@wolfshades: I haven’t told my parents yet. I got that comment from my mom a few months back, when I was still just suspecting I had it. Now that I’ve been diagnosed with ADD, I’d like to share that with them, but it’s still too new; I need to accept it in myself deep down, I think, before I can tell them, given how it was received on the first go-round.
Logically, I know she was just trying to reassure me; she saw my suspicions as a sort of insecurity issue, and she was just trying to tell me – from experience, because she had three kids as well – that a little chaos was normal, and not to fret about it.
But there’s always been a shade of denial about medical problems in my family, which is comical, because there’s more than one doctor among them. But we were the kids who were always told things like “Why don’t you just go to school, and if you still feel sick when you get there, go to the nurse’s office.”
@Stash: Smiled at your “get your own diagnosis” comment – I totally get that. Sibling rivalry never really ends! 