SADD, a New Kind of Dyslexia/ADD
I have invented this, and I have named it SADD for Spatial Attention Deficient Disorder. Earlier I called it Spatial Dyslexic (SD), but I think four initials give it the importance it deserves. Now that this announcement has been made, undoubtedly there will be more people coming forward with this disorder.
To see if you too have SADD, tell us how many of the following symptoms apply to you:
You open a container of smooth almond butter you bought fresh in bulk from the health food store. You take an Ezekiel totally sprouted wrap from the refrigerator.
You warm the wrap in a cast iron pan. You spread almond butter on the warmed wrap.
You look all over the refrigerator for half an avocado you are sure is there. Naturally, you don’t find it until later, so you cut another avocado and put the extra remaining half in the fridge as well.
You peel the new half of avocado and cut it in slices and apply on top of the almond butter.
You add a few sprigs of arugula if you can find the package of it in the fridge and some fresh oregano and basil which are easy to find because they are growing in the soil and pots outside.
You search for the particular salt you like on this particular wrap. It is called Celtic salt, and you find it somewhere on the kitchen counter.
Now that your wrap is complete, you sit down and eat it.
Now that you have eaten the delicious wrap bulging with goodness, you look for the cover that was on the almond butter. Of course, you had to have had it when you opened the almond butter. You remember taking the cover off. Where is it now? It has suddenly, and perhaps, miraculously, disappeared. It is nowhere to be found.
It is unknown where or if it will ever be found. You even look in the fridge for the cover in case you somehow foolishly left it there. You do not find it. You do find the missing avocado half and put it with the new avocado half so you can find them together tomorrow.
You check to make sure you did return the arugula to the fridge. You did, or you didn’t. In any case, you make it right.
If you have checked any three of the above, you may be a candidate for SADD. You may have an advanced case.
SADD is disconcerting. You can’t find something even when you just put it down a fraction of a second ago. It is particularly disturbing when you live in a two-story home. You are continually frantically running up and down stairs looking for something, sometimes discovering that you have been looking for the missing item for so long that you have forgotten what you are looking for and so lack the eureka of finding it when you eventually do.
I am a good reader and don’t have dyslexia. I do have a brutal form of SADD, however, which I have just explained to you. SADD is debilitating. It seems like your whole life is spent looking for something you can’t find. It is devastating. It is very difficult to live with.
I was astonished when I learned that there are people in this world who remember exactly where they have put something.
My friend Nancy even put a map up on the inside door of my cupboards so I could know where to find my flours, spices, and so on. Her system works well when I remember to put the item back in its exact place instead of just leaving it somewhere on the counter.
Perhaps you are someone who, when you are looking for an herb, you can remember where you put it. Be grateful.
Does anyone know of a natural cure for SADD?
Godwriting is a blog by Gloria Wendroff and is about Gloria's daily life as the Godwriter of the Heavenletters project that is having a profound effect on the lives of people around the world.
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