Re: Drawing a series of blanks.

[billd]

You are indeed good. You can leave the despair behind – welcome to the group.

In fact, I think you were actually in school with me, as you sure seemed to write about me there:

>>Inattention also caused me to miss out on most of the social interactions that were happening around me, which in turn caused a general cluelessness about interacting with people, which in turn caused a near-total rejection by and alienation from my peers. I never quite knew what was going on, and could never quite grasp the difference between acceptable and unacceptable modes of social behavior. The memories of my own behavior, and of being ridiculed and laughed at by my peers, still make me cringe when I think of them. It all combined to produce a general oddness about me that persists to this day: odd behavior, an odd manner of speech, an odd way of looking at the world, an odd way of interacting with people<<

I think I see a new friend. I have SO few………..

I’d set reminder in my cell phone – but I either forget to, or decide it’s not critical and can always do it tomorrow. I’ve gotten most of today’s stuff done already, but geesh, tomorrow’s list almost doubled.

Severe here, too – and also in amongst that, as PART of our severe ADHD, we have social anxiety. When one therapist read off her report to me, I stopped her in her tracks and said “I thought you said I had severe ADHD” she replied – you do, and that is part of it.

I’m 54 – diagnosed this year. I’ve always known I was “special” (ok, WEIRD in others’ eyes) and didn’t know why until Patrick and Rick came along (and this forum and WEEKS of research)

Now I have the explanation – it was a RELIEF to know I’m not just weird, a freak, LAZY, dumb, etc – there’s a REASON why it’s this way. Same for you – I see a lot of potential in there – for one, that writing is great. So readable! In fact, better than so many NON-ADD folks.

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