Attention Deficit Disor.... Wanna play hopscotch?

SO. I have what I prefer to call an "active child."

Turtle is starting kindergarten next week. Somehow, during the course of realizing and preparing him for that, Babe and I have noticed some unusual behavior patterns. in short, The frickin kid cant sit still. No matter what is going on, he has to be moving something on his body or fidgeting with something all of the time. Once we realized that there was some sort of force at work here, my wife began to research.

Ive said before that the Babe is a kid-genius. I have been continually impressed with her ability to get to the source of just this sort of thing with children throughout her career to date.

But you all know that I think im pretty smart too. When she explained to me her suspicion that the oddball behavior was possibly a food allergy involving dairy, I just about dropped my beer. But she insisted. SO... We have tried an experiment here at casa Wilker.

We took turtle off of most dairy. The return to the old kid we knew came about almost visibly. Within a few days, he had regained his attention span, his cool, calm nature when problem solving, and coolest of all, his ability to remember what tool Dad needed from the garage when working on a project.

Next step, go see the Doctor and see if we're right. This is sort of like taking a home pregnancy test, and then going in hoping that its just a coincidence. Doc thinks that we're on the right track.

This means that our family has to learn about food. I have never even heard of glutin before, much less thought about what foods might have it inside. And last time I checked, a soy was a plant. They dont have teets. How the hell do you get soy milk? Try to milk a Soy. I dare you. ITS SOY JUICE! ( this bit courtesy of Louis Black) Turtle says that it tastes like marshmallows. He likes it.

Turns out that this particular food allergy has the capacity to resemble ADHD.

I would have believed ADHD just as easily... During the course of our research on this little rugrat that we love, I found out what ADHD really is. Turns out that I might have it.

Reasons that I say this.

1. I am really good at getting projects accomplished that I can do in less than 1 day. Anything longer than that might take another year to finally get completely finished. (see also; half the woodwork in my home)

2. Although I can spend hours on the computer, I am likely to visit a different site every few minutes unless I find something truly interesting.

3. I have to carry a little flip style notebook at work so that I dont forget to do some of the small tasks that I might think of during the course of my day.

4. I love Hulu because I can watch a 30 minute television program in 20 minutes, and every so often, they show me a commercial just to keep me interested.

5. Anything that I build, from the deck to the playset, remodelling the house, my hotrod, constantly seem to be in the process of being rebuilt, based on some new iteration that I have dreamt up.


SO I think that I have ADHD. Fortunately, I also think that this will make me much more able to deal with turtle should he fall off the soy-juice wagon. Knowing this about me will hopefully help me to become a better role model for him.

Now where was that varnish? i just remembered that the table that I built for Babe's classroom still isnt sealed...