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Yep, I’m with you shutterbag! Nearly every word that you’ve typed has resonated with me…I too see ADHD as a curse. If we’re brutally honest we can think back to the time when it registers in our minds that we’re ‘different’, and we devote years and years clumsily attempting to hide, or at least disguise, the dreaded curse. It’s like a dirty secret that can’t be shared. We can get away with much of the mess when we’re younger, but as we age there becomes less and less places to hide, until even we can’t bothered trying to hide behind the diminishing blades of grass and we’re like exhausted fugitives that can’t even muster the energy to pretend that everything is okay anymore, that things will get better tomorrow etc. Then the ADHD boulder is dropped onto one’s lap, and we’re told that we’re mentally impaired and to deal with it! *yawn* Where was I again? Hey, look over there, aren’t the butterflies so colourful and capricious?
*runs away*