{"id":34071,"date":"2026-02-25T08:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T13:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=34071"},"modified":"2026-02-25T10:08:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T15:08:15","slug":"disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/25\/disorder\/","title":{"rendered":"DISORDER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nAlice told me to read a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/health\/wellness\/in-my-forties-i-found-out-i-have-adhdmaybe-you-do-too-c6fa3f84?st=M4bSEm&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink\">Wall Street Journa<\/a>l article on how everybody is ADHD or a variant on that. I fit a couple of the traits; I don\u2019t like scratchy labels or noise. But then I didn\u2019t fit into the \u201calways late\u201d and \u201closes things\u201d categories.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m on time and don\u2019t lose stuff. I told Alice, \u201cI\u2019ve had the same gloves for years,\u201d In fact, I have three types of gloves: liners, regular gloves and mittens. Baby, it\u2019s cold outside.<\/p>\n<p>I went to a concert and took the mittens and liners. I wore some of that stuff indoors, at the concert, which was in my former temple, where I had grown up. A drafty, big place. The Maltz Performing Arts Center.<\/p>\n<p>The concert was a tribute to Hoagy Carmichael by the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra. Very well done. Alice didn\u2019t want to go. I sat by myself. Ninety minutes later: done. No glove liners. What?<\/p>\n<p>I went up into the balcony, where I had visited some friends during intermission. No gloves liners. I went to the men\u2019s room. No liners. I got home and told my wife I now fit the profile in the <em>WSJ<\/em> story.<\/p>\n<p>Then I found my glove liners. They were balled up inside my ski cap, which was on my head. In other words, I had been wearing the glove liners on my head.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s that disorder called?<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\">Yiddishe Cup plays on Purim at Park Synagogue (Pepper Pipes, Ohio) on Monday (March 2). Free.\u00a0 7:15 pm.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Alice told me to read a Wall Street Journal article on how everybody is ADHD or a variant on that. I fit a couple of the traits; I don\u2019t like scratchy labels or noise. But then I didn\u2019t fit into the \u201calways late\u201d and \u201closes things\u201d categories. I\u2019m on time and don\u2019t lose stuff. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34071"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34077,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34071\/revisions\/34077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}