LOL – You KNOW you have ADD when …

Laughing Out Loud —
You’ve gotta’ be a citizen of
Alphabet City when …

by Madelyn Griffith-Haynie, CTP, CMC, ACT, MCC, SCAC

Laughing Out Loud for YEARS now

Artist: Johnny Automatic

Here’s A BIT of history excerpted from ABOUT LOL, a brief article I posted here  back in March 2011, introducing the LOL…You KNOW idea to [probably] a brand new crop of ADDers seeking support.

This little ditty first appeared in the early 1990s on the AOL ADD forum (yiikes! somewhere around 25 years ago now – longer than some of the readers of ADDandSoMuchMore have been alive!!)

It was a time when ADD Conferences were just beginning to be organized and promoted, the Internet was still a baby, and The World Wide Web was barely born. America on Line was relatively new too — and one of the few places where a vital and rapidly growing community of ADDers could meet in virtual chat rooms to support one another with empathy, a few tears and a great deal of humor.

JIMAMS, the official leader of the ADD on-line group, was like the Energizer Bunny in his dedication to AOL’s leadership in the ADD online community.

LOL-OFN-Summer 98

Laughing Out Loud
You know you’re ADD when …

Summer ’98

You know you’re ADD when . . .

…you READ the “About LOL” post but you can’t remember what it said –
. . .and you’re not sure which season’s LOL’s you’ve read
.  .   .  so you decide you’d BETTER post one of your own in the comments

just so you can track yourself!

LOL – OFN Fall 96

Laughing Out Loud
You know you’re ADD when … 

Fall 96

…you publish an online newsletter and the July issue
comes out August 7th  (and you actually think,“CLOSE!”)

…you realize you’ve found THE perfect niche when you attempt to make excuses for the Fall 96 issue’s tardy arrival — and you get more than a few emails saying, in various words, “It was late?”  ~ MGHCoach

LOL-OFN Summer ’96

Laughing Out Loud
You know you’re ADD when ...

Summer 96

…you publish an online newsletter and the June issue comes out on July 14th!!! — MGHCoach

LOL-OFN-Spring 96

Laughing Out Loud
You know you’re ADD when …

Spring 96

You know you’re ADD when

… when you own 257 socks — and can’t find a mate for any of them. SusanS29

…when you KNOW you own 257 mate-less socks because you actually counted every last one of them!  (then you put them carefully away just in case you find the mates in the wash!) —  mgh

About LOL

Laughing Out Loud . . .

you know you’re ADD when . . .

This little ditty began in the early 1990s on the AOL ADD forum, at a time when America on Line was one of the few places with a vital and rapidly growing community of ADDers. JIMAMS, the official leader of the ADD on-line group, was like the Energizer Bunny in his dedication to AOL’s leadership in the ADD online community.