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LOVE your post and what has followed it. What a fantastic thread! Love your user name too.
I can relate to SO much of what you say. Congratulations on the pregnancy. And congratulations on finding out about the ADD and getting treatment.
I’m on concerta, 27mg and I think I might be able to drop back down to 18mg as I feel very good. Free, like you say.
I’m seeing the positives about myself much more now – my ability to see the wider picture, my enquiring mind, the enthusiasm and dedication I put into everything I want to do and my quick action in a crisis. I’m proud of getting through my studies and taking tentative steps, at 40, into a completely new career. I’m proud of the way my husband and I make our relationship work (aspie and ADHD) and I’m proud of our fantastic kids. I can see now that I did so much of this without help for my ADHD and, although my life would have been MUCH easier, happier and less chaotic with the help – hell – I got through it and that ain’t bad.
I have had the privilege of hearing Temple Grandin lecture twice this week and I think of the obstacles she’s overcome and it’s humbling. Truly. Talk about freedom. She was locked in her own world and her mum refused to let her stay there and somehow got through to her. At every stage, her mum pushed her that little bit further to step out of her comfort zone and that’s exactly what I’m trying to do. The autism (enough for ‘experts’ to want her to go straight to an ‘institution’) has never left her. But she’s been able to harness it in a positive way for her and I’m finding that maybe my drugs are helping me do the same.
So, freedom brings more freedom and I’ll keep walking through the new doors and see where they take me!
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