Impulsive Speech: ADD and Foot-in-Mouth Syndrome

If you haven't heard about John Mayer's latest media debacle, then allow me to fill you in on the basics. In an interview with Playboy Magazine, John Mayer:

• Likened Jessica Simpson to cocaine
• Admitted to having a passion for pornography (a passion? really? not just a liking? cause a passion for porn is just creepy)
• Claimed to have a "hood pass" (meaning black people like him...or used to)
• Called his penis a "white supremacist" because he is only interested in sex with white women

Then, to top it all off, when he apologized for the interview, he claimed that he was trying to be intellectual. Um, yeah.

I've been cracking up about this interview and the media response since the story broke yesterday. My favorite was Whoopi Goldberg's response to Mayer's white supremacist penis: "Like I was looking," she said today on The View. Ha!

Now I have no idea as to whether or not John Mayer has ADD. But, clearly, John Mayer is guilty of not thinking before he speaks. And, truth be told, I've been known to do the same on occasion--although I'm pretty sure I've never said things quite that offensive.

Let's see...there are so many examples! Like this one time that I was talking to a big shot in the ad agency that I worked for a long time ago. I kind of forgot who I was talking to and inadvertently made fun of a campaign that he, himself, had created. I thought I was gonna get fired for that one, but I guess I lucked out!

I've worked with lots and lots of ADDers who have gotten into trouble with foot-in-mouth syndrome. The ADD brain often needs to be trained to put a buffer between the thought and the speech. And, in honor of John Mayer's goof, I thought it might be fun to share our foot-in-mouth ADD moments.

Please share your experiences in the comments field. Let's have a good laugh!

Comments

[Perry Green]

my friends and I are convinced that John had too much of his drug of choice...and was high as a kite. There is no justification for "My dick is like a white supremacist."

[Debbie]

I was shopping with my friend once and she tried on a pair of jeans that looked great. I said you should get those jeans I've never seen your butt look so small before! LOL. She was mad so I had to buy her lunch!

[David]

Perry,
I was visiting a pregnant colleague. I told her (honestly and expecting her to take it as a compliment) that the pregnancy was doing her figure good... that her backside got much smaller. Boy, was I up a tree when she took it as an insult!
Such is life, sometimes.

[dentist Gainesville]

I am convinced that John had too much of his drug of choice...and was high as a kite.