Did the hare in the Hare and the Tortoise have ADHD?

[SnappyCroc]

I've been re-reading this to DD2 this morning and see great similarities between myself and the hare (minus the unpleasant gloating) in terms of starting things with great enthusiasm and then getting fed up and exhausted a bit of the way into them and being unable to finish the job. I'm currently on the waitlist for an ADHD assessment but it's going to be a while.

Interested in what people think. Is there anything I can do to 'fix' myself while waiting for diagnosis/treatment so I'm more like the tortoise?

Read the room perhaps.

But let’s not forget that the pea was there because the prince and his mother wanted to prove she was a real princess, so they were trying to set her up to fail. That’s not polite either.

@BeaAndBen 🤣

I just take Zopiclone or max Phenergen when I go away so I at least get some sleep!

When I’m being a bit (what they deem to be) fussy about something my parents will refer me to the princess and the pea. I take this as a compliment, given that it is a story about the benefits of being detail oriented 😊

EUPD I reckon

And the wolf was just wolfing. He's gotta eat too right?

Red riding hood getting so triggered coz he's chasing her.

But he's a drag wolf! I mean, that's like, the worst kind, yes?

The Tortoise and the Hare had an unfortunate consequence:

There was an agreement with all the animals in the region that if a forest or moor fire broke out then those directly affected by the fire would evacuate the area and send their fastest animal to warn those in neighbouring regions.
A fire broke out in the tortoise and hare’s village and they sent the tortoise to warn the neighbours.

That you get to marry into an awful, snobby family and have the MIL from hell 😂.

This has set me thinking... Maybe I'm in the wrong career. My job at the moment requires a lot of 'slow and steady'. Whereas if I was doing something a bit more fast-paced with short bursts of activity, maybe that would work better

Aesop’s fables written about 600bc, probably fair to say they didn’t discuss adhd then, it just reinforces that rushing around and never finishing anything doesn’t lead to success

Anyone would be uncomfortable on that high pile of mattresses. Think it wins the stupidest fairy tale prize.

Fibromyalgia, possibly?

😂 maybe read the thread first?...

Agree re: Goldilocks. I much prefer the Roald Dahl version of that story, he sure got the measure of that revolting little brat.

We had this version as kids, where she starts off as Wonkybonce

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Frank-Retells-Goldilocks-Three-Bears/dp/185029416X

That’s exactly what I was going to post.