start at school, before I start getting calls for substitute work, maybe I can learn then. But I’d be filming in my house, so I’d want to finish painting the hallway, but before I do that, I’ll have to move all the china out of the china cabinet so I can move it away from the wall and nail in the baseboards and caulk.

But. . .but. . .I know exactly what I would do, the text that would be in the scrolling text, how it would end. . .everything! What I really need to do is find someone else who already knows how to make movies, and convince him or her to make it for me. *sigh*