If God, | ADHD Information
In his wisdom wanted to make me inept and nearly unable to deal with the world, why couldn't he have also made me a shallow-minded money-grubbing neighbor-imitating Yuppie?I mean there's a simple childish code to follow. Make money, stay thin, impress the neigbors, live in a house just like the neighbors and if you forget a rule just ask anyone else in your houses-all-alike McMansion subdivision.
Infantile simple-mindedness. Yeah. I want therapy, massive doses of sense of absurdity deadening drugs, and a partial brain removal so I can embrace this.
I'm done now with my stupid little ranting. Shuttingthef**kup.
Hey Resistance,
We need to start embracing our differences instead of thinking we have to compare ourselves to the conformists. Scr** that. Not gonna happen here.
I could care less what people think of me. (well except for the one's I love..really hate disappointing them) but anybody else...I could care less. I know me and I know that I'm a loving and honest person and I know that all the adhders here and the one's I've met in person are really good people...just misunderstood a lot. That's one reason why we come here, right?
As long as I'm not hurting anyone or myself I'm free to be me. I decide the way I live ant the way I do things.
Just be you!
Resistance, just look at your name. Don't become a mindless robot and conform to societies materialistic views.
You need a trip away, to a lake, a forest where you can sort your thoughts out. Your thoughts, not the ones that everyone else wants to fill your head with.
Don't lose your sense of worth. That would be a real shame.
That's just my opinion
I just went through this "Why didn't I finish College?" thing. I was on a forum and encountered many posts by very educated people. I have a pretty decent vocabulary but I could not even follow some of the language in those posts. I felt small and in-ept and I started to feel sorry for myself. I started comparing myself to them and wondering why I couldn't have that kind of intellect. I expressed my feelings to my husband and you know what he said "All the education, money and smarts in the world don't lead to heaven". "It's the kind of person you are, not what you have or don't have". I've been reminded of this many times in my life and I thought about that when I read what you wrote in your post about wealth and about people. What I've learned from many humbling experiences in my life is that there is much monetary wealth and shallowness in this world, but true wealth and riches comes from the heart. You can choose to be like Tom, Dick and Harry and their socialite wives or you can choose to be yourself and do what you can for others. Be the unique person that you are. You can look at it this way, that you have talents and gifts they will never have no matter how rich and successful they are and they are the ones missing out.I have many friends but only a few close friends that I truely connect with. They may not be rich in dollars but where it is important. They are not afraid to tell me when they are insecure or frightened or happy or sad. I have been through times where my husband and I have not had much and I felt like I was less then others, but what it really did was only to allow me to grow as a person and set my sights on what is more important then things. For me, it is people. Good, kind, simple and caring ones are hard to find, but it's worth it when you do find them, so don't give up on that. You don't have to try to be from the same mold as others, make your own mold and break it too if you want to. It's all up to you. The heck with the Jones's. Dee lostmyshoe38801.4149884259 [QUOTE=Reisa]
I really hate getting to know people. I see the good things in them, their potential. I see little glimpses of humor, compassion, imagination, and at first, I like them a lot.
Then I realize that 95% of the great person inside them is NEVER going to be shared with me. Most don't have any idea that they are hiding so much - but I know. And I feel so cheated.
Reisa, that's so true with so many people. It's so frustrating. And YES, I also feel cheated.
Although, oddly enough, I've had friends say the same thing about me. "Oh, there's the real Gyps! I just got a glimpse of the real person inside you." I thought I always was being the real me.
Guess it's the ever 'misinterpreting' people do about me. 
My inability to communicate like I'd like to so I can reveal the real me. The real me INSIDE.Nice to see the smile Resistance 
The value, I think, to the awareness that yuppiedom and materialism are
shallow and worthless, is to share that insight with others.
Otherwise, the frustration is simply painful. Take that
frustration, and turn it into art and revolution.Wordwoman38807.8115509259My art seems only a conversation with myself. My revolution akin to walking up to a river and shouting "flow the other way dammit!"
Maybe just walk to the river and listen instead
I really hate getting to know people. I see the good things in them, their potential. I see little glimpses of humor, compassion, imagination, and at first, I like them a lot.
Then I realize that 95% of the great person inside them is NEVER going to be shared with me. Most don't have any idea that they are hiding so much - but I know. And I feel so cheated.
I'm just mad at someone I see in that way above. A souless shell in many ways, but, not kidding, a pretty damn good guy.
LOL! If I could explain myself I probably wouldn't be here. No, let me try.
It has its own speed, purpose, beauty, meaning.
It could never want to change, or be, say, an ocean.
We seem to just suffer its existance, use it as a sewer, cry when it floods us.
It doesn't care about us and will still be there, the same, washing over all of our bones and the debris of everything we build.
You've got my interest now. Will you explain your last post? It sounds rather intriguing
[QUOTE=Peita Pan]Maybe just walk to the river and listen instead 
[/QUOTE]Oh I do listen...............it seems somehow vulgar and obscene for something so right to be here.
[QUOTE=The Resistance!]In his wisdom wanted to make me inept and nearly unable to deal with the world, why couldn't he have also made me a shallow-minded money-grubbing neighbor-imitating Yuppie?
I mean there's a simple childish code to follow. Make money, stay thin, impress the neigbors, live in a house just like the neighbors and if you forget a rule just ask anyone else in your houses-all-alike McMansion subdivision.
Infantile simple-mindedness. Yeah. I want therapy, massive doses of sense of absurdity deadening drugs, and a partial brain removal so I can embrace this.
I'm done now with my stupid little ranting. Shuttingthef**kup.
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just because it is so much easier to become a shallow-minded money grubbing Yuppie if you can... and in some ways almost impossible to resist if you have the skills to do it! so you should be thankful for your ADD - after all it is what society pushes you toward, what is valued and rewarded in this world.
at least you don't have that option - cos you can't even make that!!!!
so your ADD ineptness forced you into not being a shallow-minded and money-grubbing yuppie which is a good thing! of course, there are probably plenty of ADDers who are also shallow-minded money grubbers --- and beyond amounts of normals who are giving, caring, incredible people.
but just look at it as a temptation that was kindly kept out of your grasp so that you could concentrate on the more vital things in life!?!???!
