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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It looks like:
-parking tickets with penalties
-filing taxes late 
-last minute vacation planning
-running out of toilet paper
-being reminded to go grocery shopping
-never sending Christmas cards
-never being a bridesmaid 
-knowing better than to volunteer for opportunities at kids school
-not maximizing kids educational opportunities 
-underachieving at work for your educational level[/quote]

+1.

All of the above but many fully believe this normal and everyone in the world functions at this same very level.  [/quote]

This. If it's both partners, they really might not realize (or they might be kidding themselves). I have a friend with really obvious untreated ADHD (and he's SO much fun), and he was honestly just gobsmacked to realize that some people plan vacations more than a few weeks in advance.[/quote]

I have ADD and never really thought of the vacation planning as an ADD thing.  I always thought it was a me thing.

Question:  Do you like planning your vacations far in advance?  
I mean, I do it.  I have my kids enrolled in summer camps and vacations planned for June and August.  
But it doesn’t feel real too me.  That time is so far in the future, I can’t really wrap my head around it.  So, my subjective experience of planning vacations months in advance is more like making my will or doing taxes or something like that.  It’s kind of an arduous task. 
It’s miles away from the joyful experience of planning something fun in the near future.

Do you feel like that?  Or not?

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Ha! This doesn’t quite answer your question but I feel a disproportionate amount of actual dread when I book flights and hotels and make reservations so far in advance that it’s just sort of an abstract exercise, like you describe. But if it’s something for this weekend, it’s real and exciting and I get into it.[/quote]

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