“It was my Twitter habit that pulled me out of my ‘do I have Alzheimer’s’ funk. One day, I started to recognize some of the things adults with ADHD were saying about their own lives. It dawned on me: Maybe it wasn’t Alzheimer’s. Maybe I had ADHD.”
One evening, I stuffed a bag of powdered sugar into a kitchen drawer, then spent an hour trying to figure out what happened to it. My husband found it the next morning in the utensil drawer and thought it was funny. I thought it might be a sign of Alzheimer’s disease.
I was 49 when this happened, though misplacing things wasn’t a new experience for me. I’ve spent most of my life buying products I already own because I could never find them when needed. But the powdered sugar thing was disturbing. When I thought back, I had a foggy recollection of watching my hands stuff the bag into the drawer, but it was dreamy and weird, like something my brain was remembering through a wall of plaque and tangles.
There were other disturbing things, too, like reaching for words that should have come easily. And bigger things, like completely forgetting to pick up my 14-year-old from her after-school activity.. I watched my maternal grandmother decline in bits and pieces when I went home on holidays. She asked the same questions over and over and said things that were out of character. When my paternal grandmother died from the same condition, I thought to myself, “Well, that’s it.
Meanwhile, I was raising four kids with either diagnosed attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or obvious-but-undiagnosed ADHD. My house usually looked like someone dumped an oversized stuffed trash bag on the floor and then used a broom to spread it around. Staying on top of my kids’ schedules was difficult; staying on top of housework was impossible.
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