well, at least you no you had a great time......my luck i would of blown way more than i should of..
my motto
if i didnt have bad luck
i wouldnt have any at all
does that make my glass half emply
or does it make it half full
depends on the day
and on the way
i want to respond
so dont make me wave my wand
you might like it
and you might hate it
i could be nice
i could be mean
but i would love to rub you in ice
for the pleasure of the tease
Back to your original question -- I have always been a lightweight when it[QUOTE=Davidornado] [QUOTE=Professor]Davidornadoggedly, I see I've found someone who is exploring the brilliants that is the ADD mind. I am truely amazed at the mysteries of life I've been able to uncover since medicating. I'm looking forward to share knowledge with a mind that has obviously learned what these minds can do.[/QUOTE]
Hey, doc~
Thanks for the encouragement. It's encouraging. :)
Welcome to the Tapestry (the sum of all threads). What brings you here?
I was bored one night, done with work, poking around the ADDers world, and stumbled across this schtick. I really thought I'd ADDle away after a few posts, but found something edifying, and as you see, have employed the Hyper part of ADHD in sticking around, and sometimes sticking around. I do not walk softly, though.
Now I'm behind in work again. At least for an ADDer boredom doesn't last long.
If you can endure the agony, do a search on my posts. There are a few nuggets in the ore, but ya gotta diga round to appreciate them. Can't say I know all about the mind of AD, but I live with one, so I've learned to cope.
Again, thanks
D
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I came to this board soon after taking my first adderall, back in Ocotober '04. For the first time in my life I was able to control bordem long enough to open a web page. From there I attempted to rid myself of everything ADD. I realized months later that having an increadibly active mind that notices everything is an beautiful gift. The hyperfocusing is totally new to me. I'm working on the ablity to notice everything, like we can, and still focus only what I want. I think its fun!
Professor38610.5578356481most of my life i have used pot as my medication. and i'm grateful i have such low tolerance for alcohol, and the rest of the illicits.
i smoke much less understanding now the source of the short temper, the flightiness, the 'i can't stand to be in my own skin for no apparent reason', the unrelenting string of failures and broken relationships, yadayadayada....
and glen- i have seen what you have in davidornados posts. he is a bright and frequently lucid guy(check out our banter in the stupid thread). sometimes i can't tell if he's being brilliant, or if he's on some kind of bender, maybe employing the amphetamines a little too much.
i wish you all the best in any case.
Thanks all (you too David buddy) for working through this here.
I hate - emphasize that HATE to go on about other people's troubles. Casting the first stone and all. It's just so easy to avoid the troubles with alcohol - just don't use it! Eating disorders and such - well you can't stop eating so it's hardest of all.
We all have crosses to bear. I'll be the last to say I'm clean of the troubles that go with life. You'll never pack my emotional baggage in an overhead compartment.
The only thing that kept me from going down the path that many of us have chosen is my biology. Alcohol would kill me before it made me feel good and pot never made me feel as other's describe it does. Thanks mom!! DNA has it's advantages - her strong german code overrode much of pop's weaker english code so that's the saving grace for me!
When someone appears to be either justifying or endorsing the path of alcohol and illicit drugs I must speak up. There are many here who are looking for a path and if they hear that others have had "success" with things such as pot or alcohol they might take that path too. Please everyone be careful of seeming to be plugging something that could be detrimental to others?!?
Drink if you must. Smoke if you must. Just know that others are listening to you ok?
Ok I'm done. Thanks.
- Glen
[QUOTE=seeker63]most of my life i have used pot as my medication. and i'm grateful i have such low tolerance for alcohol, and the rest of the illicits.
i smoke much less understanding now the source of the short temper, the flightiness, the 'i can't stand to be in my own skin for no apparent reason', the unrelenting string of failures and broken relationships, yadayadayada....
and glen- i have seen what you have in davidornados posts. he is a bright and frequently lucid guy(check out our banter in the stupid thread). sometimes i can't tell if he's being brilliant, or if he's on some kind of bender, maybe employing the amphetamines a little too much.
i wish you all the best in any case.
[/QUOTE][quote=seeker63]i have seen what you have in davidornados posts. he is a bright and frequently lucid guy(check out our banter in the stupid thread). sometimes i can't tell if he's being brilliant, or if he's on some kind of bender, maybe employing the amphetamines a little too much.[/quote]
[quote=davidornadoggedly]you have seen what you have wanted to see in my posts. Perhaps brilliance, perhaps lucidity, but if I'm on any bender, it's the bender of a life lived naturally with ADHD.
Investigate this data set: the timing of the posts, and the content of the posts, in the context of the diurnal rythm of my ADHD, knowing the onset and metabolism of my mxRxs. There are hours in the day where the meds are less influential.
Consider the environment also. If a serious post is to be responded to, seriousness prevails. If light banter is available, then so be it.[/quote]
I prefer to remain in the posts to remind folks that there is life outside the box. These boxes we build in response to society, to peer pressure, to not knowing we're building a box, limit our view of wonders beyond the walls. Remaining in the box reflects a lot of attention on self, whereas looking over the walls, or through them, which is much more intriguing, you will find a world beyond belief.
AD/HD is a tool to see beyond the walls of conventional thinking. Either it gets used, abused, neglected, encarcerated, or released. Only a fractional few allow it's release, and follow it to success.
There are a lot more in the fold that if given the appropriate training, coping mechs, tools, mxRxs, environments, careers, etc. would become phenoms beyond their own minds, and contribute their names to history. Like Washington, Lincoln, Reagan, Edison, DaVinci, Davidornadog, Peter the Apostle, David the King, etc.
lolololol....a true poet..WITH A TWIST!!! Sorry about the alcohol, realized afterwards that for many people it probably does the trick but I've just seen too much crazy with that stuffMaybe when we have our mini saga contest next year you can write my entry about adhd (cheating noooo..just saga by proxy!), 50 words and it has to tell a story...I've only ever written one and it was really good but I couldn't enter it as it was about an entanglement w/someone I work with (i know, first time but boy...disaster of Titanic type)…you're obviously a free flowing original thinker with an undeniable talent....a wordsmith!!! I would love to get stories from talented people like you and publish them in an "adhd scrapbook" type of book...stories that would show the real adventures that adhd can bring into your life (oh joy and not so joyful)
today was the day I knew had to happen
I now have a new monicker, I'm no longer Miss Incredible
I'm Miss Uncredible. Uncredibly unknowingly, unwillingly, undeniably unable to
stand this anymore. I'm taking it very personally at this moment that they
brought adderall back days before I had to go back to work. 8 weeks of
nothing. People who used to be my friends at work have turned away from me (I
don't know why) and my daughter has decided to punish me after finding out
about the Adderall. It's like "oh, she has adhd eh, she's on drugs eh,
well, now I'll get her". Get her back for being a recluse.
My boss and I had it out this morning, I can just feel how upset I am, I have
put up with so much and done so much there and come through and now I"m
losing credibility? (his words) At the exact moment in time when I got the meds
people turned away, then they took the meds away and then I broke my wrist and
I lost almost a month of work and then the summer but the Dexedrine burned me
out so much I was about to go off and go to the US to get Adderall...
so, I did come home tonight and self med, not really sure why I’m here right
now, like a strange convergence of planets where the one thing that has made a
huge change in my brain came along just as everything in my life collapsed from
the weight of the years behind it…there is just too much mess around me...what would I do if I could not selfmed?
hi jones, sorry for the muddle. Am feeling better just have to ignore the nonsense. What happened was my gov't pulled Adderall after I had been on it for one month, so I found a life and they pulled it! They lifted the ban about 3 wks ago and I've been back on for about 2 weeks. The summer was a lost time for me but I'm working on not letting the past ruin my new found joy.