The joys of ADHD

As it has been said many times, people who have ADHD do not suffer from ADHD, their families do. Touche! Although, in retrospect, some of the things that come out of Devon's mouth make me laugh so hard...here are some goodies from the last two hours. These are randomly stated in the middle of a completely different conversation.

"So mom, do canned green beans give you kidney stones?"

"Someone asked me what I was most looking forward to about Thanksgiving and I said pie. Pie is wonderful, it tastes good, it comes in lots of flavors and it's a great number." He then recited 36 digits of pi, which he is memorizing...

"I need to know the cost of dorm rooms because when I go to college I'm going to have to pay alot of money to stay in the dorm and I need to know how much that costs right now so I can plan."

These statements are frequently dropped for 5 minutes, then brought up again, then dropped and brought up again until an answer that satisfies his curiousity can be found. Sometimes that seems to take awhile.

I do not always find ADHD so humorous. When Devon puts milk in the washing machine, or homework is crammed in his bag never to be seen again, or the mysteries of getting ready for school in the morning and how people do that without running up and down the stairs 20 times. (Literally 20 times.) Or that lost in transit moment that comes over him many times each day. "Wait, what was I doing?" he says as he holds his toothbrush with toothpaste on it and looks at me questioning in the bathroom mirror. The joys are endless. But with some routines and meds...(I don't understand anyone who is against meds for ADHD) we live day to day.