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Financial paperwork. Legal documents. Old tax returns. Contracts. Shoot me now! I’ve had a month to locate and compile all the paperwork for my meeting this Tuesday. Tuesday is tomorrow. I started yesterday. And this is a victory over procrastination because normally I would have started looking today
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When you are diagnosed with ADHD for the first time in adulthood, there is a lot of history to work […]
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Almost everyone has been so engaged, so enraptured, so fixated on something that time slips by unnoticed. But those of us with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder seem to be far more prone to Hyperfixation.
What does Hyperfixation look like?
Binge watching a show you
love.
Working on a hobby that’s…
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Now and then someone will tell me that Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder is a gift. A big, fat, wonderful, exciting gift.
Rather than a problem, disorder, constant challenge, or, on bad days, a curse.
Why such opposing views?
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Before I was diagnosed as having ADHD, I had a lot of beliefs about myself. And about what ADHD was. And therefore, why I couldn’t have ADHD.
A belief is not the truth.
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So, a few folks have asked me about the 20 genes that have been identified as candidates for ADHD.
To start with, I got the number 20 from an ADHD specialist who said that there are at least 20 and hundreds more being studied.
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| Rick
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This is going to be one of those stories where I admit to avoiding, dodging, deferring, and resisting something that turned out to do me a world of good. Stay with me!
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Having someone to connect with is such a gift. Somehow speaking things aloud, and being heard, gets it out of our system. Especially when it’s something that others can identify with. ‘You have five alarm clocks? So do I!’
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| Rick
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I’ve mentioned recently that at my lowest moments, despairing, I thought, “I wish I’d never been diagnosed.”
That’s not true, of course. Having an explanation for some of my challenges, an explanation that I can work with, has been hugely helpful.
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