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Hey Larynxa,
Not only is it true that… “You don’t really know what you’ve got till it’s gone.” but when you realize it’s gone, you can spend so much time in regret, sorrow, mourning, beating yourself up, angry at the lost opportunity, etc. etc. etc. that you now miss another day that’s passed you by. Or a week. Or a decade.
ADHD can show up in contradictory ways. Sometimes we get stuck in emotion, and other times we seem to bounce back fast. We don’t hold grudges. Or we get stuck on being right and wanting to prove it, and imagining all the smart things we could say to that Loudmouth at the party who spewed all that nonsense.
I sometimes think that for every conversation I had with a girlfriend I had about 40 in my head. Either preparing what I was gonna say and how it was going to go, or re-imagining what I could have said and how it could have gone.
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