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Wgreen: you sound like billd when you said, “If somebody could tell me how my ADD has been a blessing, I’d be all ears.”
Both of you are focusing on YOUR experience. Take some time to try to step into the shoes of other people.
Barkley has said there is “nothing positive” about ADD. My experience and that of some others differs from this.
Either Barkley is wrong, or anyone like myself doesn’t really have ADD. And since a belief that there is nothing positive about it isn’t part of the DSM criteria, I’d assert that Barkley is wrong on this point. Another reason I have for thinking that is Barkley has an emotional attachment to the issue given his brother had it.
Now if Barkley backed off from the absolute “nothing positive” position to say perhaps there is “nothing positive for most people with ADD” then I would have less of an issue with that.
An easy way to prove Barkley wrong would be to survey people diagnosed with ADD and ask them if their ADD has any positives for them. If we find one person, then that proves Barkley wrong.
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