Why? For god's sake why?

So what you have here is a collection of my Brain Farts. 
Placed here for your amusement. 

Hopefully Some of my antics will make their way to the Water Cooler where you work. Or some other place where you hang out with other people and talk. Becoming Fodder for real life conversations. Not just chasing pixels on your screen. Blasting back a few pixels in response to other pixels. The pixel words and images here are to be taken out into the real world for walk and talk sessions (you don't have to walk I was just putting in the walking a dog imagery for you).

I identify as an: Amazing Distracted Headstrong Dreamer.

I'm also the Center of the Universe, 

just for purposes of dead reckoning your place in the universe, no big. It's like a public service I provide.

Back in the day I had friends that also had ADHD or one of the variants, decades before I knew anything about it. Some were the hyper kind and some were like me: mostly distracted, head in the clouds. All were extra bright people, you kind of have to be; born with curiosity about all the excess sensory input that soaks into your nervous system and your mind; without the usual natural buffering that most people have. You try to keep up with it so it doesn't drown you. You get smarter in the process. Plus some ADHDers have a higher I.Q. to start, not sure I'm like that myself, doesn't hurt to thinks so. No reason to limit one's self.

Being adhd smart has it's own joys. Creative problem solving evolves as you work to make, a world that is just a bit out of sync from you, do what you need it to do. Creative outlets like art are a kind of natural playground. Weirdest thing; the 10 years that computer graphics were my bread and butter, I just wasn't that creative, art wise. I focused on the production end too much. I did do a million layouts of various things that got printed. I had the professional pixel, vector & composition softwares aced. Not everyone is going to be Picasso. I was art director of a smalltime English/Spanish phone directory company. Produced the sucker, end to end, ready for the press, twice. Autonomy always more important to me than money. So I got paid in lots of autonomy and not much money. Other careers I had required what cleverness I have too. 

When I say smart. I should highlight the differences between being smart and being intelligent. There are various types of both, some even share space. I have holes in my cognition that make some kinds of smart/intelligent beyond me. I draw a blank in social situations so I'm not smart about that. The thing they call emotional intelligence is a mixed bag for me. Empathy, caring, kindness in direct ways I'm good at. Once the vagaries of social cues and situations enter the mix, I'm lost. I can burn the paint off a fire extinguisher with deductive logic, inductive too sometimes. Maybe . . 

   

I'd like a fun label for myself:

Ooo Ooo found this one on the net: "The absent-minded professor is a stock character of popular fiction, usually portrayed as a talented academic whose academic brilliance is accompanied by below-par functioning in other areas, leading to forgetfulness and mistakes. One explanation of this is that highly talented individuals often have unevenly distributed capabilities, being brilliant in their field of choice but below average on other measures of ability. Alternatively, they are considered to be so engrossed in their field of study that they forget their surroundings."

I could never be an academic (don't have the attention span). So not a professor. 

Instead of a 'field of study' I have day dreaming or being engrossed in some project or other. That part is like the stock character.

Absent-minded Wizard. Now that sounds like a really cool label, if only I could conjure up Pina Coladas out of thin air.  

Carl Jung's Wise Old Man archetype would be a good one if there's an absent-minded version in my size. 

Winnie-the-Pooh also works, except for my crusty edges. 

So anyway all this cleverness didn't prevent me from having a selection of comorbidities. Some, like chronic obesity and it's pals, are always threatening my life, bastards. Others like osteoarthritis limit my activities dramatically. I could go on and and list all of what has filled the last 20 years and keeps me from gainful employment the last 6, but we're here to party. 

Please subscribe here and on YouTube. 
Heck if I get enough fans this could all be monetized.