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On time? crap, I’m afraid I might spontaneously combust one of the times I’m late and being too hard on myself for it. It’s uncanny!, Embarrassing when the neighbors see me come out to my car, go back in, repeat almost every single time I leave the place. Some days, I just leave without my back pack with the removable face to my car stereo, and misc. stuff that I have an actual check list for. The lateness all by itself is a huge pain in my neck… How can it be that we’ve gone undiagnosed for so many dang years… It makes no sense. None, Zero, Nada.
I’ve been coming here almost 4 months and I still find entire threads like this that make it impossible for me to pretend I don’t have this dang ADHD thing. It’s so dang weird. I’m glad only about 4% of the population has this. Imagine if all people had the same struggles as us?
It’s less painful knowing there are people that understand my frustration. It still just baffles me that no matter what time of the day it is, I can end up running late… like some kind of curse… I think that may be one of the hardest parts to fix.
Lot’s of the struggle we have are getting to be less of a problem for me. Even without having all the right medication I need to have. The eggs are becoming unscrambled. The seemingly impossible is becoming possible.
There is real hope that we can live with this thing… characteristic, disability, quirk, oddity… We can start to make people happy instead of disappointed. I’m pretty sure giving myself a break is one of the first tricks I need to figure out how to do.
Don’t give up you guys. Things really do get better. Take the time to read here, Read Read Read. And re-read, it does stick when we decide not to ever give up. We made it this far right? Heck if you’re here reading this, you are so far into the solution that soon it will strike you like a lightning bolt!. Life really is getting less stressful, we are slowing down, we’re making less silly mistakes… Some kind of magic is helping us because we support each-other, we encourage each-other.
True compassion is super easy when the struggles we have in common are so blatantly obvious. It’s really really here.
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