Ok. Obviously it isn't. ADHD is not a virus
But sometimes it seems that way. If you have someone in your life with ADHD you understand what an astounding drain on your energy and resources it can be. Searching for keys, bills and remotes. Following behind them to make sure they haven't left an oven full of food on at 500 degrees or wandered off with an important call left on hold or with the faucet running full blast. Like the old saying about teaching: it can seem to be more work to monitor a person with ADHD that it would be just to do all the stuff yourself.
That said, I've noticed an effect I call [only half joking] "catching ADHD."
Spend much time around someone with ADHD, using up your own resources trying to follow their tangential conversations or helping them find their parked car or lost cell phone and pretty soon you start getting distracted and confused. If you live with someone who considers every horizontal service a storage area, after a while you start dropping things in an easy pile out of exhaustion and desperation.
That distracted, confused, exhausted and desperate condition is what I call "catching ADHD."
Ever happen to you?
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