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We're glad you found this site. You can preaty
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2x4 me if I'm wrong}. Glad your on the meds !
What a long strange trips it's been . . .
Just wanted to say"Hi"...I may be new to this board, but I feel like I have know all of you forever. Have read some old posts and I cried a little because I have felt alone most of my life. I didn't cry because I was sad, but because I was happy to see SO may other people like me. I was sorta diognosed with add as a child, but at the time, in my small TX town, they didn't know what to call it. I was testd for everything under the sun, my parent's were on first name basis with my teachers EVERY YEAR, and was told that I "wasn't living up to my potental". The dr"s told my parent's there was not much they could do and that I would eventualy grow out of it. All my life I have struggled, first with school and then with work. I was fired from 2 jobs, first for cronic lateness and then for spaceing out or forgeting things or for simple errors made all the time. At one job (in one of thoes "meetings" about my peformance") I tried to explain that I might have adult add - I was removed from that positon and demoted to a lesser positopn. From that point I decided that I would tell no one, and almost went into denile. Some 5 years later while out of work (from 2nd job fired), I was watching the Today Show and they had an ADD expert. He listed the top 5 sighns and something clicked. Due to insurance constriction and other things, it was a year later (about 1 month ago) that I got the courage to go to my dr. and get meds. I was so embarassed to make the call because so many people see add as an excuse or not real. I was put on strattera at first but it caused problems with sleeping, so now I am on adderall xr 30mg, and so far things are better. If I had embrased my condition earlier maybe thing would have been better. My husband and I have been married for 5 years and due to my bad debts or hiding them, lying, we have almost divorced several times. I have lost so many things over the years including my purse, an important check once, and the worst part is I can't remember what i did with them or how I lost them, which makes my husband think I'm either crazy or dumb. Things have been better since he has learned there is a reason to the maddness, and thankfully I work with a great bunch of people that are supportive of me. They even said they might by me a cake in support if National ADHD day next Wed.