Anyway rayray - you’ve had a chip on your | ADHD Information

I must be a little strange, I was relived when I was diagnosed. It was like at last someone has actually stopped for a second to hear what I was saying and belive it.

It's my parents that are angry, bitter etc with my diagnosis.

I have been DX for so long, I don't remember being shocked or amazed.

 I remember, Your hyperactive.  And I remember saying, ok, whatever you say.

  And then I think I was just so carefree, that I didn't care.

 Sure I got picked on and etc,etc, and I noticed I got picked on more than others.

 But to me that was all part of life.  I didn't realize that it was all because I am different, until I seen kids I went to school with, and they had changed so much.  I hadn't changed at all.

I was really mad for a while after I accepted being ADD, too. It goes away with time. I think accepting it kind of follows the grieving process (disbelief, anger, bargaining, guilt, depression, loneliness, acceptance, hope-- well, maybe not so much the loneliness. Or maybe. I don't know.).

now that i accepted having add & that it is real

i am pissed..

here i am throwing the conditioned responses ive always heard for making the same blunders

yours truely

the

mADD-man

Hey - don't fret over that!!

Takes time - and it's good that you spot the blunders rather than have that sabotaging ADHD cover it up as you move along!

I was mad at me - the world pretty much all of it until I stepped back.

Hope you find that calm center that will keep you together rayray.

Hey Ray - U still pissed?

Way to be, Seeker!...Happy Thanksgiving to yours, too!

I am so thrilled to be feeling this good after only two days of medicine (Metadate)

I wish my parents had lived a few months longer, but eternity has them knowing my peace, I'm certain.  I know Dad felt bad...he was an MD (eye surgeon), and couldn't help.  I know Mom suffered when in my late teens I got institutionalized, and even strapped to a bed, as they tried to figure out why i didn't react positively to their medications. 

Mom & Dad...look!.....no hands!   I'm Freeeeeeeeeeeee as a bird......believe I am going to be able to lead a somewhat normal life, now! 

 

i'm a little embarrassed, but mostly relieved. it explains soooo much.

i no longer have to think of myself as a failure, or a f**k-up. but i still do sometimes.

those add things are not a weakness in my character. they are my character, and can be, and have been beneficial.

i can stop trying to be what i'm not, and start adapting my peculiarities to the demands of our society.

i can use my strengths to their advantage, and stop thinking of them as liabilities.

i can now recognise that i am wired differently, so it's ok to approach things differently. my way often works cause of me. their way works for them, cause they're not wired like me.

it's not a defect. it's an evolutionary difference. itmay even be a blessing in disguise!

why am i so damn positive right now? that's not the way i have usually been. this absence of depression and angst is a little unsettling.

well, i guess i'll ride the wind while it fills the sails!

happy sailing everyone. happy thxgvg!