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Hi marc,
      I have just read your post for the first time. I only joined a couple of days ago and havent read everything yet. I am over in sunny (raining at the moment) Western Australia, and dont know yet if I enjoy it here. Then again I am back off too Wollongong again soon. I found Year 11 and 12 sucked and that is putting it mildly. I always found school really easy and never had to work to get top marks. but when I hit year 11 and actually had to read text books(boooooooring) I just couldn't concentrate long enough to even comprehend the chapter I was supposed to be reading even if I read it 2 or 3 times. I still have to read everything at least 3 times for it to actually sink in and even then it will take a couple of days for me to comprehend what i have read.
 I have only just been diagnosed and hope that this feeling of concentration continues because even if it takes a couple of hours for something to sink in that has to be a lot better than days doesn't it?

Hi everyone

I am new here and would like to introduce myself to everyone my name is Marc (Shakes everyone's hand)

I have been diagnosed with ADD since I was about 6 or 7 (can't remember), I had a very very bad time with schools I changed primary schools about 5 times and high school 5 time as well. I was teased a so much, never had any friends, got told I was ugly by girls etc. So a hated school, I started skipping school a lot (I was away more times then I was there), started smoking marijuana and cigarettes and started drinking (never heavily) when I was around 15. I was always bad at school never got high grades except for business studies

Then left school around at the start of year 11 because I didn’t do any work what so ever.

After that I decided to go to TAFE (not so what it is called in the UK or USA) and study IT. I completed the first course really well. but then failed the second course again there was a group of guys that teased me (these guys had been adults) at that time the only good thing to come out of it was I meet a really good looking girl (the type that in school you could only dream about) and she built my self esteem up heaps (but found out later she was cheating on her soon to be husband). 

I finally did pass the second course after 3 attempts then I got my first job around that time (working in a factory) which was good for about 2 months then got bord and left after 4 months but started getting in the speed and Ecstasy heavily and going to night clubs 4 times a week.

But during that time not sure if it was the drugs or just I bit more mature my self-esteem was very high (but never around girls).

I got a new job in a warehouse doing pick packing they money was better then a lot of professionals had been getting paid. But it was soo boring same thing day after day. All the money I made from that job went to drugs and clubs etc.  I never bought a car or anything.

I woke up I day and said to myself I have to stop, so I started swimming every morning, eating right, doing weights etc. That was first time in my life that I was always happy and I could sleep at a reasonable time.

Since then I have gone back to TAFE got a diploma in Network engineering, and now I am at uni and working in IT.

For all my life I have never been organised, lost keys, wallets, money, etc you name it. I am really behind in uni, I have assignments to write, but all I want to do is play computer games .

I can't seem to get myself motivated enough to sit down and do it.

I am on Ritalin but that doesn’t seem to 2 much even though the test said it should.

I also am very emotionally sometimes I feel like crying for some reason I don't know.

Anyways that is about my life story hehe lol

Thanks for reading